Schedule LinkedIn posts free: built-in scheduler and tools

You can schedule LinkedIn posts for free with LinkedIn's own scheduler: it sits in the post composer on personal profiles and company Pages and takes posts up to 3 months ahead. If you want LinkedIn in one calendar with your other networks, use a free scheduler plan that includes it, such as Zoho Social (a LinkedIn profile and a LinkedIn Page among 6 accounts) or Buffer (any 3 channels).

What this means for you

If LinkedIn is the only place you post, you don't need another tool. A free third-party plan is worth setting up when the same post also goes to X, Instagram or Facebook, or when you want a month of posts in one calendar. Every free plan caps something, either posts a month or posts waiting in the queue, so match the cap to how often you post.

The details

Free way 1: LinkedIn's built-in scheduler

On your profile:

1. On desktop, click Start a post. On mobile, tap Post.
2. Write the post and click the Clock icon.
3. Pick a date and time at least 10 minutes and at most 3 months away.
4. Click Next, then Schedule.

On a company Page, super admins and content admins can schedule posts and newsletter articles from 1 hour to 3 months ahead, and can see, edit, reschedule or delete posts another admin scheduled.

To find what's waiting, open the Create a post window, click the Clock icon, then View all scheduled posts.

What it won't schedule:

• Profiles: events and jobs.
• Pages: events, posts with multiple photos, reshares, polls, jobs and service posts.

Each step, with the Page rules, is in how to schedule LinkedIn posts. If a scheduled post went missing, start with LinkedIn scheduled post not working.

Free way 2: a free social media scheduler with LinkedIn

These free plans include LinkedIn. They're in alphabetical order, with PlanPost, which this site's owner makes, listed last.

We read every figure on the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown. "Not stated" means the page doesn't give the number. Buffer also has a full review.

Which free LinkedIn scheduler to pick

You manage your own profile and a company Page. Zoho Social's free plan sets aside one LinkedIn profile and one LinkedIn Page, and still leaves room for X, Instagram, a Facebook Page and a Google Business Profile. On Buffer or Publer, your profile and your Page would use 2 of the 3 free accounts.

You post several times a week. Swello allows 40 scheduled posts a month and PlanPost 30. Buffer and Publer don't cap the month; they cap the queue at 10 per account, and a slot frees up each time a post goes out.

You write text posts for LinkedIn and X. Typefully is built for text posts and threads on X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon, at 10 posts a month on free.

Free plans that don't help with LinkedIn:

• Metricool's free plan leaves out LinkedIn and X; the LinkedIn connection starts on Starter.
• Mixpost Lite, the free self-hosted edition, covers only Facebook Pages, X and Mastodon.
• Agorapulse's free Archie plan (beta) includes LinkedIn, but new posts can only be created through its AI assistant, with 10 credits a month.

More free plans that include LinkedIn, among them Iconosquare, Publora and Viraly, are in all 39 free social media schedulers.

Why a tool's scheduled posts don't appear in LinkedIn

LinkedIn's Posts API only creates posts that publish at once. A scheduler therefore keeps your post on its side and sends it at the time you chose, so you won't see it under LinkedIn's scheduled posts. Check the tool's queue instead, and reconnect LinkedIn in the tool if a post fails.

Before you schedule: check the length

LinkedIn posts allow 3,000 characters, far more than X or Bluesky. If the same text goes to several networks, paste it into the character counter to see every limit at once. Network specs are on the LinkedIn hub, and sending one post everywhere is covered in post to all social media at once for free.

What to do next

• Business owners: If LinkedIn is your only network, use the Clock icon in LinkedIn and skip the extra tool. If you also post elsewhere, start with Zoho Social for a profile plus a Page, or Swello if you need 40 posts a month.
• Marketers and agencies: Every free plan above allows 1 user, so it can't carry client work. Compare paid plans in Buffer alternatives or the scheduler picker.
• Developers: LinkedIn's Posts API only accepts posts that publish at once, so your app has to hold each post and send it on time. Version changes and sunsets are in the API changelog.