CrossposterCrossposter and Metricool at a glance
Same job – getting one post onto several platforms – done two very different ways. Green ticks are advantages, red crosses are limitations.
| Feature | Crossposter | Metricool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ✓Free and open source (MIT). No plans, no channel limits, no upsell. | Free plan for one brand with limited features and history; paid plans per brand, per month. |
| Where it runs | ✓Entirely in your browser. Posts and media never pass through a third-party server. | ✗In Metricool's cloud. Posts, media and account tokens are stored on their servers. |
| Account connections | ✓None. It uses the sites you're already logged into – no OAuth, no API keys, no tokens held by anyone. | ✗Every account is connected through OAuth and Metricool keeps a publishing token for it. |
| Personal & private accounts | ✓Yes. Personal and private Instagram, Threads and Facebook accounts work, because it fills each site's own composer. | ✗Instagram needs a Business or Creator account and Facebook needs a Page; personal profiles aren't supported. |
| Images and video | ✓Photos and video travel with the post, with a built-in crop, trim and annotate editor. | Upload images and video to Metricool; what each platform accepts is limited by its API. |
| Reshare posts from your feed | ✓Yes. Right-click any post in your feed – yours or anyone else's – and share it on to your other platforms. | ✗No. Metricool is for content you create in its planner; resharing an existing post means recreating it. |
| Platform-native features | ✓Everything. You finish in the real composer, so polls, tags, reel covers and alt text all stay available. | ✗Only what each platform's API exposes; some native options aren't available from the planner. |
| Publishing | You press Post on each platform. Nothing is auto-published, so you see exactly what goes out. | ✓Publishes for you at the scheduled time, with best-time suggestions. |
| Scheduling | ✗No. Crossposter is for “share this everywhere, right now” – there's no queue and it can't post while your browser is closed. | ✓Yes – a planning calendar with best-time suggestions and autolists is central to the product. |
| Several accounts on one platform | ✗One account per platform at a time. To post to a second account on the same site, switch accounts there first and crosspost again. | ✓Yes. Each “brand” holds a set of accounts, and paid plans add more brands. |
| Analytics, inbox & teams | ✗None. No analytics, inbox, approvals or team features – it's a posting tool, not a management suite. | ✓Yes – it's Metricool's strength: analytics, reports, competitor analysis, ads and link-in-bio. |
| Mobile | ✗Desktop only – Chrome and Firefox, with Safari on the way. Anything you post from your phone is waiting in your feed for next time you're at a computer. | ✓Yes – iOS and Android apps. |
| Platforms | X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, Facebook and UpScrolled – from any of them to any of them. | Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Twitch, Google Business and more. |
Where Crossposter is the better fit
Free, with nothing to outgrow
- Completely free and open source. No subscription, no per-channel pricing, no free-plan ceiling.
- No API dependency. It uses each site's own composer, so it isn't affected by platform API pricing, approvals or rate limits.
- Reshare anything. Right-click a post in your feed – yours or someone else's – and send it on, with credit, to your other platforms.
Private by construction
- 100% local, no telemetry. Everything runs in your browser; your posts, media and sessions never touch a third-party server.
- No account connections. You never hand over OAuth access or credentials – you're simply already logged in.
- Personal and private accounts work. Personal Instagram, Threads and Facebook profiles, private or not, because there's no API in the way.
Where Metricool is the better fit
Crossposter is deliberately small, and there are things it doesn't do:
- You want analytics, reports or competitor tracking – that's Metricool's whole point.
- You want to schedule posts from a calendar and have them go out unattended.
- You run several brands or several accounts on the same platform.
- You post from mobile and want an app.
Two limitations worth stating plainly: Crossposter has no scheduling – posts go out when you click Post, and only while your browser is open – and it handles one account per platform at a time. If you run two Instagram accounts, you switch accounts on Instagram itself and crosspost again.
How Crossposter does it
- Right-click a post on any supported platform and choose Crosspost.
- Edit once, pick platforms. The composer captures the text and media; tweak the wording, crop or trim the media, toggle destinations.
- Post natively. Each selected platform's own new-post screen opens, pre-filled. You make the final click, with every native option still available.
There's no sign-up and nothing to connect. Install it, log in to your platforms as usual, and it's ready.
Frequently asked
Is Crossposter a free Metricool alternative?
Only for the cross-posting part. Crossposter shares a post to every platform for free, with no account connections, but it has no analytics, planner or reports – if those are why you'd use Metricool, it isn't a substitute.
Does Crossposter work with a personal Instagram or Facebook account?
Yes. Metricool publishes through the platforms' business APIs, which don't cover personal profiles. Crossposter fills each site's own composer in your logged-in browser, so any account you can log into works.
Does Crossposter track anything?
No. There's no backend, no analytics and no telemetry; the extension sends nothing to us. If you want statistics about your posts, that's precisely what Metricool provides and Crossposter doesn't.
Metricool is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Crossposter or Mochi Digital AB. Details about Metricool reflect its publicly described plans and features at the time of writing (September 2026); check metricool.com for current pricing and features.