Social media · checked 2026-10-19Can I vibecode Planable?
KINDA· weekend project
What sets Planable apart is simple data: a post, a status, comments and a review link a client can open without an account. An agent builds that and a calendar in a day. The weekend goes on publishing: every network wants its own developer app, and Postiz's README warns that Meta, YouTube and TikTok approvals can take weeks. Without that leg you'd have a review tool whose posts you still paste into each network by hand, which is fine for Bluesky and Mastodon and not for Instagram.
$39/moprice
$468you'd save a year
weekendbuild time
—people replaced it
What you need on hand.
DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.
TimeA weekend, most of it on tokens and a public address
- Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
- Node.js 22better-sqlite3 compiles a native module, so build tools must be installed.
- Accounts on Bluesky or MastodonBoth take a token you create yourself; other networks need a reviewed developer app.
- SMTP credentialsA transactional email provider's free tier covers a small team.
- A public addressReviewers must be able to open the link: a tunnel while testing, a small VPS with HTTPS after.
Before you buildPlanable's first 50 posts are free with no time limit and no card, so run one real client approval round there before deciding to build.
- 1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
- 2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
- 3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.
The prompt
Build me a post review and scheduling tool for one small team to replace Planable. Requirements: - Node.js 22 + TypeScript: Fastify with server-rendered pages (Eta) and a little vanilla JS. `npm start` serves http://localhost:5050: team side at /admin, reviewer pages at /r/<token>. - Storage: better-sqlite3 in ./data/posts.db: workspaces (one per client or brand), channels (network, handle, token encrypted with AES-256-GCM using TOKEN_KEY from .env), posts (text per channel, media paths, scheduled_at in UTC, status draft / in review / changes requested / approved / scheduled / sending / sent / failed), comments, review links (random 32-byte token stored hashed, workspace, expiry, revoked flag) and an audit log. Media goes to ./data/media/. - Review: a link opens a read-only calendar and, for each post, a preview of text and images in an approximation of the target network. The reviewer types a name, comments, and clicks Approve or Request changes. No account. Rate-limit with `@fastify/rate-limit` and escape every comment wherever it is shown. - Approval rule per workspace: none, optional or required. When required, a post can't be scheduled until one reviewer approves; any later edit puts it back in review and shows a diff. - Calendar: week and month views per workspace, status colours, drag a post to another day, times in the timezone from .env (`luxon`). - Publishing: one adapter interface, publish(post, channel) returning the post URL, with two adapters: Bluesky (`@atproto/api`, app password) and Mastodon (`masto`, access token). A worker checks every 30 seconds, sets sending before the API call, retries three times and never posts twice; failures show in the admin. - Email through nodemailer SMTP from .env: a digest to reviewers when posts wait for them, and a note to the team on approval or requested changes. - Single team, one admin password in .env. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first; outbound calls are the two networks and SMTP only. - Out of scope: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and X (each needs its own reviewed developer app), analytics, a social inbox, multi-level approvals, SSO. - README: getting a Bluesky app password and a Mastodon token, exposing /r/ through a tunnel or VPS, backups, and a warning that every extra network means a developer app and its review.
Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.
Then keep going
Next prompts, same folder.
The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own Planable.
Add a LinkedIn adapter to the review and scheduling tool in this folder. Requirements: - OAuth 2 against your own LinkedIn developer app with the w_member_social scope, for a personal profile; callback at /admin/oauth/linkedin, tokens encrypted like the others. - Text posts with up to 4 images through the Posts and Images APIs; a 3,000-character counter in the composer. - Refresh-token handling, and a banner in the admin when a token has expired. - Same retry and never-post-twice rules as the Bluesky adapter. - Update the README with the developer-app steps and the redirect URI.
Add multi-step approvals to the review and scheduling tool in this folder. Requirements: - Per workspace, an ordered list of steps (name, reviewers by email); a post moves to the next step only after one reviewer of the current step approves. - Each step has its own review link; a later step can't see a post that is still on an earlier one. - Request changes at any step returns the post to draft with the comment attached. - Show the current step on the calendar and in the digest emails. - Update the README.
Add exports to the review and scheduling tool in this folder. Requirements: - A CSV of the posts in a date range for one workspace: date, channel, text, status, media file names, post URL and the approver's name. - A PDF calendar for the month through Playwright, with one card per post and its status. - Both are generated from the admin and also offered on the reviewer page for approved posts. - Update the README.
What you lose
- Publishing to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Business Profile and Threads through apps Planable has already had approved
- Multi-level approvals and SSO on the Enterprise plan
- The analytics, social inbox and social listening add-ons
- Feed, grid and list views with previews shaped like each network
- A public API and an MCP connector for other tools
Why people still pay
Agencies and in-house teams pay to stop chasing feedback across email, chat and screenshots: everyone comments on a preview that looks like the final post, and approval is one click. Unlimited users inside a workspace also keeps clients and freelancers off seat costs.
Planable or your own copy?
Over
Your usage
12h ×$/h
Planable, 1 yr$468
Your own copy, 1 yr$44running + build session
You keep$425pays for itself in the first month
Estimate · A free tunnel or a $5 VPS and an SMTP free tier cover a small team. Bluesky and Mastodon posting costs nothing. The build is token usage on your agent plan.
Take your data, then cancel.
1 · Take your data out of Planable
- 1Select the page or pages you want, and filter by date, status and so on; for several pages at once, use the calendar view.
- 2From the sidebar, click the three dots next to the pages and choose Export posts, then pick PDF or CSV in the dialog.
- 3PDF works for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X and includes asset previews; CSV works for every page and holds structured post data with links to the media files.
- 4A help page for profile settings also lists an Export data option for your account (posts, comments, workspaces and pages); it returned an error when we fetched it, so check it in the app.
2 · Cancel Planable
- 1Open the Billing Dashboard and choose Cancel subscription; you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time.
- 2On an annual plan you keep access until the end of the current billing period.
- 3Custom plans from sales are changed through your account manager and follow the terms agreed with them.
- The CSV carries links to media rather than the files, so download the images and videos you want to keep before you leave.
- Published posts are stored for 13 months on Basic and Pro, so export the old ones first.
- Analytics and inbox add-ons are enabled per workspace: check each workspace's bill so none is left running.
- Non-profits can ask support for a discount, which is worth doing before you leave over price.
The escape hatch
Don't feel like building it? These are already free.
BrightBean StudioOpen sourceAGPL-3.0 social management app with workspaces, a client role for external reviewers and approval stages from none to internal plus client, with threaded comments.★ 2.5k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗TryPostOpen sourceAGPL-3.0 scheduler with workspaces per brand, a composer with per-network previews and approvals where an admin approves or rejects a member's post.★ 717 · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗PostizOpen sourceAGPL-3.0 scheduler for many networks with a calendar and team members; self-hosting means registering your own developer app on each platform.★ 37k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗
WebVisit ↗TryPostOpen sourceAGPL-3.0 scheduler with workspaces per brand, a composer with per-network previews and approvals where an admin approves or rejects a member's post.★ 717 · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗PostizOpen sourceAGPL-3.0 scheduler for many networks with a calendar and team members; self-hosting means registering your own developer app on each platform.★ 37k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗
The numbers
Planable pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $39/workspace | $33/workspace | 60 posts a workspace a month, unlimited users, 4 social pages, none or optional approvals, feed and calendar views, 3 campaigns, 10 GB of media. |
| Pro | $59/workspace | $49/workspace | 150 posts a workspace a month, unlimited users, 10 social pages, required approvals, grid view, 10 campaigns, 50 GB of media, public API, bulk approval and chat support. |
| Enterprise | custom | — | Unlimited posts, multi-level approvals, list view, SSO, 50 social pages, a dedicated account manager and bank transfer; analytics and inbox included. |
- Free tier
- 50 posts in total, not renewed monthly; no X publishing; analytics and inbox can only be tried on a paid plan.
- Billing
- Monthly or yearly per workspace, with unlimited users inside it; yearly is labeled two months free, which works out to about 15% less a month. Cards go through Stripe and bank transfer is for Enterprise only. You can cancel from the Billing Dashboard at any time; on an annual plan you keep access to the end of the period.
- Hidden costs
- A workspace is one client, brand or location, and every one is billed. Analytics ($14), social inbox ($9) and social listening ($99) are extra per workspace a month, or $12, $7.50 and $82.50 on yearly billing. Add-ons can only be tried on a paid plan, with a 30-day trial each.
- Source
- planable.io
Also on the list
Related apps
The first 50 posts are free on every plan, with no time limit and no card; X publishing isn't available during it.
Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: Publishing to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Business Profile and Threads through apps Planable has already had approved, Multi-level approvals and SSO on the Enterprise plan.
About $39 a month on the Basic plan, $468 a year (checked 2026-10-19).
Publishing to Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Business Profile and Threads through apps Planable has already had approved; Multi-level approvals and SSO on the Enterprise plan; The analytics, social inbox and social listening add-ons; Feed, grid and list views with previews shaped like each network; A public API and an MCP connector for other tools. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.
Yes: BrightBean Studio (open source), TryPost (open source), Postiz (open source).