A Planable alternative for client approvals
Planable is a content collaboration platform. Teams draft, comment and approve in one place, and it publishes to the connected channels. Its previews are good and its approval flow is one of the better ones in the category.
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 Planable does better
- It publishes your posts. PostDecks does not.
- It is built for a team working on a post together, with comments, versions and internal review before the client sees anything.
- It covers more channels than PostDecks previews, and connects to them properly rather than mocking them up.
- Grid view and campaign planning are genuinely useful if you plan visually.
Where PostDecks is the better answer
- The free tier is actually free to keep using. Planable's free plan is 50 posts in total, not per month, so it is a trial with a different name.
- Pricing does not scale with clients. Planable charges per workspace, and agencies tend to need one workspace per brand.
- Nothing to set up. No connected accounts, no workspace to configure, no account at all for the free tool.
- Your client opens a link and approves. There is no product for them to understand first.
What each one costs
Planable
A free plan capped at 50 posts in total rather than per month, then Basic at $33 per workspace per month and Pro at $49 per workspace per month. Every plan includes unlimited users, which is good value for one brand and awkward for an agency running many.
PostDecks
Free with no account. Pro is $8 a month, Agency is $29 a month for five seats.
Planable 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 Planable if
your team collaborates on content properly, with internal review before anything reaches a client, and you want to publish from the same place. Planable is built for that and PostDecks is not.
Use PostDecks if
the collaboration is really just you, and the only thing you need from a tool is showing a client the post and getting a yes. Paying per workspace per brand for that is steep when the job is one link and one approval.
Questions
- Is Planable's free plan really limited?
- Yes, and it is worth knowing before you commit: the 50 posts are a lifetime total across the account, not a monthly allowance. Once they are gone you upgrade or stop. PostDecks' free tier has no such cap because it never publishes anything.
- Does PostDecks replace Planable?
- Not if you use Planable to publish or to collaborate as a team. It replaces the part where you show a client a post and ask for sign-off. Everything else Planable does, it keeps doing better.
- Which is cheaper for an agency?
- It depends on how many brands you run. Planable is priced per workspace and most agencies want one per client, so the bill grows with the roster. Free with no account. Pro is $8 a month, Agency is $29 a month for five seats. That does not change as you add clients.
The free tool needs no account. Try it against a real post and see whether it covers what you need.