11 Best MeetEdgar Alternatives (2023 Comparison)

MeetEdgar is a popular solution when it comes to social media scheduling and automation. It’s a great tool but it’s not the best solution for every use case.

In this post, we’re comparing the best MeetEdgar alternatives to help you make an informed decision.

Below, we’ll be including dedicated social media schedulers and fully-fledged social media management tools.

Ready? Let’s get started.

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#1 – SocialBee

SocialBee is a powerful social media publishing tool that will help you create, curate, and publish your content easily.

The tool features an intuitive content creation dashboard that can be used to create new content for different platforms, refresh evergreen content, and curate posts from articles on the web.

In addition to this, SocialBee has a powerful scheduling tool that allows you to save posts to categories, which can be paused, re-arranged, and used to create automated evergreen posting sequences. SocialBee also includes a helpful analytical feature that you can use to gain insight into your audience and post performance.

Also, if you are struggling to manage your social media accounts alone, then SocialBee also offers a concierge service that can help you with social posting, article creation, and more.

SocialBee is perfect for businesses, as it supports most major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google My Business, and TikTok. It also integrates with tons of useful social media tools like Canva and Bit.ly.

Key features 

• Content categories
• Evergreen content tools 
• Post-queuing and rescheduling 
• Content creation dashboard
• AI post generator
• Analytics 
• “Done-for-you” marketing services 

Pros 

• One of the best social schedulers we’ve tested
• Intuitive content creation dashboard makes creating new posts extremely easy
• Content categories improves organization and scheduling 
• Granular control over how content is scheduled

Cons 

• No free plan available 
• No social inbox (it is on the roadmap)

Pricing 

Plans start from $29/month, save 16% when billed annually. Get started with a 14-day free trial.

Read our SocialBee review.

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#2 – Sendible

Sendible is a social media management tool that can help you effectively manage large-scale social media operations. And despite its functionality, it’s surprisingly affordable.

It’s a perfect solution for agencies and has tons of features that can help you collaborate with your team, and make your social media management more efficient. 

The visual scheduling tool allows you to plan posts in advance, and save your posts into campaigns, which you can use to queue posts to make the most of evergreen content. 

In addition to publishing, Sendible has a social media listening tool that will allow you to automatically track conversations about your brand or your competitors. You can also respond to any social media comments directly from the Sendible dashboard.

Sendible is a tool that is aimed at agencies and teams, and they have some really useful collaboration features that can help you to automate your workflows. 

You can assign certain conversations to selected team members, and set up an approval workflow for posts to be checked before they go live. Not only this, but Sendible also offers insightful social media analytics and has a useful reporting feature.

Key features 

• Social media listening tool 
• Post queuing 
• Publishing 
• Collaboration tools
• Analytics and reporting 

Pros 

• Easy to use 
• Perfect for agencies 
• Useful publishing tool

Cons 

• No free plan available
• No TikTok support 

Pricing 

Plans start from $25/month when billed annually.

Read our Sendible review.

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#3 – Pallyy

Pallyy is a relatively new and extremely affordable social media scheduler. While it’s not as feature-rich as some of the more expensive alternatives like MeetEdgar, it’s got all the tools you need to manage social media on a small scale.

With Pallyy, you pay $15 per social set per month. One social set includes Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google My Business, Pinterest, and TikTok. 

It comes complete with an easy-to-use, visual content calendar that is perfect for planning content for visual platforms like Instagram and TikTok. It also has a useful hashtag tool that you can use to save hashtag clusters that you regularly use to make scheduling your posts a bit quicker. 

Pallyy also offers in-depth analytics that can help you learn more about your post performance, audience demographics, and even the best time to post. There is also a social inbox that allows you to manage all your social media interactions in one place, and a bio link tool. 

For such an affordable tool, it has all the necessary tools to help you streamline your social media management.

Key features 

• Visual content calendar 
• Social media inbox
• Analytics
• Best time to post feature
• Bio link tool
• Hashtag management

Pros 

• Affordable
• Easy-to-use
• All-in-one SMM solution

Cons 

• Not many automation features
• The pricing model is more suited to entrepreneurs than brands and agencies.

Pricing 

Pallyy offers a free plan for up to 15 posts per month. Paid plans start from $15/social set/month. 

Read our Pallyy review.

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#4 – Agorapulse 

Agorapulse is a great MeetEdgar alternative with tons of useful features for making social media management quick and efficient. It is a true ‘all-in-one’ social media management tool.

Like with MeetEdgar, you can reschedule older posts to make the most of your evergreen content. You can also use the publishing tool to schedule new posts to all your major social platforms, including TikTok!

What I particularly like about the platform is how good the user interface is. And the revamped social scheduler & calendar is one of the best we’ve seen.

Agorapulse also calculates the best time to publish your posts based on past post performance. 

In addition to publishing, Agorapulse also has a social media inbox, which allows you and your team to manage all your social media interactions in one place so that you never miss a message. 

Another great thing about Agorapulse is the social listening tool that can help you keep your finger on the pulse when it comes to online conversations relating to your brand or your competitors.

Paid plans are a bit more expensive than other tools on this list which is why we’ve ranked it a bit lower than some other tools. But if you can justify the cost, you will not be disappointed. We’ve used this tool for several years and our experience has been excellent.

All in all, it’s a great all-in-one solution for brands and small businesses that want to improve their social media management.

Key features 

• Social inbox
• Social media monitoring tool 
• Post-rescheduling feature for evergreen content 
• Social media publisher 
• Collaboration tools 

Pros 

• Free plan available 
• Useful social media inbox 
• Collaboration features are great for teams
• One of the best scheduling dashboards of any tool on this list
• Excellent support

Cons 

• Paid plans are more expensive than some other tools
• Free plan only includes 10 scheduled posts per month

Pricing 

Agorapulse has a free plan available for up to 10 posts. Paid plans start from $49/month when billed annually.

Read our Agorapulse review.

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#5 – Metricool

Metricool is a full-featured all-in-one SMM solution. It comes complete with an intuitive social media planner that you can use to publish posts and automate posting by creating automated content lists. In addition to scheduling, 

Metricool also has tons of great features that will help you to streamline your social media management. 

For example, you can use the Smart Links tool to optimize your bio links to improve social media conversions. It also has an extremely useful real-time analytics feature that you can use to track your website data, hashtags, and social media conversations as they happen. 

The Hashtag Tracker tool also allows you to analyze Twitter and Instagram hashtags in real-time to help you make informed decisions for your upcoming posts.

Metricool also has some additional features like an ad manager and a competitor analysis tool to help you keep track of your biggest social media competitors.

Key features 

• Social media planner
• In-depth analytics 
• Reporting feature
• Smartlinks 
• Hashtag tracker 
• Competitor analysis

Pros 

• Great planning and automation tools 
• Real-time analytics monitoring 
• Free plan available

Cons

• Free plan doesn’t include reporting features 
• White labeling is only included in more expensive plans

Pricing 

Metricool offers a free plan suitable for one user. Paid plans start from $12/month when billed annually.

Read our Metricool review.

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#6 – Publer

Publer is a feature-rich MeetEdgar that is perfect for businesses. Unlike many tools, Publer really does support all major social media platforms.

You can use it to schedule for lesser known platforms like Telegram and you can even schedule shorts for YouTube. 

Like MeetEdgar, Publer has a post-recycling feature, which allows you to automatically schedule and repost your best-performing social media content at the optimal time. Publer also has features for bulk scheduling, post-curation, and even a link-in-bio tool. 

When it comes to publishing. Publer offers an easy-to-use visual scheduler that integrates with popular social media creation tools like Canva.

Not only that, but it comes complete with a unique Twitter scheduling tool, that allows you to pre-schedule Twitter threads of up to 15 tweets long. Overall, it’s a useful all-in-one SMM tool at an extremely affordable price point. 

Key features 

• Content recycling
• Bulk scheduling 
• Link-in-bio tool
• Easy to use scheduler
• Twitter thread scheduling 

Pros 

• Free plan available
• Very affordable 
• Automatic content recycling feature 
• Supports all platforms including Telegram and YouTube

Cons 

• Price increases per social account (no unlimited option available)
• Content recycling feature only included in the most expensive plan

Pricing 

Publer offers a free plan for up to 3 social accounts. Paid plans start from $12/month.

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#7 – Crowdfire

Crowdfire is a useful social media management tool that can help you with everything from content creation to publishing and analytics. It supports most of the major social platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter. 

Like MeetEdgar, you can use the publishing tool to queue posts for automatic publishing. It also comes complete with an extremely useful article and image curation tool that can help you gather content inspiration for your social media posts. 

Like some of the other tools on this list, Crowdfire includes a powerful social listening tool that can be used to track mentions and comments on social media and reply to them directly from the crowdfire dashboard. 

Not only this, but Crowdfire also offers analytics tools that can help you to gain in-depth insights into your social media performance. Overall, it’s a great all-in-one solution for entrepreneurs, creators, and agencies alike. 

Key features 

• Content curation
• Social media monitoring 
• Publishing 
• Analytics features
• Reporting 

Pros 

• Mentions monitoring tool
• Post queuing 
• Best time to post feature

Cons 

• TikTok not supported
• Pinterest only included in paid plans 

Pricing 

Crowdfire offers a free plan that includes 10 scheduled posts a month. Paid plans start from $7.48 when billed annually.

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#8 – PromoRepublic

PromoRepublic is a social media marketing tool aimed at local businesses. It can be used to manage social media publishing, content creation, and social media listening. 

It also has a ton of useful features for local SMM like ad management and a social media inbox for managing social engagements. 

One of the best things about PromoRepublic is the content creation tool. It has a built-in graphic editor that is akin to popular creation tools like Canva. You can also make use of social media post templates, which are perfect for small businesses that don’t have a dedicated graphic design team. 

In addition to SMM tools, PromoRepublic also offers tools that are useful for small businesses, including review management, local SEO tools, and digital asset management. 

Overall, it’s a great MeetEdgar alternative for small businesses looking for an all-in-one marketing tool.

Key features 

• Publishing tool 
• Social media listening 
• Social media engagement inbox
• Content creation tool with built-in graphic editor
• Social ad management features

Pros 

• Includes some additional marketing tools other than SMM
• Mobile app available
• Graphic editor for content creation

Cons 

• More expensive than some other tools available
• No free plan available

Pricing 

PromoRepublic offers a limited solo plan starting from $108/year. Full-featured paid plans start from $49/month when billed annually.

Read our PromoRepublic review.

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#9 – Sprout Social

Sprout Social is an enterprise-level social media marketing solution, that’s a good choice for businesses looking to manage social media at scale. 

The tools come complete with a publishing tool that will not only help you to schedule your content but manage your content assets, create automated publishing workflows, and more. 

You can generate message approval workflows that will help you to ensure that all your content is checked and approved by the right people before being published. Not only that but Sprout Social will also provide content suggestions to give you inspiration about what to post. 

All of your content can be shared in a saved library that can be accessed by all members of your team, and you can even use the link-in-bio tool and social commerce tools to make sure that your posts are optimized for conversion before they’re published.

Sprout Social also comes complete with a social media listening tool, a unified social inbox, and insightful analytics that can help you to improve all areas of your social media strategy. The only downside with Sprout Social is the price. 

However, although it’s considerably more expensive than most tools on this list, it’s still a good solution for larger teams and enterprise-level businesses. If you can justify the price, that is.

Key features 

• Social media publishing and scheduling 
• Social media listening 
• Unified social inbox 
• Analytics and reporting 
• Employee advocacy 

Pros 

• Great collaboration tools for teams
• Useful automation tools 
• Good for larger businesses

Cons 

• Expensive plans that might be unsuitable for small business
• The cost to add additional users is high

Pricing 

Plans start from $249/month for one user. Additional users are $199/month.

Read our Sprout Social review.

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#10 – SmarterQueue

SmarterQueue is another social media marketing tool that, like MeetEdgar, promises to save marketers and brands a ton of time on their social strategy.

As the name suggests, SmartQueue’s USP is its sophisticated content queuing capabilities. 

You can reduce time spent manually scheduling content with advanced automation features like content categories (each category of social posts has its own separate queue and posting plan), evergreen post recycling (republish fresh variations of your best-performing content again and again to increase your reach), and more.

It also comes with a powerful built-in content curation toolkit that can help you to discover high-quality content that drives engagement, and then add it straight to your publishing queue in a couple of clicks.

Aside from the publishing side of things, SmarterQueue also offers brand monitoring tools, a unified social inbox, analytics, and more.

Key features

• Planner
• Content categories
• Recycling
• Content curation
• Calendar
• Publishing
• Social inbox
• Analytics
• Competitor analysis
• Monitoring

Pros 

• Advanced content queueing capabilities
• Save hours on manual tasks
• Good content curation feature

Cons 

• Doesn’t support TikTok
• No social inbox

Pricing 

Plans start at $24.99 per month (paid annually). You can get started with a free trial.

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#11 – Hootsuite

Hootsuite is another popular social media management platform with some industry-leading features. It’s a great choice for brands and marketing agencies.

Hootsuite has been around for a long time. It was one of the first SMM tools to hit the market, and it’s still one of the best.

It covers the full range of social media marketing with tools to help with planning, scheduling, publishing, message/comment management, advertising, analytics, brand mention monitoring, and collaboration.

Like MeetEdgar, it also has powerful automation capabilities, with features like automated alerts, sophisticated approval workflows, and the ability to send out targeted messages automatically at the best time. 

Another cool thing about Hootsuite is that it has a pretty extensive app library, where you can find and install third-party add-ons that extend its functionality. This makes it a very flexible solution.

Key features 

• Content calendar
• Publishing/scheduling
• Target messages
• Social advertising
• Inbox
• Approval workflows
• Message moderation
• Real-time insights
• Comprehensive reporting
• Automatic alerts
• Planner
• App store

Pros 

• Advanced features
• Strong collaboration features
• Unlimited scheduled posts
• All-in-one solution

Cons

• Higher learning curve than some platforms
• Recently controversies (ICE deal and regular price increases)

Pricing 

Hootsuite plans start from $99/month (billed annually). But you can try it out for free for 30 days by signing up for their free trial.

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MeetEdgar FAQs 

Want to know more about MeetEdgar? Here are the answers to some commonly asked questions. 

What does MeetEdgar do?

MeetEdgar is a social media scheduling tool that automatically pulls content from your content library and posts it to your social profiles to help make managing your social media easier. It also has tools like performance tracking and analytics and automated engagement with your followers. 

Does MeetEdgar have a free plan? 

No. Unfortunately, MeetEdgar doesn’t have a free plan, but it does offer a 14-day free trial. If you’re looking for a free tool, you can try tools  Pallyy and Agorapulse. These tools offer limited ‘free forever’ plans.

Can you use MeetEdgar to post on Instagram? 

Yes, MeetEdgar supports most major social media platforms including Instagram. It also supports TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google My Business.

Does MeetEdgar have analytics?

Yes, MeetEdgar offers real-time analytics tracking to help you see how your posts are performing and inform your social media strategy. It also has optimization tools such as A/B testing.

How many accounts do MeetEdgar plans include? 

The ‘Eddie’ plan includes up to 5 accounts, making it a good choice if you just want to manage 1 social set. The ‘Edgar’ plan includes up to 25 accounts. You can also add extra accounts for $1.99/per account.

Choosing the best MeetEdgar alternative for your business

As you can see, there are tons of great alternatives to MeetEdgar that you can choose from if you feel that it doesn’t quite meet your business needs. If you’re struggling to decide which tool to try, here’s a recap of our top picks: 

• SocialBee – A great MeetEdgar with categories and evergreen content features, as well as ‘done for you’ options. 
• Sendible – A useful all-in-one solution with all the tools you need to effectively manage multiple social media channels. 
• Pallyy – An easy-to-use social media calendar tool that’s perfect for visual content planning for Instagram and TikTok.

Want to learn more about social media? Be sure to check out our social media statistics post – 41+ Top Social Media Statistics: Usage, Demographics, Trends.

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