Get Posting vs Postiz: which fits how you actually post?

You found an open source scheduler, you liked that it was yours, you put it on a box you were already paying for, and it came up first try. Then you went to connect Instagram and met a form asking for a privacy policy, a terms of service, and a screencast of your app in use.

That was three weeks ago. You have not posted anything yet.

None of that is Postiz being badly built. It is the bill attached to the thing you liked about it. If you are on Postiz Cloud that bill is not yours — connecting an account there is the same click it is here, and the reasons to look at us are further down, in what happens after the post is written. Either way, the question this page is for is the narrower one underneath: whether what you wanted was to own a scheduler, or to start posting.

The part nobody budgets for

Self-hosted, connecting an account is not a click at all. You create a developer app with each platform, describe your use case, publish a privacy policy and terms of service at real URLs, usually record a video of the app working, and submit it for review. Postiz say so themselves on their pricing page: Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube usually take more than a month, with several rounds of changes. They will even do it for you, for a fee, which is how you know it is genuinely hard.

We do that work instead, and we keep doing it, because platform APIs change and approvals lapse. What you see is a connect button. The honest way to describe the difference is not that we are easier to use — it is that a specific and fairly miserable piece of work has been moved from your side of the line to ours, permanently.

And if that trade is the wrong way round for you, the next section is the one that matters.

Read the first item again, because for a lot of people it settles the whole question. You run the server, the database and the upgrades, and you get your own developer apps approved before a single post goes out. That is a fair price for control, and if control is what you are buying, pay it and do not look back.

The rest of this page is for everyone else.

What we built instead

Three parts of Get Posting could have had more bolted on. They do not, and in each case that is the product rather than a hole in it.

The composer checks before it schedules. Select four platforms and each version is checked against that platform's real requirements while you are still looking at it. A caption twenty characters over on one network and fine on the other three. A video eleven seconds too long. You see the specific reason, on the specific platform, before anything is scheduled.

Your assistant is the brain. We are the hands. Almost every social tool now ships its own little AI writer, and most of them are thin — not because the teams building them are bad, but because a generator that only knows the box you just typed into cannot know your last six months, your customers, or how you actually talk. We are not going to out-write Claude or ChatGPT, and shipping a worse copy of a model you already pay for is not a feature.

So we built the other half. Connect your own assistant to our MCP server, where it already has your context, and it will draft, fix what a platform would reject, and schedule. Schedule it for a minute from now and it publishes a minute from now — idea to live post, end to end. What it always does on the way is put the post in your queue, where you can see it and stop it, rather than firing straight at your account. Media is the one real gap: your assistant cannot upload an image, so anything with an attachment gets finished by you.

Automations only answer people who spoke first. Three of them, on Pro: DM someone who comments a keyword, publicly reply to keyword comments, or add a follow-up comment to your own post after it publishes. Each can run automatically or hold every match for you to approve. Postiz automates far more broadly, on engagement thresholds and RSS feeds and AI replies. Ours is a short list you can hold in your head, and a switch that stops anything leaving unread.

That is the same instinct three times: keep the surface small, keep the good stuff where you can see it, and let the cleverness come from the model you chose rather than one we guessed at.

Five brands, one flat list

If you run more than two or three clients, everything ends up in one list. Thirty channels down the side of the screen, every post starting by picking the same eight accounts by hand, and a client asking how last month went while you work out which numbers are theirs.

Postiz group channels too, so this is not something they ignored. What we could not verify is whether those groups reach past organising channels into filtering the calendar and the analytics. Ours do. Choose the client once, and the calendar, the posts list and the analytics are all about that client until you choose a different one.

We built it that way for the reporting end rather than the posting end. Saving clicks in the composer is worth a little. Answering "what happened last month for this client" without exporting anything is worth an afternoon.

Postiz prices from their pricing page and ours from our plans, both checked on 4 August 2026. Both products run a 7-day free trial. Plan shapes are not identical, so compare against the number of accounts and people you actually have rather than the headline price.

Trying it without committing to anything

Your scheduled posts do not come with you — there is no importer, and we are not pretending to build one. So do not move at all at first. Keep Postiz running, connect the account that gave you the most trouble last time, and put a few real posts through here alongside it.

That is the whole test, and it takes a week. Write the post you have been meaning to send since May, break one on purpose with a caption that is too long, and see where each product tells you. If it holds up, move the rest across. If it does not, you have your answer and you have lost nothing but a week of double entry.