BrightBean Studio vs Mixpost
BrightBean Studio and Mixpost are both social media management software. BrightBean Studio is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 2.6k GitHub stars. Mixpost is open source under MIT, with 3.9k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick BrightBean Studio when
- An agency wants a self-hosted Buffer or Sendible replacement and can run a Django app.
- Pick Mixpost when
- You want a self-hosted Buffer alternative and already run Laravel or PHP hosting.
Side by side
A social media management tool for scheduling, publishing and managing posts across ten or more platforms, aimed at creators, agencies and small businesses.
A Laravel package and app for scheduling and publishing social media posts with a content calendar and analytics on your own server.
Seven months old with no releases, and each platform's API approval is your problem.
Team and agency features are in paid Pro editions, and the free version has been quiet since March 2026.
Experimental
Usable
Self-hosted server (both)
Python, Django, htmx and PostgreSQL
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
2.6k GitHub stars
3.9k GitHub stars
Young: started 7 months ago, no tagged release yet.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.6.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.