Tools for Scheduling Instagram Posts (and More!)

The audience of social networks is growing every day and includes hundreds of millions of active users. Along with the growth of audience activity, business involvement in social networks is also growing. However, preparing and publishing content takes a lot of time. To optimize this process, prepare a series of publications in advance, and then add them to your social media content plan. Instead of manually logging into each account from your computer, tablet, or mobile phone to publish posts, we recommend using special services that automate the process. In this article, we’ll review online services for planning and posting on social networks like Facebook, Instagram, VK, OK.ru, and more. Some of these services have extended functionality for working with messengers. We use some of them for our own projects.

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We’d like to start with the service we use for publications in our main projects. It supports all popular social networks in the CIS and has a good system of bonus publications. Ultimately, it’s just convenient. Features:

• Scheduled posting to social networks: Instagram, VK, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, OK.ru
• Scheduled posting to messengers: Telegram, Viber
• Unlimited number of accounts
• Scheduled publishing and deletion
• Image and watermark editor
• Data protection
• Flexible payment system

Start using the service Below, we offer a review of 15 services for both Instagram and other social networks. We have used most of them in our work, some – not yet. However, in this matter, experience is the criterion of truth. So good luck 😉

#1. Parasite

Let’s start our selection with Parasite. It’s a very simple and intuitive service. We like the “clean,” minimalist interface, Russian language support, and high speed. Main features:

• Bulk image upload
• Publication scheduling
• Proxy support
• Templates
• Statistics
• Use of emojis, geotags, and much more

The service is paid. Rates start from 299 rubles per month. There is a free 7-day trial period. Try Parasite

#2. Seolit

Seolit is an online service that automates posting from one data source to another. For example, you can publish a post to multiple social networks at once or set up automatic posting from a website’s RSS feed to Telegram using a pre-selected template.

Some features of the service:

• Cross-posting and scheduled posting
• Adding watermarks to images
• Automatic deletion of posts
• Support for a large number of social networks (Instagram, Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, and others)
• Built-in analytics

Cost: From 400 rubles per month. There’s a free 7-day trial version.

Try Seolit

#3. Latergramme (Later)

Another great tool for scheduling Instagram posts is Latergramme (now known as Later). It offers two types of accounts: free and paid.

Free:

• 2 Instagram accounts
• 30 posts per month
• Photos only
• Content search and sharing

Paid (from $20/month):

• 2 Instagram accounts
• 250 posts per month
• Photos and videos
• Content search and sharing

Later is also available as a mobile app.

Try Later

#4. Crowdfire

The service is free for one account. If you need more, you pay $10/month. You can choose between the web or mobile version of Crowdfire.

Some features of the service:

• Publication scheduler
• View your account’s latest followers
• Unfollow those who have unfollowed you

Try Crowdfire

#5. ViralTag

If Instagram and Pinterest play a big role in your business, be sure to try Viraltag.

With this tool, you can schedule posts to Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.

Some other useful features of Viraltag:

• Determining the best time to post
• Finding high-quality, ready-made content
• Reading RSS feeds

The cost is from $24/month. This plan includes:

• 1 account
• Unlimited number of posts

If you want to sell something through Instagram, ViralTag has useful features for this, which become available on more expensive plans. You can find all the information and product presentation on the official website.

Try ViralTag