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About Sked Social
Sked Social is a commercial social media management platform built for teams that publish on behalf of other people, such as agencies, franchises and multi-location businesses. It combines planning, scheduling, approvals, engagement and reporting in one workspace for channels such as Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Features are organized into create, publish and engage-and-measure groups. Create includes ideas and planning, a media library connected to Canva, Drive, Dropbox and Frontify, and an in-app video editor. Publish includes cross-channel scheduling, approvals with login-free review portals for clients, and a link-in-bio page. Engage covers a unified inbox, analytics and reporting with PDF and Excel export, and social listening.
The vendor also provides AI tools for caption drafts and replies, and an MCP connection for AI agents. Sked Social is a hosted service with a 14-day free trial, demos and a pricing page, and it is not open-source software.
Key features
- Visual scheduling across social channels
- Login-free client approval portals
- Multi-location and multi-client publishing
- Unified inbox for DMs and comments
- Analytics with PDF and Excel export
- Link-in-bio page and in-app video editor
- AI caption drafts and MCP access
Good fit for
- →Agencies getting client approvals before posting
- →Franchises publishing across many locations
- →Teams reporting social results to clients
- Tags
- social-media-management
- scheduling
- approvals
- agencies
- multi-location
- reporting
Sked Social: questions and answers
- What is Sked Social used for?
- Sked Social is a social media management workspace with visual scheduling, client approval portals, multi-location publishing and reporting. It is a good fit for agencies getting client approvals before posting, franchises publishing across many locations and teams reporting social results to clients.
- How much does Sked Social cost?
- Paid plans for Sked Social start at $69 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Sked Social open source?
- No. Sked Social is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Sked Social include BrightBean Studio, Postiz and MultiPost.
- What are some alternatives to Sked Social?
- Sked Social competes with Later, Planoly and Buffer. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Sked Social alternatives.
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Buffer
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