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Every fact on this page was checked on the vendors' own sites and help docs on June 7, 2026.
Quick picks: Best overall for LinkedIn: MagicPost (LinkedIn-only premium, working @mentions, team mode and agency mode, official API, free trial). Best budget all-rounder: SocialSonic. Best free LinkedIn specialist: TypeGrow. Generalist swaps, honestly compared: #9-11. Details and receipts below.
Metricool earns its 603 Trustpilot reviews the right way: 82% five stars, a support team that replies to 97% of its negative reviews, and the strongest analytics culture of the budget generalists. The reason this page exists sits in one parenthesis on its own pricing page: the Free plan manages "all your brands' social networks (except LinkedIn and Twitter)." LinkedIn is the network Metricool charges for first, treats as one channel among nine, and measures with cross-network dashboards. If LinkedIn is where your outcomes live, that is three compromises before you start. This page does one job: what to use for LinkedIn instead.
TL;DR: Metricool's free plan covers every network except LinkedIn, by its own pricing page. 11 LinkedIn-first alternatives compared with receipts: mentions, voice AI and benchmarks.
The alternatives at a glance
Tool | Best for | Price (as of June 2026) | LinkedIn depth | Free trial |
The LinkedIn-only premium standard, solo to enterprise | From $21/mo (AI from $39/mo), billed yearly | LinkedIn-only, official API, working @mentions | Yes, no card | |
Supergrow | Voice-first AI writing + teams | From $19/mo (Teams $139/mo) | LinkedIn-only | 7 days |
SocialSonic | Broadest budget feature set | From $20/mo (Agency $200/mo, 10 users) | LinkedIn-only | 7 days, no card |
Taplio | All-in-one with outreach | From $39/mo (AI from $69/mo) | LinkedIn-only (extension-based) | 7 days |
Postdrips | Budget multi-account scheduling | From $18/mo (5 accounts at $29/mo) | LinkedIn-only | 7 days |
TypeGrow | Free, extension-less | Free (paid plans in development) | LinkedIn-only, claims official API | Free plan |
AuthoredUp | Formatting, previews and analytics, no AI | From $19.95/mo | LinkedIn-only | Yes, no card |
Kleo V3 | Writing app + coaching bundle (schedules) | $99/mo | LinkedIn-only | No trial |
Buffer | The lightweight generalist swap | Free (3 channels); from $5/mo per channel | Multi-network | Free plan |
Agorapulse | The full-suite generalist | $79-149/user/mo (annual) | Multi-network (11) | 30 days, no card |
Swello | The French generalist | From €19/mo | Multi-network | 7 days, no card |
The fine print: LinkedIn is where Metricool's free generosity stops
Metricool's Free plan is genuinely generous, 1 brand, 20 posts a month, 30 days of analytics, an AI assistant, for every network it supports, except two. Verbatim from its pricing page, the Free plan manages "all your brands' social networks (except LinkedIn and Twitter)." To schedule a single LinkedIn post you start paying (Starter from ~€16/mo, Advanced from ~€43/mo with team and client management, as of June 2026, annual saving up to 24%). There is nothing wrong with charging for value; the tell is which network gets gated first. And once you pay, the LinkedIn module is a generalist's: cross-network analytics rather than LinkedIn benchmarks, caption-level AI rather than your voice, and no documented person-mention support in scheduled posts:
A mention that publishes as plain text notifies nobody; the client you thanked never knows. Among the big generalists only Buffer documents shipped person-mentions, with its own condition list. MagicPost publishes working @mentions of people and companies in scheduled posts, receipt: how mentions work.
1. MagicPost: LinkedIn benchmarks, on the analytics company's home turf
MagicPost is the LinkedIn-only premium solution: AI-native, safe and complete, and it meets Metricool exactly where Metricool is proudest: the data. Metricool's dashboards tell you what your numbers are, across nine networks; MagicPost's analytics tell you what your LinkedIn numbers mean: market benchmarks ("See how you stack up against LinkedIn market benchmarks") and audience analysis by countries, job fields and verticals. For scale: the median creator earns a 0.39% engagement rate per post; a dashboard that cannot place you against that line is a chart, not an answer. For the team-and-client work Metricool's agency users do, agencies get one workspace per client, client validation ("no post goes live until your client approves it") and white-label exportable reports; companies get member spaces, complete team dashboards (total impressions, followers gained, top performers) and adoption monitoring. And the content layer is AI-native, not assisted: style import learns each member's voice from their account, a humanizer built on our published research keeps posts from sounding generated (AI-sounding posts earn 57% less engagement), and everything publishes through LinkedIn's official API as a LinkedIn-verified application, with working @mentions of people and companies.
Three differences that matter most coming from Metricool:
LinkedIn is the product, not the paid add-on. No "(except LinkedIn)" anywhere: the free trial covers the full LinkedIn workflow, verbatim "100% free trial. No credit card, No commitment."
Benchmarks beat dashboards. Cross-network charts average away the network that matters. LinkedIn-specific benchmarks and audience analysis answer the question your clients actually ask: is this good?
A loop after publishing. Engagement workflows (curated feeds, daily objectives, AI comment suggestions you approve, scheduled comments) and lead detection with AI scoring plus CRM integrations; the analytics company measures attention, this converts it.
The LinkedIn surface, feature by feature (verified on both products' own pages, June 2026):
MagicPost | Metricool | |
Built for | LinkedIn only | 9+ networks |
LinkedIn in the free offer | ✅ Full free trial, no card | ❌ Free plan: "except LinkedIn and Twitter" |
@mentions of people in scheduled posts | ✅ Working, people and companies | ❌ Not documented |
AI writing in your voice | ✅ Style import from your account | ⚠️ AI assistant (voice training not documented) |
Posts that don't sound AI | ✅ Humanizer, backed by published research | ❌ No published research |
LinkedIn market benchmarks | ✅ "See how you stack up against LinkedIn market benchmarks" | ⚠️ Cross-network analytics + competitor tracking |
Audience analysis | ✅ "Countries, job fields, verticals, cities" | ⚠️ Cross-network |
Engagement | ✅ Curated feeds, daily objectives, AI comment suggestions | ❌ Not documented |
Lead detection | ✅ AI scoring + CRM integrations | ⚠️ Link tracking |
Team pricing | ✅ Plans, no per-brand meter | ⚠️ Brand-based tiers (10 / 50 brands) |
Trustpilot (June 2026) | ✅ 4.7/5 on 91 reviews | ✅ 3.9/5 on 603 reviews (replies to 97% of negatives) |
Free to start | ✅ "100% free trial. No credit card" | ⚠️ Free plan, LinkedIn excluded |
Read it honestly: Metricool's support record is the best in the generalist field (97% of negative reviews answered, by named humans, within a week), its reporting and link-in-bio earn real agency loyalty, and 82% five-star reviews are not an accident. The cautions its own record documents: Trustpilot's top-mentions aggregation for Metricool includes "Refund," "Subscription" and "Cancellation" (auto-renewals surprise people; one June 2026 reviewer found herself paying for a multi-brand plan with a single brand to post, and announced she was moving to Buffer), and occasional posting failures get answered with a fair point about platform APIs. Good company; generalist LinkedIn module.
Switching your LinkedIn off Metricool? Try MagicPost free: import your voice, schedule two weeks of posts with working mentions, and put your numbers against real LinkedIn benchmarks, no card, before you pay anything.
2. Supergrow: the voice-first specialist
Supergrow replaces the AI assistant with a writing system: "Content DNA" voice training, "Postcast" AI interviews, voice-to-post, repurposing of YouTube videos, blogs and PDFs, calendar, queue and Kanban scheduling with auto first-comment, and a carousel maker on Pro, at $19/$39/mo with a Teams plan at $139/mo for 4 accounts (per its pricing, as of June 2026, 7-day trial).
Coming from Metricool, what changes. The writing gets dramatically deeper and the analytics get shallower; that is the honest trade, because analytics are its own public reviewers' most repeated critique while they are Metricool's pride. Its pages also never document the publishing mechanism. Pick it if the bottleneck was words, not charts. (Full breakdown: Supergrow alternatives.)
Strong: voice-first AI with real scheduling, team plan. Watch for: analytics its own users flag, undocumented publishing method, no free tier.
3. SocialSonic: the budget all-rounder, LinkedIn-shaped
SocialSonic, from the team behind Writesonic, is the LinkedIn-only version of the budget-generalist instinct: AI writing trained on viral LinkedIn posts, smart scheduling, analytics with lead attribution, a carousel maker with AI branding images, polls and gamification, at Pro $20/mo (a locked early-adopter rate; listed future price $39), Team $75/mo for 3 users, Agency $200/mo for 10 (as of June 2026; no-card trial plus a money-back week).
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Metricool-Starter money buys a LinkedIn feature wall, lead attribution included. The diligence list: publishing mechanism not documented, engagement via a four-network Chrome extension, several features "Coming Soon" at check time.
Strong: widest feature set under $25, team and agency tiers, no-card trial. Watch for: undocumented publishing mechanism, extension-based engagement, "Coming Soon" features.
4. Taplio: the maximalist, with asterisks
Taplio is the LinkedIn all-in-one: AI writing on a large viral library, Kanban scheduling, analytics, engagement tools, outreach automation and advocacy sharing, with a 7-day full-Pro trial.
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Breadth on one network, at the cost of the clean connection you are used to: Taplio's own support acknowledges its extension is treated by LinkedIn as an automation tool against the ToS. The pricing ladder needs reading ($39/mo advertises the suite, the AI starts at $69/mo, per its pricing, as of June 2026), and its Trustpilot (2.4/5 on 13 reviews) is led by the billing themes you know, minus Metricool's reply rate. (The full picture: Taplio alternatives.)
Strong: real LinkedIn breadth, full-Pro trial. Watch for: extension flagged by its own support, AI locked out of the entry plan, billing complaints.
5. Postdrips: brand-based pricing, LinkedIn-only
Postdrips translates Metricool's brand logic to one network: tone-of-voice from a pasted profile URL, weekly ideas, an AI writer for grammar and tone passes, previews, native auto-queue scheduling (video, GIFs, multi-image), at Starter $18/mo and Pro $29/mo for up to 5 LinkedIn accounts with approval workflows (as of June 2026).
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Five LinkedIn accounts for less than Starter, with approvals. The gaps: no carousels, no person tagging, analytics "coming soon" (a hard sell for a Metricool refugee), publishing mechanism undocumented, and the 7-day trial auto-enrolls into Pro unless you cancel, exactly the renewal reflex Metricool's reviewers warn about. (Postdrips vs MagicPost)
Strong: 5 accounts at $29/mo, approval workflows, real scheduling. Watch for: analytics "coming soon", no tagging, trial auto-enrolls into Pro.
6. TypeGrow: free, with LinkedIn included
TypeGrow inverts Metricool's parenthesis: "completely free to use" per its own pricing page (no card, paid plan in development but unannounced, as of June 2026), and the network it covers is precisely LinkedIn: AI writing assistant, scheduler, hook generator, carousel maker, post previews, a 1+ million viral-post library, "100% in the cloud" with a stated use of "the official LinkedIn API to connect to your LinkedIn account and post content from your or your company pages."
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Free means free for LinkedIn here. The trade is youth: analytics undocumented (the one thing you will miss most), no team features yet, future pricing unknown. (TypeGrow vs MagicPost)
Strong: genuinely free, LinkedIn included, claims official API. Watch for: no documented analytics, no team features yet, paid tier unannounced.
7. AuthoredUp: the counting house
AuthoredUp is the analytics lover's LinkedIn specialist: a deep counting dashboard (saves, sends, profile views, historical post collection, CSV export) around LinkedIn-native formatting, fold-accurate previews, 150+ hook and 100+ CTA references, readability grading and a calendar, with no AI by design; its model, in its own words: "100% secure. No automation. No cookies." Pricing runs $19.95/mo solo and per profile for teams ($14.95/profile/mo, 3 minimum), no-card trial, as of June 2026.
Coming from Metricool, what changes. The measurement instinct survives the move; the cross-network breadth and the generation do not. The honest fit: the Metricool user who mostly exported LinkedIn reports anyway. (More options: AuthoredUp alternatives.)
Strong: deep LinkedIn analytics, best-in-class previews, transparent stance. Watch for: no AI, extension-based, per-profile team pricing.
8. Kleo V3: the coaching bet
Kleo V3 wraps weekly live group coaching and a private creator community around a conversational writing app (voice training, 160+ post templates, 200+ hooks, 20 generated graphics a month), at $99/mo or $999/yr, no trial (FAQ verbatim: "Kleo does not offer a free trial at the moment," as of June 2026).
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Everything measurable disappears (no analytics documented) and everything personal intensifies: live calls with founders who are two of LinkedIn's best-known creators. A young product (early users report bugs and slow support). For data-minded Metricool users this is the leap of faith option. (The full comparison: Kleo alternatives.)
Strong: live human coaching and community, voice-first writing. Watch for: $99 with no trial, no analytics, young product.
9. Buffer: the lighter generalist (and the no-card free LinkedIn)
Buffer is where Metricool's frustrated reviewer said she was headed, and the logic is visible: a free plan that, unlike Metricool's, includes LinkedIn (3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel), then per-channel pricing at $5/mo (Essentials) and $10/mo (Team, unlimited members, approval workflows), as of June 2026, with a 14-day trial and auto-downgrade to Free.
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Lighter everywhere: simpler composer, lighter analytics (the thing you will miss), and a 3.2 Trustpilot across 105 reviews with replies to 30% of negatives (Metricool's record is stronger on both counts). One genuine LinkedIn edge: Buffer shipped person-mentions, the only big generalist that did, with documented conditions (connections only, English-language profiles, opt-in settings). (The LinkedIn-lens breakdown: Buffer page in this series.)
Strong: free plan includes LinkedIn, per-channel pricing, shipped (conditional) person-mentions. Watch for: lighter analytics, post-failure reports, generalist module.
10. Agorapulse: the full-suite move
Agorapulse is the up-market generalist: unified inbox, social listening, moderation rules and reporting across 11 networks, at $79-149/user/mo billed annually (10 profiles per tier), with a 30-day no-card trial and the best big-suite Trustpilot (4.0 across 57 reviews), as of June 2026.
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Brand-based pricing becomes per-seat, the inbox becomes a real workflow, and the LinkedIn module stays documented-generalist: its own help centre states "Personal profiles cannot mention another Personal profile." (The LinkedIn-lens breakdown: Agorapulse alternatives.)
Strong: best-reviewed big suite, unified inbox, 30-day no-card trial. Watch for: per-seat pricing, person-mentions documented as unavailable, generalist module.
11. Swello: the French generalist
Swello, made in France (Toulon), covers LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky, Facebook and X with scheduling, AI caption and hashtag helpers, analytics, an inbox, an image editor and team-and-client workflows, at Medium €19/mo (1 user, 5 profiles), Large €59/mo (5 users, 15 profiles) and Business €99/mo (as of June 2026, annual = 2 months free, 7-day unlimited no-card trial).
Coming from Metricool, what changes. Same European sensibility (Madrid to Toulon), flat tiers instead of brand counts, and a smaller ecosystem. The LinkedIn module is generalist-grade like the one you are leaving: caption-level AI, cross-network analytics, no documented person-mention support. (Dedicated LinkedIn-lens page coming in this series.)
Strong: EU/French option, flat team tiers, no-card trial. Watch for: generalist LinkedIn module, lighter ecosystem.
How to choose, in four questions
What does free actually cover? Metricool's free plan excludes LinkedIn by name; Buffer's includes it with a queue ceiling; TypeGrow's is LinkedIn-only. Read the parenthesis before the feature list.
Dashboards or benchmarks? Cross-network analytics answer "what happened everywhere"; LinkedIn benchmarks and audience analysis answer "is this good, and who is it reaching." If clients pay you for the second question, buy a tool that has it.
Run the mention test. Tag one person in one scheduled post and check what publishes. Metricool documents nothing here; Buffer documents conditions; Agorapulse documents "cannot." The specialist answer should be a working tag.
Mind the renewal, whoever you pick. Trustpilot's own aggregation flags Refund, Subscription and Cancellation among Metricool's top mentions, and the same theme runs across this whole category (Postdrips auto-enrolls, Taplio's reviews lead with billing). Diarize every renewal date; prefer no-card starts.
Building your own brand on LinkedIn? MagicPost was built for exactly that workflow: see how solopreneurs use it, from first idea to published post with working mentions, all on the official API.
Running LinkedIn for clients or a team?
Metricool's agency users praise its client reports; keep that habit and upgrade what goes in them. One workspace per client with validation built in ("no post goes live until your client approves it"), white-label exportable reports, all client metrics in one place; on the company side, member spaces, full team dashboards (total impressions, followers gained, top performers) and adoption monitoring, every member on the official API. "Your post beat the LinkedIn market benchmark" is a better client sentence than "here is your cross-network summary." See how agencies use MagicPost or what it does for teams.
Switching your LinkedIn off Metricool in an afternoon
Export the LinkedIn slice. Your scheduled queue, drafts and report history; the other networks can stay on Metricool's free plan, which covers them, just not LinkedIn.
Check your renewal date first. The recurring critical theme in this category is the surprise renewal; Metricool's own reviewers flag it. Get the date in your calendar before you start the migration.
Re-create the voice the assistant never learned. Minutes anywhere: account import (MagicPost), interview (Supergrow), profile URL (Postdrips).
Trial with benchmarks in mind. Run the same week through a no-card specialist trial (MagicPost, TypeGrow, SocialSonic, AuthoredUp) and compare not just the posting, but what each tool can tell you about the results.
Where these facts come from
Every claim on this page was verified on the vendor's own site, pricing page or help documentation in June 2026, and volatile facts (prices, trials, feature availability) are dated. Metricool's free-plan LinkedIn exclusion is quoted verbatim from its own pricing page; its Trustpilot figures, reply rate and top-mention themes are from its public profile, where its support's answers to critics are part of the record and credited as such; the one critical review quoted is identified by date and quoted in fragments. Where a vendor does not document something, we say "not documented" rather than guessing. Our own performance claims come from our published research program on 1.2M LinkedIn posts. If you spot something outdated, it will be corrected at the next quarterly refresh.
Metricool vs MagicPost: what is the real difference?
Where the analytics point. Metricool charts nine networks and charges first for LinkedIn; MagicPost does one network completely: voice-trained AI with a research-backed humanizer, working @mentions, LinkedIn market benchmarks and audience analysis, engagement workflows, comment scheduling and lead detection with CRM integrations, on the official API, plans without per-brand metering, no-card trial (as of June 2026).
Is there a free Metricool alternative for LinkedIn?
TypeGrow: completely free, no card, no extension, LinkedIn-only, claiming official-API publishing (as of June 2026). MagicPost's free trial covers the complete LinkedIn workflow without a card; a trial rather than a free plan, but it is the zero-cost way to test working mentions, real benchmarks and a scheduled week, none of which any free generalist plan offers for LinkedIn.
FAQ
What is the best Metricool alternative for LinkedIn?
MagicPost: LinkedIn-only and premium, AI trained on your voice with a research-backed humanizer, working @mentions of people and companies, LinkedIn market benchmarks and audience analysis (the analytics question Metricool's cross-network dashboards cannot answer), engagement workflows and lead detection, on the official LinkedIn API as a verified application, with a no-card free trial (as of June 2026). Budget all-rounder: SocialSonic. Free with LinkedIn included: TypeGrow.
Does Metricool's free plan include LinkedIn?
No. Its own pricing page states the Free plan manages "all your brands' social networks (except LinkedIn and Twitter)," as of June 2026. Scheduling LinkedIn posts through Metricool starts with the paid tiers (Starter from ~€16/mo). Free alternatives that do include LinkedIn: TypeGrow (LinkedIn-only) and Buffer's free plan (3 channels).
Is Metricool good for LinkedIn?
As a paid multi-network manager it schedules and reports on LinkedIn competently, and its support record is the best in the category (replies to 97% of negative reviews). What the LinkedIn module does not offer: person-mentions in scheduled posts (not documented), voice-trained AI, LinkedIn-specific benchmarks or audience analysis, engagement workflows or lead detection. Strong generalist, generalist module.
How much does Metricool cost?
As of June 2026: Free (1 brand, 20 posts/month, LinkedIn and Twitter excluded), Starter from ~€16/mo (10 brands), Advanced from ~€43/mo (50 brands, team and client management, post approval), Custom above that; annual billing saves up to 24%. Its pricing page shows ranges by billing options; check it for your exact configuration.
What do Metricool's reviews say?
A genuinely good record: 3.9/5 across 603 Trustpilot reviews, 82% five stars, with praised, named support agents and replies to 97% of negative reviews. The critical themes Trustpilot's own aggregation surfaces: Refund, Subscription and Cancellation (surprise auto-renewals, a no-refund stance), plus occasional posting failures that Metricool answers with a fair point about platform APIs.
What is the cheapest Metricool alternative for LinkedIn?
TypeGrow, free outright as a LinkedIn specialist (no card, paid plans in development as of June 2026), against Metricool's LinkedIn-excluded free plan. Among paid options: Postdrips at $18/mo, Supergrow at $19/mo, SocialSonic at $20/mo, all LinkedIn-only.
Metricool vs Buffer for LinkedIn?
Buffer's free plan includes LinkedIn (Metricool's excludes it) and Buffer shipped conditional person-mentions (Metricool documents none); Metricool's analytics, support record (97% negative-reply rate vs 30%) and review base (3.9/603 vs 3.2/105) are stronger. Two decent generalists, the same generalist LinkedIn module; the specialist question stands either way.
Can I use MagicPost and Metricool together?
Yes, and the parenthesis makes it natural: Metricool's free plan keeps your non-LinkedIn networks scheduled at zero cost (they are exactly what it covers), while MagicPost runs LinkedIn, where mentions, voice, benchmarks, engagement and leads need the specialist. Both starts are card-free.
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