Social media

Hootsuite 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-studio2,103AGPL-3.0Self-hostable social media management platform for scheduling, publishing, and managing multiple accounts.Open on GitHub gitroomhq/postiz-app34,357AGPL-3.0Agentic social media scheduling and posting tool with automation features.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Large integrations catalogue (100+ pre-built integrations)
Established brand and ecosystem (25M users, enterprise trust)
Enterprise features: SSO, advanced compliance and governance, custom SLAs
Advanced AI-powered listening and trend forecasting (built-in Wisdom/Lumen)

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