Loomly alternative
Loomly ships a calendar and generic content prompts. Sked ships the full workflow: Ideas, approvals, Smart assist, unified inbox, listening and reporting.
Holiday gift boxes are open for pre-order: seeded rye, chocolate babka, house granola and a jar of hot honey butter, $58. Limited to 80 boxes. Order at the counter or through the link in bio. Pre-orders close the 18th, or when they're gone. Local delivery available the final week before the holidays. #giftideas #holidayshopping #shoplocal
five years of salt theory this month. we started with one suit and a folding table at a saturday market. there's a pattern room now, and eleven pieces, and all of you. thank you. anniversary offer drops next week. waitlist hears first, link in bio. and if you were one of our first hundred orders, check your inbox this week. #fiveyears #smallbusiness
Some news: from next month, our counter coffee comes from Cooper Lane Roasters, a small-batch roastery 11 streets away. We tried nine local roasters before picking. Their medium roast plus one of our morning buns is the best $9 breakfast in the neighbourhood. Retail bags hit our shelf the same week, $19. #localcoffee #shoplocal
We're hiring a Head Coach for Dockside. Lead a team of five, own the programming calendar, coach the floor daily. This is not a clipboard job. 5+ years coaching strength and experience developing coaches required. Salary range is in the posting. Full details on our careers page, and applications close end of month. Know someone perfect? Send this their way.
This weekend's specials: cardamom knots, pear and frangipane tart, and the breakfast pie is back. The pie sells out every single week, usually before 10am. Want a sure thing? Pre-order at the counter by Friday close. Doors at 7, Saturday and Sunday. #weekendbaking #breakfastpie #bakerylife
Saturday: Riverside Market, stall 14, 8am until sold out. New this week: rye crackers made from offcuts of the seeded loaf, $6 a bag, great with the cheddar from the dairy stall next to us. Zero waste, very good snack. Come tell us what you think.
Winter menu lands Wednesday. New: braised leek and gruyere danish, a darker city loaf, and hot honey butter for the morning buns. Full list goes up on the board and here at 9am, and we'll be sampling the danish at the counter all morning. The favourites aren't going anywhere. We're just adding.
Side by side
Each tool's own published capabilities, grouped by what actually matters when you switch. For the full 13-tool view, see the all-tools comparison.
AI & agents
Sked's MCP connector is live and rolling out to Grow plans and up, so the AI tools your team already uses can work from your real Sked data: analytics, calendar and brand context. Here's how that compares to Loomly.
The honest take
No tool is best at everything. Here is the balanced read, with public sources linked so you can judge for yourself.
From public reviews on G2, Capterra and Reddit.
Reddit users report that a 2025 pricing overhaul raised renewal costs steeply and removed mid-tier plans, leaving a large gap between the Starter and Beyond tiers.
View source →Reviewers cite recurring Instagram and publishing limitations, including API restrictions on video and image uploads.
View source →Trustpilot reviewers complain that support is chatbot-only with no way to reach a human agent.
View source →Reviewers note limited analytics and an editor that feels clunky to work in.
View source →Loomly meters AI usage on its Starter plan and gates its stronger AI features, Reply with AI and AI analytics, to the pricier Beyond tier.
View source →Pricing
What Loomly publishes today, not just the headline price, so you can compare like for like against Sked's Grow plan ($69/mo).
Pricing checked 2026-07-05. Monthly list price; annual billing and add-ons differ. Always confirm on Loomly's pricing page.
Loomly's content prompts are useful when you're stuck. But generic prompts aren't a strategy, and a calendar without approval chains, AI, or reporting is just a shared spreadsheet with better styling.
Three places Sked extends the picture
Voice-trained captions, concepts, report commentary, review replies. One AI across every workflow, not generic prompts from a template library.
Comments, DMs, mentions and Google Business Profile reviews in one queue. AI reply suggestions in your brand voice. Sentiment analysis included. Loomly has no inbox.
Instagram Stories with auto-publishing link stickers. TikTok carousels. YouTube Shorts. LinkedIn document carousels. Channel-specific quirks handled.
24/7 human support across chat, email, phone, and Zoom on Grow and Accelerate plans. Real humans across Sydney, London, and New York time zones. Average reply: 4 minutes.
Ideas, approvals, AI, inbox, listening, reporting: Sked bundles every stage of social into one workspace. Loomly does scheduling-plus-calendar well; beyond that, you're stacking other tools anyway.
Past the calendar
Common questions
Smart assist (voice-trained across captions, commentary and replies). A unified inbox for comments, DMs and Google reviews. Social listening across channels. A built-in timeline video editor. Auto-publishing Instagram Story link stickers.
Sked Ideas ships pillar-organised ideation with Smart assist concept generation, tuned to your brand voice, not generic prompt libraries. Better than prompts: ideas that sound like you and route through approval chains.
Loomly Base runs about $32/mo; Standard $60/mo; Advanced ~$131/mo. Basic $29 and Grow $69 land in the same range with AI and a unified inbox included, plus listening on Accelerate, features Loomly either doesn't ship or gates to top tiers.
Yes. Export scheduled posts from Loomly; our onboarding team imports the calendar into Sked along with any saved drafts and media library. Typical switch lands in under a week.
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Can we swap the second photo? Otherwise good to go.