Most "best Loomly alternatives" lists are the same twelve tools in a different order, which is not much help when you are already using one of them and want to know what to do next.
The useful question is not which tool is best. It is why you are leaving, because the right answer is completely different if you are leaving over price than if you are leaving over approvals.
I build a scheduler myself, so read the section about my own product with that in mind. Everything else here is a genuine recommendation, including the tools that beat mine on things. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, checked on 6 August 2026, apart from RecurPost and Post Planner which I checked on 17 August.
First, why are you actually leaving?
In my experience talking to people who switch, it is nearly always one of these:
Starter is $49 a month billed yearly. The next tier is $249. There is very little in between, and outgrowing 12 accounts gets expensive fast.
You wanted a calendar and you are paying for ideation, asset management and workflows you never open.
Post performance is there. What the posting actually produced in your business is not.
You want Claude or Gemini to draft and schedule, and there is no MCP server or public API to point it at.
Find yours below. Several sections will apply, and where they conflict, the cheapest tool that solves your actual problem is usually the right one.
If you are leaving because of the price jump
This is the most common reason and the easiest to fix, because the market below Loomly is crowded.
- SocialPilot, $20 a month for 5 accounts and 1 user, climbing to $200 for 40 accounts and unlimited users. White-label reporting and client dashboards are in the product rather than locked to the top tier, which is why agencies keep landing here.
- Publer, $5 a month for a single account, with a free plan underneath it. Feature density per dollar is the best on this list, and the interface shows it.
- Post Planner, $9 a month for 3 accounts, and a permanent free plan with 1 account and 15 scheduled posts. Watch the daily caps as well as the monthly ones: Starter allows 12 posts a day per account.
- RecurPost, $9 a month for 2 accounts. Extra accounts are $4 each and extra seats $20, so do the arithmetic for your account count before you commit.
- Pallyy, $15 a month for a low-cost visual calendar, priced per social set rather than per seat.
Do the arithmetic on accounts, not on the headline price
Almost every tool here advertises its cheapest tier, and almost every cheapest tier carries two or three social accounts. Loomly's $49 includes twelve. If you actually use twelve, several of these "cheaper" options are not cheaper. Count your accounts first, then compare.
If you stayed for the approvals
Loomly's collaboration is a real strength, and the tools that match it are a shorter list than the tools that undercut it on price.
- Planable, $33 per workspace a month. The closest thing to a like-for-like swap if approvals and client comments are why you are still paying. Free plan covers 50 posts total, which is enough to judge it properly.
- Sendible. Client Connect lets you post to a client's profiles without holding their passwords, which removes the most awkward conversation in agency onboarding.
- Sked Social, $24 a month. External approval portals let a client sign off without an account or a login. If chasing clients for approval is your actual job, that detail matters more than the feature list.
If you want analytics that go further
- Metricool, from €16 a month, with a free plan covering 1 brand and 20 posts. Strong analytics for the price and the most generous free tier worth using.
- 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 will tell you what a post earned, which is a different problem covered further down.
If you are an agency running many clients
- SocialPilot at $20 to $200, priced by accounts rather than seats.
- Sendible, structured around workspaces and profiles with unlimited users on every tier, so cost tracks clients rather than headcount.
- Vista Social, $79 a month, if you want listening, reviews and a unified inbox in the same subscription.
The thing to check is how each one counts you. Per-seat pricing punishes agencies with many staff; per-account pricing punishes agencies with many clients. Pick the model that matches your shape.
If you are one person and Loomly is too much tool
- Buffer, $5 per channel, with a free plan for 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts each. Still the simplest thing that works.
- Hypefury, $6 a month per channel, built for individual creators, with drafts trained on your own posts. Worth knowing before you shortlist it: it no longer supports X, which surprises people given its history.
- Typefully, from $8 a month, if most of your output is threads on X and long-form on LinkedIn.
- Post Bridge, $29 a month for 15 accounts. The lean indie option, unlimited posts on every tier, with a content studio for short clips. The REST API is a $5 a month add-on rather than a tier upgrade, which is worth knowing if you plan to automate.
If you would rather own it than rent it
- Mixpost, $299 once for the Pro licence, self-hosted, unlimited accounts and unlimited team members. Mixpost Lite is free and open source. Over a few years that beats every subscription here.
- Postiz, free self-hosted, or $29 a month for the cloud version. Around 30 networks including Mastodon, Nostr and Telegram.
Both come with the same bill in a different currency: your own server, your own upgrades, and registering your own developer application with each social network before you can publish anything. That last part is the one people underestimate. It is not hard, it is just several weeks of waiting on approvals.
If you want an AI agent to run it
This is the newest split in the market and the one Loomly has not answered.
- Blotato, $29 a month. AI-first, generates images, video and captions, ships a hosted MCP server and an API.
- RecurPost, $9 a month. Documents its own MCP server with 9 tools covering posting, libraries, history and AI drafts.
- Postiz and Mixpost both expose an MCP server, including on the self-hosted versions.
- Post Bridge advertises posting from Claude and ChatGPT, though I could not confirm from their own docs whether that is MCP or something else.
If this is your reason for leaving, check one thing before you buy: whether the agent can only write, or whether it can also read back results. Most of them only write.
If you need to know what the content earned
Here is my disclosure. This is the gap I built planpo.st to fill, so I am not a neutral party.
Every tool above reports engagement, reach and clicks. None of them connects a post to a payment, which means none of them can answer "did the posting make money". Planpo.st ties posts to revenue through Stripe, Shopify and RevenueCat, publishes to seven networks, and exposes 45 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 and no free plan.
What it does not do, plainly: no self-hosting, fewer networks than Postiz, no unified social inbox, and no ideation library of the kind Loomly is genuinely good at. If those are why you are still on Loomly, one of the other tools on this page suits you better and I would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.
What Loomly still does better than most of this list
A roundup that finds nothing good in the tool you are replacing is an advert, so here is the case for staying:
- Twelve social accounts for $49 is generous. Several tools here charge more per account once you pass three or four.
- Ideation. Post ideas and prompts sitting next to the calendar solves a real problem, which is staring at an empty week. Most schedulers assume you already know what to post.
- Asset management in the same place as the calendar, rather than in a folder somewhere.
- The approval flow is mature, and cheaper tools tend to have a thinner version of it.
If those four describe why you signed up, and the $249 tier is not yet in your way, the honest answer might be to stay.
Where I would start
Three tools cover most people leaving Loomly:
Try two, not five. Every one of these takes an afternoon to evaluate properly, and the difference between the second and third best option for your situation is smaller than the cost of spending a month deciding.
The full field
There are more tools than fit in a post organised around reasons. The complete directory, with prices and what each one does not do, is on the Loomly alternatives page, and the direct comparison is at planpo.st vs Loomly.
If you want the other half of the decision, which is what to do once the tool is chosen, building a content calendar in an afternoon is the practical version.