Comparison Guide : Newspack vs. Quintype

Newspack or Quintype, which would suite your publishing house better?

Published on:

12 Jan 2021, 10:17 am

Updated on:

18 Feb 2021, 11:00 am

2 min read

Searching for an alternative to Newspack? Quintype offers a suite of products for news media organizations to create, curate, publish and monetize content at ease.

While Newspack is a theme that runs on WordPress (you can view the difference between Wordpress and Bold here). Quintype’s CMS and Page Builder allows you to manage your website branding and layouts.

This guide will give you a comparison on features, pricing, performance and even migration.

Comparing key features of Quintype and Newspack

Features	Bold	Newspack
Custom editorial workflow	Yes	No, 3rd party plugin required
Content Structure	Cardified	Blocks
Mobile-responsive back-end CMS	Yes	No
Granular access control	Yes	No, 3rd party plugin
Paywall support	Yes, native integration with Accesstype	No, Third party plugin
Built-in content categorisation	Card attributes, Story attributes, Tags, Sections, Collections and entities	Tags and categories
Native SEO	Yes	3rd party plugin
Hosting	Hosting with DDoS protection, CDN and caching with 99.5% uptime guarantee.	Self hosted
Front-end support	Ahead with page builder to manage branding and layouts at no additional cost. Built in PWA and add-on native mobile apps.	Highly customizable front end with Newspack to manage branding and layouts..

Why choose Bold over Newspack

Newspack is a wordPress theme for small and medium digital publishers. Page Builder from Quintype allows you to manage layouts from homepage to section pages to story pages.
The solutions from Quintype are known for their premium feel and easy interface. With Bold enterprise headless cms, growing publishers have access to standardised tools that were once only accessible to the big leagues.

Here are some other comparisons between Bold and Newspack

Live preview of the story on multiple devices.
Story templates and multiple story types including photo, videos and live blogging.
In-built Analytics to analyse performance of stories, authors and topics.
Integrate with any 3rd party tools tailored to your business needs including Copyscape, push notifications, email subscriptions and more
Optimized for search engine optimization - Sitemaps, schema, canonicals, AMP, Social tags
Content for all devices - PWA, Mobile App, Smart speakers

Pricing comparison

Newspack’s pricing is based on the annual revenue of publications. This can be a boon or bane depending on the size of the publication.

Quintype’s pricing is all-inclusive of the Bold CMS, hosting, front-end infrastructure, security and front-end framework - Ahead. With economies of scale, Quintype democratizes technologies used by largest media companies to empower growing publishers to focus on content while leaving the technology heavy lifting to us.

The additional advantage of not having to hire and maintain technology teams, reduces the total cost of ownership when compared with WordPress.

Get in touch with us to schedule a demo of Quintype’s suite of publishing tools.