Tesselith vs Planoly

Planoly is built around one job — planning a cohesive Instagram grid with a drag-and-drop visual planner. The narrowness is also the limitation: its network list is short, and anything past visual grid planning (long-form platforms, community networks, deep automation) isn't really what it's for.

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Feature comparison between Tesselith and Planoly
	Tesselith	Planoly
Networks	11 networks	~7 networks
Starting price	Free, then from $15/mo	$16 / mo
Free plan	Yes — a real Free plan	Varies by plan
Client approvals + portal	Included, with client portal	Varies by plan
Evergreen / RSS automation	Evergreen + RSS, built in	Varies by plan
AI writing assistant	Built-in AI assistant	Varies by plan
Per-network previews	True per-network previews	Varies by plan
Local-currency billing	USD + INR, local currency	Varies by region

Planoly details are approximate and last reviewed August 2026; check Planoly’s current plans for exact figures.

Why teams choose Tesselith over Planoly

Everything beyond the grid — long-form (Dev.to, Hashnode), community (Discord, Telegram), and the fediverse (Bluesky, Mastodon) in the same calendar as Instagram.

Automation, AI writing, and real analytics, not just visual planning.

One calendar and one price that scales as channels are added, instead of a tool scoped to a single network's aesthetic.

Client approvals and a portal for anyone managing Instagram on behalf of a client or brand.

Tesselith vs Planoly: questions people ask

Is Tesselith's Instagram grid preview as good as Planoly's?: Tesselith shows a real per-post preview of how content will look before it publishes, covering the actual question a grid preview answers — what will this look like when it's live. Planoly's drag-and-drop 9-grid rearrange view is a specific extra layer on top of that, at the cost of a network list that stops at Instagram and a handful of others.
Why would an Instagram-only creator need more networks?: Most creators end up cross-posting to at least one or two other networks as their audience grows, and that's exactly where Planoly's short network list becomes a hard wall — Tesselith covers the same Instagram workflow without that ceiling.
Does switching from Planoly mean losing the grid-planning workflow?: The core need — seeing how a post will look before it's live — is fully covered by Tesselith's previews. The specific drag-and-drop 9-grid rearrange view doesn't have a pixel-identical equivalent, but it's a thin layer on top of what the previews already show.

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Tesselith vs Planoly

Feature comparison between Tesselith and Planoly
	Tesselith	Planoly
Networks	11 networks	~7 networks
Starting price	Free, then from $15/mo	$16 / mo
Free plan	Yes — a real Free plan	Varies by plan
Client approvals + portal	Included, with client portal	Varies by plan
Evergreen / RSS automation	Evergreen + RSS, built in	Varies by plan
AI writing assistant	Built-in AI assistant	Varies by plan
Per-network previews	True per-network previews	Varies by plan
Local-currency billing	USD + INR, local currency	Varies by region

Tesselith

Planoly

Networks

11 networks

~7 networks

Starting price

Free, then from $15/mo

$16 / mo

Free plan

Yes — a real Free plan

Varies by plan

Client approvals + portal

Included, with client portal

Varies by plan

Evergreen / RSS automation

Evergreen + RSS, built in

Varies by plan

AI writing assistant

Built-in AI assistant

Varies by plan

Per-network previews

True per-network previews

Varies by plan

Local-currency billing

USD + INR, local currency

Varies by region

Why teams choose Tesselith over Planoly

Everything beyond the grid — long-form (Dev.to, Hashnode), community (Discord, Telegram), and the fediverse (Bluesky, Mastodon) in the same calendar as Instagram.

Automation, AI writing, and real analytics, not just visual planning.

One calendar and one price that scales as channels are added, instead of a tool scoped to a single network's aesthetic.

Client approvals and a portal for anyone managing Instagram on behalf of a client or brand.

Tesselith vs Planoly: questions people ask

Is Tesselith's Instagram grid preview as good as Planoly's?

Tesselith shows a real per-post preview of how content will look before it publishes, covering the actual question a grid preview answers — what will this look like when it's live. Planoly's drag-and-drop 9-grid rearrange view is a specific extra layer on top of that, at the cost of a network list that stops at Instagram and a handful of others.

Why would an Instagram-only creator need more networks?

Most creators end up cross-posting to at least one or two other networks as their audience grows, and that's exactly where Planoly's short network list becomes a hard wall — Tesselith covers the same Instagram workflow without that ceiling.

Does switching from Planoly mean losing the grid-planning workflow?

The core need — seeing how a post will look before it's live — is fully covered by Tesselith's previews. The specific drag-and-drop 9-grid rearrange view doesn't have a pixel-identical equivalent, but it's a thin layer on top of what the previews already show.