Social media

Cross-Post alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio2,150AGPL-3.0Self-hostable social media management platform to schedule, publish, and manage content across platforms.Open on GitHub gitroomhq/postiz-app34,779AGPL-3.0Agentic social media scheduling tool for composing, scheduling, and publishing posts across accounts.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Production-quality connectors for every platform (edge cases, undocumented API behaviours)
Hosted reliability, uptime guarantees, and managed retries for platform changes
User-facing polish, billing, onboarding, and support
Integration with any proprietary upstream publishing layer the vendor uses

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Cross-Post, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.