Comparison

The Loomly alternative that doesn't ration your posts

Loomly's entry plan is $49/month billed yearly. Ours is $0.

Collaboration-first calendar built around approval workflows. Below is an honest side-by-side — including the cases where Loomly is the better choice.

Figures read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-17. Pricing changes — check theirs before deciding.

Free plans, side by side

Loomly has no free plan — only a trial. Ours doesn't expire.

VideoToReels Free

$0
  • 5 connected channels
  • Unlimited scheduled posts — no monthly cap, no queue cap
  • Unlimited projects
  • X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube all included
  • 50 starting AI credits (one-time)

Loomly

No free plan

No free plan — free trial only. After it ends you pay or you stop scheduling.

Figures read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-17. Pricing changes — check theirs before deciding.

What each one costs

Published list prices. Where a vendor bills per channel or per seat, that is stated — it is the difference that compounds.

VideoToReels

PlanPriceIncludes
Free$05 channels · unlimited scheduled posts · 1 seat
Creator$10/mo10 channels · unlimited posts · 2 seats · 400 credits/mo
Studio$29/mo3 workspaces · 10 channels each · 5 seats · 1,500 credits/mo
Agency$79/mo10 workspaces · 10 channels each · 15 seats · 3,500 credits/mo

Loomly

PlanPriceIncludes
Starter$49/mo billed yearly ($65 monthly)12 social accounts, 3 users
Beyond$249/mo billed yearly ($332 monthly)60 social accounts, unlimited users
EnterpriseCustom61+ accounts

Figures read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-17. Pricing changes — check theirs before deciding.

When Loomly is the better choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than churn out of ours in a month. These are real reasons to choose Loomly.

  • Loomly's approval workflow is the reason people buy it — multi-stage review with comments and version history, built for teams where a post must be signed off before it goes out. Ours is far simpler.
  • Post ideas and content suggestions tied to trending topics and holidays are a nice prompt for teams who plan ahead.
  • Twelve accounts and three users on the entry tier is reasonable value for a small agency.

Where we win

Every line here is checkable against the pricing pages linked above.

  • Free tier versus none, and $10/month against $49/month for a comparable channel count.
  • Video-aware validation before a post is queued.
  • Simpler for one person — approval workflows are overhead when you are the only approver.

Built for people who post video

Most schedulers, Loomly included, treat a Reel as a file to upload. The difference shows up the first time a post fails at 6am.

It checks your clip before it queues.

Duration, file size and aspect ratio are validated against each platform's rules. A clip that is too long is a blocking error; the wrong aspect ratio is a warning. You find out before the post fails, not after.

One composer, every channel.

Write once, adapt per platform, and queue it all from a single calendar. Analytics come back into the same view — including best-time-to-post, once you have published enough history for it to mean anything.

Your AI agent can draft, but not publish.

Connect Claude or any MCP client on the free plan — 67 tools, including timeline editing. Publishing is preview-then-confirm: an agent proposes a post and it only goes out when you confirm.

Questions people actually ask

Do you have approval workflows?

Only lightly. If sign-off before publishing is a hard requirement, Loomly does it better and you should use them.

What does Loomly cost for a solo creator?

Their entry Starter plan was $49/month billed yearly as of 2026-08-17. There is no free tier.

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5 channels. Unlimited posts. $0.

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