All SocialBee Reviews
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Megan
Verified reviewer
Media Production, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2022
Social Bee isn't the prettiest UI but it gets the job done well
I've used Social Bee for years now. I was an early adopter and I'm impressed with their progress. I'm a happy user of the tool and I would recommend it to others to use to manage their social media presence.
PROSI love that Social Bee actually helps you get the job done. It does what it claims to do and it does it well. It's affordable compared to some alternatives which is a huge bonus. They even have a mobile app now. Since I began using Social Bee I have seen the developers ship so many improvements, it's been really great to see. There's now integrations with most of the main social media platforms as well as integrations like Canva and other content creation tools. The analytics and reporting features are excellent. I think it's a great tool for anyone managing social media profiles, particularly social media managers who run client profiles.
CONSThe only thing I have to say about Social Bee that I don't really love is the UI, it's not the prettiest tool available but it works and gets the job done. I think if they worked on the UI this tool would be way more popular than it is now.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
One factor was price. Also by now I'm used to Social Bee so I figured I'd just stick with it.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
I changed because Crowdfire changed some of their features and got rid of some of my favorites. Also I got a good deal on Social Bee which made it an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm not sad I made the change.
Vendor Response
Hey Megan! Thank you so much for your kind words. We're currently working on a major UI refresh that we think you'll love. Appreciating your support throughout the years, and we're excited to hear your feedback on upcoming features and improvements.
Replied October 2022
Josh
Verified reviewer
Design, 1 employee
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Great tool for Automated social media posting!
Love Social Bee for making a bunch of posts before hand and having them automatically sent out to all my platforms. It really works with all the platforms I need and gives me a good amount of accounts I can use at one time.
PROSI love that it posts to social media automatically and I can make a lot of different posts and stagger them. I can also have it auto post from an integration with Pocket to show my audience interesting articles and other websites. I got it on an appsumo deal so I have an account and never have to pay monthly!
CONSSetting up pinterest is kind of a pain in the butt as they don't have their own integration you have to use hootsuite free account and integrate through that. Though it works well when you get it set up. Also having to re-connect integrations can be a pain in the butt, though this is from the social media platform side not a social bee issue.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
Like I said before I got it as a lifetime deal from Appsumo. I do have to use a free hootsuite account to integrate with pinterest, but there is no reason to use hootsuite other than that now.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
I got Social Bee on a lifetime deal with more features than hootsuite so it was a no brainer!
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review, Josh! Much appreciated.
Replied August 2021
Erica
Food & Beverages, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed May 2023
Great option to manage social media posts of various accounts
It is great tool that allows me to save time and makes it easy to post social media content for various accounts and on various platforms at the same time. Great investment!
PROSI love that we only have to open 1 tab on the computer and you can generate content for all social media accounts in one click. The AI generator is great addition that has really helped overcome writters block o to give new ideas on al ready posted content. I also really apreciate that you can post to Facebook and Instagram in one click! And it is really handy to be able to save groups of hastags.
CONSThe only complaint I have is that there sometimes is a glitch when setting up the automatic posts that grabs content from previous posts. Sometimes it will pick the same post over and over, posting multiple times in the same week. But probably it is just some setting I have to adjust.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
The other option was getting to expensive.
Vendor Response
Erica, thank you so much for your review! We're happy to have you with us. Our team is more than happy to jump on a 1-on-1 call to go through your settings together, and find a way to plan the content to be shared as you wish. Here's where you can book a call with us: https://socialbee.com/calendar/.
Replied May 2023
Julie
Verified reviewer
Hospital & Health Care, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2021
Could be amazing but needs some fixes
Even though it is a great program, there are major flaws they need to figure out.
PROSWhat I love about socialbee is it has content categories. Many other schedulers don't categorize by content. Through the years there are more integrations and collaborations happening with it. Of course it is web-based which has its own pros and cons. I like the fact that you can start a post in bulk and then customize for each social media platform.
CONSWhen I go to write a post, once I have put a photo on, the link, as well as the tags then the whole program slows down like we are back in the 90s on dial up. This means to fully complete one post it can take up to 45 minutes, even on a fast computer. This has put me off using it almost completely and demotivates me from keeping my posts new.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
Content categories
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review! We're working on improving the loading time and experience of our users, along with adding more functionalities and freedom to share content.
Replied October 2021
Patrick
Internet, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
A Must Have For Social Media Marketing
I use SocialBee daily to manage multiple brands, and it automates most of my social media marketing needs.
PROSRobust features and integrations make this an all-in-one tool for social media marketing and management.
CONSThere is an initial learning curve when switching from another tool, but not too bad.
Vendor Response
Patrick, thank you so much! We're happy to have you with us. If you ever need any help with the platform, here are our most-used learning options: 1. Book a 1-on-1 demo call with my team to learn how to use SocialBee: https://socialbee.com/calendar/. 2. Use our Help Documentation here: https://help.socialbee.com/. 3. Join our live demo webinars here: https://socialbee.com/webinars/. 4. Email us at hello@socialbee.com (if you prefer written communication).
Replied May 2023
Manoj
Verified reviewer
Publishing, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2021
Best social media scheduling tool
SocialBee is a great social media scheduling tool. It supports all leading networks like Facebook (pages and groups), LinkedIn (Profiles and pages), Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram to schedule and monitor content. Automated content recycling is another feature. It can re-publish content on connected profiles indefinite times.
PROSSocialBee is my favorite tool for social media marketing. It helps me to automatically publish content on social sites at a scheduled time. The content can be organized across different categories so as to locate them easily at a later time. It also offers Twitter management feature to find new potential followers and detect unfollowers easily.
CONSThey don't have a built-in Pinterest integration. But we can schedule content on Pinterest through Hootsuite. I contacted SocialBee support and they told me that it will directly connect to Pinterest very soon.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
SocialBee is affordable and offers more features like content categories, Twitter management, recycling, etc.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review! We appreciate it.
Replied June 2021
Alys
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
Great for recurring content and consistent visibility
I love how I’m able to schedule recurring content for my social media platforms easily. By adding the posts to different categories I maintain complete control over what goes out when and can easily remove content that is no longer relevant
CONSNo option to schedule first comments on Facebook and LinkedIn despite competitors (Smarterqueue and RecurPost) offering this
Reason for choosing SocialBee
Cost and features of comparable plan
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
Cost and ability to schedule to personal Facebook profiles
Vendor Response
Alys, thank you so much for the review! I've sent the product suggestions to my team to review and add to our roadmap.
Replied August 2022
Ashutosh
Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
Solid and stable platform
Overall the experince has been good to be honest but they still need to work. They have achieved the technicall stability but still to incorporate innovate features also using Ai which is the future I guess.
PROSI really love the way the product has been designed. I didn't experience any bug, integration was smooth, scheduling and publishing is superb.
CONSThe UI should me more intuitive, content management isn't that updated like other software's in the market. Need some good AI for putting the publishing on steroid.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
Their social management services within my account
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review! We're happy to have you with us. We've introduced AI for captions and images, you can learn more about it here: https://help.socialbee.com/article/332-how-do-i-use-the-post-assistant. When it comes to our UI/UX, we're constantly working on making the platform easy to use. If you have any specific recommendations, please let us know, so we can prioritize them on our roadmap: https://socialbee.com/roadmap/. Lastly, we'd be very grateful if you can share more on what you'd like to get for content management and is currently missing in SocialBee. You can always emails us at hello@socialbee.com or book a call with us here: https://socialbee.com/calendar/.
Replied May 2023
Jess
Verified reviewer
Publishing, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Love this tool use it daily
love how it automatically rotates through approved content for those days when I don't have something new
CONShum? tough one - it does everything I want. I've tried others and missed my social bee
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
I like the auto rotate and ability to customize each profile
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review!
Replied May 2022
Fraser
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Great for scheduling posts and saving time
Excellent experience and a good stable piece of software.
PROSSocialBee is great and saves me a lot of time scheduling posts for the different social media platforms. I love the fact that I can can make amends to each post to suit each platform after I have written the main masterpost (e.g best practice is a maximum of 3 hashtags in LinkedIn so I would remove some for that post) and also store my common or used hashtags that add them to the post with just the click of a button.
CONSNothing really yet - it does all that I need it to and I know I have not used all the features yet.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
Limited feature set and rising prices on pro
Vendor Response
Thank you for taking the time to leave this review!
Replied July 2021
Jean Bertin
Verified reviewer
Professional Training & Coaching, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2021
Ultimate tool for social media growth on-the-go
SocialBee is an absolutely amazing tool to use for social media - it allows you to schedule content, post from one place, and even grow your following with just one tool! With the help of SocialBee, we've been able to post and engage with our followers like never before, which has resulted in a lot of knowledge about our audience that we use to guide decisions for our platform. So, when you're trying to automate the social media posting process, and get the most engaged followers possible, SocialBee is the tool for you!
PROSSocialBee was one of the first favorite tools we use in our agency for social media marketing and management. It is a powerful tool that has helped us tremendously to schedule posts, grow our following, and increase engagement. With one tool, we are able to automatically send personalized mentions to followers and automatically send personalized messages. With the different content categories available on SocialBee, we can keep followers entertained with a wide variety of posts that will keep them coming back for more. The app has been designed with the modern marketer in mind. With SocialBee, marketers can now use a powerful tool that will provide them with a sufficient solution for building their brand on social media without having to spend too much time and effort on this task. It provides the ability to create several workspaces that you can customize to your preferences, has a great hashtag manager, and supports RSS feeds. As more and more people are turning to social media for their daily dose of information and entertainment, it is important for brands to be present here as well serve your followers with what the want and need. One of the best features of SocialBee is its capability to post evergreen content on autopilot. This means that it will post high-quality evergreen content on your behalf, every day, while you focus on other important tasks
CONSThe main reason why we implemented other Social marketing platforms along side with Social is their unability to have a built-in integration for some of the social platforms such as Pinterest. the only option to schedule content on Pinterest for instance is through Hootsuite. This was the same for Instagram initially but they have been able to correct the Instagram integration but not that of Pinterest. I would love to see YouTube as a part of the integration, but it is not viable at this time. On the other hand, the inbuilt link shortners are not reliable . Other than that SocialBee is a solid marketing tool in any marketer toolbox.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
SocialBee allows users to automate their social media channels for optimal results. It's one of the best tools on the market for scheduling posts, growing a following, and engaging customers. The tool is designed to work with any social media platform, and it does a fantastic job of scheduling new posts, as well as posting to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. It's one of the best tools for automating your social media marketing, and it's quite affordable.
Vendor Response
Thank you for leaving us a review!
Replied September 2021
Julie
Alternative Medicine, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
Saves me hours a week
It is a very great company who are working hard to stay on top of new features that are coming out. I think compared to some SMS (Social media schedulers), this one is at the top of the list!
PROSThis is one that I got a lifetime deal from AppSumo for $49. It had been offered on AppSumo once before, and the reviews said it was one of the best apps they had offered. It has lots of bells and whistles, and just like Recurpost its dashboard is content based. It is also great in that it has an extension browser, links to pocket to save and schedule articles you find in i.e. Firefox. For other schedulers like Buffer, and Hootsuite:Socialbee can post and autoschedule to all social media platforms, which was a big win for me. It also allows you to save hashtags, and use RSS feeds. And look at competition for twitter only. For the AppSumo lifetime deal, It is for the Pro version. So if I were a social media manager, I could run 5 different workspaces from this. As I do not, it is a little wasted. You can also have 25 profiles from any of the platforms, which is crazy. I do think it is important to have unlimited content categories, AND a high number of posts per category, so you can set it and forget it. Now that I’ve used it for 6 months, I give it an 8/10. Only because the analytics aren’t for all platforms, and you need integrations for Pintrest and Instagram.
CONSWhat I least like about this softward is the analytics aren’t for all platforms, and you need integrations for Pintrest and Instagram. I also have struggled with the socialbee link shortners. Now that I have spent hours plugging in content, I was very disappointed to see 20% of the links do not work. When I contacted them they were very quick in getting back to me, but said there was nothing they could do on their end. So I would suggest using other link shorteners, and stay away from their own one.
Reason for choosing SocialBee
The layout is better with SocialBee, with categories as the focus. Buffer doesn't use content categories for its layout, which is why it wasn't for me.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
At the time, Appsumo was offering lifetime deals on both Publer and SocialBee. This was my second favorite SMS however, and I would suggest it, as it does also use Categories as its dashboard.
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
A powerful, to-be-polished product
It's a solid, reliable tool, despite the fact they have got many things to improve yet. There are so many social media management tools, that you might feel overwhelmed. But if you need advanced configuration, take a look at SocialBee.
PROSI appreciate all the features focused on content management and schedule organization. With SocialBee, any kind of content plan should be doable. You decide what, when, where, how often, and how many times is going to be published. With all additional tools, it's a handy tool for social media managers, marketers, and entrepreneurs. And, what should not be forgotten, it's constantly growing!
CONSThe interface sometimes is too confusing. It's easy to get lost among all tabs and features and forget where to go to find the right place. I also don't like how often the SocialBee wants me to try their Concierge program, which I don't need.
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
SocialBee was on the lifetime deal sale, so I took the opportunity. Buffer is less configurable than SocialBee and doesn't have the content library.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review! We appreciate it.
Replied June 2021
Roli
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Amazing automation tool for SEM
Cool web and mobile app to keep track of your company's daily SEM activities
PROSThe best part about Social Bee is it's ability to support multiple platforms on the go
CONSNothing as such, it's just the best tool in the market
Reason for choosing SocialBee
Amazing integration and automation
Reasons for switching to SocialBee
Got the subscription free for 3 months to start with and I could never go off it
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review!
Replied August 2022
Richard
Staffing and Recruiting, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY