Best Twitter Scheduler in 2026: 9 X Tools Compared

Our top pick for scheduling on X (formerly Twitter) is SocialBee: it fills your calendar from content categories, recycles your evergreen posts, and starts at $29 a month with a 14-day free trial. If you mostly write threads, Typefully is the runner-up: it has a free plan and costs $99 a year for analytics and AI. If you post on several networks, Buffer has the most useful free plan. And if you only need to schedule a single post (tweet) now and then, X’s own scheduler on x.com is free.

Picking a scheduler got harder in 2025 and 2026: X’s API became expensive for tool makers, and some well-known tools left. Later dropped X on August 28, 2025, and Hypefury no longer lists X on its pricing page. Every tool below still publishes to X. We compared their plans on their official pricing pages on November 11, 2026.

Best Twitter schedulers at a glance

Tool	Best for	Free plan for X	Paid plans from	Threads
SocialBee	Evergreen content and recycling	No (14-day trial)	$29/month	Not listed
Typefully	Writers and creators on X	Yes, 10 posts/month	$99/year	Yes
Buffer	Free multi-network scheduling	Yes, 10 queued posts per channel	$5/month per channel (yearly)	Yes
Tweet Hunter	X-only growth and automation	No (7-day trial)	$29/month	Yes
Publer	Low budgets	No, X is paid only	$4/month (yearly)	Yes
Metricool	Scheduling plus analytics	No, X is a paid add-on	$20/month + X add-on	Yes
Hootsuite	Teams and brands	No (14-day trial)	$99/user/month (yearly)	Not listed
X (native)	One post at a time	Yes, free	Free	No
X Pro	Power users already paying for X	No	Paid X subscription	Not listed

Prices in US dollars, before tax, as listed on each tool’s pricing page on November 11, 2026. “Not listed” means the tool’s pricing page doesn’t mention thread scheduling for X: check before you buy if you post threads.

1. SocialBee: best Twitter scheduler overall

SocialBee sorts your posts into content categories (tips, promos, quotes…) and fills your calendar from them. It can recycle posts that still work, or make them expire after a date.

30-second SocialBee demo (video: SocialBee).

According to its pricing page, the Bootstrap plan is $29/month (or $290/year) for 5 social profiles and 10 content categories. Every plan comes with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required, and SocialBee also handles comments and mentions on X.

Best for: solo marketers who want a steady flow of posts without writing new ones every week. Keep recycled posts varied: X’s automation rules ban spammy, repetitive automated posting.

Limits: there’s no free plan, and the pricing page doesn’t mention thread scheduling for X. If you post threads, test them during the free trial.

2. Typefully: best for writers and threads

Typefully is built around writing. You draft posts and threads in a clean editor, see a preview of how they’ll look on X, then schedule them or add them to a queue. It also publishes to LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon and Substack, so you can reuse a post elsewhere (see the best Twitter alternatives).

• Free: 1 social set, 1 user, 10 posts a month, advanced scheduling, API and MCP access.
• Creator, $99/year (annual billing only): 1,000 posts a month, X analytics, AI writing features, unlimited media uploads.
• Business, $18/month per social set (billed yearly): collaborative writing, comments and Slack notifications, roles and permissions, up to 50 social sets and unlimited users.

Why we pick it: at about $8 a month, Creator gives you scheduling, threads and X analytics for less than most single-feature tools. The free plan is enough to test it on a few threads.

Limits: 10 posts a month on the free plan runs out fast if you post daily. There’s no monthly billing on Creator.

3. Buffer: best free scheduler for several networks

Buffer is the simplest way to schedule X posts for free alongside other networks. Its free plan covers up to 3 channels, with 10 scheduled posts per channel at a time (a slot opens again each time a post goes out) and 1 threaded post.

Paid plans are priced per channel: Essentials at $5/month per channel billed yearly ($60/year), and Team at $10/month per channel billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial.

Best for: small businesses and creators posting the same content on X, LinkedIn, Instagram or Threads. Limit: a queue of 10 posts per channel on the free plan.

4. Tweet Hunter: best for X-only growth

Tweet Hunter only works with X, and goes beyond scheduling. The Discover plan at $29/month covers 1 X account and includes:

• tweet and thread scheduling, plus evergreen posts that go out again;
• a library of over 12 million viral tweets for inspiration;
• auto-plug (adds a reply to your post once it takes off) and auto-retweet;
• auto-DMs and X analytics.

The Grow plan at $49/month adds 5 X accounts, the AI writer and an X CRM. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.

Watch out: X’s automation rules forbid unsolicited DMs sent “in a bulk or automated manner”, and X caps message requests to people who don’t follow you at 7 a day on a free account (see the DM limits). Use auto-DMs only with people who asked for them, such as replies to a “comment to get the link” post.

5. Publer: cheapest paid option

Publer supports X on paid plans only: its pricing page explains that the high cost of the X API is why. The Professional plan starts at $4/month, billed yearly, with unlimited scheduled posts and drafts, threads, first comments and a 7-day free trial.

Best for: tight budgets that still need X and a few other networks. Limit: the free plan can’t connect an X account at all.

6. Metricool: best for scheduling plus analytics

Metricool is a planning calendar with strong analytics and competitor tracking. X isn’t included by default: the free plan covers every network except X and LinkedIn, and X requires the X add-on, available from the Starter plan (from $20/month). Metricool doesn’t publish the add-on price on its pricing page.

Metricool can schedule threads of up to 80 posts, published all at once, and send the same thread to X, Threads and Bluesky (Metricool Help).

Best for: people who already report on several networks and want X in the same dashboard.

7. Hootsuite: best for teams

Hootsuite is built for social media teams: one calendar for up to 10 accounts on the Standard plan at $99 per user per month (billed yearly), a shared inbox, brand monitoring and approvals on higher plans. There’s a 14-day free trial.

Best for: brands and agencies that need approvals, reporting and a shared inbox. It’s far more than a solo creator needs.

8. X’s native scheduler: free, one post at a time

You don’t need a tool to schedule a single post. On x.com in a browser:

1. Click Post and write your post. Add images or a video if you want: check the image sizes for X posts first.
2. Click the schedule icon (a calendar) at the bottom of the composer.
3. Pick the date, time and time zone, then click Confirm.
4. Click Schedule.

To see, edit or delete your scheduled posts, open the composer, click Unsent posts, then the Scheduled tab.

Limits: it schedules one post at a time, not threads, and it has no queue. Its availability in the X mobile app varies: if you don’t see the calendar icon in the app, use x.com.

9. X Pro (formerly TweetDeck): for paid X subscribers

TweetDeck is now X Pro, and it’s no longer free: you need a paid X subscription. X has moved X Pro between subscription tiers, so check which plan includes it on X’s Premium page before you subscribe.

According to X’s help center, X Pro lets you schedule posts for each account you manage, and you can add a Scheduled column to see and edit them. X notes two limits: X Pro doesn’t schedule Direct Messages, and in a shared setup, everyone with access can see the scheduled posts. X Pro only works on a computer, not on mobile.

Best for: people already paying for X who want columns and scheduling in one place. Subscribing to X only to schedule posts costs more than Typefully or Buffer.

Schedulers that no longer support X

If your posts stopped going out, check that your tool still supports X:

• Later stopped new X connections on July 30, 2025, and ended X support on August 28, 2025 (Later Help Center).
• Hypefury now lists Instagram, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, TikTok and Bluesky on its pricing page, without X.

Posts still queued for X in these tools won’t publish. Export your drafts and move them to another scheduler.

How to choose a Twitter scheduler

• You post a few times a month: X’s free scheduler on x.com is enough.
• You recycle evergreen content: SocialBee.
• You write threads on X and want to grow: Typefully, free to start, then $99/year.
• You post on several networks for free: Buffer.
• You want automation built for X: Tweet Hunter, used carefully.
• You manage a team or a brand: Hootsuite.

Whatever you pick, a scheduler only helps if your posts can be seen. If your scheduled posts get no reach at all, run our free shadowban test. If X shows an error when a tool posts for you, see rate limit exceeded on X. And once a scheduled thread does well, pin it to your profile.

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