Buffer alternatives

Why people leave Buffer

Drawn from public reviews and their own documentation rather than invented. These are the reasons that come up, not the reasons we wish came up.

• Per-channel pricing adds up once you run more than a handful of networks.
• The free plan holds 10 scheduled posts per channel at a time, so a week planned in advance on several networks needs a paid plan.
• It helps with the post you bring, so anybody who runs out of things to bring eventually looks for something that decides what to write.

The genuine alternatives

Including the ones that are not us. A list of alternatives containing one option is not a list of alternatives, and a searcher who wanted options can tell.

• Hypefury

  Somebody whose distribution is mostly X and who wants engagement mechanics with it.

• Publer

  Somebody who wants broad network coverage and is comparing per-channel bills.

• InstinctGTM

  Somebody whose bottleneck is deciding what to post and writing it, rather than scheduling it.

  Choose Buffer if you have ideas for posts and need help shaping and scheduling them. Choose this if deciding what to say each week is the part you never get to. Buffer publishes to twelve networks, has an AI Assistant that drafts and rewrites posts with you, and starts free. This starts from your business and what changed at the companies you watch, writes the week per channel in your voice, and schedules what you approve.

How hard it is to move

Moving is mostly reconnecting the accounts. Nothing here is locked in, which is worth saying: the switching cost is low in both directions.