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Best Social Media Planning Apps for iPhone (2026)

14 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Part of Social Media Management.

Meta Business Suite is the top-ranked of 14 social media planning apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 507,134 ratings.

  1. 1
    Meta Business SuiteS
    Free · ★ 4.7 · 507,134 ratings · score 97
  2. 2
    Buffer: Plan & Schedule PostsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 34,641 ratings · score 95
  3. 3
    Planoly: Social Media PlannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,968 ratings · score 95
  4. 4
    Feed Preview: Planner for IGS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 8,732 ratings · score 94
  5. 5
    Layout for Instagram・InpreviewS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,310 ratings · score 94

What belongs in this list

Plan and schedule social media posts ahead of time.

Not here: Event or party planning alone; Post templates alone; Social planning for meeting friends alone; Photo editing alone; Managing accounts and analytics with no planning of posts alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

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Meta Busines…BufferPlanolyFeed PreviewLayoutPublerHootsuitePREVIEWRiplMy Feed・GridApphi
A
UNUMPlann
B
None at B yet
C
Later
D
None at D yet
F
None at F yet

Compare every app

  1. 1
    Meta Business SuiteS
    Free · ★ 4.7 · 507,134 ratings · score 97 · best in class
  2. 2
    Buffer: Plan & Schedule PostsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 34,641 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  3. 3
    Planoly: Social Media PlannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,968 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  4. 4
    Feed Preview: Planner for IGS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 8,732 ratings · score 94 · best in class
  5. 5
    Layout for Instagram・InpreviewS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,310 ratings · score 94 · best in class
  6. 6
    Publer: Social Media ToolsS
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 26,704 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  7. 7
    Hootsuite - Social Media ToolsS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 34,294 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  8. 8
    PREVIEW: Planner for InstagramS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 44,722 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  9. 9
    Ripl: Social Media MarketingS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 49,902 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  10. 10
    My Feed・Grid Preview & PlannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 5,306 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  11. 11
    Apphi: Social Media SchedulerS
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,497 ratings · score 90 · best in class
  12. 12
    UNUM - Layout & Feed PreviewA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 12,205 ratings · score 87 · excellent
  13. 13
    Plann: Preview for InstagramA
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 15,822 ratings · score 82 · excellent
  14. 14
    Later: Social Media SchedulerC
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,533 ratings · score 66 · situational · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best social media planning app for iPhone?
Meta Business Suite, S tier, ranked #1 of 14, rated 4.7 by 507,134 people.
Which social media planning apps are free?
14 of 14 are free to download: Meta Business Suite (S), Buffer: Plan & Schedule Posts (S), Planoly: Social Media Planner (S), Feed Preview: Planner for IG (S) and more. 8 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which social media planning app has the best App Store rating?
Ripl: Social Media Marketing at 4.8 from 49,902 ratings.
How many social media planning apps reach S or A tier?
13 of 14. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.

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