Hearken vs Raindrop.io

Hearken

Description: Hearken is an open-source community engagement platform that helps newsrooms better connect with their audience. It provides tools for news organizations to crowdsource story ideas, gather feedback, and interact with readers.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Raindrop.io

Description: Raindrop.io is a free online bookmark and link manager. It allows you to save, organize and manage your bookmarks, links and web content in one place across all your devices. Key features include tagging, search, Chrome/Firefox extensions and apps.

Type: software

Pricing: Freemium

Hearken Features

• Allows newsrooms to crowdsource story ideas from their audience
• Provides tools for gathering feedback on stories and topics from readers
• Enables newsrooms to directly interact with and respond to their audience
• Open-source web platform that is free to install and use

Raindrop.io Features

• Save and organize bookmarks
• Tag bookmarks for easy search and filtering
• Available as web app and browser extensions
• Sync bookmarks across devices
• Share bookmarks and collections publicly or privately
• Read-later queue
• Archive bookmarks

Hearken

• Open Source

Raindrop.io

• Freemium