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What do you like best about Planable?

There are a lot of paid tools out there, but often I decide to use the free app version connected to our Canva account as it's just free and still value-adding. But among the paid apps that I use, Planable is one of those apps I'm looking forward to renewing and upgrading from an entry-level paid app to more features. The app saves me overhead costs, with its annual fee cheaper than one social media person per month. It takes me a day to finish a batch of posts per month for 4 social platforms, so in a year, I practically use 12 days and up to set up my socials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

The manual posting of other content formats isn't very convenient for posts outside my sane working hours or time zone. I usually miss those posts in a couple of days since I'm doing things solo, when kids are sick, or when the family is on a holiday. I wish this could seamlessly posted when it needs to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

My pain point as a one-person team marketing person and a product developer is that I don't have time, and Planable takes away the pain of posting each time for each platform. It's beneficial to do it in 1 shot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Planable Overview

What is Planable?

Planable is a social media collaboration platform that brings teams and brands together under one roof. Sporting an intuitive UI and a one-click-away experience, Planable helps teams do away with clunky social media management processes by streamlining everything content-related, from planning, scheduling, and publishing content to collaboration and approval. WHO USES PLANABLE? Owing to its roots in the agency and creative world, Planable is a platform created by people who understand exactly what creatives need — a tool that eliminates the logistics of social media management and allows them to focus on creating content. Currently, 50K users and over 5K teams from brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations use Planable to approve and collaborate on their content. WHAT ARE THE MAIN FEATURES OF PLANABLE? At its core, Planable is the product of three people who experienced the same social media management hurdles in their agency days. Consequently, Planable designed its main features with teams in mind. WYSIWYG Planable follows a WYSIWYG design philosophy, focusing on simplicity, elegance, and efficiency. Planable is designed to be user-friendly both to technically-savvy social media teams as well as those that simply want a tool that gets the job done. Everything is one click away and in the same place — no need to clutter your browser with dozens of tabs. FOUR WAYS TO VIEW CONTENT Social media campaigns have lots of moving parts. This makes having an accurate overview of campaigns all the more important. Planable’s four ways to view content allow teams to literally vizualize their work quickly and effortlessly: 1. Feed view. Designed to mimic the feel and flow of social media. Displays posts exactly as they appear on feeds. 2. Calendar view. Get a helicopter view of campaigns and plan posts days and months ahead. Scheduling content is as simple as dragging and dropping it to its relevant time slot. 3. List view. Offers a quick view of posts across all pages and the ability to do bulk actions. In this view, users can see a snippet of the caption, the status of the posts, the author, and the date and time of publishing. 4. Grid view. The place to plan and preview Instagram posts. Also great for designing beautiful Instagram grids hassle-free. SEAMLESS TEAM COLLABORATION With Planable, collaboration is the name of the game. Collaboration happens right next to the post, where it makes sense, in the form of comments and replies. Teams can tag each other to share their thoughts, drop files, and any relevant assets. With internal notes, teams can keep their work away from the client’s eyes until all the posts’ rough edges have been shaved. MULTI-LEVEL APPROVAL PROCESSES With Planable’s approval workflows, no post sees the light of day until it’s 100% ready. Every team has its own dynamic, so Planable offers one of four approval workflows: 1. None. For one-person ventures and teams that don’t need an approval workflow. 2. Optional. For flexible teams that don’t necessarily need an approval workflow but want one in place just in case. Team members can request approval from the people in charge with a single click. If the designated approver is not available, they can go ahead and schedule and/or publish posts on their own. 3. Required. No post goes live without the approval of managers. Especially useful for marketing teams who work with clients. 4. Multiple levels of approval. Teams that select this option can set as many levels of approval as they need. Each level can have one or multiple approvers. When one of them gives their approval, the post is pushed to the next level until all the relevant parties have vetted the content. EIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS Currently, Planable supports the big seven social platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest and Google My Business. ANALYTICS & REPORTING See all your social media insights at a glance and easily create reports for your clients and stakeholders. And we’re just getting started Conquering the social media space is just the first step. Planable’s long-term goal is to become the content collaboration solution for marketers around the world.

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Planable is your free centralized hub for ideas, content and feedback. Everything social media teams need to move their creative processes forward.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Planable’s aim is to offer an elegant and intuitive solution for collaboration-centric social media teams. This translates into a firm focus on team collaboration, content approval, and planning. Planable’s features are built with the purpose of streamlining social media management processes, allowing teams to focus on creating content.


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Planable is the command centre for social media teams to work together on content. Planable is the content marketing tool for teams who want less frustration — and better collaboration. Planable brings team members, clients, and social content together in one virtual boardroom. (Not the stuffy kind.) Because great content is created by teams who are aligned.


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4.0 out of 5
"Enjoying my experience"
As the Marketing & Comms Lead for my organisation that requires approvals from many stakeholders for our social media posts, the sharable link that...
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5.0 out of 5
"Easiest campaign manager for posting"
easy to use and works perfectly on schedule, I like that I can repost
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"Planable has been amazing for my business"
I really appreciate how easy it is to navigate through all of the features.
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Planable Media

Planable Demo - Create a post for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google My Business, Youtube and TikTok from one single place.
Put together posts for your social brands that look exactly like the live versions, so what you see is what you get - a pixel-perfect experience. You can tweak your content for different platforms, all in one place, and add emojis, locations, first comments, page tags, GIFs, and so much more....
Planable Demo - Collaborate, exchange feedback and share ideas with your team and stakeholders.
Gather feedback where it makes sense, right next to the post. Tag team members and choose to send notifications to the right people. Eliminate miscommunications with clear feedback. No back-and-forth emails are needed. We're helping you keep all your feedback and conversations in one single p...
Planable Demo - Give the right permissions to your stakeholders and invite them as internal or external member
Keep everyone in the loop with one shared space for your team and external people to collaborate. Empower everyone to contribute while giving each user just the right permissions to edit, approve, publish or administrate the workspace. Easy sharing with an email invite and approvals a cli...
Planable Demo - Visualize your week or month at a glance
Plan, schedule, and organize using simple drag-and-drop. Showcase your work with stakeholders in feed, calendar, grid, or list views. Create custom time slots instead of manually scheduling time for each post, add labels to organize content in categories, and select one or all pages at the sa...
Planable Demo - Create all type of posts in a glance for multiple formats.
Content creation is done in a breeze. Add location, call to action, customize thumbnails for URLs or videos, create a carousel post, trim videos, edit your images, target your organic posts, create placeholders, schedule or publish them right now. All of this is from Planable.
Planable Demo - Visualise content in feed, calendar, grid or list views.
The perfect place for you to plan content. Strategically plan and schedule your content by dragging and dropping posts in your grid view, visualize all the content you have in advance, and see everything at a glance to perfectly organize your Instagram account. No need to do this in a dedi...
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Jay M.
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What do you like best about Planable?

As a marketing agency managing multiple client accounts, Planable has been a total game-changer for us. It’s super intuitive and makes it so much easier to collaborate, plan, and schedule content across all the accounts we handle. Prior to using Planable we had tried 2 different social media management platforms that just didn't quite hit the mark.

What really stands out is their customer service. They’re quick to respond and always helpful, but what’s even more impressive is how they genuinely listen to feedback. We’ve made a couple of suggestions for improvements, and it’s clear they’re constantly working to make the platform even better based on user input.

We used Planable daily and is a huge part of our agencies success. Super easy to implement and get clients on boarded as well. Well done Planable team! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

we haven't found any downsides currently, the features that we are looking for are already in development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planable solves key challenges for us as a marketing agency by streamlining workflows, improving collaboration, and simplifying content scheduling for multiple client accounts. The approval platform makes it easy for internal and client communications. Overall, it’s boosted our productivity, improved client collaboration, and made things easier in general. The UX/UI of the platform is the best we have used. Cross platform posting in one post creation is also a huge time saver and great feature :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paula H.
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What do you like best about Planable?

Planable lets us collaborate about content, scheduling, approvals, and ROI all in one place for a reasonable amount of money each month per client. It has made our workflows so much easier and has eliminated virtually ALL SPREADSHEETS and links and folder sharing and version issues etc from our lives. Our agency has grown quickly and we wouldn't be able to keep up without Planable behind us.

I know it is going to become an everyday tool for us in our agency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

We had some issues when we were trying the "free plan." It wasn't clear that we wouldn't be able to share a "guest link" without paying - so our first attempt at sharing a glimpse with a client didn't go that well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had to onboard a lot of clients in a hurry and were completely overwhelmed. For us implementation was easy - our clients were new so we didn't have to import or integrate their info from other platforms or anything. So we "adopted" Planable and didn't really "switch" tools. I hope we can grow together in a sustainable way. So far there is no fluff! A lot of other SMM platforms we've used had a lot of extras we didn't really need.

Streamlining our workflow from spreadsheets and shared docs and jumbled messes of poorly-named files has been a game-changer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planable?

I research a few differnent scheduling apps and the visual ease and intuitive vibe is what I liked. Seems to encompass the apps I want to use to drive my engagement. It seems to be the most inclusive of options that will same me time. Time is money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

I am supper new to this type of app as a social media newbie so feel there could be better deep dive how to videos by the plannable team. The help menu however is great. I'd like to see more in depth how to videos on youtube so I would not have to read. Either way I use the help topics and chat gpt to get me pointed in the right direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Geting more done in less time. I don't care for social media at all so this helps me streamline my posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James  W.
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What do you like best about Planable?

Planable boosts my productivity and efficiency by simplifying the management and scheduling of social media content. The calendar view is extremely beneficial, and the ability to schedule across multiple channels at once is a game-changer for my side hustle. The integrations with other services are fantastic as well. I now use planable daily as part of my workflow. I haven't had to use customer support as yet because the ease of implementing this software into my workflow has been simple. Maybe it could be renamed - Simpable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

I honestly can't think of a downside to planable other than it not being entirely free all of the time! That is obviously unrealistic. From a user perspective, I haven't found one downside so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

So many platforms have different ways of scheduling content. Being able to export, schedule, and store content in one place has a triple bottom-line benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planable?

I like that the software is really clean and easy to use! Everything is where I expect it to be and I love how simple it is to upload, review and schedule posts. Overall, I chose Planable because it felt the most streamlined to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

I would like to see a preview of my scheduled posts against what's currently live on my socials - this would help alot with grid planning. I would also like to have more control over what client profiles can and cannot see in each workspace. I also wish the post per month was higher for each level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to easily get a high level overview of whats scheduled and makes it super easy to add bulk content as drafts for later use. I also like that I can invite clients in to review and approve content before it is scheduled. I also love that I can upload multi-channel campaign content easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planable?

After an extensive search for the perfect social scheduling platform, we finally landed on Planable. We needed a tool that not only offered collaborative features but also catered to creatives, and Planable checks both boxes. Unlike many platforms that focus solely on scheduling, Planable brings creativity to the forefront with customizable views that make it incredibly user-friendly and visually appealing.

Switching to Planable from our previous platform was seamless. Implementation was quick and straightforward, and the platform’s intuitive design made onboarding a breeze. Whenever I encountered an issue or had questions, the support team was fantastic. Quick to respond and always offering effective solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

I would absolutely love to see a feature for bulk stories, allowing users to group and post multiple slides at once instead of uploading them individually. Another wishlist feature would be the option to choose which stories post via the app and which don’t. Ideally, it would also be great to add story stickers and links directly within the platform. Fingers crossed this gets added in the future!

There are, however, some bugs that affect the experience, like random refreshing or posts created in the calendar view defaulting to the "Ideas" tab instead of the selected date. These quirks can be frustrating, but once resolved, I’ll be an even happier user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planable has streamlined our social media workflow, solving the challenge of managing content creation and scheduling collaboratively. Now, we can easily brainstorm, draft, and review posts in one central platform, making collaboration much smoother and more efficient.

The ability to visualize content in different views, like the calendar and grid previews, ensures that everything looks perfect before going live. Overall, it's helped us stay organized, creative, and on top of our social media game. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heather M.
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What do you like best about Planable?

We looked at another content scheduler, but the price was very high. Since our district is new to the idea of a content scheduler, it was a hard sell. Knowing a content scheduler could save me time, I came across Planable and took advantage of their free trial. There are a few restrictions, but you get the idea quickly. Two other colleagues tested it out also. It is so easy and straightforward to use. This is a HUGE time saver for me posting to five different outlets. Not to mention that I could add internal chores like adding a graphic to our website at the same time as scheduling the social media. We just signed up for the Pro version. We will probably post to social media more frequently because it is easy to use, implement, and schedule. We can schedule our posts well in advance. With the approval process, we are now able to invite other contributors to post their content, without us having to be involved in the scheduling, which means even more content will get posted. I am so looking forward to having a more robust online presence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

Instructions. It would be nice to have "thought bubbles" pop up to tell me how to do a task. And ones that I could dismiss over time. The jump from 150 posts to unlimited might be nice to have an intermediate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time, scheduling conflict, and content. It takes me so much time to post to our different social media outlets. We would keep everything on a calendar and then have to duplicate it on all five channels. Now we can see and quickly move content around on the calendar if there is a conflict or schedule change. Lastly, because there is an approval process we can invite collaborators in our district to add content that we can give feedback on before approving. No longer will we have to rely solely on ourselves to create content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joanna G.
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What do you like best about Planable?

I love how easy it is to interact with my clients. I've heard nothing but positive feedback from them as wlel which in return makes my business flourish. It has so many amaizng features like commenting and discussing with clients. Customer support is almost great and eveyone has been so kind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

I dislike that images have to be under a certain amount of gb. This limits the quality of my posts sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used to have ot go back and forth wiht clients via email to get feedbakc and now eveything is one place, my clients love it too. I also love how i know 100% my posts will be scheduled on time and once theyre approved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tony P.
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What do you like best about Planable?

We love Planable because it lets us post to Pinterest and other platforms, is very affordable, has AI to help us write better content, and has excellent Customer Service. I have only had one issue since 2022, and they communicated with me and resolved the issue within 2 hours. I'm in the States, they are in Budapest, and this team is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

Planable supports many services, but it would be nice to support services such as Alignable, Nextdoor, and Tumblr. Also, I don't particularly appreciate that the bulk edit feature for list view is only available with the Enterprise Plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Planable is run by real people, each of whom I have come to know the name of. Planable is much more affordable than many other options, and it supports Pinterest, which many services still do not. I love the ability to schedule up to 30 posts at once, allowing me to arrange for unique holiday posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Owner/Instructor at Jazzercise Staunton
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What do you like best about Planable?

Planable is very easy to use. It's intuitive, yes, but its robust features are what sold us. Tags, approval, comments/suggestions options ... just to name 3. I use it every day. If it weren't for needing to schedule content for our Google My Business page, we wouldn't have found Planable. So glad we did. So much better than Buffer and Hootsuite - both of which we've used previously (and paid for). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planable?

Even annualized, Planable's basic plan is a bit pricy. The onboarding series of emails is great, but also overwhelming. I don't need/want an email a day and it has gotten redundant.

Being able to delineate where the content belongs would be helpful. Instagram post v. story is just one type of separation. Facebook and Google My Business both have events and offers "sections." We are missing out on the Google side, and having to go to Meta Business suite is annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to post to Google My Business. Being able to plan content across ALL our platforms is crucial. Dump X and add Bluesky, please. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.