Self-hosted vs a hosted dashboard
You sign in on your own machine. You do not type your password into someone else’s dashboard. YouTube is Google Allow, not cookies.
Free · open source · self-hosted
Compare The Posting Tool
This is not a hosted scheduler. It is a free, MIT-licensed tool you clone from GitHub, run on your own machine, and change as you like. Your accounts stay with you.
Hootsuite, Buffer, and Later
They host a queue and hold your logins. The Posting Tool runs on your machine, is free, and you can read every line of code.
Six platforms, one inbox
X, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, and Instagram from the same inbox and sidecar caption file.
What you are comparing
Hosted schedulers keep a calendar and your logins on their servers, usually for a monthly fee. The Posting Tool is free and self-hosted: drop a video and a caption file in the inbox, then schedule and post across X, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, and Instagram.
Get it on GitHub
Free and MIT licensed. Clone it and run it on your own machine.