# JustReachOut review (2026): is it worth $98 a month, billed yearly?

> Journalist search, pitch requests and link outreach in one tool

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

JustReachOut is a web-based PR outreach tool for small businesses, consultants and agencies that pitch the press themselves. It searches a journalist database, drafts pitches with AI, gathers journalist requests for sources from six feeds, and adds podcast, guest post and broken link outreach. Plans are sized by monthly email sends, team members and brands.

- **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building
- **Made by:** JustReachOut Inc. (since 2014)
- **Website:** https://justreachout.io
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you pitch a lot, at 100 email sends a month on Starter, with more quoted only by email.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, JustReachOut is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $98 per month for 100 email sends, billed annually ($147 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on monthly plans only; a credit card is required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter Outreach | $98 per month for 100 email sends, billed annually ($147 billed monthly) | 1 team member and 1 brand, with the AI pitch engine, journalist search, verified email addresses and every outreach tool. |
| Advanced Outreach | $165 per month for 300 email sends, billed annually ($247 billed monthly) | 2 team members and 5 brands, plus an AI weekly email briefing. |
| Ultimate Outreach | $331 per month for 1,000 email sends, billed annually ($497 billed monthly) | 5 team members and 10 brands, plus a narrative-building session and follow-up calls with the JustReachOut team. |
| Jumpstart Program | $417 per month, billed annually | Advanced Outreach plus two story sessions, five campaigns set up for you and all pitches sent for you in the first month. Annual only. |
| White Glove | $1,997 per month, billed monthly | Ultimate Outreach plus five campaigns run by JustReachOut's PR staff, monthly story sessions and a dedicated Slack channel. |

Read from https://justreachout.io/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with JustReachOut before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **33% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): JustReachOut's pricing page marks yearly billing 33% off: Starter Outreach is $98 a month billed annually instead of $147 billed monthly. Source: https://justreachout.io/pricing

## Key features

- **Journalist search:** Search a database the vendor puts at over 700,000 journalists, with manually verified email addresses and a view of how responsive each one is.
- **AI pitch writing:** The AI pitch engine reads a journalist's recent articles, summarizes them and drafts a personalized pitch from your story angle.
- **Journalist pitch requests:** Requests from journalists looking for expert sources are pulled from six outside feeds into one list, searchable by keyword or category.
- **Podcast and guest post outreach:** Find podcasts looking for guests and publications that take guest posts, then pitch them from the same account.
- **Broken link building:** Search blog posts in your niche by keyword for broken links, then email the site owner to suggest your page as the replacement.
- **Automatic follow-ups:** Schedule follow-up emails that go out when a journalist or site owner has not replied to the first pitch.

## Good for

- Founders and small businesses doing their own press outreach
- PR consultants pitching for a handful of client brands
- SEO teams chasing links from press mentions, podcasts and broken links

## Worth knowing

- The 7-day trial covers monthly plans only and asks for a credit card.
- Email sends are capped from 100 a month on Starter; more sends, brands or users are quoted by email.
- There is no raw export of the journalist database, no mass emailing and no press release distribution.
- The Jumpstart Program is sold only yearly and White Glove only monthly, at $1,997 a month.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. JustReachOut searches a journalist database, drafts pitches from each journalist's recent articles and pulls reporter requests from six feeds into one list. Starter is $98 a month on yearly billing for only 100 email sends, there's no mass emailing or database export, and the 7-day trial needs a card.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter Outreach is $98 a month billed yearly ($147 monthly), the top of what this category usually charges, and it allows 100 email sends a month. More sends, brands or people are quoted by email.
- **Free plan and trial: D.** No free plan. The 7-day trial covers monthly plans only and needs a credit card.
- **Features: C.** Journalist search, AI pitches, reporter requests from six feeds, podcast, guest post and broken link outreach, and automatic follow-ups. But there's no mass sending or database export, and nothing on record tracks the coverage you win.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. The AI writes the first draft, but you'll set up your brand and story angle and work out which of the outreach tools to use.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps, integrations or API on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from JustReachOut'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

- JustReachOut's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 2 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10.
- It stands best on value for money (C, above 8 of 50) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 11).
- Its paid plans start at $98 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 30 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 18 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace JustReachOut 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 38 of the 50 other link building tools grade higher. It costs $1,176 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: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Link outreach, Journalist requests, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Prezly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prezly): PR software for newsrooms, media contacts and email pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/justreachout-vs-prezly)
- [BuzzStream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buzzstream): Outreach CRM for link building and digital PR. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buzzstream-vs-justreachout)
- [Pitchbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pitchbox): Outreach platform for link building and digital PR teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/justreachout-vs-pitchbox)
- [Qwoted](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted): Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/justreachout-vs-qwoted)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://justreachout.io/pricing
- https://justreachout.io/
- https://justreachout.io/about
- https://justreachout.io/faq
- https://justreachout.io/tools/journalist-outreach-tool
- https://justreachout.io/tools/journalist-pitch-requests
- https://justreachout.io/tools/broken-link-building-tool

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