# The Hootsuite alternative built for serious brands and agencies
> Canonical: https://skedsocial.com/hootsuite-alternative
Hootsuite is a broad, enterprise-scale suite that many teams find heavy and pricey for what they actually use.
Enterprise-scale social suite; broad but heavy and pricey

## Why teams choose Sked over Hootsuite
- Kanban drag-to-approve board (visual sign-off)
- Instagram-first heritage
- Support rated faster/more helpful in community threads

## Where Hootsuite genuinely wins
- Social listening monitors conversations and trends across 30 or more social networks and 150 million websites plus images, videos, and podcasts, far beyond a basic scheduler.
- Bulk publishing lets you schedule up to 350 posts at once across every channel from one calendar.
- An app directory of over 100 integrations covers tools like Canva built into the composer, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, and Zapier.
- Built-in employee advocacy turns staff into brand ambassadors to extend organic reach, which standalone schedulers do not offer.

## Choose Sked if
- You want a visual Kanban approval board your clients can sign off on, not a heavy enterprise console.
- Instagram-first scheduling and planning is core to how your team works.
- You want approvals, scheduling and real reporting without paying enterprise-suite prices.

## Choose Hootsuite if
- You genuinely need deep native social listening across many networks.
- You are a large enterprise that values breadth of modules over depth in publishing and approvals.

## Pricing
Hootsuite starts at $99/mo. Sked's pricing is per plan (not per seat).

Hootsuite tiers:
- Standard: $99/mo
- Advanced: $249/mo

## Switching from Hootsuite
Typical migration time: Most teams are fully moved off Hootsuite within a day..

- Export your content from Hootsuite — Pull your planned posts, captions and media out of Hootsuite so nothing in your queue is lost in the move.
- Bring it into Sked — Upload your media and posts into Sked, bulk schedule from a CSV, and rebuild your content queue in the planner.
- Reconnect your social accounts — Authorize your Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest and other profiles directly in Sked so publishing picks up where you left off.
- Rebuild approvals and your calendar — Rebuild your posting schedule and set up approvals on Sked's visual Kanban board so clients and teammates can sign off in one place.