The short version: it's not another social media management service. It's your browser doing the legwork.
How is this different from Buffer?
Buffer (like Hootsuite and similar tools) is a paid third-party service: you connect your
accounts to their platform, your posts flow through their servers, and you pay a monthly
fee per channel. Crossposter takes the opposite approach:
- Completely free. No subscription, no per-channel pricing, no "free plan" limits to outgrow.
- 100% local. Everything runs inside your browser. Your posts, media, and sessions never touch a third-party server.
- No account connections. You never hand over OAuth access or credentials to anyone. Crossposter simply uses the sites you're already signed into.
- Works with private Instagram and Facebook accounts. Because it fills each site's own composer in your logged-in browser, it works with personal and private accounts that scheduling APIs don't support.
- No API rate limits or platform approvals. Crossposter doesn't depend on each network's partner API staying available or affordable — it uses the same composer you do.
- You stay in control. Nothing is ever auto-published. Each network's native composer opens pre-filled and waits for your click.
- Native features stay available. Because you finish in the real composer, you can still add polls, tag people, pick a reel cover — anything the site itself offers.
The trade-off: Crossposter doesn't schedule posts for later or post while your browser is
closed — it's built for "share this everywhere, right now."
Can I share other people's posts, or only my own?
Both. Crossposter captures whatever post you right-click — something you wrote,
or a great post you spotted in your feed and want to share on your other networks. The text and
media land in the composer either way, so you can add your own commentary or credit the original
author before posting. Just respect the original creator's rights and each platform's terms.
Does it post automatically?
No — and that's deliberate. Crossposter never clicks a final Post button. It opens each
network's own composer, pre-filled with your text and media, and leaves the final click to you. You
always see exactly what's about to go out, on each network, before it does.
Do I need to give it my passwords or connect my accounts?
Never. Crossposter doesn't ask for credentials, tokens, or account connections. You sign in
to each social network normally, in your own browser, and Crossposter uses those existing sessions.
Which networks are supported?
Crossposter works in both directions across X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Upscrolled,
Instagram, and Facebook — share a post from any of them, to any of them.
Does it handle images and video?
Yes — media travels with the post. Crossposter downloads the original photos and
video (with a built-in video downloader for X, LinkedIn, and Bluesky; stream-only HLS videos are
converted to MP4 right in your browser) and uploads them as genuine files into each destination's
own composer. Image alt text is captured and editable along the way.
Is my data collected or tracked?
No. There's no backend, no analytics service, and no account. Captured posts and media
live in your browser's local storage while you compose, and that's it.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Crossposter is completely free — there's no server infrastructure to pay for,
so there's nothing to charge you for.