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Alternatives to Buffer

Social media scheduling for teams.

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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.
What are the alternatives to Buffer?
Postiz is open source and self-hostable. Typefully is built around writing threads for X and LinkedIn, Publer adds more scheduling and design options, and Postoplan spreads across a wide set of networks.

Pricing

$6/channel/mo

Freemium

About

Founded 2010

Remote (started in Birmingham, UK)

Founders

The people behind Buffer.

Joel GascoigneCo-founder & CEO
Leo WidrichCo-founder

Top alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Buffer.

Postiz website preview

Open-source social scheduler.

Open source, so you can run the whole scheduler on your own server.

$29/moOSS
Typefully website preview

Write and schedule for X.

tool focused on Twitter/X writing.

$12.50/moBootstrapped
Publer website preview

Social media management.

Covers more niche networks than most schedulers, with bulk upload and recycling.

Postoplan website preview

Multi-network scheduler.

Schedules across a wide spread of networks from a single calendar view.

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