Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    35k

    Postiz: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your social media accounts in one place (Alternative to Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social).

    TL;DR • Postiz • as of August 2026

    Postiz is an open-source analytics project positioned as an alternative to Buffer, Hootsuite, with 35k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 988 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    35k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    988
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 219
    Commits, last 12 months 988
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-04
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Analytics
    Positioned against Buffer, Hootsuite

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Postiz means for your idea

    Crowded · 63/100
    Analytics category →

    Postiz is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.

    Postiz: common questions

    Is Postiz still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Postiz recorded 988 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 219 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-04. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Postiz commercially?

    Postiz is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    Is Postiz a good Buffer, Hootsuite alternative?

    Postiz targets the same job as Buffer, Hootsuite and is actively shipping. Adoption sits at 35k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.

    How crowded is the Analytics category?

    38 open-source implementations, 18 of them actively maintained, led by Superset at 74k stars. Saturation score 63/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.

    Postiz alternatives in Analytics

    Superset

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    74k

    Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    Apache-2.0

    Metabase

    Alternative to Tableau, Power BI, DataStudio, Business intelligence

    49k

    Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Umami

    Alternative to Web analytics

    38k

    Simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    PostHog

    Alternative to Amplitude, MixPanel, Product analytics

    38k

    Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    Redash

    Analytics

    29k

    Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    BSD-2-Clause

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