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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    KUKU.io

    Score1.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    KUKU.io social media tools allow users to schedule posts on 10 social networks, including Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Telegram, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, OK.ru, Vk.com, and Tumblr, without any risks of a ban. KUKU.io is an official partner of these social networks. In KUKU.io social media analytics users can analyze content engagement compare posts with special filters (by clicks, likes, comments, shares), count reach and monitor team performance. Users can add colleagues in KUKU.io…

    $400

    per 200+ user accounts

    MutualMind (discontinued)

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AMutualMind was an enterprise listening platform with engagement and publishing features and analytics, that is now discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2016.

    $1,000

    per month

    PLANOLY

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/APLANOLY is a social marketing platform boasting over 5 million users to visually plan, schedule, and measure performance across Instagram and Pinterest.

    $16

    per month

    Pricing
    KUKU.ioMutualMind (discontinued)PLANOLY
    Editions & Modules
    White label solutions
    $400.00
    per 200+ user accounts
    No answers on this topic
    Social Planner Starter
    $16
    per month up to 1 user
    Creator Pro
    $20
    per month
    Social Planner Growth
    $28
    per month up to 3 users
    Social Planner Pro
    $43
    per month up to 6 users
    Creator Pro Plus
    $54
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KUKU.ioMutualMind (discontinued)PLANOLY
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$7 per 5 accounts and 500 postsNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount offered for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    KUKU.ioMutualMind (discontinued)PLANOLY
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    4.2
    2 Ratings
    64% below category average
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling1.12 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Workflow management7.31 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    2.4
    2 Ratings
    111% below category average
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Twitter1.12 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Facebook1.01 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    LinkedIn1.12 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Google+9.11 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram1.12 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Pinterest1.01 Ratings00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    154% below category average
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Campaign success analytics1.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    155% below category average
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Mobile access1.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    -
    Ratings
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    -
    Ratings
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of KUKU.io and MutualMind (discontinued) and PLANOLY
    Feature
    KUKU.io
    -
    Ratings
    MutualMind (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    PLANOLY
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KUKU.ioMutualMind (discontinued)PLANOLY
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KUKU.ioMutualMind (discontinued)PLANOLY
    Likelihood to Recommend
    XB Software
    If you would like a reliable scheduling tool, KUKU.io is not the one to use. If you like to share lots of industry news, secondary content, or content from your website/blog, be aware that KUKU.io will corrupt the preview headline. You would be far better off using another scheduling tool. I have now changed to a free tool and it has all the same capabilities without this corruption issue. I also used paid ones which are equally good.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    PLANOLY
    Planoly is perfect for managing social media accounts for business or public figures. It would work great for personal use as well but maybe wouldn't be as necessary. For business purposes, it changes the game! Having something that is easy to teach colleagues to use is one of the most important features I looked for when choosing a social media management platform
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    XB Software
    • It is easy to use and setup.
    • Nice and clean UI
    • Great support if you need help or if you have any kind of feedback.
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    Discontinued Products
    • MutualMind gives us a view into the reach of social content we produce on behalf of our advertisers and the engagement that content generates with shoppers.
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    PLANOLY
    • Grid view
    • AI Caption generator
    • Auto post feature
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    XB Software
    • io corrupts headlines of articles you reshare. When you schedule a post with a URL in it, the Title of the blog post that is displayed below the picture/preview gets corrupted. So if you add any text in with the URL, that will replace the headline. I have noticed this on both LinkedIn and Twitter.
    • Very poor support team. I have found that the support team at KUKU.io are extremely rude, unwilling to help you and take a long time to reply. On some occasions I have had to message them three times in the chatbot for them to even reply. None of these times has the issue been resolved. When I reported to them that KUKU.io was corrupting headlines, at first they refused to take responsibility. Finally, they admitted it was the platforms fault but said they were not doing anything at that time to fix it.
    • Analytics are poor. The analytics suite in KUKU.io does not give you anything analytics for LinkedIn. The ones it provides for Twitter you can get directly from Twitter. So no value is added there.
    • You cannot tag LinkedIn accounts. I use HubSpot to schedule social media posts which allows you to tag companies at least. KUKU.io cannot.
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    Discontinued Products
    • MutualMind gauges sentiment around social conversations but does so with the standard margin of error found in most social analytics products. The nature of human conversation makes it difficult for a machine to categorize sentiment with 100% accuracy. MutualMind gets sentiment right between 50% to 70% which is within acceptable industry averages for this type of product. With additional tuning (which MutualMind provides) the accuracy levels will increase.
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    PLANOLY
    • overall not very many points I would add for improvement
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    XB Software
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Reliability and flexibility (MutualMind's willingness to jointly produce new functionality)
    Read full review
    PLANOLY
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    XB Software
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    As a company that's only 3 years old, MutualMind's toolset is quite usable but it could use some tweaks in the user interface, which they are constantly working on.
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    PLANOLY
    PLANOLY is super easy to use. We just need to connect our Instagram account and start working in just a few clicks
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    XB Software
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    During a recent upgrade period, MutualMind had a small window of unavailability. I am confident they have addressed the root cause and do not foresee any future issues.
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    PLANOLY
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    XB Software
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The product's performance has improved greatly in the last year and we anticipate seeing additional improvements in coming months based no planned infrastructure changes.
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    PLANOLY
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    XB Software
    The support team are extremely rude and often unresponsive. All of the issues I have reported to Kuku has been responded to with "we are not looking to resolve this issue at this time." On a few occasions, they have tried to deny the issue lies with them, before evidence has been provided. Then, they have refused to fix the issue.
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    Discontinued Products
    MutualMind has always been quick to address any issues or questions we have.
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    PLANOLY
    The support team was instantly responsive and were always happy to answer even the simplest software question. I knew that my clients would be in good hands should I not be available for any scheduling question through the support team. Everything was always impeccably handled in a timely manner! 100% satisfaction.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    XB Software
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Not really...MutualMind was very professional and helped with all stages of our setup and implementation.
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    PLANOLY
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    XB Software
    I think Buffer is a great service, but I like the simplicity of KUKU.io and the engagement of the people working at KUKU.io
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    Discontinued Products
    As mentioned before, Radian6 and Sysomos Heartbeat.
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    PLANOLY
    I have tried an AI tool called Vocable and used Google Sheets to plan my content. PLANOLY is better because of the visual grid feature. However, vocable is better in terms of the variety of content. With Vocable, we can create text content for Instagram, YouTube, and Linkedin, Product pages, SEO meta titles, descriptions, email newsletters, Blog posts etc. However, PLANOLY is only limited to Instagram and Pinterest.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    XB Software
    • Since I am using KUKU.io it saved me a ton of time I am able to spend on other things.
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    Discontinued Products
    • By showing increases in engagement and share of voice (defined as the amount of content generated for our advertisers versus the amount of content generated for their competitors over time) we are able to correlate content to incremental sales data provided by our advertisers.
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    PLANOLY
    • It allowed us to engage with potential customers for clients in an easy way
    • Our follower count went up by a steady 100 followers per week
    • Our numbers for viewers on videos and IG Lives doubled
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    KUKU.io Screenshots

    Screenshot of Content Calendar with tags, pics, dates and editing optionScreenshot of Social media analytics to track engagement of your contentScreenshot of Posting tools. The variety of tools to automate posting. Editing functions in one window.Screenshot of Add your team member, give roles and edit access to your projects. Track team perfomance.