Newsmind Stories vs PublishPress Planner

Newsmind Stories is web-based editorial software for planning topics, developing channel-specific content, and managing work through publication. Teams can plan topics centrally and create multiple stories for different channels from each topic. Personal dashboards and calendars display story status, responsibilities, and publishing plans, while configurable workflows support planning, approvals, and publishing. Built-in AI can assist with research, summaries, writing, metadata suggestions, and routine-task automation. Social tools support editing, previews, and scheduled publication to X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Integrations include CMS exports, MAM search and import, distribution-system export and sync, user-directory integration, and email or IMAP import; other integrations are available on request. The cloud service has a mobile version for smartphones and tablets. Basic is listed at €39 a month, billed at €39 per user per month for up to 15 users across two teams. Pro is €99 a month, billed at €99 per user per month. All-In pricing is on request. After a live demo, prospective customers may receive temporary access to try the features, with no trial duration stated.

PublishPress Planner helps teams plan, manage, and schedule content on WordPress sites. Its Content Calendar shows planned and published items, supports creating content, and lets users move an item to a new publication date by dragging it. The Content Overview groups work by status, category, or user and can produce a printable summary. A Content Board provides a column for each status and lets users move posts between stages. Teams can set editorial notification timing, recipients, and message details. The calendar exports schedules to Google Calendar and other iCal-compatible software, but changes made in external calendars do not sync back to WordPress. Planner Free costs nothing and includes the calendar, overview, board, notifications, and calendar export. Paid annual bundles start with Business at $129 a year, billed annually; Agency costs $299 a year, billed annually, and Unlimited costs $499 a year, billed annually. These bundles include PublishPress Pro plugins, including Planner Pro, which adds reminders, post metadata in notifications, removal of PublishPress branding and ads, and priority personal support.