Your readers signed up for you.
Beehiiv's Boost Marketplace pays publishers to recommend other newsletters and takes a 20% cut of the referral fee. It also injects third-party content into your subscriber flow. Your readers signed up for you — not for what you recommend for money.
The ad injection problem.
Beehiiv's Boost network works by having publishers recommend other publishers — injecting third-party newsletter promotions into your subscriber emails. Beehiiv takes 20% of the referral fee.
forme has no ad network, no boost marketplace, no injection. Your subscribers receive exactly what you send.
Deliverability on shared infrastructure.
When many publishers share sending infrastructure, one bad actor raises spam complaint rates for everyone. Users have reported emails going to spam without explanation.
forme's sending reputation is yours — isolated, not pooled.
The pricing reality.
Beehiiv's free tier is capped. Meaningful analytics, paid subscriptions, and advanced features require Scale ($49/month) or Max ($109/month).
forme is $19/month with everything included. No tier exists where Beehiiv is meaningfully cheaper for a publisher who needs the full feature set.
The security difference.
Beehiiv stores your drafts in plaintext. A breach or subpoena exposes your unpublished work.
forme's zero-knowledge encryption means your drafts are locked in your browser before they reach our servers. We don't have the key. This isn't available on any Beehiiv plan at any price.
Full-featured, honestly priced.
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