Hootsuite is a social media management platform for building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and driving business results. Users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid social content together, keep track of customer conversations, integrate with over 200+ applications, and gain actionable real-time insights from social media to make critical business decisions from…
$249
per month per user
Pricing
Heropost
Hootsuite
Editions & Modules
Basic
$997
per year
Standard
$199
per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, 10 social accounts
Advanced
$399
per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, unlimited social accounts
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Heropost
Hootsuite
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Optional
Additional Details
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Plans can be paid monthly or annually, with a discount for annual pricing.
These other apps like Hootsuite and Metricool are way to over priced and are glitchy to say the least. HeroPost seems to me to be the most solid and reliable work horse in the game. I use it daily and my team use it daily and it never lags or breaks.
Hootsuite was "okay". But when I came across the Heropost offer of lifetime access - to essentially the same toolbox that Hootsuite offered, with a one time purchase (instead of the monthly fees - that kept increasing with Hootsuite) I jumped at the chance. And I haven't …
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Features
Heropost
Hootsuite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
7.8
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Hootsuite
6.6
308 Ratings
14% below category average
Boolean keyword searches
7.01 Ratings
6.5204 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam
7.01 Ratings
6.3215 Ratings
Sentiment analysis
8.01 Ratings
6.2211 Ratings
Broad channel coverage
9.01 Ratings
7.5283 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
9.8
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Hootsuite
7.8
428 Ratings
3% below category average
Content planning and scheduling
10.01 Ratings
8.9427 Ratings
Audience targeting
9.01 Ratings
6.9290 Ratings
Content optimization
10.01 Ratings
7.5350 Ratings
Workflow management
10.01 Ratings
7.9362 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
9.0
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Hootsuite
7.5
344 Ratings
8% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization
8.01 Ratings
7.3248 Ratings
Customer interaction histories
9.01 Ratings
7.4267 Ratings
Bulk actions
10.01 Ratings
7.8296 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
6.5
1 Ratings
17% below category average
Hootsuite
6.8
323 Ratings
12% below category average
Lead generation
6.01 Ratings
6.6196 Ratings
Content marketing
7.01 Ratings
7.6290 Ratings
Paid media management
5.01 Ratings
6.5195 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions
8.01 Ratings
6.5244 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
9.1
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Hootsuite
8.1
420 Ratings
3% below category average
Twitter
9.01 Ratings
7.5378 Ratings
Facebook
10.01 Ratings
8.6403 Ratings
LinkedIn
10.01 Ratings
8.3352 Ratings
Google+
5.01 Ratings
8.960 Ratings
Instagram
10.01 Ratings
8.3357 Ratings
Pinterest
10.01 Ratings
8.0174 Ratings
YouTube
10.01 Ratings
7.3163 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Heropost
7.3
1 Ratings
5% below category average
Hootsuite
7.7
345 Ratings
0% below category average
Campaign success analytics
8.01 Ratings
8.0317 Ratings
Real-time tracking
9.01 Ratings
7.5319 Ratings
Competitor analysis
5.01 Ratings
7.7219 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
It is great for managing multiple poster's social media accounts. I currently have four clients whose social media campaigns I manage. Heropost allows me to set up groups for each client so that I can schedule posts (of all different types of media) for their specific social media mixes. This is a terrific feature and makes my job a LOT easier.
Hootsuite is a great starter tool for companies that want to use a scheduling service for their social media content. It allows access to nearly all of the commonly used social media platforms, so no matter where you share content, Hootsuite will allow you to do it with ease.
Scheduling of content. The ease of use for Hootsuite's planner abilities is top of the industry. It is simple and effective in posting content to different channels and accounts.
Analytics are superior on Hootsuite. Their custom reports allow you to view very specific KPI's that you can adjust for each channel or account. The reports are also exportable to be used for others in the company.
Inbox management. The inbox manager is superior to any in the industry. Hootsuite allows you to tag certain phrases or keywords to better filter messages based on importance or topic.
Because of the way algorithms works, we would have loved to be able to automate making a post with no link and posting the first comment with a link (hello LinkedIn)
We would have loved an easy way to post from a main account and repost the post for other accounts we administrate, for instance a corporate post reposted by individuals for LinkedIn, or retweets from one main account by child accounts
At this time we are satisfied that Hootsuite offers the most of what we are looking for at the most reasonable price point. As the social media landscape and monitoring/scheduling software changes, so do our needs. We re-evaluate our tools semi-annually or as new tools emerge onto the market. If we find at any point that we aren't gaining an advantage, then we are open to switching products.
Heropost is ALMOST perfect! Content creation, scheduling, posting and analytics are all right there! The ONLY drawback that I have found is that two of our main social media networks are not currently able to connect to Heropost, due to some API changes. I REALLY hope that these can get worked out. If they do, this rating goes to 10!
The overall usability is awesome, the scheduling, reporting, etc. The spellcheck and feature that used to be a part of it was awesome and we are sad to see that it was taken away. However, we do like the AI feature and emoji customization. The new ad and paid media element is something we are starting to explore, especially for Facebook and Linkedin
Gliches have made it a bit of a bind, particularly when you just want to 'click and send' a web article after you have read it - and then you have to deal with support (a great team but not always able to solve the problems with the gliches). Gliches with it loading properly, gliches with 'double ups in FB on the posts (the personal page and the business page if both clicked will lead to 2 lots of postings to each page!)
HootSuite does everything it is designed to do very well: the product's performance is very reliable and efficient. Like other tools, there is always a room for new developments and updates, and the HootSuite team recognizes this and focuses on new development as well.
I can manage all of my accounts on one site! It's absolutely amazing! The dashboard is helpful to see how you are doing as well. Still getting to understand the analytics and may need to reach out for help on this
The online training is decent; however, it takes a lot more time to search for answers to my questions. Having a training session with a live person was much more effective as they were able to quickly address the business needs I have.
Simple and easy to use, and have never had any issues. We like how it saves me time and allows me to plan in advance. I plan on using this for as long as I can and will encourage others to use it too. If you haven't tried it you should. I hope my review is helpful to everyone.
These other apps like Hootsuite and Metricool are way to over priced and are glitchy to say the least. HeroPost seems to me to be the most solid and reliable work horse in the game. I use it daily and my team use it daily and it never lags or breaks. I would have to say that the heropost user interface is just fantastic
Hootsuite is definitely the most cost effective of the bunch for the goals that my clients have. The AI caption generation is also perfect for cutting down on time. Caption creation actually takes up a lot of time in the scheduling process for content and this feature made Hootsuite stand out to me!
I have been able to evaluate which posts, in general, do well and figure out what types of posts to make (content)
It's been harder however to compare on social medial platform compared to another because it's hard to duplicate a post with a new owly (I think you used to be able to) but more so, you also can't assign it a custom owly link so I can see at a glance which owly link was associated with what platform.