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Publer alternatives: Magic Marketer vs Publer, and five others worth a look
Publer is a cheap bulk scheduler priced per account. Magic Marketer makes the posts first, then schedules them, priced per plan.
“Without Magic Marketer, I probably wouldn’t be posting to social media at all.”
“It’s impressive how easy it is to post to social media.”
“It’s easy, simple and I have social content going out everywhere.”
Publer is the budget scheduler with the long feature list: bulk scheduling, recurring posts, first-comment scheduling, a link in bio, thirteen networks including WordPress and Telegram. Priced per account from $5 a month, it is one of the cheapest ways to run one or two channels properly.
The Publer alternative search usually starts at channel six or seven, when per-account pricing stops being cheap, or on the day you realise the bulk uploader is only useful if you have a spreadsheet of posts to upload. (Most people have a spreadsheet. It has three rows.)
Choose Publer if
You have a large library of finished posts and want the cheapest way to schedule and recycle them across two or three channels.
Choose Magic Marketer if
The library is the problem: you know what to say, nothing gets made, and you want a week of posts produced and published without a spreadsheet.
Publer vs Magic Marketer, feature by feature
What Publer does well
Volume on a budget. The free plan covers three accounts (not X) with ten scheduled posts each. Professional adds unlimited scheduling and X. Business adds analytics, best times, competitor analysis and AI prompts. Recurring posts and bulk CSV upload make it a good fit for anyone with a large evergreen library, and the network list is the longest on this page.
Where it stops
Publer schedules posts; it does not make them. The AI on the Business tier is a prompt box, not a system that knows your business. Per-account pricing is cheap for two channels and more than Metricool by the time you connect seven. The interface is busier than Buffer, and there is no real inbox. For a service business whose problem is that nothing gets written, Publer's bulk uploader is a very fast way to schedule nothing.
How Magic Marketer is different
Magic Marketer makes the posts first. One source - a recording, a transcript, a link, a photo - becomes eight formats in your voice, checked against your guardrails and compliance presets, then scheduled across the week to nine channels at the best time for each. A reviewed set goes into the calendar in one move. On Autopilot, a fresh batch arrives every week.
It is priced per plan, not per account, so nine channels cost the same as one. It does not do CSV bulk upload of posts made elsewhere, or recurring evergreen queues.
If you have a big library of finished posts and want to recycle it cheaply across two or three channels, Publer is hard to beat. If the library is the problem, this is the one.
Publer pricing vs Magic Marketer pricing
| Tool | Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publer | Free | $0 | 1 user, 3 social accounts (not X), 10 scheduled posts per account. |
| Publer | Professional | From $5 per account/mo | Unlimited scheduling, X, full post history. Price scales with accounts and members. |
| Publer | Business | From $10 per account/mo | Adds analytics, competitor analysis, best times, AI prompts, API. |
| Magic Marketer | Free trial | A$0 for 14 days | Unlimited creations and exports, no card. Publishing needs a paid plan. |
| Magic Marketer | Autopilot | A$149/mo | The one paid plan. A fresh batch of posts every week, publishing to every connected channel. Team members and brands included - no extra charge for admin or another brand. No generation limits. A$99/mo for the first 100 customers, or A$990/yr (2 months free). |
Publer prices are USD list prices as published on publer.com, checked September 2026; paid tiers are quoted per social account and scale with the number connected. Magic Marketer prices are in AUD.
Other Publer alternatives worth considering
Magic Marketer is not the right fit for everyone. These are the tools we would point you to instead, and why.
The simpler budget scheduler: free for 3 channels, then $5 per channel a month, with unlimited users on Team.
Cheaper than Publer past a handful of channels, with better analytics: 10 brands for $25/mo.
Per-social-set pricing at $25/mo with a free plan; tidier interface, similar channel list.
If recurring evergreen queues are what you use Publer for, SocialBee built its whole product around them.
The opposite end: per-user enterprise pricing with a real inbox and monitoring.
See the full list on the alternatives hub.
Publer alternative FAQs
Is Publer free?
There is a free plan: one user, three social accounts (X excluded), ten scheduled posts per account. Paid plans start at around $5 per account per month.
What is the cheapest Publer alternative?
Buffer at $5/mo for a plan rather than per account, or Metricool at $25/mo once you have more than a few channels. Magic Marketer costs more because it produces the posts as well as scheduling them.
Does Magic Marketer have bulk scheduling?
Yes, of the batch it makes for you: once a set is reviewed you can spread it across the week in one move. It does not import a CSV of posts made elsewhere.
Which is better for a small business, Publer or Magic Marketer?
If you already have posts and want the cheapest way to schedule a lot of them, Publer. If you know what to say but never sit down to make the posts, Magic Marketer - it turns a recording or a link into a week of content and publishes it.
A bulk scheduler is only fast if the posts exist.
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