Looking for a Planoly alternative?
Planoly is a visual planner built around Instagram: drag posts around a preview of your grid, schedule them, and sell from your link in bio through its Creator Store. It is cheap, from $16 a month ($14 yearly) for one social set. What sends people looking is what it leaves out: it can only remind you to post to X, and it has no approval step for a client.
Who should use which
Stay with Planoly if you plan Instagram visually from a grid, sell from your link in bio, or do most of your planning on your phone. Those are its strengths, and PostDaily has no grid and no store. PostDaily fits when text-first networks matter as much as visual ones, when a client needs to approve before anything goes out, or when several people share the work.
Where Planoly is the better choice
Leading with this because it decides the question for a lot of people, and you should not have to dig for it.
The visual grid
Planoly lets you drag drafts and placeholders around a preview of your Instagram grid before anything is dated. PostDaily plans on a calendar and a queue, with no grid preview.
Selling from your bio
Planoly's Creator Store comes with every plan: a link-in-bio page that sells digital products, courses, sessions, memberships and merch, with email marketing and no transaction fee from Planoly. PostDaily has nothing like it.
Cheap for one creator
Starter is $16 a month ($14 yearly) for one social set, Growth $28 for two sets and two users, and Pro $55 for six of each. For a creator posting to a handful of networks, that is hard to beat.
A planner built for the phone
Planoly's mobile app covers planning, creating and scheduling, as well as managing workspaces and team members.
Where PostDaily is the better fit
More networks, published automatically
Planoly auto-posts to seven networks and can only send a reminder for X. PostDaily publishes to Bluesky, Mastodon, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, YouTube and Pinterest automatically.
A client approves from a link
Planoly has no approval workflow; its plan report is a read-only link nobody can approve from. PostDaily's review link comes with Pro: the client approves or leaves feedback in the browser, with no account, and the post is held until they do.
A queue with a schedule per channel
Each channel has its own weekly posting times and new posts take the next open slot. When a network errors, you see its own message, and posts for a disconnected channel wait for you to reconnect instead of failing.
Side by side
Planoly figures taken from their own pricing page on . Prices change — check theirs before deciding.
| Planoly | PostDaily | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 1 workspace, 1 user, 10 posts a month | 1 channel, 5 posts a month |
| Entry list price | $16 a month ($14 yearly), 1 social set, 1 user | See pricing |
| Billing model | Social sets and users per plan | Per plan, seats included |
| Client approval | None; a read-only plan report link | Pro plan, review link, no account |
| X (Twitter) | Reminder only | Published automatically on paid plans |
| Grid planner | Yes | No |
| Link in bio and selling | Creator Store on every plan | No |
| Networks | 7 auto-posted, X by reminder; no Bluesky or Mastodon | Bluesky, Mastodon, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads, YouTube and Pinterest live (LinkedIn in review) |
Common questions
- Can Planoly post to X automatically?
- No. Planoly's help centre says X is reminder-only. PostDaily publishes to X automatically on its paid plans.
- Does Planoly have client approvals?
- No. Teammates can comment, and a plan report link shows a client the plan, but nobody can approve through it. PostDaily's review link lets a client approve with no account.
- Is Planoly cheaper than PostDaily?
- For one creator, often: Starter is $16 a month or $14 billed yearly for one social set. Compare PostDaily's plans on our pricing page if you need approvals or more networks.
- What does Planoly do that PostDaily does not?
- A visual grid planner, a link-in-bio store with selling and email marketing, and a mobile app built for planning on the phone.
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