CoSchedule Marketing Suite vs. Google Calendar

CoSchedule Marketing Suite

Google Calendar

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	CoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.	N/A
Google Calendar	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service, from Google, available as part of its productivity tool suite.	N/A

Pricing

CoSchedule Marketing Suite

Google Calendar

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Google Calendar
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Google Calendar
Considered Both Products	CoSchedule Marketing Suite Verified User Anonymous Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Hootsuite has gotten soooooo expensive in relation to the functionality it provides. The value is just not there compared to when prices were lower for SMBs. In contrast, CoSchedule Marketing Suite provides huge value for the price and the tiered pricing based on users, number … Incentivized Helpful? Kèlene Poyurs Co-Founder Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule is definitely a more powerful marketing tool than Loomly or Buffer, which are more dedicated to straight social media scheduling. I preview the calendar overview offered by CoSchedule, which makes it easy to see everything at a glance. PromoRepublic is similar but … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule offers a lot more than some of its competitors, but you have to evaluate what your organization needs and doesn't need. For some organizations, they only need a content planner for social media, and CoSchedule might not be the best fit due to price compared to some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also … Incentivized Helpful? Alexa Tsongranis Founder Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite After trying other social media scheduling tools, CoSchedule is my favorite. Like I said previously, it fills the gaps I've found in other tools. I feel more organized with CoSchedule and prefer their mobile app as well. Incentivized Helpful? Kinga Odziemek Owner Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite CoSchedule better supports the content creation and redistribution of content activities. The best thing was that you can get it all automated here, while other tools do not provide with support. I would say CoSchedule is one of the best tools for managing both content and … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Miller Brand Builder & Keynote Speaker Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Hootsuite Pro and Buffer Incentivized Helpful? Al Schoneman Content Marketing Manager Chose CoSchedule Marketing Suite Crescendo has some very powerful features such as a built in editor that provides a simpler editing suite than Wordpress, especially valuable for contributors. The fact that it has multiple levels of contributor/author/editor is a real plus. There is also a comments box that … Incentivized Helpful?	Google Calendar Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar I've used Apple Calendar before, and it's ok for my phone, but for doing things on my computer, I trust google calendar much more. Incentivized Helpful? Sherby Gully Teacher Chose Google Calendar I have used iCal for apple. I like this better because I don’t always have to put in the dates when things are due. It die that for me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar is a close competitor and I think wins in certain categories like general appearance and enabling focus hours & working hours. However, Microsft 365's calendar just seems like it has been built out more with a focus on business use case (despite still having … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar I haven't extensively used any other products similar to Google Calendar, but I do prefer the interface more than Calendly Incentivized Helpful? Audrey Hallem System Administrator Chose Google Calendar Aside from being easier to use, Google Calendar appears to be more organized. To avoid having to move between daily, weekly, and monthly views, I prefer that numerous views are available at a time. Because it syncs with Google Meet, it's really simple not just to schedule … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar is better than Microsoft 365 in pretty much every aspect of the product. Microsoft Outlook's user interface is slow, non-intuitive, and even stressful to use in the long term, while Google Calendar is fast, responsive, and intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? FS Fernando Sagastume Administrative Services Manager Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar is more user-friendly. ClickUp is more for professionals and those who have the computer knowledge to add detailed information. Google Calendar is more versatile and more commonly used among individuals and businesses. Easily connect with other applications. Incentivized Helpful? David Calvert Pastor for Creative Arts Chose Google Calendar There are a lot of overlapping similarities between iCal and Google Calendar, which made it difficult to land on one at first. Ultimately, since we have some folks in Apple environments and some in Microsoft environments, Google was the best option to bridge those workspaces. … Incentivized Helpful? Evan Englezos Digital Coach / Consultant / Developer Chose Google Calendar Compared to Microsoft 365 Outlook calendar, Google Calendar is much fresher and vibrant and easy on the eye. It feels much less cumbersome than 365 products. It is easier to add & schedule events and invite colleagues and clients. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar Notion is great for organizing personal tasks, which Google Calendar isn't the best for. However, Google Calendar is the best for co-working due to its direct Google Meets links, simplicity, and ability to view other people's schedules. Google Calendar is also better to access … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar is much easier to use than iCal in my experience simply because it is more reliable. It particularly seems to work better with the Microsoft suite of products as some of my coworkers who lean on iCal occasionally miss meeting invites as they don't sync correctly … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Avitabile Publisher Chose Google Calendar Most of the other services we would use don't have the same integration with other Google services that Google Calendar has. The ability to view and set things from your email is very convenient. So is the ability to have your notifications automatically show up on an Android … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar outlook is more cumbersome and kind of sucks on mobile in my experience Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar is easy to use & so convenient. I find other calendars clunky. Incentivized Helpful? Mallory Fuller Senior Associate, Worker Experience Chose Google Calendar Google Calendar seems much cleaner and easily syncs to multiple devices. I like that there are multiple views available at a time so as to not have to switch back and forth between daily/weekly/monthly views. The fact that it syncs with Google Meet makes it very easy to not … Incentivized Helpful? Laura Samoisette, LEED AP, WELL AP Energy Efficiency Program Coordinator Chose Google Calendar N/A Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Google Calendar As mentioned, Google Calendar is connected with other Google products. It is a great environment (workspace) which makes our work easier. It is available on desktop and mobile phones. Other time management tools might be outstanding in terms of feature or design but no one beat … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

CoSchedule Marketing Suite

Google Calendar

Content Creation

Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average	Google Calendar - Ratings
Ideation	5.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content collaboration	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content calendar	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Content Publishing

Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 10.0 Ratings 21% above category average	Google Calendar - Ratings
Content distribution	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content promotion	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content automation	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Content Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite 10.0 Ratings 24% above category average	Google Calendar - Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content performance analytics	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Google Calendar
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CoSchedule Marketing Suite	Google Calendar
Likelihood to Recommend	CoSchedule does more than just content planning, it helps you organize your content, betters your content with headline analyzers, and allows you to organize your work and marketing calendars as well. If your organization is in a spot where you need a well-rounded tool to help with content, marketing, or even task organization, CoSchedule might be the right fit. Incentivized Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Read full review	For small businesses or personal use, it works out well. The whole idea of a free platform on a free service is very alluring, especially if you don't have high end or high tech services for such a program already. Calendar would work in most business, school, and personal situations to keep track of where you're headed. Incentivized Matthew Avitabile Publisher Read full review
Pros	Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Makes it easy to schedule meetings and block off time I can see everyone in my org's calendar's as well which makes it convenient when scheduling calls with multiple people so I can see when they have overlapping availabilities. Integration with Zoom and Microsoft Teams for video calls that can be added from the calendar invite itself Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	The import Google Doc to WordPress functionality never worked successfully or reliably for me. So I just manually copy and paste Google Docs to the WordPress editor instead. The social sharing counter was not that helpful, because it only counted Facebook and Google+. Who uses Google+ anymore? Plus, now they don't even show the social counter in the monthly calendar view. so you can't see the numbers without doing some extra digging. In the monthly calendar view, some titles get cut off if they don't wrap cleanly in the day's box. So I would make it look cleaner instead of having words broken up by a hyphen. Incentivized Brandon Weaver Head of Content Read full review	Being able to group a team much easier so I don't have to add the same people over and over again without having to have access right to create a Google group Room or space management, because of repeating events the rooms of the office tend to be always "occupied" but not everyone is there due to how the new hybrid way of working is Better way of working together in the calendar events where it's easier for the team to prepare if I give a clearer better UI of all the documents/presentations they might need to look over Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's a bit outdated on how things should be working, the UI per say hasn't changed much and I believe there is still a lot more room for improvement in how the calendar shows, the creating process, the parameters on setting up an event and it could be better integrated with the g-suite and other tools Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums. Incentivized Ben Caplan Risk Manager, and Insurance Agent Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	CoSchedule is definitely a more powerful marketing tool than Loomly or Buffer, which are more dedicated to straight social media scheduling. I preview the calendar overview offered by CoSchedule, which makes it easy to see everything at a glance. PromoRepublic is similar but has the added Canva-type integration, which makes it more appealing to our clients who want to be able to easily put together their own images. CoSchedule is a bit pricy, which can be prohibitive for clients who don't pay in dollars. Incentivized Kèlene Poyurs Co-Founder Read full review	Google Calendar is a close competitor and I think wins in certain categories like general appearance and enabling focus hours & working hours. However, Microsft 365's calendar just seems like it has been built out more with a focus on business use case (despite still having many grievances with Microsoft 365). Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Operationally, it is easier and faster to train new staff and get them comfortable in their roles and with their projects. We are producing more content, faster. We are more aware of what everyone else in the department is working on. Incentivized Nate Casimiro Marketing Operations Manager Read full review	Very significant improvement in employee productivity (more than 10%), because people spend much less time arranging meetings. Essential tool to develop remote work within the company during Covid. No need to build an email infrastructure (significant cost reduction in IT infrastructure). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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