Describe your announcement, get up to 8 headline options and 2 suggested leads in seconds. Free, no signup.
The more context you give, the better the headlines.
By using this free tool you agree to our fair use policy. Writing and testing a full press release is free too, you only pay when you send it to journalists. Create a free account.
An AI headline generator reads a short description of your news and writes several factual headline options, each under 90 characters, plus one-sentence suggested leads you can edit freely. This tool is free, needs no signup, allows 2 requests per hour per IP address, and runs on GPT-4o-mini with rules against invented facts and superlatives.
Three ways to get a headline, with different trade-offs in speed, format and control.
| This headline generator | Full press release generator | A ChatGPT prompt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Output | Up to 8 headlines, up to 2 leads | Full release: headline, dateline, lead, body, quote, boilerplate, contact | Depends on how detailed your prompt is |
| Time | A few seconds | About 20 seconds | As long as you spend prompting and checking |
| Invented facts | Blocked by the system prompt | Missing facts become [brackets] you fill in | Often fills gaps with plausible but made-up figures |
| Rate limit | 2 per hour, no signup | 2 per hour, no signup | Depends on your ChatGPT plan |
| Next step | Write the full release | Send it to journalists you pick | Copy, paste and find the journalists yourself |
A headline is the entry point, not the pitch. Once you have an angle you like, write the full release with our free press release generator, which adds the dateline, lead paragraph, body, quote and boilerplate around the headline. For inspiration on structure and tone, browse our press release examples.
Once the release is written, the news only works once the right reporters read it. The journalist database holds 45,000+ contacts you can filter by country and topic, and PressPilot pricing starts at 29 EUR a month excluding VAT for 100 journalist credits. Writing and testing stay free, you only pay when a release actually goes out to journalists.
Yes. You can generate headlines for 2 announcements per hour from the same IP without signing up. To write the full release and send it to journalists, create a free account: the account itself, your first AI generation, picking journalists and a test send are free.
The tool runs on GPT-4o-mini, a smaller, cost-efficient OpenAI model, with a system prompt that enforces press-writing rules: factual, no superlative, headline carries the actual news, third person only.
Up to 8 headline options and up to 2 suggested leads (one-sentence summaries) per generation, so you can pick the angle that fits your announcement best.
No. The system prompt forbids inventing numbers, names or facts. If your description does not include a number, the AI will not add one to make a headline sound bigger.
No, the prompt blocks superlatives with no proof. A press release headline states the news (who, what), not an advertising claim, so journalists can judge it on facts.
Yes. Pick English or French in the form. The AI writes natively in the selected language rather than translating.
Yes. The headlines and leads are yours to edit and use freely. No attribution required, and we do not store or reuse the announcement details you submit.
This tool only writes headline and lead options, in a few seconds. The full press release generator at /tools/press-release-generator writes the complete release: dateline, lead, body, quote, boilerplate and contact block.
Turn your best headline into a journalist-ready press release in about 20 seconds.
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