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About Publer
Publer is a commercial social media management tool that centers on scheduling. Users connect accounts from multiple networks, plan posts on a calendar, schedule many at once with bulk upload, and review performance in analytics.
Team collaboration features let several people share workspaces, and the site lists free tools and a range of integrations. The company has also introduced an MCP connection so AI assistants can help manage social posting. Publer is a hosted service, suited to individual creators, small businesses and agencies that handle numerous accounts.
Key features
- Calendar views for planned posts
- Bulk scheduling of many posts
- Management of multiple accounts
- Team collaboration in shared workspaces
- Analytics on post performance
- MCP connection for AI assistants
Good fit for
- →Scheduling a week of posts in bulk
- →Managing several brand accounts
- Tags
- social-media-scheduling
- bulk-posting
- calendar
- analytics
- collaboration
- agencies
- publishing
Publer: questions and answers
- What is Publer used for?
- Publer is a social media scheduler with calendar views, bulk posting, team collaboration and analytics for managing many accounts. It is a good fit for scheduling a week of posts in bulk and managing several brand accounts.
- Is Publer free?
- Yes. Publer has a free plan. A free-forever plan covers 3 social accounts. Professional and Business plans are priced per social account and member, with no figures in the captured text; Enterprise is quoted on request.
- Is Publer open source?
- No. Publer is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Publer include Postiz, MultiPost and BrightBean Studio.
- What are some alternatives to Publer?
- Publer competes with Buffer, Hootsuite and SocialBee. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Publer alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Publer
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Postiz
Social Media
📨 The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool 🤖
AGPL-3.0vs Buffer★ 37k
MultiPost
Social Media
A browser extension that helps users publish content to multiple social media platforms wi
Apache-2.0vs Buffer★ 3.6k
BrightBean Studio
Social Media
Open-source, self-hostable social media management platform. Schedule, publish, and manage
AGPL-3.0vs Buffer★ 2.4k
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
Mastodon
Social Media
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
AGPL-3.0vs X (Twitter)★ 50k
SaaS alternatives to Publer
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Buffer
Social Media
Buffer is a social media management tool for planning, scheduling and publishing posts, with analytics, a link-in-bio page and a forever-free plan.
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
SocialBee
Social Media
Social scheduler with content categories and recycling for evergreen posts
SaaS
SocialPilot
Social Media
Social media scheduling and reporting tool with team and agency features
SaaS
Later
Social Media
Visual social media scheduler and link-in-bio tool focused on Instagram
SaaS
Metricool
Social Media
Social scheduling, analytics and ad reporting in one dashboard
SaaS