The Analytics page rebuilt its visuals. Recent Performance is now a grouped bar chart with open and click rates side by side. Weekly Trend is a dual-line area chart with average reference lines. Best Send Times is a color-intensity heatmap. Top Performers keeps bars but on an honest 0-100% scale.
We also fixed a bug where click rates were multiplied by 5 to make them comparable to open rates. The numbers you see now are the real numbers.
Start a generation, navigate away, keep working. HeyNews now auto-saves the finished draft to your History and shows a toast when it's ready. You'll see a "New" badge on the saved draft. If you return to Compose while generation is still running, a progress banner appears so you know it's working.
Each draft now allows up to 20 refinement messages in the AI chat panel. You'll see a counter in the chat header. Hit the cap, and you'll see a prompt for the new Unlimited Revisions add-on.
Add or remove the add-on at any time from Settings > Subscription > Add-ons.
If you connected via a public archive (Substack, Ghost, Mailchimp, and so on), your Analytics page now offers a form to request direct integration support for your platform. Submit once, and the form turns into a thank-you message on subsequent visits so you don't have to resubmit.
Publications you no longer use can now be archived from the Publications page. Archiving stops source syncs and hides the publication from your sidebar, but the data stays for 30 days in case you change your mind. Restore anytime within the window. After 30 days, everything is permanently deleted.
Leave an honest review of HeyNews on G2 and get a free growth audit ($99 value). A gift icon in the sidebar links to the claim page, where you upload a screenshot of your review as proof. We approve claims within a few business days.
From the Stories tab, paste an article URL, and HeyNews fetches, summarizes, and saves it as a story you can use in your next newsletter. This works well for one-off articles that aren't from your connected sources.
The Chrome extension now splits this into two actions: Save as story (for one article) and Follow this site (which adds the homepage as an ongoing source).
Same functionality, better names:
Signed up with Google? You can now also sign in with a magic link or password. Signed up with email? You can use Google later too. All three methods work for every account.
If an existing user tries to sign up again, they no longer hit a dead-end error. Instead, a friendly "Welcome Back" screen offers to send them a sign-in link.
When HeyNews extracts a story from a beehiiv or Kit broadcast, it now also scans article links within that broadcast (up to 10 per issue) and queues them for extraction. Your content pool grows deeper without any extra setup.
Some newsletter archives (especially ones that load content dynamically) would silently fail auto-discovery. We added a 4th discovery stage that scrapes the archive page directly, plus a manual connection option for when everything else fails, so you can connect with zero imported issues and start training on new content as it arrives.
If you paste a sub-page URL, such as yoursite.com/archive, and a discovery fails, HeyNews now retries against the host root before giving up.