Social media scheduling and management tools in 2026
6 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Sprinklr has the most readers, about 581 a month. 8 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Postiz-app leads with 41k stars, ahead of BrightBean Studio. 7 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: AGPL-3.0 (5) and MIT (3).
Commercial social media scheduling and management tools
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Sprinklr Sprinklr
Unify customer journeys with Sprinklr’s AI-native platform. Connect every touchpoint, empower teams, and elevate conversations to earn lasting loyalty.
Complete system Production-ready A global brand needs social, care and listening across many regions and teams in one platform.
581 readers a month Since 2009 Commercial -
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Hootsuite Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a social media management tool that brings scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening to one place.
Complete system Production-ready A marketing team manages many brand accounts across networks and needs approvals and reporting.
360 readers a month Since 2008 Commercial -
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Sprout Social Sprout Social
Maximize your social ROI with Sprout Social, trusted by 30k+ brands. Power everything from publishing and engagement to analytics and influencer marketing. Try 30 days free.
Complete system Production-ready A midsize marketing or customer care team needs strong social reporting and engagement workflows.
221 readers a month Since 2010 Commercial -
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Buffer Buffer
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Complete system Production-ready A small business or creator wants to queue posts across a handful of channels without paying much.
135 readers a month Since 2010 Commercial -
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Later Later
Influencer marketing built for creators and trusted by brands. Run campaigns, manage social media, and track performance with AI-powered insights.
Complete system Production-ready A brand or creator focused on Instagram and TikTok wants visual planning and influencer campaigns.
Commercial -
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Agorapulse Agorapulse
An easy to use Social Media Management Software that allows you to stay organized, save time, and easily manage your inbox, publishing, reporting, monitoring, and team collaboration tools.
Complete system Production-ready An agency or small marketing team wants inbox-first social management at a mid-range price.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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37Studio Shaitrish
Open-source AI alternative to Buffer and Opus Clip: Claude Code makes on-brand videos, posts them to 9 platforms and drafts replies. Self-hosted, your own keys.
Complete system Experimental A small business already uses Claude Code and wants to experiment with AI-made social video.
★ 56 MIT Go Active, pushed 9 days ago -
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CogSend cogsend
Self-hosted social media scheduler. Write once, publish to any connected platform. Runs on your own Cloudflare account.
Complete system Experimental You want cheap self-hosted scheduling without managing a server and already use Cloudflare.
★ 253 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 12 days ago
Open-source social media scheduling and management tools
Complete systems you can adopt 8
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Postiz-app gitroomhq
📨 The ultimate agentic social media scheduling tool 🤖
Complete system Usable You manage several social accounts and want a Buffer alternative you can self-host or buy hosted.
★ 41k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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BrightBean Studio brightbeanxyz
Open-source, self-hostable social media management platform. Schedule, publish, and manage content across 10+ platforms from a single dashboard. Free alternative to Buffer, Sendible, and SocialPilot.
Complete system Experimental An agency wants a self-hosted Buffer or Sendible replacement and can run a Django app.
★ 2.6k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 8 days ago -
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Mixpost inovector
📅 Schedule, 📢 publish, and ⚡ manage your social media content on your server. No subscriptions, no limits. (Buffer alternative)
Complete system Usable You want a self-hosted Buffer alternative and already run Laravel or PHP hosting.
★ 3.9k MIT Vue Slowing, pushed 8 months ago -
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OpenPost getopenpost
Create, adapt, schedule, and track social posts. Open-source, hosted or self-hosted.
Complete system Experimental A small team wants Buffer plus basic Canva and CapCut features under its own control.
★ 845 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago -
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TryPost trypostit
Open-source social media scheduler built for AI agents and the teams behind them. Create, schedule and publish posts to every network through MCP or the REST API, or write them yourself in a composer your team will love.
Complete system Usable Your team wants agents to queue social posts while people review them, on your own server.
★ 764 AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 6 days ago -
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CogSend cogsend
Self-hosted social media scheduler. Write once, publish to any connected platform. Runs on your own Cloudflare account.
Complete system Experimental You want cheap self-hosted scheduling without managing a server and already use Cloudflare.
★ 253 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 12 days ago -
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Openquok-monorepo Ratimon
All-in-one Content OS: social scheduling and directory launch in one workspace. Calendar, kanban, and product profiles. Extension autofill for directory listings; you approve every post and submit. Agents via CLI, MCP, and public API. Cloud or self-host.
Complete system Experimental An indie maker launches products often and wants scheduling and directory submissions in one place.
★ 96 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 11 days ago -
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37Studio Shaitrish
Open-source AI alternative to Buffer and Opus Clip: Claude Code makes on-brand videos, posts them to 9 platforms and drafts replies. Self-hosted, your own keys.
Complete system Experimental A small business already uses Claude Code and wants to experiment with AI-made social video.
★ 56 MIT Go Active, pushed 9 days ago
Compared head to head
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Open-source licenses
- Network copyleft: 5. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Permissive: 3. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
Languages
TypeScript 4, Python 1, Vue 1, PHP 1 and Go 1.
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