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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sendible

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ASendible is a social media marketing platform that allows users to engage with their audience and track results across multiple social media channels at any time.

    $29

    per month 1 user and 6 profiles

    SimilarTech

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/ASimilarTech is a sales intelligence software solution offered by SimilarTech Ltd.N/A

    Sprout Social

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…

    $249

    per month per user

    Pricing
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Editions & Modules
    Creator
    $29
    per month 1 user and 6 profiles
    Traction
    $89
    per month 4 users and 24 profiles
    Scale
    $199
    per month 7 users and 49 profiles
    Advanced
    $299
    per month 20 users and 100 profiles
    Enterprise
    $750
    per month 80 users and 400 profiles
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $79 per seat/per month annual / $99 per seat/per month monthly
    Standard
    $199 annual / $249 monthly
    per user/per month
    Professional
    $299 annual / $399 monthly
    per user/per month
    Advanced
    $399 annual / $499 monthly
    per user/per month
    Free Trial
    Free
    for 30 days
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details15% discount if paying annually. 15% monthly discount or 25% annual discount offered to non-profits.
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    Community Pulse
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Considered Multiple Products
    Sendible
    Chose Sendible
    Sendible is a step beyond tools such as Buffer and Hootsuite Pro. Sendible is a slightly more professional platform than these, adding features that agencies will benefit from.

    Compared to similar products such as Sprout Social, the pricing made a lot more sense with Sendible …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sendible
    While lacking in some features compared to those big alternatives, Sendible doesn't stop releasing new features every few months and doesn't cost nearly as much monthly as they do for the amount of profiles they allow to manage. Overall I'd say it's a solid competitor if they …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sendible
    Sendible integrates with almost every social media platform and upon request they can even add a channel for you that is not currently integrated, an offer you can not get elsewhere. If your business is focused on selling more, increasing website traffic or expanding the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sendible
    I don't think the other listed platforms are "bad" per se. I really wanted/needed a more robust platform that was easy to use and implement and I felt the others fell short in terms of what I needed it for. For instance, I think that Buffer has a great company, and a great …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sendible
    We have used Hootsuite since 2013, but their pricing is high and we can't afford that since we are a small team. Then we tried Buffer, but Buffer is limiting the number of social media platforms that you can manage. Buffer doesn't have a lot of functions and their analytics …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sendible
    We used a combination of Hootsuite and Sendible. Sendible allowed us to fill holes that Hootsuite could not provide coverage for at the time.
    Incentivized
    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answer on this topic
    Sprout Social
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Would buy again
    106 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    93 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    108 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    Features
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    6.4
    9 Ratings
    18% below category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.2
    114 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches6.06 Ratings00 Ratings6.980 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.05 Ratings00 Ratings7.196 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis6.56 Ratings00 Ratings7.077 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.08 Ratings00 Ratings8.090 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    8.3
    15 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.2
    145 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling10.015 Ratings00 Ratings9.2145 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.013 Ratings00 Ratings7.2110 Ratings
    Content optimization7.713 Ratings00 Ratings8.2126 Ratings
    Workflow management8.414 Ratings00 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    7.7
    12 Ratings
    5% below category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.9
    132 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization7.511 Ratings00 Ratings7.687 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories5.59 Ratings00 Ratings8.1116 Ratings
    Bulk actions10.011 Ratings00 Ratings8.1115 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    7.0
    9 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    7.1
    96 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Lead generation9.04 Ratings00 Ratings6.869 Ratings
    Content marketing9.09 Ratings00 Ratings8.192 Ratings
    Paid media management1.01 Ratings00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions9.02 Ratings00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    9.1
    15 Ratings
    9% above category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.4
    144 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Twitter10.013 Ratings00 Ratings8.8126 Ratings
    Facebook10.015 Ratings00 Ratings8.7143 Ratings
    LinkedIn10.014 Ratings00 Ratings8.6130 Ratings
    Google+10.08 Ratings00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
    Instagram10.012 Ratings00 Ratings8.6132 Ratings
    Pinterest5.56 Ratings00 Ratings8.246 Ratings
    YouTube8.410 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    7.0
    11 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.2
    146 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Campaign success analytics7.011 Ratings00 Ratings8.6138 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.09 Ratings00 Ratings8.1134 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.05 Ratings00 Ratings7.8120 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    5.9
    14 Ratings
    29% below category average
    SimilarTech
    -
    Ratings
    Sprout Social
    8.0
    138 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges9.714 Ratings00 Ratings8.7132 Ratings
    Mobile access2.110 Ratings00 Ratings7.3124 Ratings
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    -
    Ratings
    SimilarTech
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Sprout Social
    -
    Ratings
    List quality00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    -
    Ratings
    SimilarTech
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Sprout Social
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Sendible and SimilarTech and Sprout Social
    Feature
    Sendible
    -
    Ratings
    SimilarTech
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    29% above category average
    Sprout Social
    -
    Ratings
    Company/business profiles00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Small Businesses
    Publer
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (19 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (203 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (67 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (130 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.9
    (39 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (42 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SendibleSimilarTechSprout Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sendible
    I have a fairly straightforward use case for Sendible and it meets almost all of my needs. If you are a small company that needs a collaborative solution to social media content creation, and likely has a small team (or no team) to manage social media postings, I think Sendible is likely a great tool to schedule posts and largely automate social media marketing. A larger company or more involved marketing team could still use Sendible to schedule and collaborate on posts. However, there may be additional features they may want or need (like the ability to promote posts) that may not be available with Sendible.
    Incentivized
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    1. Looking up the technologies, analytics tools, and services used by your competitors and industry leaders. 2. Checking what has changed technology-wise on the website of your competitor, since you've noticed an improvement in their rankings or other website improvements. You can even set up alerts to receive emails every time a new change was made to the technology of the website you're interested in (usually your top competitors').
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    Sprout Social
    Sprout is typically the first platform that comes to mind when I think of social media content scheduling/platform management/social media management. However, Sprout is very pricey, and I don’t think there’s an obvious standout element that helps differentiate it from other scheduling platforms. For organizations with only a few social media profiles, I’d be more likely to recommend lower-cost or free platforms as opposed to Sprout. I’d probably only recommend Sprout for organizations with dozens or hundreds of social media accounts
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    Pros
    Sendible
    • Easy to schedule and post to all of your social media platforms.
    • Customer support is very accommodating and always there to help. I have never had an issue with reaching someone whether it was for a quick question or to demo other features.
    • They have an awesome affiliate program (example: I earned over $600 from one company clicking through an signing up from my affiliate link - yay!)
    • Compared to other social media platforms, Sendible has been the most robust with features and ease of use.
    • They are always making advances and upgrades to their service offerings to better meet the needs of their customers.
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    • We were considering changing a hosting provider because we were not happy with the speed of our website. So, we used SimilarTech to look up which hosting providers our competitors and some other faster websites were using, to help us make an informed choice.
    • When the company was considering a new live chat vendor, we also used SimilarTech to see what software some of the best websites on the web are using.
    Incentivized
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    Sprout Social
    • Social Scheduling: Sprout Social makes it easier than any platform I've used to schedule posts with each, and to batch-schedule the same post to run on multiple dates. The scheduling platform is intuitive and easy to understand.
    • Social Reporting: With just a few clicks of the button, you can easily export reports that are easy for both social media experts and complete novices to understand. I like how you can get a report within 60 seconds or so if needed.
    • Customer Service/Help: Whenever I've had a question, both my Sprout Social rep and the Help Center have been extremely easy to contact and quick to reply. Problems are solved very fast and it's made easy to understand.
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    Cons
    Sendible
    • Inbox. The inbox of incoming messages/posts is very clunky. Threads are separated into individual messages, making it difficult to follow conversations.
    • Reporting. The included reporting features are limited and don't allow for enough customization to be worth using.
    • Hashtags. When discussing the 10 most common mistakes (or whatever the title might be), we are unable to say "You won't believe #3" because the system reads this as a hashtag to link rather than just a number. It adds on editing time when approving posts.
    • Default settings. As a Social Media Manager, it is annoying to have myself set as default when looking at the content calendar. I don't write the posts, just approved and schedule them, so manually entering in my writers' names in the filters could be made easier by making this an editable feature.
    • Instagram. You cannot post multiple images in a single Instagram post from Sendible.
    • Service Lists. They are supposed to be helpful in grouping your services (we do this by brand), however, these lists don't pull the information you put on individual services. So if I have a list with Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for Brand A, you can't just add the Brand A Service List filter onto the calendar and see all of those posts that are scheduled. They don't seem to have much purpose at all.
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    • Given the tasks SimilarTech was designed for, I don't really think there are any issues with it. It's hard to think of a situation where I couldn't get the information I needed from SimilarTech.
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    Sprout Social
    • I would like for Personal Instagram Accounts to be able to integrate with Sprout Social's Employee Advocacy platform. You are able to connect personally accounts to Sprout Social itself, which is great, but for employee re-sharing internal stories, this is not possible unless it is with a Business Instagram account.
    • I would like for the left hand tool bar to be more user friendly. There are so many tools and settings that are available, and I would like for it to be simplified in a way that makes it less cluttered.
    • An improvement can be made with the Sprout Social Mobile App. The user friendliness of the app does not allow as much autonomy as the regular webpage.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sendible
    If I am given a larger budget to work with then I'd like a program that tracks and collects my PR hits, as well as sends me important info to respond to. I realy like the way New Brand Analytics tracks my Trip Advisor,etc ratings
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Sprout Social is the best platform out there for social-media management, and now that I have all my clients using Sprout Social, it would be sort of silly for me to walk away format at this juncture. The only cloud on the horizon would be if Salesforce bought it (as has been rumored) and put it inside its walled garden.
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    Usability
    Sendible
    Sendible is 100% web based so managing social media platforms can be done from anywhere with internet connectivity. During registration, Sendible takes its users on a tour of its main features. The sleek design was engineered by professionals who have great interest in social media marketing. There is ample support in case users get lost and there is no learning curve.
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Sprout Social is straightforward to use - built for anyone regardless of tech experience to be able to navigate. It integrates pretty seamlessly to the native platforms and brings a lot of things together to make a seamlessly experience for seasoned social media managers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Sendible
    No answers on this topic
    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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    Performance
    Sendible
    No answers on this topic
    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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    Support Rating
    Sendible
    Sendible has a great resource center which I have used multiple times throughout my year using the platform. There are plenty of troubleshooting articles and guides that make it easy to uncover the root of any small issues I may have.
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    The chat and online resources are great. The managers are too. They go through account reps pretty fast. Also, not a lot of onboarding once a product or service is sold. The ticket request system is terrible, they have too many people switching off roles, they take a long time to get back to you and don't plan on anything being fixed over a weekend - even if you have a problem. Their customer service via tickets is the worst.
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    Online Training
    Sendible
    No answers on this topic
    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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    Implementation Rating
    Sendible
    No answers on this topic
    SimilarTech Ltd.
    No answers on this topic
    Sprout Social
    Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sendible
    While lacking in some features compared to those big alternatives, Sendible doesn't stop releasing new features every few months and doesn't cost nearly as much monthly as they do for the amount of profiles they allow to manage. Overall I'd say it's a solid competitor if they keep the updates coming and optimize the platform a little
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    SimilarTech is more user-friendly and seems to have a bigger index (i.e. covers more websites) of the websites.
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    Sprout Social
    We started this agency using Later and switched to Iconosqaure because we needed more in-depth reporting. We switched from Iconosquare to Sprout Social because of the continuous scheduling bugs/issues we were having with our account and our terrible experience with their Customer Service team. We are planning to close our Sprout Social account and move to HeyOrca because of cost, ease of use, and the basic scheduling features Sprout Social doesn't offer.
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    Return on Investment
    Sendible
    • It helps my business, to manage my clients social media.
    • However I was hoping to capture more people who want to use the tool as DIY which has not happened.
    • I do not want to let it go but it is currently more of an expense then bringing in a return.
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    SimilarTech Ltd.
    • Overall SimilarTech had a positive impact, as it saves a lot of time (days) when it comes to research of the competition and new up-and-coming technologies for our website.
    • Moreover, it helps to monitor updates on the websites of the industry leaders, and to keep up with tech.
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    Sprout Social
    • One positive impact has been a huge time saver for our team. Where we once had multiple systems and delays from producing content to approval to publishing, now everything is seamless.
    • Another positive impact is streamlining the onboarding process for new team members. Sprout Social is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to study even for someone completely new to social media.
    • One negative impact has been the time it takes to wade through irrelevant social listening posts. The filtering is not effective enough to eliminate the noise.
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    ScreenShots

    Sendible Screenshots

    Screenshot of StreamsScreenshot of Monitoring KeywordsScreenshot of ReportingScreenshot of Content SuggestionsScreenshot of Compose BoxScreenshot of Bulk Importer

    Sprout Social Screenshots

    Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.