Buffer vs Hootsuite vs best Social Media Management Tools
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It takes time to add your content and add to the main Social Media Sites then that’s chewing up time.
So if go that way. So how do you Track & know if anybody engaging with your content? There’s no point creating content if know one consumes your content.
So I thought it would be a good idea to review these Social Media Management Tools. I have use Buffer, CoSchedule & HootSuite on my sites & clients.
Agorapulse
Social Media Management Simplified
| Agorapulse | |
| Url | https://www.agorapulse.com/ |
| Description | Harness your social media content and engagement with the easiest and most affordable social media management tool for teams and agencies. |
| Social Media Channels | You can connect any of the following: Facebook business pages, Twitter profiles, Instagram business and personal profiles, Google+ business pages, LinkedIn business pages and personal profiles, YouTube profiles/channels. |
| Scheduling Options | Conquer Your Social Content Calendar. Close all those open tabs and simplify your social publishing schedule with multi-platform management, editing, drafting, scheduling, and posting. |
| Queuing | Revive evergreen content – Requeue or reschedule posts over and overschedule content for the right moment Have a message you need to get out on-the-regular? Maximize audience reach and increase Web traffic by sharing your evergreen content again and again with our queue function. With just a few clicks, you’ll have a steady stream of valuable content reaching your fans and followers. Plus, rest assured you’re posting the perfect mix of content with Queue Categories! |
| Create & Analyse Content | Improve your content strategy – See which posts got you the most ROI Easily find opportunities – Discover great UGC in just a few clicks |
| Social Media Engagement | Engagement Simplified. One Dashboard. Every Post Capture every opportunity to engage across all your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube profiles. Understand Your Audience without Using an Extra Tool Turn a page full of strangers into a community you understand and can regularly delight, engage, and convert with Agorapulse. |
| Brand Monitoring | Discover What People Are Really Saying about Your Business Monitor your social media conversations and gain deeper insights into how your customers think and speak about your brand. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 28 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Small – Best for solos $39/mo Billed annually Medium – Best for small businesses $79/mo Billed annually Large – Best for agencies $159/mo Billed annually |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | With each Facebook page, Twitter profile, Instagram profile, and LinkedIn company page you add into Agorapulse, a click on “Reports” will give you all the actionable data you need to evaluate your efforts on social. You can view a sample Metrics Report here and a sample Content Report here. You can download your reports any time you’d like. |
Buffer
Simplify your social posting to save time for better things
| Buffer | |
| Url | https://www.buffer.com |
| Description | Buffer is an intuitive, streamlined social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive meaningful engagement and results on social media |
| Social Media Channels | You can connect any of the following: Facebook business pages, Twitter profiles, Instagram business and personal profiles, Google+ business pages, LinkedIn business pages and personal profiles, YouTube profiles/channels. |
| Scheduling Options | Choose from multiple scheduling options: publish now, schedule for later, multi-schedule selected posts repeatedly at different times or save them as drafts |
| Queuing | Create queue slots for desired hours and your posts will automatically be sent to empty time slots |
| Create & Analyse Content | Get insights into your audience’s demographics |
| Social Media Engagement | Track audience, activities and engagement in your and your competitors’ social networks. |
| Brand Monitoring | Discover resources that mention you with backlinks, sort them by domain authority (BM score) or by the number of links to your site. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 14 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | Forever free plan |
| Monthly Cost | Small – Best for solos $39/mo Billed annually Medium – Best for small businesses $79/mo Billed annually Large – Best for agencies $159/mo Billed annually |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | Yes |
| Other Features | Automate your scheduling with time-saving features: built-in image editor, UTM builder and link shortener |
CoSchedule
Organize Your Marketing In One Place
| CoSchedule | |
| Url | https://coschedule.com/h |
| Description | Organize Your Marketing In One Place A family of agile marketing products that will help you stay focused, deliver projects on time, and make your team happy. |
| Social Media Channels | You can connect any of the following: Facebook business pages, Twitter profiles, Instagram business and personal profiles, Google+ business pages, LinkedIn business pages and personal profiles, YouTube profiles/channels. |
| Scheduling Options | Plan your entire editorial schedule. Add every project inside a collaborative, cross-functional calendar to strategically map out your entire content strategy See your entire marketing schedule at a glance. Create a unified workflow for every project inside a collaborative, cross-functional calendar for content, social, email, events, and more Coordinate + execute successful marketing campaigns . Add every individual project to your campaign, so you can keep track of your team’s progress, accurately gauge timelines, and know who’s working on what – at any given moment. |
| Queuing | Easily schedule & reschedule campaigns. With CoSchedule’s drag and drop functionality, making quick changes to entire promotional campaigns is easier than ever! Simply drag and drag your content to a new day and anything associated with it will automatically sync to its new time |
| Create & Analyse Content | Turn your ideas into quality content. Creating content has never been easier. Access, review, and create content in our built-in text editor or integrate with the content creation tools your team already uses. Focus on the work that matters. Filter your calendar to focus on the work that you care about. Create custom sub-calendar views for emails, blog posts, internal departments, or team members – just to name a few. And get a laser-focused view of specific marketing initiatives or campaigns. |
| Social Media Engagement | Keep higher-ups “in the know”. With Read-Only Views, you can create custom views of your calendar that are interactive, update in real-time, and give your team the details they need (nothing more, nothing less). |
| Brand Monitoring | Manage team resources with ease. Make sure you’ve got enough bandwidth to get work done. Access a live view of every employees’ to-do lists and projects. Easily delegate, assign, and reassign tasks to effectively manage your team’s priorities Automate project workflows. Stop manually adding and updating tasks for recurring projects. Build task templates with task rules to intelligently assign tasks, reschedule overdue tasks, update project status, and more. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 28 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Growth- For start-ups needing one place to manage all their marketing projects & social campaigns. – STARTING AT – $80/mo billed annually or $89 month-to-month Professional – For in-house marketing teams looking to manage full-scale campaigns with built-in project workflows.- STARTING AT – $400/mo billed annually Enterprise – For established marketing teams needing an extra layer of control + security. – STARTING AT – $1,400/mo- billed annually |
| Integration | Organize your blog. Don’t let disorganization derail your blogging goals. Plan, draft, edit, and publish your blogs using CoSchedule’s blog integrations. – WordPress _ HubSpot EMAIL MARKETING Integrate with your favorite email marketing tools. Create and manage your email campaigns alongside the rest of your marketing strategy. And use the built-in subject line tester to write click-worthy email subject lines…every time. Integrate With: MailChimp Campaign Monitor ActiveCampaign HubSpot Constant Contact |
| Zapier | Yes |
| Other Features | Store and prioritize your team’s content ideas. Need a spot – other than an inbox or spreadsheet – to store those brilliant content marketing ideas? With Idea Board, you’ve got a convenient place to brainstorm and flesh out projects before they hit the calendar. When you’re ready to put those ideas into action, simply drag them to your calendar to get them scheduled. Write better headlines. Draft, test, and optimize your copy using the Headline Analyzer. So you can write headlines that generate more social shares, traffic, and search engine ranking. |
eClincher
Simplify your social posting to save time for better things
| eClincher | |
| Url | https://eclincher.com |
| Description | eClincher is a comprehensive platform but yet simple to use. It has all the essential features a social media management tool should have plus unique ones – auto posting with smart queues, social inbox, RSS feeds integration and auto posting, suggested content plus curation, influencer discovery, custom analytics reports |
| Social Media Channels | Supported Networks: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Instagram Business, Google+, Google My Business, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Google Analytics |
| Scheduling Options | eClincher also offers a great scheduling tool with visual calendar, auto link shortening, free images, and animated gifs, and video publishing support |
| Queuing | Auto Post with Queues which allows users to automatically publish hundreds of posts for the next X number of months, with just a few clicks. eClincher offers the ability to recycle content as well as publish it once and remove it from the queue. |
| Create & Analyse Content | Get insights into your audience’s demographics |
| Social Media Engagement | Track audience, activities and engagement in your and your competitors’ social networks.Social Engagement – eClincher offers a Social Inbox which lets users manage all their social media engagement and interactions in one place. We’re talking about tweets, DMs, mentions, comments, likes, shares, new followers, even YouTube and Facebook Ad comments. |
| Brand Monitoring | Influencer Search – eClincher offers users the ability to search for influencers on Twitter, view them by topic, ranking, location, and interact with them There are also social listening and monitoring features to help you monitor your brand or other mentions, interact with followers, and start new conversations. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 7 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | $49 1 user/ $99 3 user/month, 30 social profiles ,unlimited posting & analytics reports $199 6 user/month, 100 social profiles (10 profiles per brand or client), profiles/brands/users can be added, unlimited posting & analytics reports |
| Integration | Google Analytics – In addtion, eClincher offers fully customized white label analytics reports, inbox work flow for teams, and internal / external post approval workflow. |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | Canva integration, media asset management, free image library, URL shorteners, and more. Let’s look at a few of those. |
Hootsuite
Manage all your social media in one place
| HootSuite | |
| Url | https://hootsuite.com/ |
| Description | Manage all your social media in one place From finding prospects to serving customers, Hootsuite helps you do more with your social media. |
| Social Media Channels | Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, linkedIn, Twitter & Pinterest |
| Scheduling Options | Save time by scheduling your social posts Keep your social presence active 24/7 by automatically scheduling hundreds of social media posts at once, across your social accounts. |
| Queuing | Keep your social presence active—even when you’re not Save time by scheduling your social media content across your social networks. BULK SCHEDULING Upload and schedule hundreds of messages at once Save time and effort by uploading, editing, and scheduling hundreds of social media posts at once, in CSV format |
| Create & Analyse Content | CONTENT CURATION Manage social content with ease Stay on message with pre-approved content your teams can post, stored in your favorite cloud file service. Tagging, searching, and usage stats make curating content a breeze Track and prove social ROI Measure the impact of your social media campaigns through comprehensive reporting. Measure conversions by social channel and separate ROI between owned and paid media. |
| Social Media Engagement | Set up unlimited social streams Create custom streams of social content, organized by tabs in a way that makes sense to you. Then share them with teammates with a single click. |
| Brand Monitoring | Surface the conversations that matter Find and filter social conversations by keyword, hashtag, and location—in multiple languages—to hear what people are saying about your brand, competitors, and industry |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 30 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | Free for individuals |
| Monthly Cost | PROFESSIONAL – AU$39/mo* – 10 social profiles – Unlimited scheduling- 1 user TEAM – AU$169/mo* – 20 social profiles – Unlimited scheduling – 3 users BUSINESS – AU$785/mo* – 35 social profiles – Unlimited scheduling – 5 users, up to 10 |
| Integration | Grab your curated content from the cloud Access content stored in your favorite cloud file service—including Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others—right from your dashboard. Connect the content tools you already use Add the power of social media to the content tools you already rely on through the largest social media app directory. |
| Zapier | Yes |
| Other Features | Add apps to monitor more Capture more conversations with a wide selection of monitoring apps, letting you do everything from reviewing site ratings to tracking the tone of voice being used for your brand. Search by keyword or location Find and filter social conversations by keyword, hashtag, and location—in multiple languages—to hear what people are saying about your brand, competitors, and industry. Ads – Improve the effectiveness of your organic and paid ads with our automated ad solution. Amplify – Expand your social reach by empowering your employees with our scalable advocacy solution. Impact – Make data-driven business decisions with our social analytics solution. Insights – Monitor what’s said about your brand and competitors with our real-time social analytics solution. |
Loomly
Loomly, all you need in one tool – Social media content management made easy for teams
| Loomly | |
| Url | https://www.loomly.com/ |
| Description | Loomly, all you need in one tool – Social media content management made easy for teams Simply the most powerful social media calendar. We’re a Social Media Manager’s BFF (after cats) We are social media managers. And we were frustrated. Both with our broken workflow and the existing tools pretending to fix it. So we came up with a solution: Loomly, a simple social media calendar tool. Whether you’re a freelancer looking to structure your client collaboration, a digital agency looking to gather all your projects in one place, or a brand willing to smoothen your internal processes, you will love Loomly. |
| Social Media Channels | Automated publishing for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest & LinkedIn Automated Instagram publishing available through third-party application (native support coming soon) Instant publishing. |
| Scheduling Options | chedule seamlessly “Choice is a luxury” they say. Depending on your workflow, you can either Schedule your posts with Loomly, or send them to Buffer. More integrations are on the way. Coming soon Hootsuite and Oktopost! Duplicate post |
| Queuing | |
| Create & Analyse Content | Never run out of inspiration gives you post ideas, based on trending topics, RSS feeds, date related events and social media best practices. RSS Feeds Twitter Trends Events, holidays & date-related celebrations Social media best practices Craft posts like experts guides you with live optimization tips when you create your posts. Post Ideas Subject & labels Optimization tips Post preview Know exactly what you are publishing automatically generates post previews for you and your team before you hit publish. Photos Videos Multiple images Links Simple statuses Measure your success Analytics allows you to measure in real time your posts’ performances once they have been published. You can then identify at a glance which topics and content types your audience is most interested in, and loop this information back into your planning process. Account, post & URL metrics Data filtering & period comparison Analytics for all posts (not only those published via |
| Social Media Engagement | Talk to your actual target audience Publish even more accurately with audience targeting Facebook Preferred Audience Facebook Audience Restrictions Facebook Post Sponsoring Interact with your audience Interactions is a powerfully simple community management system that allows you to respond to the comments & reactions of your followers on: LinkedIn (coming soon) |
| Brand Monitoring | Discover What People Are Really Saying about Your Business Monitor your social media conversations and gain deeper insights into how your customers think and speak about your brand. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 15 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Base $20 /mo – $240 total a year billed yearly in USD – 2 Users Standard – $54 /mo — $648 total a year billed yearly in USD – 6 Users Advanced $108 /mo – $1,296 total a year billed yearly in USD – 16 Users Premium – $228 /mo – $2,736 total a year billed yearly in USD – 26 Users |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | Automate your scheduling with time-saving features: built-in image editor, UTM builder and link shortener |
MeetEdgar
Your social media on auto-pilot starts here
| MeetEdgar | |
| Url | https://meetedgar.com/ |
| Description | MeetEdgar makes it easy to schedule and automate your content on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn! From writing posts for you (seriously) to re-posting evergreen content, Edgar has you covered! |
| Social Media Channels | Facebook (Pages + Groups), Twitter, LinkedIn (profiles & company pages), and Instagram |
| Scheduling Options | Set a Schedule Tell Edgar when you want to post. For example, you could schedule motivational quotes on Monday mornings, blog posts on Wednesday afternoons, or conversation starters on Friday evenings. |
| Queuing | Continuous Posting Edgar continues to publish and reshare content, even once you reach the end of your queue. Twitter has their own set of rules around this, so we created Variations to help you reshare content on Twitter. |
| Create & Analyse Content | Unlimited Content Library Add as much as you like – Edgar’s auto-scheduler pulls right from your library. Shuffle and pause at will! Other social schedulers delete your posts once they’re posted – Edgar saves them forever. Automatically Upload and Edit Create a library of updates from almost any source, like RSS feeds from your favorite sites and podcasts, including YouTube. Try our handy browser extension to add content straight from your browser. |
| Social Media Engagement | A/B Test Social Messaging With variation analytics and click data, you can test different messages to see which ones resonate and drive traffic back to your site |
| Brand Monitoring | Weekly Email Update Each week, receive a report in your inbox with your social stats. The report includes follower count, clicks, and more! |
| Offers Free Trial | Sign-up for our newsletter to get your first month free! |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | $49 – per month when billed monthly |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | Generate Posts Using Our Browser Extension Reading a great article that you want to publish on social? Use our Chrome Extension (or Safari/Firefox Bookmarklet) to automatically generate up to 5 pre-written social media posts directly from the article! A/B Test Social Messaging With variation analytics and click data, you can test different messages to see which ones resonate and drive traffic back to your site Auto-Variations Edgar can write your posts for you — seriously. Edgar automatically finds quote-worthy text from articles or blogs – all you have to do is click a button and share. It’s practically magic! |
Semrush
Simplify your social posting to save time for better things
| Semrush Social Media Poster | |
| Url | https://www.semrush.com/lp/smm-poster/en |
| Description | Simplify your social posting to save time for better things Cross-network publishing, scheduling and analytics in one tab |
| Social Media Channels | Schedule content on multiple social channels: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn & Pinterest |
| Scheduling Options | Choose from multiple scheduling options: publish now, schedule for later, multi-schedule selected posts repeatedly at different times or save them as drafts |
| Queuing | Create queue slots for desired hours and your posts will automatically be sent to empty time slots |
| Create & Analyse Content | Analyze content performance in terms of audience activity, engagement rate, likes, shares and views…Analyze URLs with articles and other content, compare them against each other, see the stats of shares, backlinks and keywords that are ranking in Google’s Top 100 |
| Social Media Engagement | Track audience, activities and engagement in your and your competitors’ social networks. |
| Brand Monitoring | Discover resources that mention you with backlinks, sort them by domain authority (BM score) or by the number of links to your site. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 7 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Small – Best for solos $39/mo Billed annually Medium – Best for small businesses $79/mo Billed annually Large – Best for agencies $159/mo Billed annually |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | Automate your scheduling with time-saving features: built-in image editor, UTM builder and link shortener |
Sendible
The #1 Social Media Management Tool for Agencies
| Sendibler | |
| Url | https://www.sendible.com/ |
| Description | The #1 Social Media Management Tool for Agencies Sendible is simply the best way for teams to manage social media for multiple clients — and get results. Streamline your social media processes & delivery for your clients Whether focusing on a campaign for one brand or managing social across hundreds, Sendible helps agency teams be more productive by managing all their client activities from a centralized hub |
| Social Media Channels | Manage and oversee all of your social media accounts in one place Connect to just about any social network including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and more. Even publish directly to WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr. |
| Scheduling Options | Simplify your publishing process Schedule individually or in bulk and queue best-performing content to repeat. Oversee your team’s activity using our interactive calendar or setup workflows so you can approve their content. Our content recommendation engine suggests the best content to share that guarantees more shares and likes. |
| Queuing | Save time & schedule ahead Easily distribute messages to all of your social networks, blogs and mailing lists. Schedule social media posts, images and videos individually or in bulk as far in advance as you need |
| Create & Analyse Content | Enhance posts with visual content Increase engagement and truly delight your audience with visual content. We make it easy for you to boost your social media activity by uploading images or videos as you are composing your messages. Relevant content suggestions Content curation is made simple with our recommendation platform. We analyze posts already shared on social media and suggest content most likely to generate high follower engagement |
| Social Media Engagement | From chaos to clarity with the social inbox No more jumping between different social streams. Get only the social updates you need, instead of a flood of unwanted messages. See which team members have already taken action and what still requires attention. Seize opportunities via social listening Monitor keywords to know what’s being said about each brand on social networks and blogs. Sendible’s social media listening tools help you to prioritize your replies by highlighting whether mentions are positive, negative or neutral. Social media reports in minutes not hours Create stunning social media reports and delight clients with your progress. Use one of our pre-designed templates or create your own by choosing from over 250 charts. Then, automatically deliver reports to clients via email on a schedule you choose. You can also monitor and respond for Facebook Ad comments, connect your blogs to draft posts from within the dashboard and much more. |
| Brand Monitoring | They are talking about you right now – don’t miss out Sendible proactively monitors the countless conversations on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google+ and others to bring you the mentions that matter most. Stay in the know and always react to comments affecting your brand, industry and competitors.h |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 30 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | MICRO – $29 /mo or $24 per month, billed yearly – For solopreneurs – Save time by scheduling content to post automatically throughout the week SMALL – $99 /mo or $84 per month, billed yearly – For small businesses – Collaborate more efficiently as a small team to grow your audience. MEDIUM $199 /mo or $169 per month, billed yearly – For growing agencies- Work more effectively to show clients real results from social media LARGE $299 /mo or $254 per month, billed yearly – For large teams- Manage social media at scale with advanced tools & custom workflows. |
| Integration | Work more efficiently with our cloud integration With direct access to Canva, Google Drive, YouTube and Dropbox, your team’s content is only ever a click away! Source royalty free images to share on your social channels via Google Image and Flickr search. Quickly access your team’s existing content in the cloud with our DropBox and Google Drive integration. Quantify cross-channel impact with Google Analytics Google Analytics is at the foundation of Sendible, enabling you to track the effect your social media and email campaigns have on visits, page views, content popularity and geographical impact. |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | Design consistently stunning social-ready images with Canva Create professional looking designs including Facebook covers, blog post graphics, social media images and much more. We pull your designs directly into the compose box, ready for distribution. Plan an entire campaign in Excel then import in bulk We all love a good Excel spreadsheet. Sometimes it’s easier to plan your content in a CSV file and then bulk schedule your campaign later. We make this process easy! |
SocialPilot
Simple & Cost-Effective Social Media Management Tool for Teams and Agencies
| SocialPilot | |
| Url | https://www.socialpilot.co/ |
| Description | Simple & Cost-Effective Social Media Management Tool for Teams and Agencies 85,000+ professionals trust SocialPilot to manage social media, schedule social media posts, improve engagement and analyze results – at a pocket-friendly cost. |
| Social Media Channels | More Accounts + More Posts = Better Value for Money Add all your social media accounts, and then some. Post all your updates without ever worrying about running out of limits. Go beyond the popular social networks to increase engagement and leads Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest |
| Scheduling Options | Discover & Publish Popular Content with Curated Content, RSS Feeds, Bulk Upload Discover the most popular content and schedule them directly to your account with RSS feeds and content curation. Have a lot of things to publish? Use our bulk social media posting tool to upload posts in advance |
| Queuing | Upload Upto 500 Posts with Bulk Scheduling Want to post for more than 24 hours in advance? Bulk scheduling lets you schedule up to 500 posts for upcoming weeks or months. You can edit, delete or move posts if you change your mind. |
| Create & Analyse Content | Visualize Your Strategy on Social Media Calendar Social media calendar helps you to visualize your social media strategy. SocialPilot’s calendar tool comes in handy when you want to keep track of posts on various accounts. Powerful Analytics and White Label PDF Reports with One Click Make data-driven decisions to improve engagement and finetune your social media strategy. Create beautiful and presentable social media reports in PDF format with just one click |
| Social Media Engagement | Engage Efficiently With Social Inbox Reply to all your comments, messages and posts on multiple Facebook Pages – in real-time. Filter conversations and focus on the ones that matter – so that you don’t miss replying to any customer. Focus on Conversations That Matter See a lot of comments, messages or posts that nobody seems to be interacting with? Mark them as done and focus on the conversations that need your attention. Want something back? Simply move it to Inboxorks. |
| Brand Monitoring | |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes Free 14 Day Trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Professional- $30/mo or $25/mo with Annual Billin Small Team – $50/mo or $41.33/mo with Annual Billing Agency – $100/mo or $83.33/mo with Annual Billing |
| Integration | Browser Extension – Add any article, image and video to your post-sharing schedule via SocialPilot’s browser extension. Native Mobile Apps – Schedule and manage content from your mobile with SocialPilot’s Android and iOS app. |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | URL Shortening – SocialPilot automatically shortens your URL with Google URL shortner. Or you can also use Bit.ly & Sniply. Client Management – Invite your clients directly from the tool, let them add accounts and you are all done. Draft Your Post – You can save your posts as Drafts and schedule/publish it whenever you want Visual Support – SocialPilot supports image, video and GIF uploads to take care of your visual marketing campaigns. |
Sprout Social
Real people – Real brands – Real connection
| Sprout Social | |
| Url | https://sproutsocial.com/ |
| Description | Simplify your social posting to save time for better things Cross-network publishing, scheduling and analytics in one tab |
| Social Media Channels | Social Media Reporting Across Networks and Profiles Twitter Official Partner for Engagement & Publishing Facebook Marketing Partner for Management & Insights Instagram Partner Program for Community Management LinkedIn Marketing Partner for Community Management Pinterest Marketing Partner for Content Marketing |
| Scheduling Options | Easily Post to Multiple Social Networks Sprout’s Compose window brings together advanced social media publishing tools and intuitive workflows so you can efficiently plan, schedule and post messages across networks from a single platform. |
| Queuing | Create queue slots for desired hours and your posts will automatically be sent to empty time slots |
| Create & Analyse Content | Analyze and Report with Social Media Analytics Drive strategic decision-making across the business with meaningful insights from social data and analytics |
| Social Media Engagement | Engagement Simplified. One Dashboard. Every Post Capture every opportunity to engage across all your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube profiles. Understand Your Audience without Using an Extra Tool Turn a page full of strangers into a community you understand and can regularly delight, engage, and convert with Agorapulse. |
| Brand Monitoring | Start the Conversation With Social Media Publishing Tools Effortlessly plan, organize and deliver your social content and campaigns with cross-network social media scheduling. |
| Offers Free Trial | All plans include a free 30‑day trial |
| Free Plan | No |
| Monthly Cost | Standard – $99 PER USER/MONTH Standard – $99 PER USER/MONTH Advanced – $249 PER USER/MONTH |
| Integration | N/A |
| Zapier | No |
| Other Features | |
Zoho Social
The easiest way to manage your brands on social media
| Zoho Social | |
| Url | https://www.zoho.com/social/ |
| Description | Description The easiest way to manage your brands on social media Zoho Social is a complete social media management platform for businesses and agencies. Manage multiple social channels, schedule unlimited posts, monitor |
| Social Media Channels | Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google My Business, and Instagram |
| Scheduling Options | Flexible scheduling that saves you time Schedule your posts for times when your audience is most active. Choose from our best-time predictions, or create your own publishing schedule. Publishing Calendar Get an overview of all your scheduled posts and manage your content pipeline easily. Drag and drop posts to reschedule them, and drill down further by filtering posts by network, type, or author |
| Queuing | Bulk Scheduler Schedule multiple social media posts in one go, using the bulk-scheduler. Add images by mentioning their URL. Manage your content calendar more efficiently |
| Create & Analyse Content | Create & Publish Create content for popular social networks. Publish right away or schedule posts for later. You can also save your post as a draft to discuss with your team. Stats and Analytics Gain meaningful insights about your brand’s social media presence with visual reports. Glance at the basic stats or dive deeper to understand your brand’s performance with detailed analytics. |
| Social Media Engagement | The best-in-class social analytics Understand who your audience is and how they engage with you on social media. Go with pre-built reports, or create new ones from scratch based on the stats that matter to you. |
| Brand Monitoring | A monitoring dashboard that’s sticky Multiple listening columns help you stay tuned to everything that’s relevant. Respond in real-time and engage with your audience as often as you like. Brand Mentions Co-create your responses to critical Brand Mentions with your team. You can come up with interesting ways to engage with your key connections. |
| Offers Free Trial | Yes 15-day free trial. No credit card required |
| Free Plan | FREE EDITION PUBLISH ON ALL NETWORKS 1 Team Member, 1 Brand. Includes URL shortener & zShare Browser Extension. |
| Monthly Cost | For Individuals & Businesses STANDARD – A$13.3/month billed annually plus tax, as applicable PROFESSIONAL – A$33.25/month billed annually plus tax, as applicable For Agencies AGENCY – A$266/month billed annually plus tax, as applicable AGENCY PLUS – A$399/month billed annually plus tax, as applicable |
| Integration | zShare The easiest way to share content on social media. zShare helps you curate and post content while you browse the internet. A single click lets you share articles, websites, and blogs as you discover them Facebook Lead Ads Integration Connect your Facebook Lead Ads account with Zoho Social to capture and monitor leads in real time. Analyze the performance of your ad campaigns, and drive lead information to Zoho CRM, easily. Zoho CRM Integration Generate new leads from social media and identify which networks bring in maximum revenue. Engage with prospects, enrich leads and contacts in Zoho CRM with social data, and help sales teams close deals faster. |
| Zapier | Yes |
| Other Features | Live Stream Stay tuned with a real-time stream of everything that matters to your brand- including people and businesses you follow and their interactions with you across social networks. You can also take action directly from within the Live Stream. Connections A real-time list of users who engage with your Brand across social networks. View the complete interaction history for each of your Connections, identify influencers and advocates for your brand, and build better relationships. |