Hootsuite is a great social media management tool. However, it is a little too bloated and feature-heavy for some, and can become pretty expensive on Hootsuite’s paid plans.
I decided to review 90 different social media scheduling tools, comparing the best free and paid Hootsuite alternatives.
This is a comprehensive list of all the social media scheduling tools that work with multiple social networks. Software that only works with one social network, such as TweetDeck, have not been included.
Social networks supported by this social media scheduling tool: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google My Business, and Stocktwits.
Starting price: $12/month, 3 social profiles
Free-forever plan: No.
Features
Posting to multiple social media accounts – For people who are posting to more than one social network at a time, OneUp makes it easy to post to Instagram, Facebook Pages and Groups, LinkedIn profiles and pages, Twitter, Google My Business, Pinterest, and all at once.
Canva integration – OneUp directly integrates with Canva. Just click the “Design on Canva” button in the scheduler, and Canva will open directly inside of OneUp.
Click the “Publish” button in the Canva editor, and your image will be uploaded to OneUp directly. No need to download images from Canva, then upload to OneUp.
Repeating post – Choose to have your post publish once, or you can choose to set posts to automatically repeat.
Scheduling posts to Google My Business — Stand out in Google searches by scheduling posts to Google My Business and adding your Call-To-Action buttons. Different kinds of GMB posts are supported as well, such as What’s New and Event posts.
Auto-post from RSS feeds — Have posts automatically shared to social media from any RSS feed.
Chrome Extension – With the OneUp Chrome extension, you can easily schedule many images at once from any website.
You can choose which images from the website you want to post to social media, bulk update or individually update the descriptions and links for each post, then schedule them to be posted with a set interval (such as every 60 minutes), or choose custom dates and times for all of them.
Customizable UTM parameters – OneUp lets you customize UTM parameters so you can keep track of how your links are performing in Google Analytics.
Link Shortening – Connect your Bitly account and OneUp will automatically shorten any links and allow you to track clicks through Bitly.
Schedule Twitter Threads – Not many scheduling tools allow you to schedule Twitter threads (AKA tweetstorms), however you can do so with OneUp.
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Need an easy way to schedule and automatically repeat Google My Business posts?
The fact that your Google My Business posts expire after 7 days means that you have to constantly go back into GMB and post something week after week, again and again.
The solution: schedule out your Google My Business posts weeks or even months ahead of time.
The process is simple. Just connect your Google My Business account on the Accounts page.
Then schedule your GMB post, optionally adding any link or image to the post.
Then add your Call-To-Action button and a link.
In addition to just scheduling posts, OneUp allows you to set GMB posts to automatically repeat at custom intervals — such as once a week or once a month.
This allows you to reap the benefits of being active on Google My Business, without the hassle of constantly going back in every week to manually post something once your post expires.
Then choose to post it now, or schedule it for a date in the future.
Here is what the post looks like inside your Google My Business account:
And here is what the post looks like on the Google search results page:
This post goes over what the best image size is for Google My Business (GMB) posts.
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Google My Business posts are a great way to stand out from the competition and help your SEO.
However, many images in GMB posts seem to get cut off when viewed on the search results page.
What Google My Business post image size is best?
If you are posting from the GMB dashboard, the best image size for Google My Business (GMB) posts is 1200 x 900 pixels, a 4:3 image ratio.
However, you can scroll down to learn how to get images with different dimensions to post to Google My Business without getting cut off.
Here is a 1200 x 900 image:
And here is what that image looks like in a Google My Business post at the bottom of the GMB listing:
You’ll notice that the bottom part of the image gets cut off in the GMB post:
However, when the post is clicked on and the image is expanded, it shows the full image:
Keep this in mind when you are publishing Google My Business posts that might have important parts of the image in the lower section of the image.
I have a lot of images that aren’t 1200 x 900 pixels though?
If you publish your Google My Business posts from OneUp, the GMB post scheduling tool, most image sizes publish completely. (more on OneUp at the bottom)
For example, here is a 1200 x 628 image:
If you post it from the GMB dashboard, it gets cut off significantly:
However, if you publish the same image through OneUp, the full image posts perfectly:
Let’s take another example with this 1080 x 1080 image:
When you post this image directly from Google My Business, it cuts off a significant portion from both the top and bottom of the image:
However, that same image posts fully when published through OneUp:
The fact that your Google My Business posts expire after 7 days means that you have to constantly go back into GMB and post something week after week, again and again.
The solution: schedule out your Google My Business posts weeks or even months ahead of time.
OneUp allows you to schedule and set your Google My Business posts to automatically repeat.
The process is simple. Just connect your Google My Business account on the Accounts page.
Then schedule your GMB post, optionally adding any link or image to the post.
Then add your Call-To-Action button and a link.
In addition to just scheduling posts, OneUp allows you to set GMB posts to automatically repeat at custom intervals — such as once a week or once a month.
This allows you to reap the benefits of being active on Google My Business, without the hassle of constantly going back in every week to manually post something once your post expires.
Then choose to post it now, or schedule it for a date in the future.
Here is what the post looks like inside your Google My Business account:
And here is what the post looks like on the Google search results page:
If you are tired of GMB cutting off parts of your images, try out a free 7-day trial at oneupapp.io
Buffer is a great social media management tool. However, it can become pretty expensive on Buffer’s paid plans.
I decided to review 90 different social media scheduling tools, comparing the best free and paid Buffer alternatives.
This is a comprehensive list of all the social media scheduling tools that work with multiple social networks. Software that only works with one social network, such as TweetDeck, have not been included.
Social networks supported by this social media scheduling tool: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google My Business, and Stocktwits.
Starting price: $12/month, 3 social profiles
Free-forever plan: No.
Features
Posting to multiple social media accounts – For people who are posting to more than one social network at a time, OneUp makes it easy to post to Instagram, Facebook Pages and Groups, LinkedIn profiles and pages, Twitter, Google My Business, Pinterest, and all at once.
Canva integration – OneUp directly integrates with Canva. Just click the “Design on Canva” button in the scheduler, and Canva will open directly inside of OneUp.
Click the “Publish” button in the Canva editor, and your image will be uploaded to OneUp directly. No need to download images from Canva, then upload to OneUp.
Repeating post – Choose to have your post publish once, or you can choose to set posts to automatically repeat.
Scheduling posts to Google My Business — Stand out in Google searches by scheduling posts to Google My Business and adding your Call-To-Action buttons. Different kinds of GMB posts are supported as well, such as What’s New and Event posts.
Auto-post from RSS feeds — Have posts automatically shared to social media from any RSS feed.
Chrome Extension – With the OneUp Chrome extension, you can easily schedule many images at once from any website.
You can choose which images from the website you want to post to social media, bulk update or individually update the descriptions and links for each post, then schedule them to be posted with a set interval (such as every 60 minutes), or choose custom dates and times for all of them.
Customizable UTM parameters – OneUp lets you customize UTM parameters so you can keep track of how your links are performing in Google Analytics.
Link Shortening – Connect your Bitly account and OneUp will automatically shorten any links and allow you to track clicks through Bitly.
Schedule Twitter Threads – Not many scheduling tools allow you to schedule Twitter threads (AKA tweetstorms), however you can do so with OneUp.
Many people have images on Tumblr that they want to post on Instagram. But, the process of downloading the photo from Tumblr, then uploading onto Instagram one by one can be painstaking.
However, using the social media tool OneUp, you can do this easily.
Just go to Tumblr and right-click and click “Copy image” on any image you want to move to Instagram:
Then in OneUp, simply paste the image into the text box using Cmd+V or Ctrl+V (or you can right-click in the text box):
Then type in your post’s caption, and you are ready to either schedule it or post it now:
In addition to Instagram, OneUp supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google My Business (aka Google Business Profile).
OneUp supports hashtags and @tagging other users in the post description, as well as adding a first comment for Instagram posts.
OneUp also supports scheduling Instagram Stories as well.
You can check out OneUp here: OneUp (and yes, there is a free plan 😊)
OneUp is one of the only social media scheduling tools that supports scheduling Twitter threads.
To schedule your Twitter thread in OneUp, click “Schedule Twitter Threads” in the Schedule Post dropdown.
Then select your Twitter account, and start creating your Twitter thread.
To add another part to your Twitter thread, click the “+” button. You can add as many parts to your thread as you want, and just like on Twitter, you can add up to 4 images on each tweet in your Twitter thread.
You can add images to any of the tweets in the thread by clicking the image icon, and just like on Twitter, you can add a video, GIF, or up to 4 images in each tweet of your thread.
You can also add Alt Text to your images, just like on Twitter 😊
Once you’re finished, you can either post your thread now, or you can click “Schedule Post” to schedule your Twitter thread for the future.
OneUp makes it easy to schedule Twitter threads in advance.
OneUp is one of the only social media scheduling tools that supports scheduling Twitter threads.
To schedule your Twitter thread in OneUp, click “Schedule Twitter Threads” in the Schedule Post dropdown.
Then select your Twitter account, and start creating your Twitter thread.
To add another part to your Twitter thread, click the “+” button. You can add as many parts to your thread as you want, and just like on Twitter, you can add up to 4 images on each tweet in your Twitter thread.
You can add images to any of the tweets in the thread by clicking the image icon, and just like on Twitter, you can add a video, GIF, or up to 4 images in each tweet of your thread.
You can also add Alt Text to your images, just like on Twitter 😊
Once you’re finished, you can either post your thread now, or you can click “Schedule Post” to schedule your Twitter thread for the future.
OneUp makes it easy to schedule Twitter threads in advance.
To schedule your Twitter thread in OneUp, click “Schedule Twitter Threads” in the Schedule Post dropdown.
Click “Schedule Twitter Threads”
Then select your Twitter account, and start creating your Twitter thread.
To add another tweet to your Twitter thread, click the “+” button. You can add as many tweets to your thread as you want.
You can add images to any of the tweets in the thread by clicking the image icon, and just like on Twitter, you can add a video, GIF, or up to 4 images in each tweet of your thread.
You can also add Alt Text to your images, just like on Twitter 😊
Once you’re finished, you can either post your thread now, or you can click “Schedule options” to schedule your Twitter thread for a date and time in the future.
So while you cannot schedule Twitter threads in TweetDeck, OneUp makes it easy to schedule Twitter threads for the future.
Hootsuite allows you to schedule Tweets in advance, but can you schedule Twitter threads for the future with Hootsuite?
Unfortunately Hootsuite does not allow you to schedule Twitter threads.
However, you can schedule Twitter threads with OneUp.
And yes, OneUp has a Free Plan 😊
How to schedule Twitter threads
OneUp is one of the only social media scheduling tools that supports scheduling Twitter threads.
To schedule your Twitter thread in OneUp, click “Schedule Twitter Threads” in the Schedule Post dropdown.
Then select your Twitter account, and start creating your Twitter thread.
To add another part to your Twitter thread, click the “+” button. You can add as many parts to your thread as you want.
You can add images to any of the tweets in the thread by clicking the image icon, and just like on Twitter, you can add a video, GIF, or up to 4 images on each tweet of your thread.
You can also add Alt Text to your images, just like on Twitter 😊
Once you’re finished, you can either post your thread now, or you can click “Schedule Post” to schedule your Twitter thread for the future.
If you need an alternative to Hootsuite, OneUp makes it easy to schedule Twitter threads in advance (and there is a Free Plan 😊)
