The fastest way to learn Post Planner is our Getting Started checklist: 11 short steps, each with a quick demo and a full guide.
Start with the quick tour and connecting your social accounts, since everything else builds on them. Then do the rest in any order.
🎥 The 30-second tour
In this article, you'll learn:
🚀 Set up Post Planner in 3 steps
Your Home page shows these 3 steps when you start. Each one gets a green check when it's done:
Connect your Socials — connect at least one social network in Settings > Social Networks, then click each profile you want to post to, so it gets a green check. See How do I connect my social accounts?
Setup your Posting Plan — add posting times to your plan in Plan. Post Planner publishes your queued posts at these times. See How do I set up my Posting Plan?
Create your first Posts — schedule at least one post in the Composer. See How do I create & schedule posts?
NOTE: Your posts go out in your time zone. To check or change it, go to Settings > Account, choose your time zone, check "Apply this timezone to all plans" so your Posting Plan uses it too, and click "Save changes". See Time zone.
✅ The Getting Started checklist
The Getting Started checklist has 11 steps in two groups. Expand any step to watch a quick demo and open its full guide.
Get set up
Get a quick tour — a walkthrough of what every tab does, so you know where everything lives. It's the demo at the top of this article.
Connect your social accounts — link Facebook, Instagram and more, then activate each one.
Organize your content with Buckets — Buckets are content categories (like quotes, promos or tips) that feed your Posting Plan.
Build your Posting Plan — set your posting times once, and Post Planner publishes your queued posts at those times.
Find great content — discover posts, Streams and ideas to keep your queue full.
Create your first post — write a post (or create one with AI), tailor it for each network, and schedule it.
Schedule posts in bulk — turn a spreadsheet, a folder of images, Library videos, an RSS feed, content from your feeds or images from the web (with our Chrome extension) into dozens of posts in minutes.
Level up
Create with AI — generate captions, hashtags and images right in the Composer.
Create a custom feed for your niche — save your favorite Facebook Pages, Reddit subreddits, Bluesky accounts and RSS feeds as a Stream, so you always have on-topic content ready to post.
Manage your planned posts — view, edit, reorder and preview everything before it goes live.
Analyze & re-use your top posts — find your best performers in History and re-add them in a click.
❓ FAQ
Is there a mobile app?
Yes. Post Planner has an app for iPhone and Android. See How do I access the mobile app?
What happens when my free trial ends?
You choose a paid plan or switch to the Free plan. You can choose a plan anytime in Settings > Subscription. See What happens when your trial ends?