A Kontentino alternative for client approvals
Kontentino is a social media management platform for planning, approvals, publishing and analytics. It is built for agencies with several clients, in-house teams and freelancers. Clients get a login of their own and approve posts or send them back with feedback.
Read this bit first. PostDecks does not schedule or publish anything. It previews posts and collects client approval, and you keep posting however you post today. If you want scheduling and approval in one tool, PostDecks is not it.
What Kontentino does better
- It schedules and publishes to nine networks. PostDecks does not.
- Internal and client approval are separate steps with separate comment threads, so your team agrees before the client sees anything.
- It has analytics and competitor benchmarking, on its Pro plan or as an add-on.
- Its Global Content Manager lets a brand adapt one post for several markets, each with its own approval.
Where PostDecks is the better answer
- Your client opens a link. In Kontentino a client is invited by email, logs in with a password, and takes a user seat.
- Client approval is free. In Kontentino it starts on the Standard plan, at €109 a month billed yearly.
- It previews Bluesky, which Kontentino does not list among its networks.
- No account at all to preview and export, and nothing to set up first.
What each one costs
Kontentino
Priced by plan and number of users. Starter, from €49 a month billed yearly (€69 monthly) for 3 users, has internal approval only. Client approval starts on Standard, from €109 a month billed yearly (€149 monthly) for 10 users, and Pro starts at €199 (€269) for 10. Prices can also be shown in dollars. There is a 14-day trial with no card, and payments are not refundable.
PostDecks
PostDecks is free. Previewing and exporting need no account, and client approval links come with a free one.
Kontentino pricing checked on from their own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm with them before you decide anything on the strength of a number here.
So which one
Buy Kontentino if
you want planning, approvals and publishing in one place, with your team signing off internally before the client does. Kontentino is built for that, and PostDecks publishes nothing.
Use PostDecks if
client approval is the only part you need, and your clients would rather open a link than keep another login. PostDecks gives you that free, with no plan to upgrade to first.
Questions
- Do clients need a Kontentino login to approve?
- Yes. Kontentino invites a client by email to log in with a password, and its FAQ says clients take a user seat. A PostDecks client opens the link you send and approves without an account.
- Which Kontentino plan includes client approval?
- Standard and up. Starter has internal approval only. Standard starts at €109 a month billed yearly, for 10 users.
- Is PostDecks a replacement for Kontentino?
- Only for the client sign-off. Kontentino plans, publishes and reports; PostDecks does none of those, and you keep publishing however you do now.
PostDecks is free, and previewing needs no account. Try it against a real post and see whether it covers what you need.