# AuthoredUp review (2026): is it worth $16.63 a month, billed yearly? > LinkedIn post editor, scheduler and analytics for personal profiles Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. AuthoredUp is a writing and planning tool built only for LinkedIn. A Chrome extension and a web platform provide a formatted editor with previews, drafts, a content calendar, scheduling and post analytics. Plans are billed per connected LinkedIn profile, and company pages are included free. - **Category:** Social Media Schedulers - **Made by:** AuthoredUp - **Website:** https://authoredup.com - **Runs on:** Browser extension, Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you also post to Instagram, X or Facebook, because it covers LinkedIn only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, AuthoredUp is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $16.63 per month, billed annually ($19.95 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial with no credit card required; length not stated. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Individual | $16.63 per month, billed annually ($19.95 billed monthly) | 1 LinkedIn profile, editor, unlimited drafts, calendar, scheduling and analytics. $199.50 billed yearly. | | Business | $12.46 per profile / month, billed annually ($14.95 billed monthly) | Minimum 3 profiles, with sub-accounts, team analytics and draft collaboration. $149.50 per profile yearly. | | Custom Growth Plan | Custom | For teams and agencies with 10 or more profiles, billed annually, with onboarding and training. | Read from https://authoredup.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with AuthoredUp before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months off on yearly billing** (Annual discount): Yearly billing is shown at $199.50 for Individual and $149.50 per profile for Business, labeled as getting 2 months off. Source: https://authoredup.com/pricing ## Key features - **Formatted editor with previews:** Adds bold, italic, bullets and emoji styles LinkedIn lacks, readability scoring, and desktop and mobile previews including the See more fold. - **Drafts and snippets:** Unlimited drafts and snippets, tags and stages for drafts, a hooks library of 200+ opening lines and 150+ closing lines. - **Calendar and scheduling:** A content calendar for profiles, company pages and groups. Scheduling runs through the Chrome extension, with reminders to post and engage. - **Post analytics:** A dashboard with growth timeline, best time to post from your own history, post comparison, CSV export and an analytics API on every plan. - **Company pages and groups:** Manage every company page you administer at no per-page charge, and post into LinkedIn groups from the editor. - **Team features:** The Business plan adds shared drafts, a team calendar, roles and organization-wide analytics. Billing counts connected profiles, not members. ## Good for - Individuals who post regularly on LinkedIn - Agencies and ghostwriters running several client profiles - Teams that want to track LinkedIn performance from one account ## Worth knowing - It covers LinkedIn only; there is no support for other social networks. - Scheduling, video, polls and events publish through the Chrome extension. - Business needs at least 3 connected profiles, and the Custom Growth Plan at least 10. - The Coauthor AI writing assistant is described as a closed beta. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. AuthoredUp is an editor, calendar and analytics tool for LinkedIn and nothing else. It works through a Chrome extension, and Business needs at least 3 profiles. If you post anywhere but LinkedIn, it can't follow you. - **Value for money: B.** $16.63 a month on annual billing ($19.95 monthly) for one LinkedIn profile, just under the category's $17.99 cheaper-quarter mark. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free trial with no card, but its length isn't stated. No free plan. - **Features: C.** Editor with previews, drafts, calendar, scheduling and analytics for LinkedIn. It does that one job fully, but it's a smaller job than a full scheduler. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You install a Chrome extension and connect your LinkedIn account. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web plus a Chrome extension, for one network. No phone apps on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AuthoredUp's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among social media schedulers - AuthoredUp's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 36 of the 90 other social media schedulers we grade, and level with 28. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 72 of 90) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $16.63 a month, against a middle price of $24.46 for the category: 28 of the 79 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 22 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/social-media ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** You could make the core of AuthoredUp for yourself: calendar, templates and reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $199.56 a year. - You could make: Calendar, templates and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, LinkedIn and Chrome among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with LinkedIn, Chrome **Tags:** Calendar, Templates, Reports, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Taplio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/taplio): LinkedIn post writing, scheduling and engagement tool. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/authoredup-vs-taplio) - [Typefully](https://toolgpa.com/tools/typefully): Writing and scheduling for X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and Threads. 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