How to schedule Instagram Stories that post directly (for free)

Is it possible to schedule Instagram Stories that publish directly?

Yes, with OneUp you can post Instagram Stories that publish directly to Instagram – no need for mobile notifications!

To schedule an Instagram Story, choose “Schedule Instagram Story” from the Create A Post dropdown in OneUp:


Then select which Instagram account(s) you would like to schedule this Story for, and add your image(s) or video:

OneUp allows you to add up to 10 images at the same time, and if you have more than 1 Instagram account, you can post your Story to multiple Instagram accounts at the same time.

Then choose when you want to schedule your Instagram Story:

As long as your Instagram account is a Business account (and not a Personal or Creator account), your Instagram Story will post DIRECTLY to Instagram 😊

And YES, OneUp supports scheduling Instagram Stories on the Free Plan!

In addition to Instagram Stories, OneUp also supports Instagram posts and Reels, Facebook (including FB Reels), TikTok, YouTube (including Shorts), Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profiles.

How to post to Reels, TikTok, and Shorts at the same time

Here is how to post the same video to Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts at the same time. And yes, they all publish DIRECTLY (no need for mobile notifications).

You can also use this tool to SCHEDULE videos to post to Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts for the future.

And yes, there is a Free Plan 😊

Posting to Reels, TikTok, and Shorts all at once

To post to TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts at the same time, you can use the social media scheduling tool OneUp. OneUp posts to all 3 directly, and has a Free Plan 🤓 (Facebook Reels is not shown here, but it IS supported in OneUp as well!)

The first step is to connect your Instagram account, Facebook Page, TikTok account, and YouTube channel to the Accounts page of OneUp:

post to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok at the same time

Then click “Create a post”, and then select which accounts you want to post to (probably the YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram accounts in this case, but OneUp also supports Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google Business Profiles as well):

Schedule post to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok at the same time

Then add your video and caption, and add your YouTube Shorts title:

Schedule video to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok at the same time

Keep scrolling down and you will find the option to choose the thumbnail (aka cover image) for your Instagram Reel, YouTube Short, and your TikTok video:

video post to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok at the same time

Then either post it to all 3 platforms now, schedule the post for a later date, or save it as a draft:

Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok at the same time

That is how you post to Instagram Reels (and Facebook Reels), YouTube Shorts, and TikTok all at the same time.

OneUp also supports video posts on Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, so that means that a single video can now be posted to TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter – all at the same time with OneUp!

Check out OneUp to save yourself a ton of time from manually opening the Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok apps each time you want to post a video 🤓

And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan.

How to schedule TikTok posts for FREE

This post goes over how to schedule and publish posts on TikTok for free with OneUp. And yes, they post DIRECTLY (no need for mobile notifications).

TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social networks. TikTok is a social media platform where people can watch, create, and share video content in real-time.

However, in the TikTok mobile app, there is no way to schedule a TikTok post for the future. You can only post your TikTok videos at that moment.

If you want to schedule TikTok posts for the future, you have 2 options:

  1. Use TikTok’s scheduler on a web browser (not in the mobile app, and it only works with Business or Creator accounts), OR
  2. Use a 3rd-party TikTok scheduling tool (works with all account types)

If you use TikTok’s scheduler on a web browser, you will see the “Publish at a later date” option while creating your post, but ONLY for Creator and Business accounts (not Personal accounts):

Schedule TikTok posts for the future

However, TikTok’s scheduler only allows you to schedule videos up to 10 days in advance. If you try to choose a date more than 10 days into the future, it shows those dates as grayed out:

Schedule TikTok videos more than 10 days in advance

If you want to schedule TikTok videos as far into the future as you’d like, you can schedule TikTok videos for free using a 3rd-party TikTok scheduling tool like OneUp.

Using OneUp, you can schedule TikTok posts for free, and it works with all TikTok account types (Personal, Creator, or Business accounts).

Here is how scheduling TikTok posts with OneUp works 👇

How to schedule TikTok posts

  1. Connect your TikTok account on the Accounts page of OneUp
  2. Click “Create a post”
  3. Select which TikTok account you want to post to (if you have more than 1 TikTok account connected)
  4. Upload the video you want to schedule to TikTok
  5. Schedule your TikTok video

Here are those steps with screenshots:

  1. Connect your TikTok account on the Accounts page:
Schedule TikTok posts

2. Click “Create a post”

TikTok scheduler

3. Select which TikTok account you want to post to (if you have more than one TikTok account connected)

scheduling TikTok posts

4. Upload the video you want to schedule to TikTok

TikTok scheduler app

5. Schedule your TikTok video


That’s it! Your video will then post to TikTok DIRECTLY (no need for mobile notifications).

OneUp also supports Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and YouTube Shorts, so you can schedule to Reels, Shorts, and TikTok all at the same time with OneUp.

In addition, OneUp also supports Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, which means that a single video can be posted to TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter – all at the same time with OneUp!


Schedule your TikTok posts for free with OneUp 😊

And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan!

How to schedule posts to multiple Facebook Location Pages at once

Using OneUp, you can schedule posts to multiple Facebook Location Pages at the same time.

Yes, we are talking specifically about Facebook Location Pages, as opposed to regular Facebook Pages 🤓

Facebook Location Pages

Facebook Location Pages have one single “parent” Facebook Page, of which all of the Location Pages are considered “child” Location Pages beneath the “parent” page:

Schedule post on Facebook Location Pages

For example, in the image above, the top result is the main Starbucks Facebook Page (aka “parent” page), and all the other results are Location Pages (aka “child” pages).

How to schedule posts to Facebook Location Pages

Using OneUp, you can schedule posts to both regular Facebook Pages (including “parent” pages), as well as Facebook Location Pages.

To connect your Facebook Location Pages to OneUp, click the Facebook “Connect” button on the Accounts page of OneUp:

Facebook Location Page scheduling tool

It will then prompt you to connect your Facebook Pages and your Facebook Locations Pages.

NOTE: If you are trying to connect Facebook Location Pages, you must add your personal Facebook profile (and not just your parent Facebook Page) as the Admin of all the Location Pages. After doing so, you will be able to connect all of the Location Pages to your OneUp account.

Once all your Facebook Location Pages are connected, click “Create a post“:

Schedule posts to multiple Facebook Location Pages

Then select which of your Facebook Locations Pages (and regular Facebook Pages) you want to post to, and create your post:

You can add alt text to your image if you’d like.

Then add a first comment if you want, and choose whether the post should automatically repeat or not:

Schedule Facebook post with first comment

Then either Post Now, schedule your post for the future, or save it as a Draft.

That is how you schedule posts to multiple Facebook Locations Pages at the same time with OneUp 😊

How to use ChatGPT without an account

When you go to https://chat.openai.com/ it prompts you to create an account before you can use ChatGPT:

If you try to sign up for an OpenAI account, it tells you that you phone verification is required for signup:

But what if you dont have a phone, or dont want to verify with your phone number for whatever reason?

Here is how to use ChatGPT without signing up for an OpenAI account

  1. Install the Merlin Chrome Extension on your web browser.

You dont need to sign into OpenAI or ChatGPT to use Merlin, but you do have to sign in to Merlin via your Google account to use the extension. However, phone verification is NOT required with Merlin 🤓

Merlin can be used for almost anything, be it generating responses to chats or writing emails.

Schedule Google My Business posts FREE (Update + Event + Offer)

Yes, you can schedule Google My Business posts (aka “updates”) for free with OneUp (screenshots of how OneUp works below).

Scheduling Update, Event, and Offer posts are all supported, as well as scheduling images to the Photos section of Google My Business.


Google My Business (aka GMB, Google Business Profiles, or GBP) posts are great and can help your SEO.

However, you’ve probably noticed that there is no way to schedule GMB posts for the future inside the Google My Business dashboard:

To schedule Google My Business posts for free, you can use OneUp

OneUp supports Google My Business post scheduling, in addition to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn.

And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan 😊

How to schedule Google My Business posts for free

Using OneUp, you can schedule posts to Google My Business.

First, connect your Google My Business location(s) on the Accounts page:

Schedule GBP posts

Then click Create A Post.

Then select which GMB locations you would like to post to (if you have more than one connected). You can post to multiple different Google My Business locations at the same time:

Post to multiple GMB locations at the same time

Then create your GMB post, and add your image:

GBP post scheduling tool

You can even click the “Auto-generate caption” button to have your post’s caption automatically written for you.

Then choose whether you would like to also add the image to the Photos section of Google My Business, and choose whether you want the post to be an Update post, an Event post, or an Offer post:

Schedule Event and Offer Google posts

You can also choose “None” if you ONLY want the image to be scheduled to the Photos section of your Google My Business locations – and not publish as a Post.

You can check out the post preview in OneUp to see how your post will look once published on GMB:

Google Business Profile scheduler with post preview

OneUp supports all Google My Business CTA button types (Learn More, Call, Book, Sign Up, Order Online, and Buy).

In addition to just scheduling posts, OneUp allows you to set GMB posts to automatically repeat at whatever interval you choose. For example, this post will repeat every week:

Schedule repeating GMB posts

Then either post it now, or schedule it for a date in the future, or save your GMB post as a draft.


Replying to Google My Business reviews

In addition to scheduling Google My Business posts, OneUp also supports replying to Google My Business reviews:

Reply to Google Business Profile reviews

You can even click the “Suggest a reply” button and get an AI-suggested reply (which you can edit to your liking before submitting):

Reply to GBP reviews with AI

Schedule Google My Business posts for free with OneUp

Here is a free hot potato timer app – Random Timer Generator

You might be playing hot potato or some other game where you need a random countdown timer where you can specify an interval, such as between 5 seconds and 60 seconds.

Then click start, and have the random interval timer go off at any point in the next 5 to 60 seconds.

This app is a great hot potato timer or random countdown timer:

iPhone app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/random-timer-generator/id1621894479

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oneupp.randomcountdowntimer

Web version: randomtimergenerator.com

I made the app, so if you have any feedback or suggestions on how the Random Timer Generator app could be improved, feel free to email me directly at [email protected] 😊

Random timer generator
random countdown timer
timer where you can hide countdown

You can use this hot potato timer to play hot potato, or as a random countdown timer for other party games such as Catch Phrase or Taboo, where whoever is holding the card or game when the timer goes off loses. It works great when you need something to alarm randomly, or need a random timer generator, a random interval beep timer, random timer bomb random dynamite timer, a random interval timer app, or random beep generator.

It’s also great as a random timer for studying and learning while using the Gap Effect or Spacing Effect that Andrew Huberman has popularized. You can even set a fixed break period timer between random timers.


I hope this app solves your hot potato timer or random countdown timer generator needs.

How to post to multiple Facebook Pages at once (2023 update)

This post shows how to post to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time.

For anyone who posts the same thing to multiple Facebook Pages, you are familiar with the struggle of copying and pasting the same post and photo across your multiple Facebook Pages (ESPECIALLY with the terrible new Facebook Page Experience)

If you need a simple way to post to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time, schedule posts to multiple Facebook Pages at once, or schedule Facebook Stories to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time, check out OneUp.

And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan 😊

How to post to multiple Facebook pages at the same time

  1. Connect your Facebook Pages
  2. Click “Create A Post”
  3. Select which Facebook Pages you want to post to
  4. Create your post
  5. Choose whether you want it to post once or automatically repeat
  6. Post it now, or schedule it for the future

Here are those steps with screenshots:

First, connect your Facebook Pages on the Accounts page.

OneUp supports Facebook, Instagram, Google Business Profiles, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, and Stocktwits:

Post to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time

Then click “Create a post”.

Choose which Facebook Pages you want to post to. You can choose some or all of your Facebook Pages; you just click to select which Facebook Pages you want to post to:

schedule posts to mutiple Facebook Pages at the same time

Then you add your post, with whatever link and image(s) you would like. OneUp supports up to 10 images on each post.

You can upload your own image, choose from high-quality images via the free Unsplash integration, or create your own image directly inside of OneUp with the Canva integration.

You can also tag Facebook Pages while creating your post:

post to many Facebook Pages at the same time

You can also choose to add a first comment to your Facebook Page posts, which is helpful for kicking off the comments, or if you want to put a link in your comment rather than in the post itself:

Schedule first comment on Facebook Page post

And if you add a video to your post, OneUp gives you the option of posting it as a Facebook Reel:

Schedule Facebook Reels to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time

Then you choose whether you want it to be posted once, or whether you want the post to automatically repeat.

If you choose for the post to repeat, you can choose whatever repeating interval you would like. For example, this post will automatically repeat once every 3 months:

Schedule posts to many Facebook Pages at same time

Then to finish up, you choose whether you want to post to all your Facebook Pages now, schedule the post for the future, or add the post to your Drafts folder.


I want to post to multiple Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts at the same time. Can I do that with OneUp?

Yes, you can post to multiple Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts with OneUp.

Can I schedule Facebook Reels to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time with OneUp?

Yes, you can schedule and post Facebook Reels to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time with OneUp 🤓

Can I schedule posts to my Facebook Pages and other social media accounts at the same time with OneUp?

Yes, you can schedule posts to your Facebook Pages at the same time as your other social media accounts. OneUp supports posting to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Stocktwits, and Google Business Profiles.

Does OneUp support posting to Facebook Groups too?

Yes, you can post to Facebook Groups with OneUp as well (as long as you are the Admin of the Facebook Groups you are posting to).


Now you can easily post to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time with just a few clicks.

In addition to Facebook, OneUp supports Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Stocktwits, and Google My Business.

Try out OneUp for posting to multiple Facebook Pages at the same time.

And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan 😊

Does Pinterest support GIFs? (2023 update)

So you are wondering if Pinterest supports GIFs, right?

The answer is YES, in a way.

Pinterest used to support uploading GIFs directly, but that seems to have changed at some point in 2021.

Here is a post from Reddit, with a user confirming that Pinterest support told them that GIFs are no longer supported on Pinterest:

Are GIFs supported on Pinterest?

If you try to upload a GIF to Pinterest, it seems like it will let you, but instead it will just be uploaded as a static image, rather than a GIF.

However, here is how you can upload GIFs to Pinterest

Using the social media scheduling tool OneUp, you can schedule Pinterest pins with a GIF and it will actually post WITH the GIF 🤓

This GIF pin was published using OneUp

OneUp has a Free Plan, and supports Pin Titles, Descriptions, and Destination Links.

Does Zapier support posting to Google My Business?

Unfortunately Zapier does not support posting to Google My Business. However, you can auto-post to Google My Business using OneUp.

Many people are looking to post to their Facebook page (or other social media account), and then have that post automatically go to Google My Business posts as well.

Here is how to do it with OneUp.

First go to OneUp and connect the social media accounts you want to post TO (the Google Business Profile account in this scenario)

OneUp supports Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, and Google My Business.

Next, go to “Auto-post FROM social network or RSS feeds”:

Then choose “Auto-post FROM a Facebook Page” (or “Auto-post FROM a Twitter account”):

Then paste in the URL of the Facebook Page that you want to post FROM:

Then choose which of your social accounts you want to post TO:

In this example, I have selected a Google Business Profile as the account I want to post TO. You can choose to have CTA buttons added to each post that goes to your Google Business Profile.

Click Add and that’s it!

Now whenever something is posted on that Facebook Page (or Twitter account), it will automatically publish on your Google Business Profile (or whatever social accounts you’ve selected to post TO)

No Zapier zap required.

Check out OneUp here.