About Planable
Planable is a commercial social media management platform designed around review and approval. Content is created in a workspace that looks like the final post, and teammates or clients can comment, suggest edits and approve before it is scheduled.
The product covers creating, planning, collaborating, approving, scheduling, analyzing and engaging, along with social listening, across networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, X and Google Business Profile. Solutions are tailored to agencies, multi-location brands and multi-brand companies. Planable is hosted and is used in organizations with several stakeholders reviewing content.
Key features
- Post previews shared for feedback
- Approval workflows for teams and clients
- Scheduling across social networks
- Analytics for published content
- Social inbox and listening
- Unified marketing calendar
Good fit for
- →Client approval of social content
- →Content operations for multi-brand companies
- Tags
- social-media-management
- approval-workflow
- collaboration
- content-calendar
- agencies
- scheduling
- publishing
Planable: questions and answers
- What is Planable used for?
- Planable is a collaboration-first social media tool where teams and clients plan, approve and schedule content, with analytics and an inbox. It is a good fit for client approval of social content and content operations for multi-brand companies.
- Is Planable free?
- Yes. Planable has a free plan, and paid plans start at $39 per month.
- Is Planable open source?
- No. Planable is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Planable include BrightBean Studio, Postiz and Mixpost.
- What are some alternatives to Planable?
- Planable competes with Loomly, Sprout Social and Sendible. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Planable alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Planable
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BrightBean Studio
Social Media
Open-source, self-hostable social media management platform. Schedule, publish, and manage
AGPL-3.0vs Buffer★ 2.4k
Postiz
Social Media
📨 The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool 🤖
AGPL-3.0vs Buffer★ 37k
Mixpost
Social Media
📅 Schedule, 📢 publish, and ⚡ manage your social media content on your server. No subscri
MITvs Buffer★ 3.8k
Shoutrrr
Social Media
An open-source alternative to Buffer, Typefully, and Hootsuite. Write once and schedule ev
Apache-2.0vs Buffer★ 405
MultiPost
Social Media
A browser extension that helps users publish content to multiple social media platforms wi
Apache-2.0vs Buffer★ 3.6k
Mastodon
Social Media
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
AGPL-3.0vs X (Twitter)★ 50k
SaaS alternatives to Planable
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Loomly
Social Media
Social content calendar with approval workflows for teams
SaaS
Sprout Social
Social Media
Social media management suite with publishing, inbox and reporting
SaaS
Sendible
Social Media
Social media management tool aimed at agencies with client workspaces
SaaS
Pallyy
Social Media
Social media scheduler with client approvals aimed at agencies
SaaS
Hootsuite
Social Media
Hootsuite is a social media management suite that combines scheduling, content creation, analytics, listening and a social inbox in one dashboard.
SaaS
Later
Social Media
Visual social media scheduler and link-in-bio tool focused on Instagram
SaaS

