Publer Alternatives: 7 Social Schedulers Compared (2026)

We started from the social scheduling tools in our competitor research and kept the ones that do what most Publer users rely on: a content calendar, scheduling to several networks and a way to get started without paying much. For every tool we read its own pricing page in October 2026 and public reviews on the App Store, Google Play, SaaSworthy or G2. Prices on this page are copied from those pricing pages, and every drawback comes from a real review, linked in the sources at the end.

We left out enterprise suites priced from $99 per user per month and up, because people searching for a Publer alternative are usually solo users, small businesses or small agencies. We also added Infinall AI, our own product, because it covers scheduling plus content creation. We say plainly below where it is not the better pick.

• Cheapest scheduler for a few accounts: Buffer. Free for up to 3 channels, then $5 per month per channel on Essentials.
• Analytics across several brands: Metricool. A $0 plan, then Starter at $25 per month for up to 5 brands.
• Client approvals for a small agency: Pallyy. $25 per month for one social set on its Pro plan, with extra sets at $10 per month.
• A wider marketing calendar: CoSchedule. A free plan for 1 profile, Starter from $29 per month billed annually.
• Instagram-first visual planning: Later. Starter is $18.75 USD per month, billed yearly.
• Already on Zoho: Zoho Social, with a free plan and custom-priced packages.
• Making the content as well as posting it: Infinall AI. 1,000 free credits every month, no card.

If your main question is a free Publer alternative, the tools with a free plan here are Buffer, Metricool, Pallyy, CoSchedule, Zoho Social and Infinall AI. Each free plan has its own limit, such as channels, profiles or posts a month, so match it to how many accounts you run.

Publer's plans page lists Free, Professional, Business and Enterprise. Free is free forever and Enterprise is billed yearly on a custom quote. The pricing page does not show the Professional and Business amounts in the text we could read, so check publer.com/plans for the current price before you compare.

The alternatives price in different ways, which changes the real cost:

• Per channel: Buffer. Cheap for a few accounts, grows with every account you add.
• Per brand or client: Metricool and Pallyy. Good for agencies with many accounts per client.
• Flat plan tiers: CoSchedule and Later.
• Flat plan plus credits: Infinall AI. Planning, scheduling and publishing use no credits. Making images, videos and copy uses credits, and you see the price before paid work runs. On Pro, 3,000 credits arrive each month, and one credit is one US cent.

In India, Infinall Pro is Rs 999 for the first month, then Rs 2,899 a month or Rs 33,999 a year.

Publer is a strong tool and many users should keep it. Its ratings are high: 4.7 on the App Store from 27009 ratings and about 4.7 on Google Play from 108293 ratings when we checked. Stay with Publer if you rely on bulk post automation, on recycling your best posts to keep engagement going, on its free custom link in bio page for Instagram, or on the browser extension that shares content you find while browsing. Its own site says it suits small business owners, creators and real estate agents who post across many platforms.

Switching makes most sense when the reviewed problems, such as stuck old posts or slow downloads, keep costing you time, when you want a pricing model that fits your account count better, or when you need help making the posts and not only scheduling them.