# JournoFinder review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Journalist database with an AI list builder, news search and pitching Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. JournoFinder is a media database for PR teams and digital PR link builders. It searches more than a million journalist contacts by topic, outlet and location, finds the writers behind any news story or pasted article URL, and has an AI agent that builds media lists from a plain-English brief. Paid plans add email outreach from your own mailbox, alerts for journalist requests and breaking-news alerts for clients. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** JournoFinder - **Website:** https://journofinder.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to check contact details before paying, as the trial hides them. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, JournoFinder has a free plan, and paid plans start at $119 per month for 1 user, billed annually ($189 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Search journalist requests and get 3 daily email alerts for them. No journalist database, media lists or contact details. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of paid plans, with journalists' contact details hidden until you pay. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Search journalist requests with 3 daily email alerts. | | JournoFinder | $119 per month for 1 user, billed annually ($189 billed monthly) | The AI agent, journalist, news, article and outlet search, 100 media lists, contact export, 10 request alerts and news alerts for 3 clients. | | Team | $229 per month for 3 users, billed annually | Everything in JournoFinder for 3 users, news alerts for 5 clients per user, shared lists, an activity log and a customer success manager. | Read from https://journofinder.com/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with JournoFinder before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 34% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): JournoFinder's pricing marks yearly billing 34% off: the one-user plan is $119 a month billed annually against $189 billed monthly. Source: https://journofinder.com/ ## Key features - **Journalist search:** Search a database the vendor puts at over 1,000,000 media contacts by topic, outlet, job title, location and language, including staff who are not bylined reporters. - **AI agent for media lists:** Describe the story in a sentence and the agent builds a vetted media list, judging each journalist on beat and reach; it also works from Claude or ChatGPT. - **News, article and URL search:** Search Google News in real time or any story to see who covered it, or paste article URLs, such as an Ahrefs backlink export, to get the writers' contacts. - **Journalist request alerts:** Gathers requests for expert sources from social media and platforms such as Qwoted and Featured, with AI-matched alerts by email or instantly. - **Reactive PR alerts:** Add a client's domain and it watches breaking news in the US and UK, alerting you by Slack or email when the client has a credible angle. - **Email outreach:** Connect Gmail, Outlook or Microsoft 365, personalize each pitch with the agent and schedule follow-ups; replies from every team mailbox land in one inbox. ## Good for - PR agencies and in-house teams that pitch journalists every week - Digital PR link builders working reactive news stories - Small teams priced out of enterprise media databases ## Worth knowing - The trial hides journalists' contact details, and the vendor's pages disagree on whether it needs a card. - The FAQ states that JournoFinder gives no refunds. - Media lists and active contacts are capped per plan, under a fair use policy. - Breaking-news alerts watch US and UK news only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. JournoFinder searches over a million journalist contacts, builds media lists from a one-sentence brief and finds who wrote any story or pasted article. But the free plan only covers journalist requests, the trial hides contact details, the FAQ says there are no refunds, and monthly billing is $189. - **Value for money: C.** $119 a month billed annually for 1 user, above this category's usual top but short of its dearest tenth. Monthly billing is $189, and Team is $229 a month billed annually for 3 users. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan that only searches journalist requests, with 3 daily email alerts. The 7-day trial of paid plans hides journalists' contact details, which is what you'd pay for. - **Features: B.** A database of over 1,000,000 contacts, an AI list builder, news, article and outlet search, writers behind pasted URLs, request alerts, reactive PR alerts and email outreach. It covers the digital PR route to links end to end. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. The agent builds a list from a sentence, but there are filters, lists, alerts and mailboxes to set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft 365 for sending, Slack for news alerts, and a connector for Claude and ChatGPT. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from JournoFinder's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among link building tools - JournoFinder's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on features (B, above 39 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $119 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 33 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace JournoFinder you would be making a network of journalists who post requests for sources. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade. It costs $1,428 a year. - You could make: Link outreach: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A network of journalists who post requests for sources. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, ChatGPT and Slack among them. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365 **Tags:** Journalist requests, Link outreach, AI agents ## Alternatives - [Semrush AI PR Toolkit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prowly): Media database, pitching and monitoring, formerly Prowly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/journofinder-vs-prowly) - [Prezly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prezly): PR software for newsrooms, media contacts and email pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/journofinder-vs-prezly) - [JustReachOut](https://toolgpa.com/tools/justreachout): Journalist search, pitch requests and link outreach in one tool. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/journofinder-vs-justreachout) - [Qwoted](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted): Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/journofinder-vs-qwoted) - [Featured](https://toolgpa.com/tools/featured): AI assistant for PR that finds journalist requests and drafts pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-journofinder) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://journofinder.com/ - https://journofinder.com/compare/muck-rack-vs-cision-vs-journofinder - https://journofinder.com/about - https://journofinder.com/outreach Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/journofinder Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).