Keeping with our series comparing Instagram tools from around the web, today we’re looking at Onlypult.
What is Onlypult? According to their website,
First of all it is a scheduled posting service for Instagram. So you can upload your photos and videos right from your computer. However, you can edit your pictures, manage multiple accounts simultaneously. Altough, letting your SMM-specialist manage your posts without giving them direct access to your Instagram account.”
Onlypult is right in our neighborhood of Instagram scheduling tools, so we decided to put it to the test against our own Instagram scheduler, AiSchedul.
Our comparison consisted of five categories:
- How do you set up the scheduler?
- Types of media can you post
- Scheduler functions you can do with it
- What do you get for free?
- How many accounts can you connect to the scheduler?
- How much does the scheduler cost?
- Conclusion
Table of Contents
Onlypult vs. AiSchedul– a comparison of the two Instagram schedulers.
How do you set up the scheduler?
AiSchedul
So getting started with AiSchedul is in four simple steps:
1) Go to aischedul.com.
2) When on the homepage, click “Get Started”.
3) Provide your name, email, desired password, and click “Register Now” inorder to register.
With AiSchedul, so you don’t have to download anything. However, After logging into your AiSchedul account, so you will be brought to your dashboard which looks like this:
So here you can see all of your connected Instagram accounts (you can add and grow multiple Instagram accounts at the same time).
4) To add a new account, click “Add Instagram Account”.
From here, simply login to your Instagram account as you normally would on your phone. AiSchedul encrypts your password and will not share it with anyone or use it for anything not related to growing your followers.
Congrats! You’ve just set up AiSchedul and can now use the AiSchedul scheduler.
Onlypult
Begin by going to www.onlypult.com.
When on the homepage, click “Try 7-days free trial”.
Upon clicking the “Create Account with Instagram” button, so you are taken to this screen.
After verifying your email, so you’re brought to your dashboard.
The final step is adding your Instagram account. Click “+ Add more accounts” to start.
Before you click add, so you must confirm that the Instagram account you are adding meets all the conditions required by Onlypult (outlined at the top of the screen).
The media can you post
AiSchedul
With AiSchedul’s Instagram scheduler, so you can schedule and post both photos and videos.
You can also schedule both photo and video albums.
Onlypult
You can schedule both photos and videos, as well as photo albums.
You can’t schedule video albums.
How do you use the scheduler?
AiSchedul
Begin by clicking the “Schedule Posts” tab on your AiSchedul dashboard. When you are in the “Schedule Posts” tab, begin your scheduling by clicking “Schedule Your First Post”.
From here, drag and drop the photo or video you would like to schedule into the broken rectangle at the top of the page. Uploading and scheduling posts to Instagram with AiSchedul is as easy as dragging and dropping. After dragging your photo or video into the rectangle, click “Save” before you continue.
Remember, so you can also schedule multi-photo and even multi-video posts.
Supported formats for photos are JPG and PNG, and supported formats for video are MP4, 3GP, MKV, and AVI.
After uploading your photo(s) or video(s), so 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
- 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 your post to go live (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 green “Schedule Post” button
After hitting “Schedule Post”, so your post is officially scheduled. Come the date and time of your scheduled post, so 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 using AiSchedul’s scheduler.
If you want to change something about an upcoming scheduled post, so you can simply hit “Edit”, make any desired changes, and hit “Schedule Post” to save your changes.
Caption Spintax
If you are posting the same post with the same caption across multiple Instagram accounts. However, so you can use AiSchedul’s Spintax feature to avoid being flagged by Instagram.
When posting the same post to multiple Instagram accounts, Instagram can sometimes mistake your posts for spam and flag your account. To help you avoid this, AiSchedul’s Spintax feature allows you to easily create multiple different versions of the same caption.
Using Spintax in your captions is as easy as including the following format in your original caption: {Phrase 1 | Phrase 2 | Phrase 3}.
Here’s how it looks in a real caption:
To give you an idea of how the above caption would work when posting to three Instagram accounts, one account would post with a caption including “time”, another account would post with a caption including “adventure”, and another account would post with a caption including “stay”.
The more variables you include in your caption, the more variations of your original caption can be posted.
Hashtag Suggestion Tool
When choosing the hashtags you want to attach to your post, so you can also use AiSchedul’s search tool to find the most popular hashtags related to your post without having to leave AiSchedul.
There is no limit to the number of posts you can schedule using AiSchedul’s Instagram scheduler.
To see the scheduler in action, watch the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdhjhUBKYGg
Onlypult