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BrightBean Studio vs Postiz-app

BrightBean Studio and Postiz-app are both social media management software. BrightBean Studio is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 2.6k GitHub stars. Postiz-app is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 41k 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 Postiz-app when
You manage several social accounts and want a Buffer alternative you can self-host or buy hosted.

Side by side

What it does

A social media management tool for scheduling, publishing and managing posts across ten or more platforms, aimed at creators, agencies and small businesses.

A social media scheduler for planning, publishing and analysing posts across many networks, with team collaboration and AI assistance.

Watch out

Seven months old with no releases, and each platform's API approval is your problem.

Each network needs its own developer app and API approval when self-hosting, and the app is AGPL licensed.

Ready for

Experimental

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

Python, Django, htmx and PostgreSQL

TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, Prisma and Redis

Source code

Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)

How widely known

2.6k GitHub stars

41k GitHub stars

How established

Young: started 7 months ago, no tagged release yet.

Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v2.25.3.

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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.