Planable Alternatives: 6 Social Media Tools Compared, With Prices

We started from the reasons people give for leaving Planable: the free offer that stops after 50 posts, the monthly post caps on paid plans, and a mobile app that reviewers call buggy. Then we looked at social media tools that do the same core job, planning, approving, scheduling and publishing posts, and checked each one's pricing page and public reviews in October 2026.

Every price on this page is copied from the vendor's own pricing page, and every complaint links to the review page it came from. We left out tools whose pricing page did not show a price we could check. RecurPost comes up often in searches for Planable alternatives, but we could not check its prices, so it is not on this list.

• You want a free plan that lasts: Buffer (free for up to 3 channels), Metricool (Free at $0 per month for 1 brand) or Infinall AI (1,000 credits every month, no card).
• You want the most affordable paid scheduler: Buffer at $5 per month per channel, or ContentStudio Standard at $19 per month billed annually.
• You need client or stakeholder approvals, like Planable: ContentStudio Advanced, Loomly or Vista Social.
• You run social for many brands at an agency: Vista Social or ContentStudio.
• You want analytics and competitor tracking: Metricool.
• You need the posts made as well as scheduled: Infinall AI. It makes the images, videos and captions from your brand, and the calendar is free on both plans.

Planable charges per workspace and caps posts. Basic is $33 per workspace per month with 60 posts, 4 social pages and 3 campaigns per workspace, and unlimited users. A price of $49 per workspace per month buys the Pro plan, with 150 posts and 10 social pages per workspace. Enterprise has custom pricing with unlimited posts, multi-level approvals and SSO. The pricing page has a monthly and yearly toggle but does not make clear which billing period these two prices show, so check the Planable pricing page before you compare.

The alternatives price in different ways, so work out the bill for your own setup:

• Buffer charges per channel.
• Metricool charges per brand.
• ContentStudio, Loomly and Vista Social charge per plan.
• Infinall AI charges a flat plan plus credits. Free gives 1,000 credits every month. Pro is $10 for the first month, then $30 a month or $299 a year, and gives 3,000 credits a month. Pro includes 2 free account connections; after that each account uses 300 credits a month. Planning, scheduling and publishing never use credits.

Prices change, so check each pricing page before you buy.

Planable is still a strong choice for agencies and multi-brand teams whose main problem is getting posts reviewed. It has step-by-step approval workflows, comments with suggestions and annotations on each post, post previews that look like the native platforms, a drag and drop Instagram grid planner, and dedicated spaces for each brand. Basic includes unlimited users, which helps when many clients need to comment, and Pro adds a public API.

If you post fewer than 60 times a month per workspace and most of your team works on desktop, the post caps and the mobile app complaints above may not matter to you. Planable's iPhone app is also rated 4.6 on the App Store from 227 ratings.