RecurPost and Post Planner both schedule posts to the same 10 social networks, but they solve different jobs. RecurPost runs client accounts for agencies and freelancers. Post Planner finds and recycles content for solo users. This page compares the two on the work that actually differs: client onboarding, publishing reliability, reporting, engagement, and price. It also names the one case where Post Planner is the better pick.
RecurPost vs Post Planner at a glance
RecurPost is a per-profile-priced scheduler built for agencies and freelancers who manage multiple client accounts. Post Planner is a curation-led scheduler built for solo users and some freelancers who want a steady supply of fresh content. Both publish to Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, YouTube, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky.
| Feature | RecurPost | Post Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Starting paid price | $9/month (2 social accounts) | $12/month, or $7/month billed yearly (3 accounts) |
| Free plan | No (14-day trial) | Yes (1 account, no analytics) |
| Built for | Agencies and freelancers running client accounts | Solo users and freelancers curating content |
| Networks | 10, including Facebook Groups and Instagram personal profiles | 10, Facebook Pages only and Instagram Business only |
| Client onboarding | Password-free email or link invite | Standard credential login |
| Unified inbox | Yes | No |
| White-label reports | Yes | No |
| Reels audio scheduling | Yes, searchable trending and licensed audio | No |
| Content discovery | RSS feeds and social import | Reddit, RSS, and Streams |
| Per-platform post times | Yes, plus best-time suggestions | One shared time per post |
RecurPost and Post Planner list the same 10 networks, but the coverage runs deeper on RecurPost. RecurPost posts to Facebook Groups and Instagram personal profiles through push notifications. Post Planner connects Facebook Pages only, and Instagram Business accounts only.
Where RecurPost and Post Planner split: running clients vs curating content
RecurPost and Post Planner fork on one question. Is your week about operating client accounts, or about finding content to post?
RecurPost is built for operations. You onboard a client, route posts through approval, publish across platforms, answer comments in one inbox, and send a branded report. Each step lives in the same product.
Post Planner is built for sourcing. Its strongest feature pulls content from Reddit, RSS feeds, and “Streams,” which are feeds of posts that other Post Planner users share. A browser extension grabs any image from the web straight into a post.
Post Planner’s discovery engine is its real edge. On finding curated content to recycle, Post Planner beats RecurPost. RecurPost imports from RSS feeds and your own connected profiles, but it has no Reddit pull and no discovery feed. The trade runs both ways: Post Planner cannot import your existing social posts into a library, and RecurPost can.
A freelancer who spends Monday hunting Reddit and RSS for trending posts leans toward Post Planner. An agency that spends Monday onboarding a new client and clearing last week’s comments leans toward RecurPost.
Client onboarding and team collaboration
RecurPost onboards client accounts without a password. The client gets an email or link invite, authorizes their own account, and never shares credentials. Post Planner uses standard credential login and email-only signup.
RecurPost gives each client a separate workspace with its own accounts, libraries, members, and reports. Posts route through an approval queue where a manager approves, edits, or rejects them. Clients view a shareable calendar and leave comments without logging in.
Post Planner adds team seats on higher tiers: 2 on Growth, 5 on Business, 10 on Agency. Post Planner does not offer per-client workspaces, an approval workflow, or a shareable client calendar on the plans we tested. Our trial also hit a bug where an invited teammate could not join.
RecurPost carries one honest limit here. RecurPost has no granular role permissions, so every member invited to a workspace gets full edit rights. If you need read-only or approver-only access, RecurPost does not draw that line yet.
This section favors RecurPost when an agency needs client sign-off loops and password-free onboarding. A solo operator with no approval step is fine on either tool.
Publishing reliability and per-platform control
RecurPost catches over 850 documented platform errors that cause posts to fail. The list covers image-size mismatches, token false-expiry, wrong video codecs, and Google Business Profile rejection after acceptance. RecurPost flags each failed post with a clear reason and a retry or edit-and-retry option. Post Planner has no comparable recovery layer, so a post that fails fails quietly.
RecurPost sets a different posting time per platform inside one composer, and it suggests best times for Facebook based on audience activity. Post Planner shares one posting time across every platform in a multi-network post. To get per-account times in Post Planner, you build a separate “Posting Plan” for each account.
RecurPost also goes deeper on the platforms themselves. RecurPost posts to Facebook Groups, supports Instagram personal profiles, and absorbs X’s $0.20-per-URL fee through a built-in Twitter wallet. RecurPost adds Google Business Profile CTA buttons, Instagram collaborator and location tagging, and TikTok duet and stitch controls. RecurPost also schedules Instagram Reels with searchable audio, including licensed tracks and trending sounds, on accounts connected through Facebook, and it sets the track and original-audio volume separately. Post Planner does none of these: no Facebook Groups, no Instagram personal profiles, no X URL-fee handling, and no Reels audio selection.
Picture an agency running 20 client accounts that hit silent failed posts on a previous tool. RecurPost surfaces each failure with a reason and a retry. Post Planner leaves the failure in history with no recovery path.
Reporting and engagement for client work
RecurPost sends white-label reports with your own logo, on a schedule, combining multiple profiles into one client-ready PDF or link. RecurPost’s AI report chat answers plain-language questions about what worked. RecurPost reports span ten networks, with redesigned TikTok, YouTube, Threads, and Bluesky dashboards and Google Business Profile analytics that include review and search-keyword insights. Post Planner reports basic engagement only: likes, comments, shares, and clicks. Post Planner has no white-label option, no exports, no scheduled reports, and no reach or impression data, and its analytics start on the Growth tier.
RecurPost pulls comments and messages from Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, plus Google Business Profile reviews, into one inbox with AI-drafted reply suggestions. Post Planner has no unified inbox, which Post Planner states itself.
RecurPost’s reporting still has real gaps worth naming. RecurPost meters X reporting beyond 10% of your profiles, and it runs no competitor benchmarking or social listening. If deep cross-tool analytics is the priority, neither tool is the answer.
Mobile apps
RecurPost ships full-featured iOS and Android apps. You schedule, publish, run the inbox, and manage content from the phone, and RecurPost’s app posts to Facebook Groups, Facebook personal profiles, and Instagram personal profiles through push notifications. RecurPost recently added the ability to repeat a one-off post several times in one go and to schedule Instagram Trial Reels from mobile.
Post Planner ships iOS and Android apps too, but the app drops much of the web product. Post Planner’s mobile app has no content curation, which is its headline web feature, plus no analytics, no library, and a weaker image editor.
RecurPost fits teams that post and approve on the move. A solo user who only drafts on a laptop feels the gap less.
Customer support
RecurPost offers human support 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, by email at support@recurpost.com, plus live demo calls over Zoom with a real person. RecurPost also runs a knowledge base and in-app guidance.
Post Planner offers email support and a help center, but Post Planner’s in-app chat is not live. Our trial got a reply by email about six hours later. Post Planner lists no phone support and no dedicated account manager.
RecurPost fits agencies that need a person on a call when a client account breaks mid-campaign. A solo user comfortable with email-and-docs support does fine on Post Planner.
Pricing for an agency, account by account
RecurPost prices per social account, not per user seat. Starter is $9/month for 2 accounts. Personal is $25/month for 5 accounts. Agency is $79/month for 20 accounts with no seat charge, and extra profiles cost $4/month each. Every RecurPost plan includes a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. RecurPost has no free plan.
Post Planner also prices per account, but Post Planner caps the number of users on each tier.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly (per month) | Accounts | Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1 | 1 |
| Starter | $12 | $7 | 3 | 1 |
| Growth | $49 | $37 | 12 | 2 |
| Business | $79 | $57 | 25 | 5 |
| Agency | $149 | $107 | 50 | 10 |
| Enterprise | $299 | $207 | 100 | 20 |
Post Planner analytics start on the Growth tier, and every paid plan includes a 7-day trial with no card.
Post Planner’s seat cap is the constraint that matters at the agency scale. RecurPost’s Agency plan covers 20 accounts and lets you add team members for a per-member fee. Post Planner’s Business plan covers 25 accounts but stops at 5 users, so a larger team moves to Agency at $149/month. For a $0 start, Post Planner wins, because RecurPost has no free tier.
See full RecurPost pricing for every plan and add-on with its unit price.
When Post Planner is the better choice
Post Planner is the better pick when your core job is finding content, not running accounts. A solo creator or freelancer who spends most of the week curating posts from Reddit, RSS, and other creators’ feeds gets more from Post Planner’s discovery engine than from RecurPost. A user who wants a free single-account plan to start has one in Post Planner and none in RecurPost.
Post Planner’s fit narrows fast. Add a second client, an approval step, a client report, a shared inbox, or per-platform posting times, and the work moves into ground Post Planner does not cover. For a single curated feed on a tight budget, Post Planner is enough.
Switching from Post Planner to RecurPost
Moving from Post Planner to RecurPost is a manual rebuild. No one-click importer connects the two tools. You reconnect each social account in RecurPost, send password-free invites for client accounts, and recreate your Post Planner topic buckets as RecurPost libraries.
RecurPost shortens the rebuild in two ways. RecurPost imports hundreds of posts at once through bulk CSV upload. RecurPost also pulls your existing posts from connected profiles, which Post Planner cannot do. RecurPost’s recurring and seasonal libraries hold the evergreen content you recycled in Post Planner’s buckets, so a weekend is usually enough to move 8 client accounts.
Agencies that switched to RecurPost describe the move in RecurPost case studies.
RecurPost vs Post Planner: FAQs
Does Post Planner have a unified social inbox?
Post Planner does not include a unified social inbox. Post Planner schedules and curates content, but it does not pull comments, messages, or reviews into one place to answer. RecurPost does: its inbox covers Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn comments plus Google Business Profile reviews, with AI-drafted replies.
Can I onboard client accounts in RecurPost without their passwords?
RecurPost onboards client accounts without passwords. The client receives an email or link invite, authorizes their own account, and never shares login details. Post Planner connects accounts through standard credential login.
Does Post Planner offer white-label client reports?
Post Planner does not offer white-label reports on its standard plans. Post Planner’s analytics cover basic engagement (likes, comments, shares, clicks) and start on the Growth tier. RecurPost sends branded, scheduled reports that combine multiple profiles into one client-ready file.
Can RecurPost schedule Instagram Reels with trending audio?
RecurPost schedules Instagram Reels with searchable audio, including licensed tracks and trending sounds, on accounts connected through Facebook. You set the volume of the track and the original video audio separately. Post Planner does not offer audio selection for scheduled Reels.
What does Post Planner cost compared with RecurPost for an agency?
Post Planner’s Business plan costs $79/month, or $57/month billed yearly, for 25 accounts capped at 5 users. RecurPost’s Agency plan costs $79/month for 20 accounts with no seat cap, plus $4/month per extra profile. The split shows up in seats, not account count.
Can I move my Post Planner buckets into RecurPost?
Moving Post Planner buckets into RecurPost is a manual rebuild. No automated importer links the two tools. You recreate each bucket as a RecurPost library, then load posts through bulk CSV upload, social import, or RSS.
Try RecurPost
RecurPost’s Agency plan covers 20 social accounts for $79/month with no per-seat charge. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Start a free trial of RecurPost’s social media scheduler with no credit card. To weigh RecurPost against other schedulers, browse RecurPost comparisons.
