Schedulin vs Planoly

Planoly grew up inside Instagram culture. Its defining feature is the visual grid planner — you arrange posts on a mock-up of your profile until the aesthetic reads right — and it pairs that with a built-in link-in-bio tool (Linkit) and solid Instagram-first scheduling. Pricing starts at $16/mo and climbs to $43/mo for Pro. TikTok scheduling is there and Threads is supported, but the product's center of gravity has always been Instagram: if your feed is a curated visual artifact and your bio link drives your business, Planoly was built with exactly you in mind, and its specialization shows in the details.

Coming at the same job from the opposite direction, Schedulin runs one calendar across many platforms rather than one platform done beautifully. It covers TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Threads, and Bluesky — the last of which Planoly doesn't support — with flat pricing that starts at $5/mo and tops out at $20/mo for unlimited accounts. AI faceless video is included, which Planoly doesn't offer. The trade-off is honest and worth naming: Schedulin uses a multi-platform calendar, not a dedicated visual grid, and its link-in-bio is external rather than built in. You gain breadth and creation tooling; you give up the grid UX that made Planoly famous.

The choice mostly comes down to where you publish. An Instagram-only creator who plans the feed visually and depends on Linkit should stay with Planoly; nothing in Schedulin replaces that grid experience, and switching would feel like a downgrade. A creator who has outgrown a single platform — posting Shorts, TikToks, and Bluesky updates alongside Instagram — gets more from Schedulin and pays less for it. If you're somewhere in between, the deciding question is simple: do you plan content by how the grid looks, or by when things go out? Grid people keep Planoly; calendar people switch.