How do you stay on top of all your social media marketing tasks?

From creating and publishing content to analytics and reporting, it can be pretty overwhelming to think of all the jobs social media marketers have to complete every day.

Thankfully, there are a bunch of awesome social media management tools available to help. These tools can streamline your workflows, help you save some time and even ensure your content reaches the right audience at the right time.

But how do you decide which product to use?

With so many great social media management tools out there, we thought it would be great to showcase some of the top ones to help you pick what’s best for your business.

Here are 25 of the very best social media management tools out there.

The list is broken down into two sections:

Tools more suitable for small-to-medium businesses and Tools more suitable for enterprise businesses (Click here to skip to this list.)

The distinction is largely made based on the price and isn’t clear-cut. If you are a small-to-medium business, a tool on the second list might suit you, and vice-versa.

The tools are not arranged in any particular order and they’re all great in their own unique ways. If there’s a reason you love a tool and I didn’t mention it, feel free to give it a shout in the comments section to help others understand more about that particular tool.

Compare the tools easily with this spreadsheet To make it easier for you to compare the tools, I’ve created a spreadsheet with the following information of each social media management tool: The prices

Free plan or free trial?

Product offering

Social networks supported

Unique value

Let’s look through each tool!

The platform for successful social media management

Prices: Forever free plan, $15, $99, $199, and $399 per month (with a 14-day free trial)

Description: Buffer is an intuitive, streamlined social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive meaningful engagement and results on social media.

We have a suite of products for publishing, engagement, analytics, and team collaboration. Our products are carefully considered and highly refined in order to help social media marketers and teams work more efficiently and effectively.

Unique value: What we’ve heard from our customers is that they love how clean and intuitive our tools are, how friendly and timely our customer support is, and how helpful our content is.

Want an independent Buffer review? Check out this post.

Once you’ve researched all your options and if you think Buffer might suit your needs, we would love for you to give it a try and see the difference it can make for your social media management.

2. Hootsuite

Manage all your social media in one place

Prices: Free plan, $29, $129, $599 per month, and enterprise pricing (with a 30-day free trial)

Description: Hootsuite, probably the biggest social media management tool, is used by over 15 million people and more than 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

There’s a good reason for their success: it’s an all-in-one platform that allows you to curate and schedule content, measure your social ROI, run social media ads, and more.

Unique value: Being such a comprehensive platform, there are several things that people love about Hootsuite: being able to monitor multiple accounts and keywords, connect with over 35 social networks, and bulk-schedule social media posts.

3. Sprout Social

Real people. Real brands. Real connection.

Prices: $99, $149, and $249 per user per month (with a 30-day free trial)

Description: Similar to Hootsuite, Sprout Social combines several social media tools into one platform — from social media scheduling to monitoring, to reporting.

Sprout Social is one of the few social media management tools that provides customer relationship management (CRM) features. Having a complete profile of your customers help you serve them better and build stronger relationships with them.

Unique value: The most common praise I’ve heard about Sprout Social is its amazing reports. Many social media managers found the reports so great and beautiful that they would download and send them to their managers or clients without editing them.

4. Agora Pulse

Social media management simplified

Prices: $49, $99, $199, and $299 per month (with a 14-day free trial)

Description: Like the social media management platforms mentioned above, Agora Pulse is also an all-in-one social media platform with scheduling, responding, and reporting features.

Unique value: Unlike the rest, Agora Pulse has several unique features such as competitor analysis and Facebook contest apps at a very affordable price point.

5. Sendible

The #1 social media management tool for agencies

Prices: $29, $99, $199, $299 per month, and enterprise pricing (with a 30-day free trial)

Description: Sendible is a social media management tool built specifically for agencies with several clients. On top of most features that social media management tools provide, Sendible allows you to customize your dashboard according to your branding to attract new clients.

Unique value: Sendible has some impressive integrations such as the Canva graphics editor, royalty-free image search, and YouTube search. It also provides some automation for those who want to save time on repetitive tasks.

6. eClincher

Best in class social media management tool

Prices: $49, $99, $199 per month, and enterprise pricing (with a 14-day free trial)

Description: Like most social media management tools, eClincher allows you to schedule and publish posts, respond to social messages, and analyze your social media performance.

Unique value: What makes eClincher different from other tools is that it enables you to auto-post with smart queues and RSS feeds, has a media library for your images, and lets you search for social media influencers.

7. Social Pilot

Simple & cost-effective social media management tool for teams and agencies

Prices: $10, $24, $40, $80 per month, and enterprise pricing (with a 14-day free trial)

Description: I like how Social Pilot fit many of the social media management tools (such as scheduling and analytics but not monitoring) into a simple dashboard and offer it at very affordable prices. With its client management feature, I believe it’s great for agencies that work with several clients.

Unique value: Social Pilot curates and suggests content from several industries (such as tech, education, and health and fitness), which is great if you want to find relevant content easily.

Another valuable feature is its white label reports, which are especially handy for agencies.

8. CoSchedule

#1 marketing calendar

Prices: Starting at $0 – 20, $40, $60, $210, $300, $1,200 per month (with a 14-day free trial)

Description: CoSchedule is more than a social media management tool; it’s a powerful calendar to manage many aspects of your marketing. With CoSchedule, you can manage and collaborate with your team to create your social media posts, content, events, and tasks.

Unique value: CoSchedule is great for marketers who want to organize all their projects (social media, content, events, emails, etc.) in one place.

Their ReQueue feature helps you automatically find optimal posting times and fill gaps in your social media schedule with your best posts.

9. MavSocial

Streamlined social media management

Prices: Free, $19, $78, $199, $499 per month (with 7-day free trial)

Description: MavSocial is a social media management tool with a focus on visual content. For the higher-priced plans, it seems that you can also manage your Facebook ads with MavSocial.

Unique value: On top of the common features (such as scheduling, monitoring, and reporting), MavSocial has a digital library where you can manage, use, and edit your multimedia for your social media posts and a search engine where you can browse through millions of stock photos.

If you wish, MavSocial can also help you repeat your social media posts for a specified duration.

10. Friends+Me

Share to anywhere

Prices: Free, $9, $29, $59, $259 per month (with a 15-day free trial)

Description: Friends+Me has a strong focus on Google+ but also allows you to schedule your content to the other major social platforms (except Instagram).

Unique value: Friends+Me supports scheduling for Google+ profiles, collections, communities, pages, and even GSuite Google+ and allows you to set up automations to re-post your Google+ posts onto your other social media accounts, which is great for marketers who focus on Google+.

11. Crowdfire

Social media management, simplified

Price: Free

Description: Crowdfire has been adding new features over the years. Besides scheduling content, it also allows you to manage your Twitter account (follow and unfollow) and suggests articles for sharing.

Unique value: Crowdfire stands out from most social media management tools in that it lets you connect your blogs, YouTube channel, and online shops and will create social media posts for every update you have on your sites.

12. Edgar

The social media scheduling tool that manages itself

Prices: $49/month (with a 30-day money-back guarantee)

Description: Edgar takes a creative new approach to social media sharing. The idea is that you just have to create a library of content with various categories and add time slots with a specific category (or a random category). Edgar will automatically fill up those time slots with the content in your library.

Unique value: What people like about Edgar is that it automates social media post creation and scheduling in a clever way. Instead of simply posting your social media posts several times, it recycles your library of content according to the categories.

13. Post Planner

Smarter social media management

Prices: $3, $11, $24, $59, $129, $299 per month, and enterprise pricing

Description: Post Planner wants to help social media marketers with three key jobs: find high-quality content, plan the perfect publishing calendar, and post consistently. It curates and rates content suggestions and allows you to create a content-type-based schedule (more below).

Unique value: With its Find tool, Post Planner makes it super easy to find content that has proven to engage people.

Also, instead of just picking your time slots in your schedule (to form your sharing plan), you can select the content type for each time slot and Post Planner will fill the slots with your chosen content accordingly. (You can also schedule posts outside of this plan.)

14. Tailwind

Smarter visual marketing

Prices: Free trial with limited features, $9.99, $799.99 per month, and enterprise pricing

Description: Tailwind is a social media management tool for Pinterest and Instagram. Apart from helping you schedule posts, monitor conversations, and measure results, Tailwind provides recommendations for improving your Pinterest and Instagram performance.

Unique value: Tailwind is great for Pinterest and Instagram marketers as it provides a range of features that are specific to these visual platforms, such as Pinterest content promotion and Instagram UGC content management.

15. Later

#1 marketing platform for Instagram

Prices: $9, $19, $29, $49 per month, and enterprise pricing

Description: Unlike most social media management tools, Later focuses mainly on Instagram (though you can also connect your Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter profiles).

Unique value: The strength of Later is its visual content calendar, where you can easily drag-and-drop images to schedule them. It also has a free link tool that you can use on your Instagram profile to link to a shoppable Instagram feed or various websites and blog posts.





If none of the tools above suits your social media strategy, perhaps you need something that is more comprehensive.

Here are several social media management tools that are generally designed for larger, enterprise teams.

(Most of these tools do not list their prices on their website but they do offer you a free demo to learn how the tool can help you.)

1. Sprinklr

Reach, engage, and listen to customers – at scale

Sprinklr Social Cloud is part of Sprinklr’s suite of products to help enterprises connect and serve their customers across any channel at scale. It enables teams in enterprises to collaborate effectively and to reach, listen, and engage their customers on more than 25 social channels.

2. Oktopost

Social media management platform for B2B enterprise

Oktopost is a social media management platform catered for B2B marketers who want to generate leads through social media and quantify the business value of their social media efforts. From social media management to promotion to employee advocacy, Oktopost has all the tools most B2B marketers would want.

3. Falcon.io

The platform for every kind of social media marketer

Falcon.io combines all the things social media marketers would need in one single platform: social media management, engagement, and analytics, customer experience management, and DIY landing page builder.

4. HubSpot

All-in-one inbound marketing software

HubSpot’s social media management tools are part of their all-in-one marketing software, which starts at $1,120 per month. As HubSpot integrates all your marketing efforts (such as social media, email, SEO, and CRM) into a single platform, you can easily compare your results across your marketing channels and measure your social ROI.

5. Salesforce Social Studio

Your social media marketing platform

Salesforce provides probably the most comprehensive set of products for enterprises. Its Social Studio, a part of its Marketing Cloud platform, can help you strengthen your customer relationships by aligning your marketing, customer service, and sales efforts on social media.

6. Social Hub

Smart social media management software for your team

Social Hub is a social media management software built for businesses, agencies, and governments. Based on its target audience and customers, I believe it provides a solution that is efficient, scalable, and secure.

7. Spredfast

The platform for enterprise social

Spredfast is a social media software that’s used by some of the world’s biggest companies, such as Patagonia, LinkedIn, and Johnson & Johnson, to handle all aspects of their social media management.

8. Likeable Hub

Easy & effective social media for your business

Starting at $299 per month, Likeable Hub provides you with thousands of content ideas, helps you generate referrals and leads, allows you to amplify your social media reach, and more.

9. Social Flow

Data-driven social media management, marketing, and publishing

Social Flow is a social media publishing and advertising tool used by many top publishers such as The New York Times, National Geographical Channel, and Fast Company. Using Social Flow, Fast Company was able to increase their Facebook shares by 30 percent!

10. NUVI

The world’s most stunning social media marketing suite

NUVI provides real-time data visualization and social media insights to help you make decisions on your social media strategy. It also provides you with the tools to publish and engage on social media efficiently.

What’s your go-to social media management tool?

Social media management tools come in all shapes and sizes, and what suits you best depends on your social media goals and needs. I hope I’ve managed to mention at least one tool that might suit your needs.

I’m sure this list only scratched the surface of the entire ecosystem of social media management tools. If your favorite tool is on the list, I would love to hear what you love about it. If I’ve missed your favorite tool (sorry!), please give it a shout out and share why you love it.

Thank you!

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