ROAR™ — Newspaper Publishing Software by Lions Light

Grow the revenue that pays your bills.

We built ROAR on an old-fashioned idea: for most community papers, print subs attract print advertisers, and print advertisers pay the bills. If your strategy says otherwise, ROAR reconfigures to match it. ROAR doesn't take sides — it takes orders.

Read: Using your website to increase print subscriptions →

Since 2007 — built for newspapers Loved by weeklies across the USA 24/7/365 phone support No annual contracts
What ROAR does

Publish. Monetize. Relax.

30-second publishing

Paste your story, drop in photos or slideshows, hit publish. ROAR saves images for web and builds every size automatically — no cropping, no webmaster.

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Built-in revenue

Metered, full, or survey paywalls. Print and online subscriptions, classifieds, business directory, store, and ad networks — all included.

How publishers earn

Humans, not tickets

Free training and free 24/7/365 U.S.-based support by phone, email, or chat. Our competitors make you file trouble tickets. We answer.

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Built for newspapers, not blogs

Fast. Intuitive. Not Drupal. Not WordPress.

ROAR was built from scratch for newspapers — not adapted from a blogging platform. If your staff can attach a photo to an email, they can publish your paper. No technical experience, no CMS experience, clear training videos, and free live training whenever you want it.

And then there's the free stuff

ROAR keeps giving.

FREE

Stacker story import

Free, ready-to-run stories for print and online, imported straight into ROAR. Fill pages on tight weeks.

INCLUDED

Buddy Network

Share stories between ROAR papers — your sister publications, or a friendly paper the next county over.

FREE FOR EVERYONE

Subscriptions database

Our gift to the industry: a free subscription database tool — yours to keep even if you never buy ROAR.

Download it free
FREE WITH 3+ PAPERS

Family-of-publications site

One site that fronts all your papers — like whitewaterpub.com. Free with three or more publications; $10/mo otherwise.

Plays well with others: syncs with Interlink · MailChimp & Constant Contact · Google Analytics · CloudFlare caching

"It's one of the quickest, easiest platforms we've ever used — And when we call, they pick up."
— Jim Allen, Western Outdoor Times
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Simple, straightforward pricing

Most customers pay

$179/mo***

No setup fees. No long contracts — three months, then month-to-month. Every feature, free training, and unlimited 24/7 U.S.-based support included.

Our competitors rope you in with multi-year contracts. We don't have to — our clients stay because ROAR just works.

***Even large papers can pay $179/mo on our revenue-share plan. No setup fees (archive-import fees may apply).

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See it for yourself

Bring a story. Watch it go live.

Request a demo and we'll publish your actual story and photos in ROAR — you can time us.

Request a Demo 509.795.5849