AI marketing and social media tools: 19 tools for office work
Updated · By Robert Breen
Small teams are expected to post every day on several platforms, send newsletters and rank in search. AI marketing tools plan and schedule posts, turn one idea into many formats, answer comments and DMs, and show what to write to rank. Pick the few that cover your channels rather than one tool per network.
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19 AI marketing and social media tools
Each card says what the tool does for a working professional and whether it is free, has a free plan or trial, or is paid. 2 have a free Stepthrough lesson where you practice it step by step.
- Buffer: Free plan. Schedule posts to every major social network, with an AI assistant for ideas and rewrites. Simple analytics.
- Hootsuite: Free trial. Social media management for teams: scheduling, inbox, listening and AI-written captions.
- SocialBee: Free trial. Plan a week of social posts in one sitting with content categories, AI captions and evergreen recycling. Free lesson: Plan a Week of Social Posts in One Sitting using SocialBee
- Later: Free trial. Visual social scheduling for Instagram, TikTok and more, with AI captions and link-in-bio pages.
- Sprout Social: Free trial. Social publishing, engagement, listening and reporting for brands and agencies, with AI assist.
- Metricool: Free plan. Plan, schedule and measure social media and ads in one dashboard. Free plan for one brand.
- Blotato: Free trial. Turn one piece of content into posts, videos and carousels for every platform and schedule them. Built for creators and small teams.
- Predis.ai: Free plan. Generates social posts, carousels and short videos from a text prompt, then schedules them.
- Taplio: Free trial. AI tools to write, schedule and analyze LinkedIn posts and grow a personal brand.
- Manychat: Free plan. Automates Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp DMs, so comments and messages turn into leads and bookings. Free lesson: Turn Instagram Comments into Booked Consultations using Manychat
- Mailchimp: Free plan. Email marketing and automations with AI help for subject lines, content and send times.
- Klaviyo: Free plan. Email and SMS marketing for online stores, with AI segments, predictions and flows.
- Semrush: Free plan. SEO, keyword research, competitor analysis and AI writing tools for search marketing.
- Ahrefs: Paid. SEO research for backlinks, keywords and rankings, with AI content helpers and free webmaster tools.
- Surfer: Paid. Optimizes articles to rank in search with content scores, outlines and an AI writer.
- Clearscope: Paid. Content optimization that shows which topics a page should cover to rank, for SEO writers.
- AdCreative.ai: Free trial. Generates ad images, copy and variations in bulk and predicts which will perform best.
- Brand24: Free trial. Monitors mentions of your brand across social, news and the web with AI sentiment analysis.
- Ocoya: Free trial. Create, schedule and analyze social content with AI copy and design templates.
Learn them free, step by step
Practice in a safe copy of the real tool, with every step checked as you go.
- SocialBee: Plan a Week of Social Posts in One Sitting using SocialBee (12 min)
- Manychat: Turn Instagram Comments into Booked Consultations using Manychat (18 min)
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