Buffer

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Buffer

Buffer buffer.com

Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.

Wikidata: software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in multiple social networks

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What Buffer tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

03 · Pricing

What Buffer costs

The prices on Buffer’s pricing page as shown to visitors from Germany, in the order they appear. We check weekly; price changes are listed under What changed.

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   Metricool metricool.com English 2 trackers

   METRICOOL ▷ Social Media Management Tool

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2. 02
   Planable planable.io German 4 trackers

   Planable: Social-Media-Management-Tool

   Die Full-Stack-Plattform für Social-Media-Management. Planung, Zusammenarbeit, Freigaben, Publishing, Analytics und Social Listening in einem Workspace.

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   Hootsuite hootsuite.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

   Social Media Marketing and Management Tool | Hootsuite

   Hootsuite is a social media management tool that brings scheduling, content creation, analytics, and social listening to one place.

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   Later later.com English 5 trackers

   Later: Influencer Marketing and Social Media Management

   Influencer marketing built for creators and trusted by brands. Run campaigns, manage social media, and track performance with AI-powered insights.

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   Sprout Social sproutsocial.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Sprout Social: Social Media Management Tool

   Maximize your social ROI with Sprout Social, trusted by 30k+ brands. Power everything from publishing and engagement to analytics and influencer marketing. Try 30 days free.

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   Agorapulse agorapulse.com English 1 tracker

   Social Media Management Software | Agorapulse

   An easy to use Social Media Management Software that allows you to stay organized, save time, and easily manage your inbox, publishing, reporting, monitoring, and team collaboration tools.

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   Bio Link bio.link

   social media landing page service

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   Brandwatch brandwatch.com English 2 trackers

   Social Media Management & Consumer Intelligence | Brandwatch

   Brandwatch, a Cision company, is an AI-powered social media management, consumer intelligence, and influencer marketing suite trusted by half of the Forbes 100.

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   Slack slack.com Top 1K English EU-registeredFree plan 1 tracker

   Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

   Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

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    Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

    Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates

    Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.

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    BeReal bereal.com English 1 tracker

    BeReal

    Your daily dose of real life.

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    Wati wati.io English 4 trackers

    Wati | AI Platform for WhatsApp Business, Instagram & More

    Join 16,000+ businesses that sell, support, and market on WhatsApp, Instagram and TikTok with Wati. Send broadcasts, build chatbots, and let AI agents run conversations by your rules.

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    Picsart picsart.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Picsart: The AI Creative Platform

    Picsart is an all-in-one creative platform with a wide selection of free AI design tools. Create content fast with expert-crafted templates, built-in asset libraries, and generative AI tools.

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    about.me Top 10K English 1 tracker

    about.me | your personal homepage

    Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.

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    Trustindex.io trustindex.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Trustindex.io - Skyrocket Your Sales with Customer Reviews

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    Doodle doodle.com English 1 tracker

    Free online meeting scheduling tool | Doodle

    Doodle is the fastest and easiest way to schedule anything — from meetings to the next great collaboration.

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    Asana asana.com Top 10K English Free plan 3 trackers

    Work & Project Management for Human-Agent Teams • Asana

    Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together.

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    ClickUp clickup.com Top 10K Free plan 3 trackers

    ClickUp™ | Maximize productivity • Software, AI, and humans converge

    Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.

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    Linktree linktr.ee Top 1K

    Australian social media landing page service

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    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Buffer’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Buffer uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

05 · History

What Buffer changed on its homepage, prices, imprint and open positions, and in the tools it uses. Each change happened between the two dates: the last check that saw the old state and the one that found the new.

1. ~ Page Homepage · Nov 6 – 12, 2026 New headings: 342,073 creators, brands, and agencies using Buffer · Social Media Glossary Dropped headings: 100,000326,943 creators, brands, and agencies using Buffer · Start page

06 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.