Beehiiv Review (2025): Is It The Best Tool to Grow and Monetize a Newsletter?

Beehiiv is intuitive and user-friendly. The clean design and logical layout make it easy to navigate and use, even for beginners. Each feature sits in its own section in the dashboard and the no-fuss layout means you’re not overwhelmed with unnecessary details.

However, we did come across the occasional bug in the editor, which impacted usability. If you’re based outside the US, you may also find it challenging to set up a non-US mailing address.

Beehiiv’s editor works a little differently to other platforms, as you design your email and your published post in the same place (which may be a little jarring to at first). It’s made up of building blocks, ranging from coded sections and plain text to images, blockquotes, and tables. It even allows for advanced content types such as polls, social media embeds, and other Beehiiv newsletter recommendations. However, we do find it a little less flexible compared to other email editors.

You can personalize emails in Beehiiv using basic custom subscriber data such as first name, last name, and location. While you need to enter the merge tags yourself, it is fairly easy to do. However, dynamic or conditional email content doesn’t appear to be possible.

• Marketing emails
• Transactional emails
• SMS
• Web push
• Mobile push
• Live chat / conversations

Beehiiv covers the main types of emails needed for newsletter publishing, including broadcasts and automated sequences (although automations are only available on paid plans). Note that it doesn’t include transactional or use-specific emails like abandoned cart emails or order confirmation emails.

While you can add HTML snippets to your posts, it’s not possible to upload your own HTML email template. What’s more, Beehiiv offers just a small library of pre-designed templates. In many cases, you might have to build your templates yourself. This can be time-consuming if you are not sure how to design a newsletter.

Extended design options are only available from their expensive Max plan onwards.

Automations are only available on paid plans, but they offer a decent amount of customization and flexibility. It’s easy to create a welcome series and, as well as set up other complex multi-step automations. You can add multiple triggers (including ones based on polls and surveys), custom conditions, implement time delays, and configure conditional branches within a workflow.

Curiously however, it’s not possible to trigger automations based on email opens and clicks, or send abandoned cart campaigns (unless you build a workaround using Zapier). A/B testing in automations, lead scoring, and website tracking are also not possible.

Beehiiv’s segmentation features are pretty powerful. You can group together subscribers based on the form they signed up from, survey responses, engagements, and specific attributes. Perhaps the most useful feature is you can choose whether you want your segments to be static or dynamic—the latter update daily to ensure your lists are as current as they can be. You can also tag subscribers.

However, we’d love to see some options for importing subscribers directly from another tool. It’s currently only possible to upload subscribers via CSV.

Beehiiv’s embedded forms are basic – there are no templates to start with, and adding any field aside from email address requires you to create a custom field, which isn’t the most straightforward approach. We also found the form editor a bit glitchy, and you can only embed forms using Javascript, meaning there’s no way to tweak the design’s HTML or CSS. Kit offers a much more flexible form editing experience.

• Email and subject line copy
• Email design
• Product recommendations
• Send time optimization
• Segments and workflows
• Win probability

A decent range of content generation tools are integrated into Beehiiv’s post editor, including an AI writing assistant that generates text based on a short prompt, with customizable tone and length. You can also generate AI-powered images and translate content into multiple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

• Paid newsletters
• Ads / paid recommendations
• Memberships
• Sell digital products
• Online courses

Beehiiv offers a strong set of monetization and growth tools tailored to newsletter creators. You can set up paid subscriptions with flexible pricing options, and earn passive income by promoting other newsletters (or even pay others to promote yours).
The built-in Ad Network matches your newsletter with relevant advertisers and streamlines ad placement and payments.

Beehiiv handles authentication automatically and offers support for IP warmup and bounce handling visibility. However, it doesn’t currently offer list cleaning features. Without a deliverability dashboard or sender score, it lags behind more advanced competitors.

Beehiiv manages SPF and DKIM setup and offers a DMARC wizard to help users create and set up DMARC authentication.

Offers a solid set of analytics tools that cover the essentials for newsletter publishers. The dashboard provides a clear overview of key metrics such as open rates, click rates, and subscriber growth.

One of the strengths of Beehiiv’s analytics is the ability to track revenue directly within the platform – a big plus for creators using Beehiiv’s monetization features.

We also like their “Verified Clicks” feature, which allows users to see which proportion of clicks are legitimate, and which are likely driven by bot-clicks.

Beehiiv’s platform, support and knowledge base are only available in English. It’s also missing any kind of “smart send” feature that schedules email sends according to subscriber location/country.

However, you can set your publication to English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Portuguese, which will ensure that auto-generated text (such as unsubscribe text) is displayed in the selected language. AI-powered translations for email content are also supported.

There’s a handy visual preview box that lets you see what your newsletters look like on mobile, in the browser, on desktop, and as an email. You can send a test email too to see if it arrives safely in your inbox. No spam checker or tools for previewing emails in different email clients (e.g. Apple Mail, Gmail), though.

With Beehiiv’s Branded Links feature, you can track email links within a newsletter to use your own domain, rather than Beehiiv’s default domain (bhclick.com or link.mail.beehiiv.com). You can also include your own company’s subdomain, and use your own domain to host your publications.

Depends on your plan. While the Launch plan only allows for 1 user, higher-tier plans allow you to set up admins, members and contributors (although the Scale plan restricts this to 3 users). You can also grant access on a Workspace or publication level.

Around 30 native integration with platforms like Shopify, Hubspot, Podia, Patreon, and Circle, which lets you sync subscribers easily. There are also integrations with platforms like WordPress and Webflow to let you move content and posts across.

Additionally, Beehiiv supports integration with Zapier, providing access to thousands of apps, including well-known ones like Gmail and Trello. Migrating your existing newsletter from platforms such as Substack or Mailchimp is also straightforward

Technically, it’s possible to create a very basic landing page using Beehiiv’s website builder, although there are no pre-made templates to pull from and you won’t have a huge amount of control over the design. We’ll be interested to see if this changes when they launch the Website Builder v2.0.

There are a handful of tools to help you import posts directly from other platforms (Substack, WordPress, Mailchimp, or Ghost). If you’re moving from Substack, there’s even a guided “mapping” tool that moves across paid customers via Stripe. You can even import paid/premium content, although note that some content types (e.g. videos, photo galleries, tags, authors, and comments) will not get transferred.

Subscriber migration is mostly done via CSV upload. You can also get in touch with Beehiiv’s internal services partner if you need more migration support. Unfortunately, there’s no assistance for template conversion or setting up automations.

Users can submit tickets through the help portal or get help through an extensive catalog of tutorials and guides. Response times can vary, but be aware that they will only respond during business hours.

While there is an AI-powered chatbot available 24/7, there is no live chat support available.