Buffer alternatives for LinkedIn: seven tools compared

If LinkedIn is the network you care about most, the best Buffer alternative is a tool that goes deeper on LinkedIn: AuthoredUp or Typefully if you write your own posts, Taplio if you want growth tools around them, and Supergrow or GoodSocials if you want the writing done. If you post to many networks on a small budget, Publer is the closest like-for-like swap.

Here are seven options, grouped by what you need, with who should skip each one. What we say about other tools comes from their public sites, as of September 2026. Features and prices change, so check theirs before you decide.

What Buffer does well

Buffer has been scheduling social posts for over a decade. The queue is easy to read, connecting a channel takes a minute, and there is a free plan with paid plans charged per connected channel. It covers LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky, X and more, has an AI assistant for rewording and ideas, and offers drafts and approvals on the team plan. If you have a post in hand and want it out on several networks at sensible times, it is a good home for it.

Why people look for a Buffer alternative for LinkedIn

• Buffer assumes the post exists. For most people who stall on LinkedIn, the slot was never the hard part; the writing was.
• It spreads across many networks, so it does not go as deep on any one. People who only care about LinkedIn want previews, formatting and ideas built for it.
• An edit changes that post and nothing else. The same correction comes back next week.
• Approvals sit on the team plan. Agencies with clients who need to sign off may want a tool built around that step.

If you want a scheduler like Buffer

• Publer: a low-cost scheduler for a long list of networks, including Google Business, Telegram and WordPress, with bulk scheduling, recycling and an AI assistant. It has a free plan, then a base plan plus a charge per account and per member. Skip it if you want the posts written for you.
• Typefully: a distraction-free editor that schedules to X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon, with a free plan and AI help on paid tiers. Skip it if you need Instagram or TikTok, which it does not cover.

If you write your own posts and want LinkedIn depth

• AuthoredUp: a browser extension that improves LinkedIn's own composer with formatting, a preview of where the post folds, saved hooks and endings, a library of your past posts and extra analytics. Skip it if you post to other networks from the same place.
• Taplio: a LinkedIn growth toolkit with an AI writer trained on LinkedIn posts, a library of high-performing posts, a scheduler, analytics, comment help and a lead database. Skip it if the aim is less time on LinkedIn.

If you want the posts written

• Supergrow: an affordable AI writer for LinkedIn that learns your style, makes carousels and visuals, and schedules. You prompt each post. Skip it if you do not want to start the posts yourself.
• GoodSocials: writes LinkedIn posts from your website and four themes, puts them on a board to approve, revise or reject, and publishes one a day at 09:00 in your timezone. Skip it if you need any network besides LinkedIn, or a company page.

If client approvals are the hard part

Planable is built around the moment a client sees a post. Posts show as they will look in the feed, reviewers comment in place, and approval chains can be light or strict, up to team, client, legal and executive sign off. It is priced per workspace. Skip it if your team is short of writing time rather than review time.

What every LinkedIn scheduler has in common

Whichever tool you pick, a few things come from LinkedIn and not from the tool. LinkedIn has no scheduling endpoint for apps, so every scheduler, Buffer included, stores your post and publishes it itself at the chosen time. Access for third-party apps lasts 60 days with no silent renewal, so every tool will ask you to reconnect about every two months.

The difference between tools is what happens when access runs out. Ask each one: if I forget to reconnect, do my queued posts fail silently, or does something tell me first?

Keeping Buffer for the other networks

Switching away from Buffer for LinkedIn does not mean switching away from Buffer. Many people keep it for Instagram, Threads or TikTok and use a LinkedIn-first tool for the one network where written posts matter most. If you do that, remove LinkedIn from Buffer so the same post does not go out twice.

1. Let any LinkedIn posts already queued in Buffer go out, or move them by hand.
2. Disconnect the LinkedIn channel in Buffer so its per-channel charge stops.
3. Connect LinkedIn in the new tool and fill the first week before the old queue runs dry.
4. Keep your other channels in Buffer as they were.

How GoodSocials handles this

GoodSocials starts one step before Buffer does. The agent writes the posts, you approve them on a board, and approved posts pass a quality gate for invented numbers and empty claims before they are scheduled. A revise comment rewrites the card and updates your voice, visual or format principle, so it applies to every later post.

For the 60 day limit, we email you on day 50, show a banner on day 55, and pause scheduling cleanly if access lapses. It is $100 a month for one profile, or $1,000 for up to 12 on Agency, with 14 days free. It is more than Buffer costs, because the writing is included.