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QuQi vs Planable: making posts versus approving them

Planable is the place where posts get reviewed: teams and clients comment, suggest edits and approve, with several levels of approval on Enterprise. QuQi is a crew for one website that makes the posts, their pictures and short videos, publishes them and works on the site too. Planable fits when approval is what slows you down, and QuQi fits when making the content is.

Choose Planable if
  • Your posts pass through several reviewers before they go out.
  • You want native previews and an Instagram grid to plan with.
  • You add many clients and colleagues and want no charge per user.
Choose QuQi if
  • Nobody on your team has time to write the posts or make the pictures.
  • You want blog articles published, not only planned.
  • You want SEO and AI search covered next to social.

Who does the work, step by step

One week of social posts, and where the work lands in each tool.

01

Plan the week

With PlanableYou lay out campaigns, labels and posts in the feed or calendar, beside blog posts and newsletters.
With QuQiSocial Copywriter plans from the strategy QuQi wrote for your site, and you can ask the chat to plan a stretch of days at once.
02

Write the posts

With PlanablePlanable AI drafts or rewrites the caption, and teammates comment, annotate and suggest edits.
With QuQiOne idea becomes a version for each channel, and each version opens with a different line.
03

Make the visual

With PlanableYou upload it, touch it up in the media editor or bring it from Canva.
With QuQiA picture or carousel is designed for the post with your website’s fonts and logo, and a carousel reaches LinkedIn as a swipeable PDF.
04

Schedule

With PlanableApprovers sign off, and Planable publishes to nine networks or schedules the post once it is approved.
With QuQiPosts go out on the crew’s calendar, or each one waits for your OK when the Social posts switch says so.
05

Reply and report

With PlanableThe inbox and analytics are add-ons per workspace, included on Enterprise, and listening is one more.
With QuQiQuQi stops at publishing. It has no inbox, no replies and no post analytics.

QuQi vs Planable, feature by feature

What it does Planable QuQi
Articles and your website
Publishes them to your website by itself No Blog posts can be planned and approved, not published Yes WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, Notion or a webhook; Wix as draftsEvery paid plan
SEO and AI search
Audits the site’s technical SEO No SE Ranking, its parent company, sells SEO separately Yes A weekly audit of 56 checks
Keyword and backlink database to explore No No It researches keywords for its own articles
Checks whether AI assistants recommend you No Yes ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, weekly
Social media
Writes social posts Yes Captions from a prompt, an image or a video Yes Worded for each channel, with a picture or video
Posts to your social channels Yes 9 networks; on Basic, X takes one post a day Yes Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Threads, Pinterest, X, Google Business, YouTubeEvery paid plan
Inbox for comments and messages Paid add-on Priced per workspace; included on Enterprise No
Social analytics and reports Paid add-on Priced per workspace; included on Enterprise No
Pictures and video
Makes on-brand pictures and carousels No You upload them, edit them or bring them from Canva Yes In your website’s fonts, logo and colours
Makes short videos No You upload it; music can be added on TikTok and Reels Yes With a voice, music and your own products
Hands-on editor to do it yourself Partly A media editor for uploads, and a Canva connection No You ask for changes in words
How the work happens
Works on a calendar without being asked Partly Recurring posts, and auto-scheduling once approved Yes Each teammate has its own days and times
Asks before anything goes live Yes Required on Pro, multi-level on Enterprise Yes Articles, posts and page fixes each have a switch
Seats for a team Yes Unlimited users on every plan Yes Owner, admin, editor and viewer roles
API Yes Public API on Pro; MCP connector on every plan Yes REST API, webhooks and an MCP server

QuQi’s column is for a paid plan. The free plan audits and analyses the website, and publishing starts on a paid plan.

Planable’s details were checked on October 18, 2026 on its own pages: planable.io/pricing, planable.io/wp-content/uploads/downloads/planable-pricing.md, planable.io/guides/planable-ai, changelog.planable.io/planable-mcp-connect-your-ai-assistant-338492, planable.io/universal-content . Plans and features change, so check there before you buy. Planable is a trademark of its owner; QuQi is not affiliated with it.

What each one costs

Planable charges per workspace, one per brand or client, with unlimited users and a cap on posts and pages that rises with the plan. The inbox, analytics and listening are add-ons per workspace. QuQi charges per website, and the plan’s monthly credits pay for what the crew makes, with team seats included.

Planable
Free trialYour first 50 posts, with no time limit and no card
Free
Basic60 posts and 4 pages a workspace, optional approvals
$39 a month per brand$33 a month billed yearly
Pro150 posts, 10 pages, required approvals, grid, API
$59 a month per brand$49 a month billed yearly
EnterpriseUnlimited posts, approvals in levels, SSO, inbox
Custom pricing

As listed on October 18, 2026 · Planable’s pricing page

QuQi
FreeAudits and analyses the website. Publishing starts on a paid plan.
Free
Starter300K credits a month for the whole crew
$29 a month per website$24.17 a month billed yearly
Growth800K credits a month for the whole crew
$79 a month per website$65.83 a month billed yearly
Scale2M credits a month for the whole crew
$199 a month per website$165.83 a month billed yearly

Billed per website. The whole crew shares the credits, and unused plan credits carry over for a month. See pricing

What it takes to cover the same jobsPlanable handles the social calendar in this figure, and the other bars are the tools from this comparison that would cover the rest of QuQi’s jobs.
Planable
Schedules the social posts
$39 a month per brand
Jasper
Writes the articles
$69 a month per seat
Canva
Designs the pictures
$18 a month
Semrush
SEO audits and keyword data
$139 a month
Together $265 a month
QuQi Starter $29 a month
QuQi Growth $79 a month
QuQi Scale $199 a month

Each tool at its first paid plan, billed monthly, as its own pricing page listed it when we checked. They are not the same products: the bars show what a set of tools costs, not that one replaces another feature for feature.

Where Planable is stronger

  • Approvals in levels, approval links for people without an account, and team-only notes and drafts.
  • Previews that look like each network, with a grid view for Instagram.
  • Unlimited users in every workspace, so reviewers cost nothing extra.
  • An MCP connector on every plan and a public API on Pro, plus inbox and listening add-ons.

Where QuQi is stronger

  • It makes the content: posts worded for each channel, a picture or carousel for each one, and short videos.
  • It publishes articles to your CMS instead of only planning them.
  • A weekly SEO audit, page fixes through QuQi Edge with an undo, and weekly checks of AI answers.

Using Planable and QuQi together

A clean split is by job. Keep Planable for the social calendar your clients review, and switch off Social Copywriter in QuQi. The rest of the crew then works on your website: Copywriter publishes the articles, SEO Auditor and Page Optimizer fix the pages, and AI Visibility checks what assistants say about you.

Or split by brand. QuQi runs the posts for your own website, where a single OK is enough, while client brands with long approval chains stay in Planable with their reviewers.

Compare QuQi with similar tools

Loomly

A social media management platform with an AI Assistant, approvals, an inbox and social listening, used by brands, agencies and small marketing teams.

Sprout Social

A social media suite for publishing, a shared Smart Inbox, reporting and listening, built for marketing and customer care teams that manage many profiles.

Hootsuite

A social media management suite, now called Social OS, for teams that publish, answer messages, listen and report across many accounts, priced per user.

Sendible

A social media scheduler and agency dashboard with unlimited users, client approvals, an inbox and branded reports, for agencies and multi-location brands.

Buffer

A social media scheduler with a free plan and per-channel pricing, made for creators and small businesses who write and design their own posts.

Every comparison

QuQi vs Planable: common questions

Is QuQi cheaper than Planable?

They price different things. Planable charges per workspace and adds the inbox, analytics and listening per workspace on top. QuQi charges per website for a crew that also makes the posts, writes articles and audits the site. You can read both price lists in the pricing section above.

Does Planable publish blog posts?

Planable’s Universal Content lets you plan, review and approve blog posts, newsletters and ads in the same calendar as social. Publishing them happens in your own tools. QuQi’s Copywriter publishes articles to your CMS itself.

Can Claude or ChatGPT work with Planable and QuQi?

Both have MCP. Planable’s connector lets an assistant draft posts in your workspaces, and those stay drafts until someone publishes them in Planable. QuQi’s MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor write, schedule or publish posts and articles, each one previewed and confirmed.

Does Planable do SEO now that SE Ranking owns it?

Planable itself has no SEO audit, keyword data or AI visibility tracking. SE Ranking sells those as its own products. In QuQi, the SEO audit, page fixes and AI answer checks come with the same crew that posts.

Can I use Planable and QuQi together?

Yes. Keep Planable wherever clients review posts, and let QuQi handle the website, or the posts for a brand that needs no outside approval.

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