Eleven years in social scheduling

I Built a Bulk Social Media Scheduling Tool for Over a Decade

Bulkly is closed. What is left is everything I learned about scheduling, recycling and posting at scale, plus honest recommendations for the tools still doing it well.

Chris Makara
Founder of Bulkly (2015 to 2026). Now running Ciked.

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My recommendation

What I would use instead

Most tools schedule posts. Bulkly did two things most of them still do badly: bulk CSV uploads and evergreen recycling. If those are why you are here, a general scheduler will disappoint you.

My top pick

Publer

Best overall replacement for Bulkly

A bootstrapped, founder-run company that is still shipping, with a genuinely free plan and CSV import as a first-class feature at up to 500 posts per file. It is the shortest path from where you are to where you are going.

Free plan available. Paid tiers start around $5 per month for a single account.

Where it wins

Where it is weaker than Bulkly

My Publer link is an affiliate link. If you sign up through it I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I recommend it because it is the closest replacement for what Bulkly did, and I have said plainly where it falls short.

From eleven years of support tickets

What actually matters in a bulk posting tool

Which features people genuinely use, and which ones only look good on a pricing page.

Real bulk upload

Not "paste ten posts". A CSV of several hundred rows, with media, mapped across accounts in one pass. Check the per-file limit before you commit.

Category recycling

Evergreen content should sit in a category that refills its own queue. Per-post recycling is a far more manual thing wearing the same name.

Failure handling

Tokens expire and platforms reject posts. What matters is whether the tool tells you, and how much of your queue dies quietly when it happens.

The story

What happened to Bulkly

The app stopped working on August 31, 2026. Social scheduling got crowded, the tools that are winning ship AI features faster than a one-person operation can match, and I had been putting my time elsewhere.

Rather than let a product I was not improving quietly rot, I closed it properly, with notice, refunds and an honest recommendation.

Bulkly’s content composer, 2026

Still here

A decade of writing about social media

Several hundred posts on scheduling, automation, content strategy and audience growth, written by me and by guest contributors over the years. All still here, and still free.