The best iOS apps for advanced social media users: IFTTT, Buffer, Drafts, and more

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Social networks have entangled our daily life very much and if for some it is entertainment or a source of information, for others it is work and a large piece of routine. Whether you are tracking your Twitter followers and monitoring user activity on Facebook, or managing social media in a company, it will be equally useful for you to learn about tools for automating posts, cross-posting and collecting statistics. There are many apps in the App Store that can help you with this, but which ones are worth checking out? This is what I want to tell you in my article.

* * *

IFTTT

IFTTT lets you create automated actions (called recipes) for almost any event that happens. Its possibilities are truly endless, every day more and more different triggers and channels are added to work with. Want to automatically post new photos to Twitter? No problem! Or maybe you want to tweet your Facebook status updates? Easy. IFTTT can do this and much more.

If you need automatic interaction with social networks on many different parameters, there is nothing better than IFTTT.

Buffer

Buffer is a great tool for professional bloggers looking to tweet or post regularly at specific intervals. It provides deferred posting capabilities to App.net, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other popular social networks. With it, you can simultaneously post a record to all networks at once, or schedule a publication only in some of them.

If you need advanced publishing and management options for your posts, Buffer is a great choice for a reasonable price.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a highly functional application for managing your social media posts that allows you to not only schedule pending posts, but also track various statistics. Also, Hootsuite provides additional features such as link shortening service. Currently, the app supports statistics from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare. You can monitor up to 5 of your accounts for free.

If you post a lot of links on various social networks and want to easily monitor them, Hootsuite will be the most convenient tool.

Drafts

Basically, Drafts is a regular text editor, with the only difference that it is quite powerful and has many functions. Not only can you add text and notes to it from almost any application, but you can also publish posts directly from Drafts to all existing social networks (almost). It also supports the Mardown markup language, which allows for better link placement and text formatting. Drafts doesn't have built-in statistics tools, but if you're looking for a universal app that allows you to edit and publish posts, as well as custom actions, you can stop there.

Those looking for versatility and a powerful text editor should give Drafts a try.

Find unfollowers

Find Unfollowers, as the name suggests, allows you to monitor users who have stopped following you on Twitter, but you can also track your new followers with it. By paying a few dollars through in-house purchases, you get even more options, such as various filters for Twitter. Using the app, you can unsubscribe from users according to various criteria, for example: if the user has never interacted with you, tweets too rarely, or does not have an avatar loaded.

If you're looking for a quick way to clean up and customize your Twitter connections, Find Unfollowers is a great choice.

* * *

What applications do you, dear readers, use to track statistics and manage your social media accounts? Tell us about them in the comments!