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Alternatives to Planoly
21 social media tools sit alongside Planoly in this directory. Below is what separates each from Planoly on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 8
- Cheaper to start
- 3
- Planoly starts at
- $14/month
Why people look past Planoly
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Planoly entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Planoly carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 8 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Visual social media scheduling and analytics
- Starts $4.75 a month dearer, at $18.75/month.
Build your audience organically on social media
- Can be used without paying; Planoly cannot.
- Starts $9 a month cheaper, at $5/month.
Pinterest and Instagram marketing platform for scheduling and keyword research
- Can be used without paying; Planoly cannot.
- Starts $2.01 a month cheaper, at $11.99/month.
- 4 tiers to Planoly's 3.
The renamed and restructured Twitter, now merged into Elon Musks xAI, with paid verification and metered API access
- Can be used without paying; Planoly cannot.
- Sold on a Free to use, paid X Premium tiers and metered developer API model rather than subscription.
Visual discovery and bookmarking platform monetised through advertising and shopping links, run as an independent public company
- Can be used without paying; Planoly cannot.
- Sold on a Free for users, advertising revenue from businesses model rather than subscription.
- 1 tier to Planoly's 3.
Blogging and fandom platform owned by Automattic after being sold off by Verizon for a fraction of what Yahoo paid for it
- Can be used without paying; Planoly cannot.
- Sold on a Free to use, optional ad-free subscription and paid post promotion model rather than subscription.
- 2 tiers to Planoly's 3.
Every Planoly alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planoly (this page) | $14/month | Subscription | 3 | |
| LaterLater offers similar visual Instagram grid planning and scheduling for creators. | $18.75/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Planoly |
| BufferBuffer is a comparable social scheduling tool with broader multi-network publishing. | Free, then $5/month | - | 3 | vs Planoly |
| TailwindTailwind focuses on similar visual scheduling but is specialized for Pinterest growth. | Free, then $11.99/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Planoly |
| X | Free | Free to use, paid X Premium tiers and metered developer API | 3 | vs Planoly |
| Free | Free for users, advertising revenue from businesses | 1 | vs Planoly | |
| Tumblr | Free | Free to use, optional ad-free subscription and paid post promotion | 2 | vs Planoly |
| Free | Free, funded entirely by targeted advertising | 1 | vs Planoly | |
| Metricool | Free, then $20/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Planoly |
| Mention | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Planoly |
| YouScan | $499/month | Per month by mention volume and search topics | 2 | vs Planoly |
| Synthesio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Planoly |
| Rival IQ | $239/month | Per month by tracked company count | 3 | vs Planoly |
| Statusbrew | $69/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Planoly |
| Determ | €99/month | Per month by topic and mention volume | 4 | vs Planoly |
| Brand24 | $199/month | Per month by mention volume | 5 | vs Planoly |
| Awario | $29/month | Per month by mention volume | 3 | vs Planoly |
| Khoros | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Planoly |
| Sked Social | $24/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Planoly |
| SocialBee | $29/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Planoly |
| Sendible | $1/month | Subscription | 5 | vs Planoly |
| Talkwalker | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Planoly |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Planoly badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Planoly is most often brought in for planning an instagram feed grid before posting, scheduling and auto-publishing across multiple social networks, selling digital products or merch via a link-in-bio page, automating instagram dm replies for lead capture, managing content for multiple clients as an agency. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Planoly is broadly right and the question is cost, the Planoly pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Social Media category lists everything the directory holds, and best social media tools ranks them.
Planoly runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Planoly alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Planoly?
- 21 other social media tools are listed in this directory, led by Later, Buffer, Tailwind, X. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Planoly?
- 8 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Buffer, Tailwind, X, Pinterest, Tumblr.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Planoly?
- Yes. 3 of the alternatives below start under Planoly's $14/month: Buffer at Free, then $5/month, Tailwind at Free, then $11.99/month, Sendible at $1/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Planoly?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Planoly?
- Planoly is most often brought in for planning an instagram feed grid before posting, scheduling and auto-publishing across multiple social networks, selling digital products or merch via a link-in-bio page, automating instagram dm replies for lead capture, managing content for multiple clients as an agency. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Planoly?
- None of the social media tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Planoly alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Social Media, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Planoly against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Planoly covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every social media tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Social Media category, 21 tools beside Planoly. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.