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A breaking-news desk, ready on day one

Built for general news and current affairs: breaking news, sections for every beat, and story pages made to be found in search engines, Google News and AI answers.

Your website, plus optional Android and iPhone apps on Google Play and the App Store.

  • Website
  • Android app
  • iPhone app
Store publishing rolling out
  • Breaking news flag and ticker
  • Sections, tags, authors and editorial workflow
  • Search and Google News readiness score
  • Photo galleries, video stories and RSS feeds
  • Live blog add-on for developing stories

Templates

Choose your look

Every design runs on the same content, so you can switch later without losing anything. Open a live demo first.

All templates (15)

  • General News. Dense national-daily portal with a breaking ticker, live TV and many sections, for high-volume Hindi/English desks. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. South-Indian-script daily with place tiles, two-line cards that wrap long words safely, in teal and sand. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. English tabloid-breaking site: hot magenta accent, dark nav, huge headlines, wide image grid and a loud breaking band. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. World-desk daily with a region chip row, a three-column front, live updates, a four-column world grid and region strips, in graphite and rust. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Calm modular national daily with a headline-first split lead, "why it matters" lines, a happening-now strip, explainers and an opinion desk. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Video-first channel site with a live player beside the programme rail, shows grid, video stage, headlines desk and a sticky mini-player. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Hindi TV-channel news portal: deep navy bars, bright live tags, breaking band, live TV band and a superfast brief list. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Text-first wire with a five-item smart brief, a monospaced time rail, topic chips, most read and few images. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Regional language daily for Bengali, Marathi and other Indic markets: terracotta and leaf green, serif Indic headlines, lead with briefing timeline and a district side rail. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Mobile-first stream of 60-word swipe cards, Web Stories and short video, with a centred card deck on desktop. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. National-regional daily with state tabs, a three-column front with a "my state" briefing, district tiles and a city wire. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Explainer and analysis magazine: dark ink-violet, single-column rhythm, spotlight lead, why-this-matters lines, explainer strips and long reads. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. State and district daily with place chips, a briefing timeline, e-paper promo and horoscope grid, in indigo and marigold. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. Calm serif subscription daily with a cover story, membership appeals, immersive long reads with a meter and a newsletter hub. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.
  • General News. District Hindi daily with tehsil chips, a notices column and a plain briefs timeline, in umber and ochre. From $29 a month, all-in.. Press Enter for more info.

Features

Everything your newsroom needs

85 features are included in every plan. Paid add-ons come with the higher plans, or one by one with the Custom plan.

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Included in every plan

These come with every plan at no extra cost.

  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)

    Included

    Keyboard use, skip links, focus states, contrast guard, reduced motion, screen-reader labels and large touch targets on the website, apps and admin.

  • Ads and ads.txt

    Free

    AdSense and Ad Manager slots in every template position with no layout shift, ads.txt and app-ads.txt, Ad Manager key-values and density limits, in-app ads with consent, and a native-widget slot type.

  • AI-use labels and policy

    Included

    An "AI-assisted" label on stories where AI helped (editor approval required) and an AI-use policy page draft.

  • AI translation drafts

    Free

    Draft a translation of a story into another edition with AI; a person reviews it before it can be published.

  • Your AI assistant

    Free

    Change your site just by asking: the look, pages, menus, wording, automations and more. Every change has Undo. It’s free: connect a free OpenRouter account once, no card needed. Add OpenRouter credit for faster models.

  • Google Analytics tag

    Free

    Add your GA4 or Tag Manager id; it loads after consent so pages stay fast.

  • Articles

    Included

    Write and publish news articles with a headline, summary, rich block body, hero image, dateline and an "Updated" time.

  • Activity log

    Included

    Who published, edited, deleted or changed settings, roles and money settings (refunds, key changes, exports), with time; tamper-evident and exportable.

  • Authors and bylines

    Included

    Bylines and public author pages with photo, bio and social links for Google News trust; several authors per story, guest bylines without a login and agency bylines (PTI).

  • Backups

    Included

    Regular backups of your content and media on your server, with restore.

  • Saved stories

    Free

    Readers save stories to read later on the website and in the app.

  • Branding and theme

    Included

    Logo, favicon, app icon, colours for light and dark, fonts per script and icon style in one wizard; switching templates keeps it all.

  • Breaking label

    Free

    Mark a story as Breaking to label it and pin it to the top of the home page until it expires.

  • Breaking ticker

    Free

    A breaking-news bar with timed items, priority and automatic expiry.

  • Calculators

    Free

    Ready calculators (loan EMI, tax, BMI, fuel cost, crop yield and more) to place in stories and pages.

  • Cartoons and memes archive

    Free

    A browsable archive of editorial cartoons and memes by date and topic.

  • Categories

    Included

    Two-level sections (e.g. India > States) with ordering and menus, labelled per language.

  • Children and age gating

    Included

    Age declaration at sign-up; for minors no tracking, no personalised ads and no profiling; an age gate on adult content.

  • Reader comments

    Free

    Comments under stories with moderation, report and block, and spam protection.

  • Compare tables

    Free

    Side-by-side comparison tables of products, plans or models, with highlights.

  • Competitions

    Free

    Fixtures, results and standings tables for tournaments, leagues and exams, entered by your desk.

  • Consent and privacy notice

    Free

    Region-aware consent - the DPDP notice in India, a Google-certified IAB TCF v2.2 dialog in Europe, GPC and GPP for US states - with Consent Mode v2 defaults and a record of every choice.

  • Partner API and API keys

    Free

    A versioned partner API (stories with full rights data, sections, drafts, image import) with scoped API keys, IP allow-lists, expiry, rotation, per-key limits and usage reports. Paywalled bodies only with an explicit scope.

  • Import from another CMS

    Free

    Import posts, authors, categories, tags and media from WordPress, Blogger, Ghost or RSS, keeping old URLs or redirecting them.

  • Story type labels

    Included

    Label stories as News, Opinion, Analysis, Explainer, Review or Press release, with the matching search data.

  • Content types

    Included

    Structured content beyond articles (e.g. recipes, jobs, results) that niche packs and shared modules register, with their own fields, pages and schema.org data.

  • Corrections log

    Free

    Correction and clarification notes on a story with their time, plus a public corrections page.

  • Dark mode for readers

    Free

    Readers get a dark theme that follows their device setting, with readable contrast.

  • Data feeds

    Included

    One framework for tables and numbers that change (rates, scores, results), entered by hand or filled from a feed, shown in blocks on the site and app.

  • App links

    Free

    Story links open straight in your app on phones that have it, for every language host.

  • Documents library

    Free

    A searchable library of PDFs such as circulars, notifications and reports, with previews.

  • Languages and editions

    Included

    Publish in your main language plus extra language editions (own subdomain, folder or domain) with linked translations, hreflang and per-language menus. Extra editions follow your plan.

  • Article score and pre-publish checklist

    Included

    SEO, Google News readiness and readability scores while you type, with specific fixes; your own required items before Publish; accessibility warnings (alt text, headings, link text, captions); paywall markup check.

  • Editorial workflow

    Included

    Your own stages and who may move a story; scheduled publishing, embargo (kept out of feeds, sitemaps, push and apps), expiry and scheduled edits; edit lock with take-over; revision compare and restore.

  • Transactional email

    Included

    Sign-in links, receipts, invoices and notices sent from your own domain (SPF, DKIM, DMARC checks) through your email provider, with bounce and complaint suppression.

  • Events calendar

    Free

    List upcoming events with date, place and link, on a calendar page and in stories.

  • Exam tracker

    Free

    Exam pages with form dates, admit card, exam date and result status in one place.

  • Fact checks

    Free

    Claim and verdict cards for fact-check stories, with ClaimReview structured data.

  • FAQ and how-to blocks

    Free

    Question-and-answer and step-by-step blocks, added in the editor's Structured content panel, with matching structured data.

  • Google dashboards

    Free

    See Search Console, Google Analytics and AdSense numbers in your admin, using your own Google accounts.

  • Grievance officer desk

    Included

    Public grievance form, tickets with acknowledgement and the 15-day decision clock, the published officer contact and a monthly compliance report draft (India IT Rules 2021).

  • Important dates and links

    Free

    A clear table of important dates and official links at the top of exam and job stories.

  • IndexNow pings

    Free

    Tell Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and Yep about new, updated and deleted stories at once.

  • Indian-language typing

    Free

    Type Hindi and other Indian languages with a phonetic keyboard in the editor, even on a laptop without an Indian keyboard.

  • Job listings

    Free

    Job posts with last date, eligibility and apply link, with JobPosting structured data.

  • Key points box

    Free

    3 to 5 key points at the top of a story, written by the editor (AI drafts only with AI writing helpers, always approved).

  • Live TV

    Free

    A Live TV page and home widget for your own YouTube Live or HLS stream.

  • Media library and image tools

    Included

    Upload photos from a phone or laptop (one or many), add alt text, caption and credit, pick a focal point; ratio crops, watermark or logo stamp, compression, and location/EXIF data stripped on upload.

  • Messenger channel button

    Free

    Invite readers to follow your WhatsApp or Telegram channel from stories, the home page and the app. Included for every topic.

  • Most read and trending

    Free

    A most-read list from the last 24 hours of views plus "Trending now" (fastest-rising in the last 30 minutes) from built-in analytics.

  • Notifications foundation

    Included

    Browser and app push senders (Web Push, FCM, APNs), the reader's alerts inbox and in-admin notices for one-to-one messages such as replies, receipts and account alerts.

  • Payment connections

    Free

    Connect your own payment gateway (Razorpay first; test and live), hosted checkout only, signed webhooks, one ledger, GST invoices, refunds and nightly reconciliation. Readers pay you directly; Keynate takes no cut.

  • Photo galleries

    Free

    Gallery stories and in-article galleries with swipe on phones.

  • Polls

    Free

    Quick reader polls on the home page or inside a story, with live results.

  • Google follow buttons

    Free

    "Add as a preferred source on Google" and "Follow on Google News" buttons in stories, the footer and the app.

  • Privacy centre

    Included

    Readers' data requests (access, correction, erasure, consent withdrawal, nominee) with deadlines and export, consent ledger, retention schedules and a breach log - built for DPDP, GDPR and CCPA.

  • Public notices

    Free

    Official and legal notices with the issuer, publication dates and legal reference, on their own pages and in the sitemap.

  • Quick briefs

    Free

    Short 60-word news briefs readers swipe through on the home page and in the app.

  • Quick publish from your phone

    Included

    Write and publish a short story with a photo from a phone in a few taps.

  • Rashifal

    Free

    Daily, weekly and yearly horoscopes for all 12 signs, entered in one grid.

  • Rates board

    Free

    Tables of prices you update by hand (gold, fuel, mandi or vehicle prices) with dates and change arrows.

  • Reader accounts

    Free

    Free reader sign-in by email link or code, phone OTP, Google or Apple; profile, account deletion in web and apps, an optional free registration wall and age declaration. One identity for every reader feature.

  • Reading settings

    Free

    Text size, line spacing, reduced motion and a data-saver mode, kept on the reader's device.

  • Recipe cards

    Free

    Recipe cards with ingredients, steps, time and servings, with Recipe structured data.

  • Redirects and 404 monitor

    Included

    301 redirect rules, automatic redirects when a URL changes, and a list of broken URLs with hit counts.

  • Regional editions

    Free

    State and city editions with an edition picker and area pages (not language editions).

  • Related stories

    Free

    Up to six related stories under every article, by shared tags and then section.

  • Release calendar

    Free

    A calendar of upcoming releases and launches (films, series, phones, vehicles, games) with dates and story links.

  • Results hub

    Free

    One page that lists the latest exam results with direct links and status.

  • Review box

    Free

    A rating box with pros, cons and a verdict for product, film or place reviews, added in the editor's Structured content panel, with review structured data.

  • RSS feeds

    Free

    RSS feeds for the site, each section and each author, per language.

  • SEO pack

    Included

    Sitemaps and Google News sitemaps, NewsArticle and breadcrumb data, canonical and hreflang, social cards, llms.txt, AI-crawler policy; Discover readiness (large images, author and publisher pages), URL formats for migrations, paywall markup.

  • Share buttons

    Free

    Share to WhatsApp, X, Facebook and Telegram, or copy the link.

  • Built-in analytics

    Free

    Cookie-less first-party analytics on your server - readers now, top stories, sources and spikes for the last 48 hours - with no third-party tracker.

  • Site search

    Free

    Search per language, including Indian scripts with transliteration and Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai.

  • Preview, publish and revert

    Included

    Every design and code change is built, previewed, published with zero downtime and can be reverted.

  • SMS and phone OTP

    Free

    Phone sign-in codes and service SMS through your own SMS provider (MSG91 first), with India DLT entity, header and template ids in your name.

  • Safe software updates

    Included

    Updates only with your consent, a snapshot first and automatic rollback if the site is not healthy.

  • Sponsored and branded content

    Free

    Sponsored, Partner and Advertorial stories with a mandatory label and sponsor logo, sponsored links, disclosure line, Google News sitemap exclusion and a client approval link.

  • Trust, policy and legal pages

    Included

    Editable drafts on day one - About, Contact, Ethics, Fact-check policy, Ownership, Masthead, AI-use policy, Accessibility statement, Privacy, Terms, Refund and Cancellation, Subscription terms, Grievance officer - linked in Organization data.

  • Story collections

    Free

    Hand-ordered collections and series of stories with an introduction, such as explainer hubs and special reports.

  • Tags and topic pages

    Included

    Tag stories by topic and give every topic its own page.

  • Team and roles

    Included

    Invite your team as Owner, Editor, Reporter, Copy editor, Photo editor, Contributor/stringer or Legal reviewer, limit roles to sections, with optional two-step sign-in.

  • Video stories and embeds

    Free

    Video stories and embeds from YouTube, X, Instagram and Facebook, loaded lightly so pages stay fast.

  • Webhooks

    Free

    Signed outgoing webhooks for story, comment and subscription events with retries, a dead letter, a delivery log, redeliver, test events and endpoint health. Works with Zapier, Make and n8n.

Included in the higher plans, or add them one by one with the Custom plan.

  • Social auto-share

    Paid

    Post new stories automatically when you publish to your Facebook Page, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and Telegram channel (also Bluesky and Mastodon). X is a separate add-on.

  • Affiliate and deals boxes

    Paid

    Product and deal boxes with prices and tracked affiliate links, clearly marked for readers.

  • Data charts

    Paid

    Turn a spreadsheet into an accessible chart for a story, readable on phones.

  • Elections hub

    Paid

    Election pages with constituencies, candidates, live results tables and maps, entered by your desk.

  • Lead forms

    Paid

    Enquiry and callback forms with consent capture (India DPDP) and an export of leads.

  • Listen to stories

    Paid

    A listen button that reads stories aloud in the story's language.

  • Live blog

    Paid

    Minute-by-minute coverage with key points, a pinned post, timestamped updates that appear without a reload, and the LIVE badge in Google Top Stories.

  • Manual scoring

    Paid

    Your desk updates live scores by hand from a phone; readers see them update without a reload.

  • Memberships and paywall

    Paid

    Sell memberships and lock premium stories, paid through your own payment gateway.

  • Newsletters

    Paid

    Email newsletters with sign-up boxes, automatic daily digests and consent records.

  • Push alerts

    Paid

    Send breaking-news alerts to app and browser subscribers, per language and topic.

  • Quizzes and mock tests

    Paid

    Quizzes and timed mock tests with scores and answers explained.

  • Web stories

    Paid

    Tap-through visual stories for phones that can appear in Google Discover.

  • AI Autopilot

    Paid

    AI writes stories from the sources and topics you choose, on your schedule. They wait for your approval, or you let them publish on their own, section by section, within daily limits. Every AI story is labelled and can be undone. One-step setup from your niche is rolling out.

  • E-paper

    Paid

    Publish your print edition as a page-by-page e-paper with clickable stories.

  • Hosted video

    Paid

    Upload and stream your own videos from your server with adaptive quality, no third-party player.

  • Magazine

    Paid

    Publish magazine issues with a cover, table of contents and a reader mode, free or for members.

  • Shorts

    Paid

    Vertical short videos with swipe, on the website and in the app.

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