The 10 Best Social Media Management Applications of 2022 (2023)

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is arguably the most popular social media management app out there. It's very well known for supporting lots of different platforms while offering a wide range ofsettings and dynamic features.

You can monitor and post to several popular networks including both Facebook personal profiles and business pages, Twitter, LinkedIn,and others. And with its built-in custom analytics system, the ability to monitor selected keywords plus the option to conveniently schedule posts whenever you want (and do this all for free),HootSuite sets the bar high for competing social media management tools. Pro and enterprise plans are also available.

Buffer

Buffer helps you plan out a schedule to optimize your social updates by scheduling them and spreading them out to publish throughout the day. You can use it with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest,and Instagram.

The dashboard is super simple to use, giving you full customization of your posting schedule and the ability to view your analytics. Using the Buffer mobile app and the web browser extension makes it easier than ever to quickly add web page links (including title and images) to your Buffer schedule. You can upgrade for more posting privileges and social accounts to manage.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is another popular web app used for managing Twitter. This popular platform used to support other social networks as well, but once it was acquired by Twitter, it stripped all that away and made it specifically for managing Twitter accounts.

TweetDeck is totally free and perfect for those who need to manage multiple accounts, follow specific hashtags, reply to lots of other users and see exactly what's being tweeted in real-time. You can organize everything you need in separate columns so you can see all of it on one screen. Keep in mind that TweetDeck is meant for the desktop web only.

SocialOomph

SocialOomph can help you manage yourTwitteraccounts for free — plusPinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, RSS feeds and more if you upgrade.Schedule your tweets, track keywords, promote your profiles, shorten URLs, purge your direct message inbox, and create an unlimited number of profile accounts completely free of charge.

A free account gets lots of great features that aren't terribly limited, but a premium account will get you more—including follow-backs, automated DMs, quality users worth following and more. Premium members are billed every two weeks rather than monthly.

IFTTT

IFTTT stands for If This Then That. This tool lets you build your very own automated actions, called applets or "recipes," so that you don't have to perform them manually.

For example, if you want all of your Instagram photos automatically saved to a public folder of your Dropbox account, you can create a recipe with IFTTT. You can choose from existing applets, as well.

There's no limit to the number of recipes you can build, and it works with almost any popular social website.

SpredFast

For the social media strategistwho's crazy about measuring analytics, SpredFast is the tool that excels at data feature integration. Manage and measure data gathered from all sorts of social platformsto see how many people you are reaching and whether or not your target audience is appropriately engaging with your content.The data is presented in formatted graphs, which you can use to compare and benchmark campaigns against other strategies.

As you might've guessed, SpredFast is for more than just the average blogger or small business dabbling in some light social media promotion. You have to request a demo before you can start using it.

SocialFlow

Like SpredFast, SocialFlow takes a data-driven approach to social media with tools that let you publish according to when your users are most active, launch goal-based advertisement campaigns and more. This is the type of app you want if you really need to make sense of your social activity.

This is another one that involves requesting a demo before you can sign right up and get going on your next social media marketing campaign. It's typically meant to be used by larger organizations that have big audiences and lots of engagement happening.

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is another app for serious social media marketers. In addition to being able to easily publish to a variety of social platforms, this tool was built for providing excellent customer service via social media and looking for hidden engagement opportunities.

There's a free trial, but after that's up, be prepared to pay a minimum of $60 per month to keep using all of Sprout Social's advanced features. Enterprise and agency solutions are perfect for customizing your social mediamarketing needs to fit your business and is completely scalable.

Everypost

It's not secret that the social web thrives on visual content nowadays, and that's exactly what you can use Everypost for. This tool allows you to share multimedia content across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Tumblr.

Customize your posts, schedule them for publishing later, collaborate with other team members and get access to all your social analytics. A free account gets you a very limited offering of just the basic features with tight restrictions, but there are four more premium account types that are affordable for any small or large social marketing strategy.

Tailwind

Like Everypost, Tailwind is focused on visual social content—particularly Pinterest and Instagram. For Pinterest, you can use this tool to schedule posts, find trends through insights, monitor your brand, launch contests or promotions and get access to analytics and reporting.

For Instagram, you can take advantage of the Instagram "listening" feature, schedule posts, monitor hashtags, manage your audience, manage user-generated content and also get access to analytics and reporting.There are plans for everyone from bloggers and small businesses to agencies and enterprises.

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