More than a one-click draft.
Koala is a fast writer: paste a keyword, or let its content calendar pick one, and a formatted draft goes to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost. Its Deep Research mode cites sources. What it does not do is show you which claims were checked, or put a name on the page, so what makes an article defensible is still sitting on your desk. Mastheads hands you the finished, checked article, not the raw draft.
A fast draft is worth having. What I needed was the part after the draft, the checking and the name, and that is the whole difference on this page.
Koala is a competent draft tool with citations. What it stops short of is a record of what was checked and an editor of record, and its bulk output is widely noted to read robotically without a human editing pass. Fast to a cited draft; not a finished, defensible article.
The tape.
Fact-checked against cited sources
Waits for your review before publishing
Real named byline / editor of record
Auto-publishes to your CMS
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Native languages
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
- Each article arrives fact-checked and finished under a real byline, not a raw draft you still have to verify and format.
- Every article names its editor of record, and a topic it cannot source is never written.
- Every article states what it checked and what it could not settle, and per-article variation keeps output from reading mass-produced.
- Compliance, an authenticity trace, and a clean portable export come standard.
What you get that Koala AI doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, no article.
A real editor of record
Nothing publishes anonymously. Each article carries a real named byline and a human editor of record, accountable for editorial standards, source policy, and disputes - the person whose name is on the door.
Review by default; auto-publish you can defend
Every claim is checked against its sources and the result is written on the article, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same checks - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure on anything published unattended, self-serve GDPR export and account deletion with access and correction on request, a registered DMCA agent, and cover images we draw rather than take off the open web, so there is no stock-image rights question to clear - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in any language
Any language, for any country - written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription. Where we curate a local newsroom register, it takes that too.
Your content, never locked in
A pull API, and one-click export to WordPress WXR, Ghost, and Markdown with every image. You own the articles outright - no royalty, no attribution back to us.
Koala hands you a fast, cited draft and quietly hands back the checking and the judgement. Mastheads keeps both: every claim checked against its sources, an article that states what it could not settle, per-article variation so nothing reads mass-produced, and a real writer on the byline. The gap between them is the entire job of an editor, and it's the part that decides whether a page earns trust.
Under the hood: it discovers stories in your niche, writes them in your voice, fact-checks against sources, illustrates, and publishes to your CMS, on your schedule.
How it worksCommon questions
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