TweetDeck Alternatives: 6 Tools for X in 2026

TweetDeck is now X Pro and sits behind an X subscription, which is why most of its long-time users went looking for something else. Before you pick a replacement, split the two jobs it did: real-time column monitoring, and scheduling posts.

Almost no tool does both well, and most teams only ever needed one.

TLDR: For monitoring columns, X Pro is still the only native option and Hootsuite streams are the closest third-party one. For scheduling and publishing across platforms, use Mydrop, Buffer or Publer. Decide which job you actually had first.

Mydrop pricing check, September 2026: the entry paid plans of the eight tools most often compared with Mydrop run from $6 per channel (Buffer) and $25 a month (Later) to $99 per user (Hootsuite) and $79 per seat (Sprout Social), read on each vendor's pricing page. Mydrop is free to start, then $19 a month flat, not per seat. Full table on Mydrop's compare pages.

The 6 alternatives at a glance

Tool	Best for	Watch for
Mydrop	Publishing X alongside 8 other platforms	Not a real-time column monitor
X Pro	Native columns, unchanged workflow	Needs a paid X subscription
Hootsuite	Stream-style monitoring	Priced well above this need
Buffer	Simple X scheduling	No monitoring
Publer	Feature depth on a budget	Busy interface
Agorapulse	Mentions and replies at volume	Priced per user, and it adds up

What actually changed

• The free tier ended. Column monitoring now needs a paid X subscription.
• API access tightened, which is why third-party X features vary from tool to tool.
• It was never multi-platform. Teams using it as their scheduler were already publishing everywhere else by hand.
• No approvals or reporting. That mattered less when it was free.

1. X Pro: if columns were the point

Nothing else replicates the native column experience. If real-time monitoring is your job, pay for it and stop shopping.

Skip it if you mostly scheduled posts.

2. Hootsuite: the closest third-party streams

Stream-based monitoring across platforms, which is the nearest thing to the old workflow.

Skip it if monitoring alone can't justify the price.

3. Buffer: if you only ever scheduled

Cheap, simple, and covers X and the other platforms.

Skip it if you need approvals or reporting.

Mydrop: if X was one platform among several

Most former TweetDeck users were scheduling, not monitoring, and doing it for more platforms than just X:

• multi-brand content calendar
• per-platform post preview
• approval workflows and a no-login client portal
• deep per-platform analytics
• social inbox

X publishes from the same calendar as the other 13 networks, with a separate caption for each platform, so the X version can stay short.

When paying for X Pro is right

Journalists, community managers and anyone whose job means watching several live feeds at once should pay for X Pro. No general publishing tool replaces the column view, and pretending otherwise wastes a month.

Rebuilding the workflow

1. Write down which columns you actually watched every day. Most people watch two.
2. Decide whether those are monitoring or scheduling needs.
3. Move scheduling to a multi-platform tool first, since that is where most of the work is.
4. Only pay for monitoring if your daily columns survive that audit.

Most TweetDeck refugees find they were running a scheduler with extra windows. Start free with Mydrop and put X on the same calendar as everything else.