HeyOrca vs. Sendible

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HeyOrca
Score 9.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
HeyOrca is a solution that allows an agency’s clients to review and approve upcoming social media content. The vendor aims to help agencies save time by moving away from using spreadsheets and docs to communicate and obtain approvals from their clients. With this solution, no logins or spreadsheets are needed. Agencies can invite clients into a visual stakeholder-friendly view where they can approve and provide feedback without needing to sign up. Agencies can also record every change made to…
$0
Sendible
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Sendible is a social media marketing platform that allows users to engage with their audience and track results across multiple social media channels at any time.
$29
per month 1 user and 6 profiles
Pricing
HeyOrcaSendible
Editions & Modules
Solo
$0
Basic
$59
per month per calendar
Standard
$99.00
per month per calendar
Pro
$149
per month per calendar
Creator
$29
per month 1 user and 6 profiles
Traction
$89
per month 4 users and 24 profiles
Scale
$199
per month 7 users and 49 profiles
Advanced
$299
per month 20 users and 100 profiles
Enterprise
$750
per month 80 users and 400 profiles
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HeyOrcaSendible
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPlans start at: $99 USD Per Month. From there, the price scales according to your needs, up to a maximum of $499 USD per month.15% discount if paying annually. 15% monthly discount or 25% annual discount offered to non-profits.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
HeyOrcaSendible
Considered Both Products
HeyOrca
Chose HeyOrca
HeyOrca is definitely more for the agency level than Hootsuite. Hootsuite is fairly limited, even at its larger plans. HeyOrca is geared towards agencies, and that is definitely clear in the interface and arrangement. Hootsuite sure seems like more of a consumer product than a …
Chose HeyOrca
Much easier to use and understand.
HeyOrca does what they do and they do it best, they don't complicate it with other things like Sprout Social does.
Chose HeyOrca
Say HeyOrca is more streamlined and user-friendly. We use to use HootSuite but a lot of our clients were confused because the dashboard is cluttered. I do think HootSuite has more SEO capabilities.
Chose HeyOrca
Hootsuite is definitely a popular platform and we used to use it but felt as though it wasn't super client friendly. We had a lot of confused clients that found it harder to understand and monitor their social content. I think HeyOrca does a better job with the calendar layout …
Chose HeyOrca
While other programs have their benefits, the client approval process for Hey Orca is great and the program is easier to use and more closely resembles how work will look when published on a platform.
Sendible
Chose Sendible
While lacking in some features compared to those big alternatives, Sendible doesn't stop releasing new features every few months and doesn't cost nearly as much monthly as they do for the amount of profiles they allow to manage. Overall I'd say it's a solid competitor if they …
Chose Sendible
Vendasta is HORRIBLE!!! I still get OneUp email and I am very impressed by there consistent improvements which I bring to Sendible's attention. However OneUp is not white labeled.
Chose Sendible
Sendible offers outstanding value for money with majority of the features offered by more expensive platforms at a much lower cost.

We were using a combination of Hootsuite and Sendible. Sendible remains our primary social media scheduling tool and we were using the free …
Chose Sendible
Sendible integrates with almost every social media platform and upon request they can even add a channel for you that is not currently integrated, an offer you can not get elsewhere. If your business is focused on selling more, increasing website traffic or expanding the …
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CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking (formerly Luceo), Adobe Analytics, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro
Chose Sendible
Sendible totally knocks the rest of the competition out of the water. I have literally tried every single other scheduling app that out there and this platform is the best to view and keep scheduled posts up with ease. You can read and respond to messages right from the home …
Chose Sendible
I don't think the other listed platforms are "bad" per se. I really wanted/needed a more robust platform that was easy to use and implement and I felt the others fell short in terms of what I needed it for. For instance, I think that Buffer has a great company, and a great …
Chose Sendible
We have used Hootsuite since 2013, but their pricing is high and we can't afford that since we are a small team. Then we tried Buffer, but Buffer is limiting the number of social media platforms that you can manage. Buffer doesn't have a lot of functions and their analytics …
Chose Sendible
Sendible is much more updated, both in aesthetics and function, than Hootsuite is. When I open our content manager, I don't want to immediately feel stressed by the amount of things on the screen. Sendible's UI is wonderfully clean and easy to learn/follow. I feel much more in …
Chose Sendible
Sendible is a step beyond tools such as Buffer and Hootsuite Pro. Sendible is a slightly more professional platform than these, adding features that agencies will benefit from.

Compared to similar products such as Sprout Social, the pricing made a lot more sense with Sendible …
Chose Sendible
We used a combination of Hootsuite and Sendible. Sendible allowed us to fill holes that Hootsuite could not provide coverage for at the time.
Chose Sendible
I've used full marketing automation platforms, which contain this functionality and much more. I've used HootSuite. Sendible is cheap and doesn't work very well. Give it a trial. If it works for you, great! But consider what your social media goals are. Saving yourself time on …
Chose Sendible
You get what you pay for, Vocus is crazy expensive and most smaller businesses do not need this type of reporting.
Chose Sendible
Sendible is in a different world. Hootsuit was terribly poor. It was a bad thought and i came right back to sendible.
Features
HeyOrcaSendible
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Sendible
9.3
Ratings
15% above category average
Content planning and scheduling10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow management8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
9.0
Ratings
13% above category average
Sendible
7.5
Ratings
6% below category average
Bulk actions9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
9.3
Ratings
10% above category average
Sendible
10.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Twitter10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Facebook9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
LinkedIn9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Instagram9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
Sendible
9.0
Ratings
12% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile access7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Sendible
8.3
Ratings
7% above category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Sendible
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Sendible
6.7
Ratings
16% below category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
HeyOrcaSendible
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HeyOrcaSendible
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are looking for a great way to create, send for approval, and schedule/post social content, you won't find anything easier or more straightforward than HeyOrca. Especially great if you need multiple people to approve or have multiple social accounts to manage. HeyOrca also gives you a great overview of all social media and an idea of the strategy and how it all works together.
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I have a fairly straightforward use case for Sendible and it meets almost all of my needs. If you are a small company that needs a collaborative solution to social media content creation, and likely has a small team (or no team) to manage social media postings, I think Sendible is likely a great tool to schedule posts and largely automate social media marketing. A larger company or more involved marketing team could still use Sendible to schedule and collaborate on posts. However, there may be additional features they may want or need (like the ability to promote posts) that may not be available with Sendible.
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Pros
  • HeyOrca has outstanding customer service. Whenever I have a question or issue I contact the HeyOrca team and they respond within minutes. They go above and beyond to help you resolve any issues and communicate to make sure the issue is fixed and everything is ready to go. They also make sure to ask you if there is anything else you need.
  • HeyOrca notifies you if any of your posts don't have a valid link or if the post needs to be edited. This is convenient because I can go in, know there is an issue, and then make changes accordingly.
  • HeyOrca has an amazing user-friendly layout. My clients love it because it's easy to see and it allows them to comment on any post.
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  • Content Calendar. It is easy to filter channels to get an overall look at what content is to post for any given channel.
  • Customer Support. They are quick to respond/alert when something is down or if you need assistance with anything regarding their product.
  • Organization. It is very easy to find what you are looking for. If there was a post that didn't go up, there is a place to find it and report it. If there was a task assigned to me, I know exactly where to go to complete it.
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Cons
  • We had some issues with the timing of posts and posts not going out when they updated their platform recently.
  • Missing out on posting directly to Instagram (we have to use another platform for this).
  • Doesn't support Instagram stories, so we have to denote which ones are for Instagram stories and which ones are for Instagram newsfeed.
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  • I would love to see more services available to add as I'm constantly adding new customers.
  • It would be great and very useful if they had a clickable calendar to view which dates are already booked with posts for a quick reference while scheduling new posts.
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Likelihood to Renew
We decided today that we were renewing our use
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If I am given a larger budget to work with then I'd like a program that tracks and collects my PR hits, as well as sends me important info to respond to. I realy like the way New Brand Analytics tracks my Trip Advisor,etc ratings
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Usability
Hey Orca has a lot of really great features, they make the workflow really easy and are extremely available for help with questions. I think there are some minor workflow issues that it could overcome and features it could add on that are available in other apps. It definitely doesn't offer the best analytics and also hasn't offered single image direct publishing like hootsuite does. Yet, it's benefits outweigh those minor inconveniences for our team
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The reporting can be a little clunky, and the uploading of files while straight forward is a little clunky too as far as just a simple drag/drop. However, the rest of the platform works great. The RSS feed feature is fantastic to curate content, and the calendar is easy to use to get the scheduling process started. Overall this platform is straightforward, easy to use and a great alternative to the wallet theives of the industry
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Support Rating
Support is really helpful and always giving their best to assist us.
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Sendible has a great resource center which I have used multiple times throughout my year using the platform. There are plenty of troubleshooting articles and guides that make it easy to uncover the root of any small issues I may have.
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Alternatives Considered
Hootsuite is definitely a popular platform and we used to use it but felt as though it wasn't super client friendly. We had a lot of confused clients that found it harder to understand and monitor their social content. I think HeyOrca does a better job with the calendar layout and features.
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Sendible integrates with almost every social media platform and upon request they can even add a channel for you that is not currently integrated, an offer you can not get elsewhere. If your business is focused on selling more, increasing website traffic or expanding the audience then Sendible is worth trying.
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Return on Investment
  • Sustains our clients due to its layout and user-friendliness
  • Doesn't really allow for a lot of SEO work in the platform which doesn't help get clients
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  • It helps my business, to manage my clients social media.
  • However I was hoping to capture more people who want to use the tool as DIY which has not happened.
  • I do not want to let it go but it is currently more of an expense then bringing in a return.
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