Hootsuite vs Postiz-app
Hootsuite and Postiz-app are both social media management software. Hootsuite is a commercial product from Hootsuite. Postiz-app is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 41k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Hootsuite when
- A marketing team manages many brand accounts across networks and needs approvals and reporting.
- Pick Postiz-app when
- You manage several social accounts and want a Buffer alternative you can self-host or buy hosted.
Side by side
Social media management for scheduling posts, managing a combined inbox, social listening and analytics across networks.
A social media scheduler for planning, publishing and analysing posts across many networks, with team collaboration and AI assistance.
Prices have climbed and the free plan is gone.
Each network needs its own developer app and API approval when self-hosting, and the app is AGPL licensed.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, Prisma and Redis
Closed source, sold by Hootsuite
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
360 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
41k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v2.25.3.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.