Have you heard anything about Social Report? According to its website, “Social Report is an all-in-one social media management platform”. This platform helps you manage your social media accounts in a place and gives you some great abilities. On the other hand, AiSchedul is one of the most complete Instagram management platforms that lets you control everything better than before. In this article, we want to compare Social Report with AiSchedul.
Our comparison consists of the following sections:
- Setup
- Connecting your Instagram account(s)
- Features
- Maintenance and support
- Price
- Conclusion
AiSchedul VS. Social Report- A comparison of two Instagram schedulers
Table of Contents
Setup
AiSchedul
To start with AiSchedul follow these steps:
Step 1) Open the AiSchedul Website.
Step 2) On the dashboard, click on the “GET STARTED” button.
Step 3) on the following page, enter your name, e-mail, and password. Then tap on the “Register now” button.
Done! You can use all the features right now!
Social Report
To create your Social Report account, open the Social Report website and hit the “Start your free trial” button.
Then, choose the plan you want and click on the “Start your free trial” button.
Then, enter your name, email address and password and click on continue.
Finally, you have to enter your credit card information to buy the plan and get a 30-day free trial.
Now, your Social Report account has been created successfully.
According to the website, all the plans start with a 30-day free trial and you can cancel the plan during this period. But to create an account, entering card information is essential.
Connecting your Instagram account(s)
AiSchedul
After completing the setup steps, log in to your AiSchedul account. The AiSchedul dashboard that you will see is like the picture below.
Tap on the “Add Instagram Account” button to connect with your Instagram. Note that you can add multiple Instagram accounts.
Then, enter your username and tap on the Next button.
Finally, enter your password and tap on the “Submit” button.
Congratulations! Your Instagram account has been added successfully.
Social Report
To connect to your Instagram account, first, log in to your Social Report account. Then create or open a project using the menu bar at the top of your screen and click on the “connect profiles” button.
Then, choose the social media website you want and click continue. After that, you will be redirected to a page that lets you log in to your Instagram account. Enter your information and done! You are connected to your Instagram account.
Features
AiSchedul
Actually, AiSchedul is more than just an Instagram scheduler. Using AiSchedul you can schedule posts and stories, repost content, autoresponse to comments and edit posts after scheduling. In the following, we describe each feature by detail. So if you want to know how does each one works, keep reading.
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Schedule Post
To set a schedule for your posts on Feed, click on “Schedule Feed” on your dashboard. Easily drag and drop your content into the broken rectangle at the top of the page. After dragging your photo or video into the rectangle, click “Save” before you continue. Remember, you can also schedule multi-photo and even multi-video posts.
After uploading your photo(s) or video(s), you can:
- Tag people
- Crop your post (fit entire photo or crop to 1080px x 1080px)
- Rotate your post
From here, scheduling your post can be accomplished in 5 steps:
- Write your caption to make your post catchy
- Add your hashtags (your hashtags will be posted as a comment to make your caption look cleaner and increase post engagement)
- Choose the date and time you want to share your post (or check the box to “Post Immediately”)
- Choose which accounts you want your post to be posted on (you can schedule the same post for multiple Instagram accounts)
- Finish schedule by clicking the “Schedule Post” button
After hitting “Schedule Post”, you’re post is officially scheduled. Come the date and time of your scheduled post, your post will automatically post to Instagram without any effort on your part.
You can see all of your upcoming scheduled posts from your dashboard, as well as all of your past scheduled posts too.
AiSchedul provides another interesting feature and it is “Auto Responds to comments”. Automated responses are active for all premium accounts.
Schedule Story
To set a schedule for your stories click on “Post on Story” on your dashboard. To upload the planned story, click the + button and edit it with the tools at the top of the story box.
After uploading your photo(s) or video(s), you can:
- Tag someone in your Story
- Draw on your Instagram Story
- Geotag your Instagram Story
- Add emojis onto your Story
- Change the background color
- Add a link to your Story
- Add questions and polls to your Story
Click on the “Save” button when you’re finished.
Now, choose a date and time that you want your Story to be published (or check the box to “Post Immediately”) and what Instagram accounts you want to post to (you can post the same Story to multiple Instagram accounts).
Repost
AiSchedul allows you to repost contents (both Feed & story) on Instagram. When on your dashboard, click on Repost and in the opened menu choose your method of finding the contents you like to repost.
You can search and find posts by Hashtags, Location, URL or Username. After finding a suitable post, you can repost it on your feed easily.
Hashtags
You can search for hashtags and find the favorite content that you consider to repost on Instagram. Also, you can view the resulting contents before reposting them.
Location
Another option to find your desired posts is through a location search. Simply type the location and choose the posts related to the area.
URL
You can copy the URL of the post you find interesting on Instagram and repost it with AiSchedul. Also, you can schedule it on your own Instagram. Here is an example:
Username
You are able to search for your favorite content by searching for usernames. Basically, you can see the posts shared by the user and pick the one you want to repost on Instagram. Don’t forget to keep them tagged so you give them credit.
Once you have picked your favourite post by one of the options, you need to schedule it. It is just like scheduling a normal post which has been explained above.
Moreover, you can also repost videos using AiSchedul. To find out how it works, read this article.
When you sign in to your AiSchedul account and buy a plan, you can use all of these features and enjoy the easiness of working with it.
Social Report
Social Report has so many amazing features. Using this platform you can manage all your social media account like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others at once. In addition, it lets you view and reply to your messages in the app. One of the other features of Social Report that is really beneficial is that it gives you some advanced analytics. You can receive the analytics as a PDF file and manage to get more attractions according to them. Moreover, using this platform you can schedule posts and also set them to be shared on the best possible time according to the analytics.
Maintenance and support
AiSchedul
If you have any problems getting started with AiSchedul or face any issues, you may find a solution on the AiSchedul FAQ part. Also, you can find fruitful guides on the AiSchedul blog.
In case you didn’t find your problem on this part, you can contact the AiSchedul help center and solve all the issues and problems easily.
Social Report
Like all other platforms, Social Report has an FAQ page that responds to almost all the questions and problems you will face during using this app. Moreover, if you didn’t find a solution in this part, you can contact them using the message icon on the left side of the page.
Price
Aischedul
AiSchedul offers two different plans for users. In addition, it gives new users a 5-day free trial which is not limited at all and you can examine almost all the features to know the app better and decide whether you want to pay for it or not.
One of the two plans offered by AiSchedul is always free but in this version, you can only access some of the features and you cannot enjoy the total ride of this application. Moreover, the other plan that gives complete access to features costs only 9$ per month which is economic in comparison to other apps.
Social Report
Social Report offers three different plans to users. Actually, all the plans offered by the website are suitable for group management and lets you manage accounts in your company with your colleagues. The Standard plan, lets you add 5 users and 25 social media accounts which is almost enough for most of the companies. Using this plan, you have to pay 49$ per month and you can use almost all the features except the competitor tracker.
Other plans offered by Social Report are more expensive but they will give you the ability to manage more social media accounts and better team-working.
Conclusion
Social Report is one of the best tools for managing Instagram accounts with lots of features. It has also an advanced analytics tool helps you manage your social media accounts intellectually to get more attractions. AiSchedul is another good platform to auto-post on Instagram. With AiSchedul you can share multiple Images or videos for many accounts simultaneously. It has a very user- friendly interface and working with it is so simple. It has also auto-respond to comments that help you increase your Instagram account engagement.
Compare the features and pricing of these to auto-post tools and select the one that matches with your requirements.
Want to sign up and try AiSchedul for free, click here.
For those interested in trying Social Report, click here to visit their website.