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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to Buffer match.

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   Hootsuite hootsuite.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

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   Sprout Social sproutsocial.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

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   Agorapulse agorapulse.com English 1 tracker

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   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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   Brandwatch brandwatch.com English 2 trackers

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

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   Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

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   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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   Sprinklr sprinklr.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   Sprinklr: The Definitive AI-Native Customer Experience Platform

   Unify customer journeys with Sprinklr’s AI-native platform. Connect every touchpoint, empower teams, and elevate conversations to earn lasting loyalty.

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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

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    Doodle doodle.com English 1 tracker

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    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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    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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    Respond.io respond.io English 3 trackers

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    Trusted by 10,000+ B2C businesses to scale customer chats, calls & campaigns. Unify WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook in a team inbox with AI Agents on respond.io

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    Todoist todoist.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

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    Trusted by 30 million people and teams. Todoist is the world's favorite task manager and to-do list app. Finally become focused, organized and calm.

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    ToneDen toneden.io 1 tracker

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    ToneDen helps over 1 million creators, businesses, and brands reach and sell to their audiences on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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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.