Buffer, Inc.
4.73star34,139 ratings
Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled
Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.73star average beside 51% negative is the finding, not an error.
4.5out of 5
34,146 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily
high · 37.4% of this app’s 206 negative reviews, against 13.2% typical store-wide.
elevated · 4.9% of this app’s 206 negative reviews, against 2.9% typical store-wide.
elevated · 15% of this app’s 206 negative reviews, against 9.2% typical store-wide.
elevated · 4.4% of this app’s 206 negative reviews, against 2.8% typical store-wide.
elevated · 16.5% of this app’s 206 negative reviews, against 11.5% typical store-wide.
All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.
| App | Ratings | Login & auth |
|---|---|---|
 Apphi: Social Media Scheduler | 3,497 | 45.2% |
 Flick Social | 716 | 43.9% |
 Hootsuite - Social Media Tools | 34,295 | 37.4% |
 Buffer: Plan & Schedule Posts | 34,139 | 37.4% |
 Later: Social Media Scheduler | 2,507 | 36.4% |
 Planoly: Social Media Planner | 26,949 | 31.5% |
 Smart Post: Social Scheduler | 424 | 30% |
 Bluesky Social | 13,669 | 27.7% |
 Publer: Social Media Tools | 23,991 | 21.4% |
 Meta Business Suite | 494,572 | 16.3% |
 Sling: Employee Scheduling App | 27,427 | 9.4% |
Every complaint across social media scheduling apps, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.
Read the social media scheduling apps reportEvery number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.