Planable alternatives, sorted by why you're leaving
By Lukasz Blachura · 9 October 2026
Planable is good at the thing it was built for. Its approval flow is the cleanest I have used, the per workspace pricing with unlimited collaborators is genuinely fair to teams, and the free plan is enough to judge the product properly.
People still leave, and in my experience it is rarely about the headline price. It is about a number most comparison posts never mention: Basic gives you 60 posts a month.
I build a competing scheduler, so the section about my own is marked. Everything else is a straight recommendation, including the tools that beat mine. Prices were checked against each vendor's own pricing page on 1 October 2026, except Publer's, which redirect-loops, so those come from secondary sources.
First, which of these is actually your problem?
60 posts a month on Basic, 150 on Pro. Across four social pages that is 15 posts per page per month. Cross-posting burns it fast.
4 social pages on Basic at $33, 10 on Pro at $49. Agencies hit this before they hit anything else.
$12 a month on top, and the social inbox another $7.50. Both are included in the base price elsewhere.
The tool is built around getting posts signed off. What happened after they published is someone else's job.
Work out which one it is before you shortlist anything, because the right answer is completely different for each.
If the post cap is the problem
This is the most common reason and the easiest to solve, because almost nobody else counts posts this way.
- Publer, from $5 a month for one account with unlimited posts, and a free tier covering 3 accounts and 10 scheduled posts. Additional accounts are $4 on Professional. Three accounts works out around $12 a month.
- Buffer, $5 per channel a month, with a free plan for 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts each. The simplest thing that works, and the free tier is a real tier rather than a trial.
- Postiz, $29 a month for 5 channels with unlimited posts, or free if you self-host it.
- Mixpost, $299 once for the Pro licence, self-hosted, unlimited accounts and unlimited team members.
Count your actual posts before you compare prices
If you publish the same thing to four pages, Planable counts that as four posts against your 60. A week of daily cross-posting is 28. Pull last month's real number out of your calendar before deciding whether 60 is tight or generous, because the answer is different for a single brand than for an agency running four.
If you need more social pages
- SocialPilot, $20 a month for 5 accounts and 1 user, up to $200 for 40 accounts and unlimited users. White-label reporting is in the product rather than locked to the top tier.
- Sendible, structured around workspaces and profiles with unlimited users on every tier, so the cost tracks clients rather than headcount. Client Connect also lets you post to a client's profiles without holding their passwords.
- RecurPost, $9 a month for 2 accounts, $25 for 5, $79 for 20. Watch the add-ons, which stack: $4 per extra account, $20 per extra seat, $10 per RSS feed.
- Vista Social, $79 a month for 15 profiles, if you want listening and a unified inbox in the same subscription.
If you are paying extra for analytics
Planable charges $12 a month for analytics on top of the plan. Two tools lead with measurement instead of charging for it:
- Metricool, from €16 a month, with a free plan covering 1 brand and 20 posts. Best analytics per euro on this list and the free tier is usable.
- Iconosquare, from €33 a month billed annually. Came from Instagram analytics and still leads with measurement, with scheduling attached rather than the other way round.
Both stop at engagement and traffic. Neither connects a post to a payment, which is a different problem covered below.
If approvals are why you stayed, and you need the rest to improve
This is the hard case, because approvals are the thing Planable does best. Three tools come close:
- Sked Social, $24 a month. External approval portals let a client sign off without an account or a login, which removes a real piece of friction.
- Sendible, with approval workflows and client dashboards built for agency work.
- Loomly, $49 a month billed yearly for 12 social accounts and 3 users. Mature approval flow, and twelve accounts for that price is generous next to Planable's four. The catch is the next tier up jumps to $249, so check your growth path first.
Honestly: if multi-level sign-off on Enterprise is load-bearing for you, nothing here is a clean swap. Staying is a reasonable answer.
If you want an AI agent to run it
Planable already ships an MCP server, so this is not a reason to leave on its own. The question is what the agent can reach once connected.
Ten of the sixteen schedulers I track now ship a first-party MCP server, including Buffer (free on every plan), Metricool, Postiz, Publer and Typefully. I keep a dated list in which social media schedulers have an MCP server, because two of those shipped in the last two months and the answer keeps moving.
The thing worth checking before you switch for this reason: nearly every server can write posts, far fewer can read results back, and almost none can tell the agent what a post earned.
If you want to know what the content made
My disclosure: planpo.st is mine, and this is the gap I built it to fill.
Every tool above reports engagement, reach and clicks. None of them connects a post to a payment. Planpo.st ties posts to revenue through Stripe, Shopify and RevenueCat, publishes to seven networks, and exposes 47 tools over an MCP server so an agent can ask what a post earned in the same conversation where it scheduled one. It is $19.99 a month with a 7-day trial, no post caps, and no free plan.
What it does not do: no self-hosting, fewer networks than Postiz, no social inbox, and nothing matching Planable's multi-level approvals. If sign-off is your whole workflow, I am the wrong answer and Sked Social or Sendible is the better one.
What Planable still does better
- Unlimited users on every tier, including free. Most tools here charge per seat, and for a team of six that difference is larger than the post cap ever was.
- The approval experience, which is genuinely the best in this list. Clients comment on the post rather than in an email thread about the post.
- The free plan is a real free plan, 50 posts with no time limit, which is enough to form an opinion rather than a first impression.
- Grid and feed previews that show the post in context, which matters more for visual brands than any feature in a comparison table.
If those describe why you signed up, and 60 posts covers your month, the honest answer is to stay.
Where I would start
Try two, not five. Each takes an afternoon to evaluate properly, and the gap between your second and third best option is smaller than a month spent deciding.
The full directory with prices is below, and the direct comparison is at planpo.st vs Planable. If you are weighing other tools at the same time, I wrote the same breakdown for Loomly, RecurPost and Publer.
Planable alternatives compared
6 tools on the four things people compare before they switch: what it costs, how many accounts the entry plan carries, how much it lets you publish, and how far the analytics go.
| Tool | Starts at | Accounts on entry plan | Posts on entry plan | Analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| planpo.stours | $19.99/mo | 15 | 1,000/mo | Revenue per post, from Stripe, Shopify and RevenueCat |
| Planableyou are hereFull comparison | $33 per workspace/mo | 4 pages on Basic, 10 on Pro, 50 on Enterprise | 60/mo on Basic, 150 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise | Analytics is a $12/mo add-on |
| LoomlyFull comparison | $49/mo billed yearly | 12 | Not documented | Post performance analytics |
| BufferFull comparison | $5 per channel/mo | 1 per $5 unit | Unlimited on paid, 10 per channel on free | Engagement analytics |
| MetricoolFull comparison | €16/mo | Up to 5 brands on Starter | 20/mo on free, unlimited on paid | Organic and ad performance reporting |
| SocialBeeFull comparison | $29/mo | 5 profiles | Not documented | Engagement analytics |
"Not documented" means we could not confirm it from the vendor's own materials, not that the product lacks it. Our own row is generated from the live plan configuration. Competitor figures were read from each vendor's own pricing page on: Planable 1 October 2026, Loomly 6 August 2026, Buffer 6 August 2026, Metricool 6 August 2026, SocialBee 6 August 2026. Prices move, so confirm before you decide.
Why people leave Planable
Work out which of these is your reason before you shortlist anything, because the right replacement is different for each one.
60 posts a month on Basic
Basic is 60 posts a month and Pro is 150. Across the 4 social pages Basic includes, that is 15 posts per page per month, and cross-posting the same thing to four pages spends four of them.
The page cap, not the price
4 social pages on Basic at $33 a month, 10 on Pro at $49. Agencies reach that ceiling well before they reach the post one, and the per-workspace pricing that is generous on collaborators is not generous on pages.
Analytics is an add-on
Analytics costs $12 a month on top of the plan and the social inbox another $7.50. Both are in the base price of most tools on this page, so compare the total rather than the headline.
It approves, it does not measure
Planable is built around getting a post signed off, and its approval flow is the cleanest in this field. What happened after the post published is outside the product's remit.
Already decided it is us you want to weigh Planable against? The head-to-head is on planpo.st vs Planable.
The full field: 32 tools, with prices
planpo.st
from $19.99/moA social scheduler that tells you which posts made money. Everything else on this page reports reach and engagement.
- Publishes to 7 networks with native formats: threads, reels, shorts and stories.
- Attributes revenue per post through Stripe, Shopify and RevenueCat, which no other scheduler on this page does.
- Runs from an AI agent through an official MCP server, with 47 tools and an approval guardrail on by default.
- Renders video and branded carousels in-app, so posts do not need finished assets.
The rest of the field
Listed alphabetically. What each one is for, who buys it, what it costs, and where it stops. Tools with a full comparison also have a page of their own.
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Agorapulse
$79/mo billed annuallyAgorapulse leads with the inbox rather than the calendar. Comments, direct messages and reviews land in one queue with moderation rules and assignment, which suits teams whose day is mostly replying rather than planning. Standard is $79 a month billed annually for 10 social profiles, rising through Professional and Advanced at $119 and $149 as team features and analytics unlock. The 30-day trial is the most generous in this list and takes no card. Reporting covers ROI and competitor benchmarking, and integrations reach HubSpot and Salesforce, though attribution stays at the campaign level rather than the individual post.
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Ayrshare
$149/moAyrshare is not a scheduler you log into, it is an API you build on, sold to SaaS products that want posting as a feature without maintaining a dozen platform integrations. It covers 13 or more networks with publishing, analytics, engagement and history endpoints, webhooks, custom branding and an MCP server for agent access. Premium is $149 a month for 1 profile, Launch $299 for up to 10 with a 28-day trial, Business from $599 for 30 to 300 profiles with per-profile pricing. There is no free plan. If you want a dashboard rather than a codebase, this is the wrong shape.
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Blotato
from $29/moBlotato is AI-first: it generates images, video, voice and captions and then publishes them across 9 platforms, so it competes on making content rather than only scheduling it. Starter is $29 a month for 20 accounts and 1,250 AI credits, Creator $97 for 40 accounts, Agency $499. There are no per-post or per-seat fees and the trial runs 7 days. It ships a hosted MCP server and an API, with Claude Skills on the annual plan, which makes it one of the more agent-native tools in this list. What it does not do is tell you which of that content earned anything.
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Buffer
from $5 per channel/moBuffer is the oldest name in the category and still the cheapest way to start: a free plan covering 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts each, then $5 per channel a month on Essentials and $10 on Team. Pricing per channel keeps it very cheap at one or two accounts and stops being cheap at ten. It ships a public API with published request quotas on every tier and, since May 2026, an official MCP server that is free even on the free plan, so an agent can drive it at no cost. Analytics are reach and engagement, not revenue.
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ContentStudio
$19/mo billed annuallyContentStudio pairs scheduling with content discovery, so finding something to post is treated as part of the job rather than assumed. It covers 11 or more networks including Bluesky, Threads, Telegram and Google Business Profile, with AI generation for text, images and video, a social inbox, approvals and white-label options. Standard is $29 monthly or $19 annually for 5 accounts and 1 workspace, Advanced $69 or $49 for 10 accounts and 2 workspaces, and Agency Unlimited $139 or $99 for 25 or more accounts and unlimited workspaces. The trial is 7 days, full-feature, no card. Analytics stay at engagement level.
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CoSchedule
$19/user/mo billed annuallyCoSchedule started as a marketing calendar and still behaves like one: social posting is a lane inside a wider plan that also holds campaigns, projects and assets. If your problem is that social, email and launches live in three places, that framing is the draw. Social Calendar is $19 per user a month billed annually for 3 profiles, with extras at $5 each, and Agency Calendar is $59 for unlimited client calendars. A free tier gives 1 profile and 15 scheduled posts. Pricing is per user, so a growing team costs more even if output does not change.
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Hootsuite
from $99 per user/moHootsuite is the enterprise incumbent, and priced like it at $99 per user a month for 10 accounts. What you are buying beyond publishing is social listening, brand monitoring, compliance and governance, none of which the smaller tools here attempt. It ships three official MCP connectors, Perch for publishing, Nest for the inbox and Lumen for listening. Because pricing is per seat, cost grows with headcount rather than output, which is why solo operators rarely land here. Reporting measures social performance thoroughly and does not connect posts to Stripe, Shopify or subscription revenue.
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Hypefury
$6/mo per channelHypefury is built for individual creators rather than teams, with a distraction-free editor, writing prompts drawn from posts that performed, autoplugs and an engagement builder. AI can be trained on your own posts so drafts sound like you. Flexible is $6 a month per channel with one included, and Full is $19 a month for all channels. The 7-day trial takes no card and there is no permanent free plan. Worth knowing before you shortlist it: it was long treated as an X tool, and X is no longer supported. It now covers Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and Mastodon.
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Iconosquare
€33/mo billed annuallyIconosquare came from Instagram analytics and still leads with measurement, with scheduling attached rather than the other way round. It covers 8 networks with competitor and hashtag monitoring, white-label reporting and a unified inbox. Launch is €33 a month annually or €39 monthly for 5 profiles, 1 user and 100 posts; Scale is €69 or €82 for 3 users and unlimited posts; Excel €116 or €138 for 6 users. Profiles stay at 5 until custom plans. A permanent free plan gives 2 profiles, 1 user and 10 posts a month after the 14-day trial ends.
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Later
from $18.75/mo billed yearlyLater is the Instagram-first choice, built around visual planning, grid preview and influencer campaigns rather than multi-network throughput. Plans start at $18.75 a month billed yearly for one social set of 8 profiles, with posts capped at 30 per profile a month on the entry tier and analytics history limited to 3 months. Its link-in-bio page is the strongest in this list and does track ecommerce through Google Analytics, which is closer to attribution than most competitors get. That tracking is per page rather than per post, so you learn the link converted without learning which post sent the visitor.
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Loomly
from $49/mo billed yearlyLoomly is a brand calendar with ideation built in: post ideas, prompts and asset management sit alongside scheduling, which suits teams that struggle to fill the calendar rather than to publish to it. Starter is $49 a month billed yearly for 12 social accounts and 3 users, which is generous at that price, but the next tier jumps to $249 for 60 accounts and unlimited users, with little in between. Custom roles, workflows and branding arrive higher up. Analytics cover post performance and scheduled reports, and revenue attribution is not part of the product.
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Metricool
from €16/moMetricool is analytics-led, and the only tool here that tracks competitors at scale, up to 100 profiles, alongside your own. It also reports paid and organic together, so ad spend and reach sit in one view. Pricing starts around €16 a month per brand with a free plan covering 1 brand and 20 posts, which makes it unusually cheap for several brands. It ships an official MCP server that works on a free account. API access starts on Advanced. Reporting covers performance and ad spend, and does not connect posts to payment providers.
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Mixpost
from $299 one-time for ProMixpost is bought once rather than rented: a $299 one-time Pro licence, self-hosted, with unlimited social accounts and unlimited team members. Over a long enough horizon that beats every subscription here, and your data stays on your own server. Mixpost Lite is free and open source. The Pro licence includes an API and an MCP server, so agent access does not cost extra. The work you take on in exchange is real: your own hosting, your own upgrades, and registering your own developer application with each social network before you can publish anything.
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NapoleonCat
14-day trial, 10 profilesNapoleonCat is aimed at teams doing social customer service at volume, particularly ecommerce. Auto-moderation is the standout: rules that hide, delete or reply to comments automatically, which matters when a product post attracts hundreds of identical questions. It also reaches beyond the usual networks to Google Business Profile, the App Store and Google Play, so review management sits alongside social. Scheduling, analytics and a social CRM are included. The trial runs 14 days with 10 profile slots and 5 seats and takes no card. Published pricing is not shown on the plans page, so expect a conversation.
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Pallyy
$15/moPallyy is one of the cheapest credible options here and does not hide its limits. Free covers 1 social set, 15 posts a month and 1 user. Starter is $15 a month for 20 posts and 2 accounts per set, and Pro is $25 for unlimited posts and 11 accounts per set, still 1 user. Agency and Scale tiers add 10 and 30 social sets with 3 and 10 users. You get a calendar, media library, AI captions, a social inbox, approval workflows and link-in-bio pages. Priced per social set rather than per seat, which suits solo operators managing several brands.
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Post Bridge
from $29/moPost Bridge is the lean indie entry, and it makes its agent story explicit with a page covering posting from Claude, ChatGPT and OpenClaw. Creator is $29 a month for 15 connected accounts, Growth $49 for 50, and Pro $99 for unlimited, all with unlimited posts and a 7-day trial. The REST API is a $5 a month add-on rather than a tier upgrade. There is a content studio for UGC-style clips with captions and audio, plus carousel posts and bulk video scheduling. Analytics are in beta, and revenue attribution is not offered.
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Post Planner
from $9/moPost Planner competes on price and says so, aiming at small businesses and solo operators rather than agencies. There is a permanent free plan with 1 account, 15 scheduled posts and 3 a day. Starter is $9 a month for 3 accounts and 150 posts, Growth $39 for 15 accounts and 1,500 posts, Business $69 for 25 accounts and 5,000 posts, and Enterprise reaches 100 accounts and 20,000 posts. The 7-day trial takes no card. It covers 10 networks including Threads and Bluesky, and pairs scheduling with a curation feed for finding things to post, a design editor and analytics. Posting caps are daily as well as monthly, and revenue attribution is not offered.
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Postiz
from $29/moPostiz is the open-source option, and the only tool here you can run on your own hardware for nothing. Around 30 networks including Mastodon, Nostr, Discord, Telegram and several developer blogs, plus an agent CLI that outputs JSON and an MCP server. Cloud plans start at $29 a month for 5 channels with unlimited posts, rising to $99 for 100 channels, with a 7-day trial. Self-hosting means your own server, your own upgrades and your own platform API applications. It publishes and it schedules, but it has no revenue attribution, so it cannot tell you what any of it earned.
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Publer
from $5/mo for 1 accountPubler is the modular option: you pay per social account and per member rather than for a bundle, so a single-account user pays very little. Professional starts at $5 a month for 1 account with extras at $4, Business at $10 with extras at $7, and every tenth account and member is free. There is a free plan. Publer added a hosted MCP server during 2026, available on Business and Enterprise, so an agent can drive it. That structure is excellent at small scale and gets less attractive as accounts multiply, which is the trade-off against workspace pricing. It publishes, schedules and reports engagement, with no connection between a post and the money it produced.
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RecurPost
from $9/moRecurPost is built around recycling rather than scheduling: you keep evergreen libraries and it reposts from them on a repeating rota, which suits anyone whose best content stays useful for months. Starter is $9 a month for 2 accounts and 1 user, Personal $25 for 5, Agency $79 for 20 accounts and 3 users, and Enterprise is custom from 100. Extra accounts are $4 a month each, extra team members $20, RSS feeds $10 per feed, recurring time slots $20 per block and AI credits $10 per 200 posts. It covers 10 networks including Threads and Bluesky, with bulk CSV scheduling, an approval workflow, shared client calendars and white-label PDF reports. It ships its own MCP server with 9 tools. Revenue attribution is not part of it.
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Sendible
14-day trial, no cardSendible is built for agencies and multi-location businesses rather than solo creators, and the feature list follows from that. Client Connect lets an agency post to a client's profiles without holding their passwords, which removes the most awkward conversation in agency onboarding. Plans are structured around workspaces and profiles, from 1 workspace and 6 profiles up to 50 and 300, with unlimited users on every tier, so cost tracks clients rather than headcount. There is bulk scheduling with CSV upload, evergreen recycling, a Canva integration and Google Analytics reporting. Analytics stop at traffic and engagement, so revenue per post is not part of it.
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Sked Social
$24/moSked Social is a visual-led scheduler with unusually good client review: external approval portals let a client sign off without an account or a login, which removes a genuine friction point for agencies. It publishes to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, X, Threads and Google Business Profile, and includes a video editor, media library, unified inbox and link-in-bio. Basic is $24 a month for 1 user and 1 profile, Grow $58 for 3 users and 6 profiles, Accelerate $166 for 6 users and 10 profiles. Profile counts are low for the price compared with agency-first tools.
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SocialBee
from $29/moSocialBee is organised around content categories and recycling, so an evergreen queue keeps itself full without daily attention. That is the reason to pick it, and it does that better than anything else here. Bootstrap is $29 a month for 5 profiles and 1 user, Accelerate $49 for 10 profiles with approvals, Pro $99 for 25 profiles and 3 users, with agency tiers to 150. AI content generation is unlimited on every plan, which few competitors match. Analytics history is 3 months on the entry plan, and performance stops at engagement rather than reaching revenue.
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SocialPilot
$20/moSocialPilot is priced for agencies that need many accounts without many seats. Essentials is $20 a month for 5 accounts and 1 user, and the ladder runs to Ultimate at $200 for 40 accounts and unlimited users, with 15 percent off annually. White-label reporting and client dashboards come as part of the product rather than a top-tier upsell, which is why it shows up in agency shortlists. There is bulk scheduling, an approval workflow, a social inbox, review management and an AI writer with credits per plan. Reporting is engagement and audience growth, with no connection to payment data.
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Sprout Social
from $79/mo billed annuallySprout Social is the reporting-heavy end of the market, aimed at teams that answer to people who never open the tool. Essentials starts at $79 a month billed annually, and the main tiers run $199 to $399 per seat, which puts it out of reach for most solo operators. What that buys is depth: a unified inbox, review management, sentiment analysis and listening on higher tiers, plus an API on Advanced. The 30-day trial is generous. Reporting is social performance and paid insights, so revenue per post is not something it sets out to answer.
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Statusbrew
14-day trial, no cardStatusbrew sits between a scheduler and a moderation tool. Unlimited publishing comes with an all-in-one inbox, AI sentiment analysis and rules that action comments automatically, which is the part teams tend to stay for. Plans run Lite, Standard, Premium and Enterprise at 1, 3, 6 and unlimited users, with 5, 10, 15 and unlimited profiles, and historical reporting improves as you climb. Competitor benchmarking and web listening are included higher up. Prices are not displayed on the pricing page, so budget from a demo rather than the site. The 14-day trial needs no card.
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Tailwind
$17.99/mo billed annuallyTailwind is a Pinterest tool that also posts to Instagram and Facebook, and it is the right answer if Pinterest is where your traffic comes from. Pin design, batch creation, SmartSchedule timing and SmartPin weekly automation are all built for that platform's rhythm rather than retrofitted. Ecommerce integrations cover Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace and WordPress. Free Forever gives 5 posts a month on 1 account, Pro is $17.99 a month annually for 150 posts, Advanced $29.99 for 300, and Max $49.99 for unlimited posts across 3 accounts. Outside Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook, coverage stops.
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Taplio
$39/moTaplio does one network. It is a LinkedIn growth tool covering post creation with AI assistance, scheduling at optimal times, carousel generation, analytics, trending content discovery and automated engagement on comments and connections. Buyers are personal brand builders, agencies running client profiles, and companies with employee advocacy or corporate influencer programmes. Plans start at $39 a month with a 7-day full-access trial, and a free Chrome extension surfaces LinkedIn stats and trending posts without a subscription. If LinkedIn is most of your distribution, a focused tool beats a general one. If it is one of five channels, it does not.
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Typefully
from $8/moTypefully is a writing tool that happens to publish, focused on X and LinkedIn, and its editor is the nicest here for drafting threads and long-form posts. Plans start around $8 a month with a free tier covering limited scheduling, and AI assistance arrives on higher plans. It now ships an official MCP server at mcp.typefully.com with OAuth, so an agent can drive it. The trade-off is deliberate: no video rendering, no carousel generation, no multi-network breadth, and no revenue attribution. If threads on X are most of your output, a focused tool beats a general one and this is the focused tool. If you publish across five networks, it will not cover them.
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Vista Social
$79/moVista Social covers more ground than most tools at its price: 13 or more networks, a unified inbox, review management, social listening, DM automation, employee advocacy and a link-in-bio product called Vista Page. Professional is $79 a month for 15 profiles and 2 users, Advanced $149 for 30 profiles and 4 users, with 20 percent off annually and a 14-day trial. The breadth is the point and also the trade-off, since each area is shallower than a specialist tool. Link-in-bio gives it a form of click tracking, but revenue is not attributed back to the post that produced it.
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Zoho Social
Free plan availableZoho Social makes most sense if you already run Zoho CRM or Desk, because the integration between them is the reason to choose it over a standalone scheduler. A lead that came from a social conversation lands in the CRM rather than in a spreadsheet. There is a permanent free plan with 1 brand and 6 channels, then Standard, Professional and Premium adding scheduling, monitoring, livestream and reporting, and agency plans covering 10 or 20 brands. Zia, Zoho's assistant, drafts posts and replies. Prices vary by region, and the 15-day trial needs no card.
Every entry was checked against the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-06. Prices move, so confirm before you decide. Where a vendor does not publish prices, that is said rather than guessed at.
Questions people ask about leaving Planable
How many posts do I actually get on Planable's Basic plan?
60 a month, across 4 social pages, for $33. Pro raises it to 150 posts and 10 pages for $49. The free plan is 50 posts in total rather than 50 a month, which is enough to judge the product and not enough to run on.
Which Planable alternative has the same approval flow?
SocialBee includes approvals from Accelerate at $49 a month for 10 profiles, Loomly adds custom workflows on its higher tiers, and RecurPost includes them from Agency at $79. Planpo.st includes client approvals on its Pro plan, and every API key carries an approval guardrail, so a post drafted by an AI agent waits for a human instead of going live unattended. None of them is as clean as Planable's multi-level sign-off, which is worth saying plainly.
Is there a Planable alternative with analytics in the base price?
Yes, most of them. Buffer, Metricool and SocialBee all include analytics on their paid plans rather than selling it separately, and Metricool's reporting covers paid and organic together. Planpo.st includes analytics on both paid plans, and revenue attribution on Pro.
Do I lose MCP access if I leave Planable?
Not unless you want to. Buffer's MCP server is free on every plan including the free one, Metricool's works on a free account, Publer ships a hosted server on Business and Enterprise, and RecurPost documents a local one with 9 tools. Planpo.st includes MCP and API access on both paid plans, with 47 tools covering drafting, scheduling, rendering, approvals and revenue.
More comparisons: every tool we have written up, or the head-to-head on planpo.st vs Planable.
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