# Best approval workflows social media tools
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Compare the best social media tools for approval workflows: review rounds, client sign-off, and audit trails. Ranked and compared honestly.
Approvals are the dividing line for agency and multi-brand teams. A clean sign-off step before anything publishes is what separates a tool built for collaboration from one built for solo posting. The tools below are ranked on the strength of that approval step.

## Best approval workflows tools, ranked
1. Sprout Social — from $79/mo: Premium suite with deep analytics & listening; expensive
2. Planable — from $33/mo: Approval-first collaboration tool; requires client login
3. Sked Social (Sked): Approvals, Instagram-first scheduling and real analytics for agencies and social teams, without enterprise pricing.
4. Agorapulse — from $79/mo: Inbox-strong agency tool with white-label leanings
5. Later — from $19/mo: Instagram-first visual planner; per-social-set pricing
6. Loomly — from $49/mo: Content calendar with built-in approval; limited analytics
7. Sendible — from $29/mo: Agency-focused suite with strong white-label
8. Hootsuite — from $99/mo: Enterprise-scale social suite; broad but heavy and pricey
9. CoSchedule — from $19/mo: Marketing calendar with social scheduling
10. Metricool — from $20/mo: Analytics-per-dollar value tool with a free plan; ceiling for agencies
11. Publer — from $5/mo: Affordable scheduler with bulk & AI features
12. Buffer — from $6/mo: Simple, well-priced publishing; light on depth
13. Planoly — from $16/mo: Instagram-first visual planner for creators; narrow platform set
14. Tailwind — from $15/mo: Pinterest/Instagram-focused scheduler & marketing suite

## Where Sked fits
Sked's Kanban drag-to-approve board turns sign-off into a visual step rather than a buried queue. Approvals are part of the Accelerate plan, so teams that need them should plan for that tier.