CoveDeck vs Buffer

Buffer is the cleanest way to keep a posting queue full. CoveDeck is for when the bottleneck is making the video, not queuing it.

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What Buffer is good at

Credit where it is due

We would rather you picked the right tool than picked ours. Here is what Buffer genuinely does well.

Simplicity. Buffer is genuinely pleasant to use and does not make you learn a system before you can post, which is more than most tools in this category manage.

A wide spread of connected platforms and a queue model that keeps a cadence going without you thinking about exact times.

Being cheap and quick to set up if all you need is to stop posting the same thing by hand five times.

The real difference

A full queue does not mean a full pipeline

Buffer solves the last ten minutes of your week. It has nothing to say about the other twenty hours: what you are filming, where that footage lives, which cut your editor is on, and whether the thumbnail is done. If your queue keeps running dry, the problem is upstream of the scheduler, and adding a better scheduler will not fix it.

Side by side

Feature by feature

Capabilities only, no prices: both products change theirs, and a stale number helps nobody.

CoveDeck compared with Buffer, feature by feature
CapabilityCoveDeckBuffer
Schedule to several platforms at onceYesYes
Posting queue and calendarYesYes
Follower and engagement analyticsYesYes
Project pipeline with your own stagesYes-
Script writing with a teleprompterYes-
Raw footage storage with previewsYes-
Video review with timecoded commentsYes-
Hand work to an editor inside the toolYes-

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The honest answer

So which one should you use?

Stick with Buffer

Choose Buffer if you mostly post text and images, you already know what you are posting, and you want the lightest possible tool that does exactly one job well.

Try CoveDeck

Choose CoveDeck if the reason you miss uploads is that the video was not ready, and you want the planning, the footage, and the publishing to sit in the same place.

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