Alternatives to Buffer
Social media scheduling for teams.

- What is Buffer?
- Buffer is a social media scheduling tool for planning and publishing posts across several accounts.
- What does it do?
- You write a post once, queue it per channel, and Buffer publishes at set times to networks like Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook and TikTok. It also shows engagement stats and a shared content calendar.
- Who is it for?
- Solo creators, small businesses and small marketing teams running a handful of accounts. Less aimed at large social teams that need heavy approval chains and social listening.
Pricing
$6/channel/mo
Freemium
About
Founded 2010
Remote (started in Birmingham, UK)
Founders
The people behind Buffer.
Top alternatives
Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Buffer.
Open-source social scheduler.
Open source, so you can run the whole scheduler on your own server.
$29/moOSS
Social media management.
Covers more niche networks than most schedulers, with bulk upload and recycling.