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Statusbrew vs YouScan

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Statusbrew

Social Media

Social media publishing, inbox and moderation with rule-based comment hiding built in

From
$69/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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YouScan

Social Media

Social listening with image recognition, priced from $499 a month with a hard limit on search topics

From
$499/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Statusbrew plans cap both seats and social profiles, so an agency with many small clients hits the profile ceiling well before the user ceiling and is pushed to a tier it does not otherwise need.; YouScan the binding constraint on the published plan is search topics, not mentions: three topics on Starter 3 forces agencies to merge unrelated clients into a single query, which corrupts reporting and pushes them to the quote-only tier.
  • They diverge on capability: Statusbrew covers Publishing and scheduling, YouScan covers Visual Insights.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Statusbrew and YouScan actually diverge.

Attributes where Statusbrew and YouScan differ
AttributeStatusbrewYouScan
Starting price$69/month$499/month
Pricing modelPer user per monthPer month by mention volume and search topics
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Social Media).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Statusbrew

  • Publishing and scheduling
  • Unified inbox
  • Rule-based moderation
  • Approval workflows
  • Reporting
  • BrewLink
  • AI sentiment analysis
  • Social and web listening

Only in YouScan

  • Visual Insights
  • Insights Copilot
  • Audience Insights
  • Auto-Categories
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Audio and video monitoring
  • Smart alerts and automation
  • Social Intelligence API

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Statusbrew

  • A consumer brand running paid social where ad comment threads fill with spam and complaints faster than a community manager can clear themnot YouScan
  • An agency managing a dozen small clients that needs client-facing approval before anything publishes to a client accountnot YouScan
  • An in-house team of five that wants one inbox for Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn engagement rather than three native appsnot YouScan
  • A retailer with many Google Business Profile locations that wants reviews and posts handled in the same queue as socialnot YouScan

YouScan

  • A drinks or snack brand that needs to find product placement in user photos where nobody typed the brand name.not Statusbrew
  • A consumer marketing team wanting demographic profiles of who is discussing a campaign, not just how many mentions it generated.not Statusbrew
  • A support operation routing complaints found on social straight into Zendesk or Freshdesk as tickets.not Statusbrew
  • A brand tracking sentiment across several languages in Central and Eastern Europe where larger vendors have thinner source coverage.not Statusbrew

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Statusbrew

  • Plans cap both seats and social profiles, so an agency with many small clients hits the profile ceiling well before the user ceiling and is pushed to a tier it does not otherwise need.
  • Listening is limited to Premium and above and is keyword monitoring rather than a full listening dataset, so a brand that needs historical share of voice will still buy a second tool.
  • Moderation rules are keyword and sentiment based, which means sarcasm and coded language slip through while legitimate comments containing a blocked word get hidden, and someone must audit the rule set regularly.
  • Analytics retention is capped at 18 months even on paid tiers, so year-on-year comparisons beyond that require exporting data yourself before it ages out.
  • Network coverage depends entirely on the platform APIs, and features such as Instagram direct message handling or ad comment access change without notice when Meta adjusts permissions, occasionally breaking a workflow the plan was bought for.

YouScan

  • The binding constraint on the published plan is search topics, not mentions: three topics on Starter 3 forces agencies to merge unrelated clients into a single query, which corrupts reporting and pushes them to the quote-only tier.
  • Unlimited means sampled, not complete: high-volume topics collect every nth mention and analytics are extrapolated, so the top tier structurally cannot deliver exhaustive capture for legal or crisis forensic use.
  • Sampling frequency is fixed at topic creation and cannot be changed, so a wrong initial choice means building a new topic and losing historical continuity in the data you have already paid to collect.
  • Instagram coverage is structurally partial because it depends on hashtags being present, and channel-based Instagram history is capped at twelve months back, so caption-free visual mentions are undercounted.
  • Visual Insights and Audience Insights, the two capabilities that most differentiate the product, are only included on the quote-only Unlimited tier, so the published $499 price does not buy the reason you came.
  • Billing is annual only at the published tier with no monthly-rolling option and no published overage schedule, so the cost of a volume spike is unknown until you negotiate it.
  • X coverage now depends on constrained paid API access, which combined with sampling makes historic post depth the weakest part of the archive relative to Brandwatch or Talkwalker.

Pricing, plan by plan

Statusbrew

$69/month
  • Lite$89/month
    • 1 user
    • 5 social profiles
    • Unlimited scheduled posts
  • Standard$179/month
    • 3 users
    • 10 social profiles
    • Everything in Lite
  • Premium$299/month
    • 6 users
    • 15 social profiles
    • Everything in Standard
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Unlimited users and profiles
    • SAML single sign-on
    • HubSpot and Salesforce integration

YouScan

$499/month
  • Starter 3$499/month
    • Billed annually
    • Up to 15,000 mentions per month
    • 3 text search topics
  • Unlimited$undefined/month
    • Unlimited sampled mentions
    • Unlimited search topics, users and alert rules
    • Visual Insights included

Which should you pick?

Choose Statusbrew if

  • You need publishing and scheduling.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want unified inbox.
Statusbrew review

Choose YouScan if

  • You need visual insights.
  • You also want insights copilot.
YouScan review

Questions people ask

Is Statusbrew or YouScan better?
Neither clearly leads. Statusbrew starts at $69/month and YouScan at $499/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Statusbrew or YouScan?
Statusbrew starts at $69/month and YouScan at $499/month.
Does Statusbrew or YouScan run on more platforms?
Statusbrew runs on Web, iOS, Android. YouScan runs on Web.
What is Statusbrew best used for?
Statusbrew is most often used for a consumer brand running paid social where ad comment threads fill with spam and complaints faster than a community manager can clear them, an agency managing a dozen small clients that needs client-facing approval before anything publishes to a client account, an in-house team of five that wants one inbox for instagram, tiktok and linkedin engagement rather than three native apps, a retailer with many google business profile locations that wants reviews and posts handled in the same queue as social. Of those, a consumer brand running paid social where ad comment threads fill with spam and complaints faster than a community manager can clear them and an agency managing a dozen small clients that needs client-facing approval before anything publishes to a client account are not what YouScan is typically brought in for.
What can Statusbrew do that YouScan cannot?
Statusbrew covers Publishing and scheduling, Unified inbox, Rule-based moderation, Approval workflows. YouScan covers Visual Insights, Insights Copilot, Audience Insights, Auto-Categories.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Statusbrew: Can it moderate comments on paid ads?

Yes, and that is the main reason to choose it. Rules can hide or delete comments on ad posts as well as organic ones.

YouScan: Does the Unlimited plan really collect every mention?

No. It collects a sample of high-volume topics and extrapolates the analytics. Ask for the sampling ratio in writing if completeness matters.

Statusbrew: How much is it really?

89, 179 and 299 US dollars per month on monthly billing for Lite, Standard and Premium, dropping to 69, 129 and 229 on annual. Agency pricing starts at 49 per client per month.

YouScan: Is Visual Insights on the $499 plan?

No. Visual Insights and Audience Insights are included on the Unlimited tier only, which is quoted rather than published.

Statusbrew: Does the Lite plan work for a small agency?

No. One user and five profiles covers roughly one client. Agencies should price the dedicated agency plan against the per-client count.

YouScan: Was YouScan affected by the war in Ukraine?

It was founded in Kyiv but contracts through a Cyprus entity and moved infrastructure to Azure West Europe. It exited the Russian market entirely, liquidating both Russian entities by mid-2024, and now contractually bars customers with Russian Federation connections.

Statusbrew: Is there a free plan?

No, only a 14-day trial without a card.

YouScan: Can I pay monthly?

Not at the published tier. Starter 3 is $499 a month billed annually.

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