Here's how Edgar stacks up to Buffer – so you can see for yourself if you and Edgar are meant to be.
How is Edgar different from Buffer?
Like Buffer, Edgar allows you to schedule posts to be shared on social media (with support for Twitter, Facebook profiles and pages, and LinkedIn profiles and company pages). Edgar, however, has several major differences.
When Buffer posts one of your updates to social media, it is deleted from the app – eventually, your queue will run dry and Buffer will stop posting to your accounts.
Edgar stores your updates online in a category-based library, where they remain even after they've been posted. Your queue never runs dry and you're able to share your posts again and again.
Resharing your best content, then, means it can reach as many fans as possible, while also ensuring that your evergreen content is shared more than once without requiring you to continually write and upload new updates every week.
When you upload an update to Edgar, you save it in your library according to what type of update it is – you can create as many of these categories as you like. You can then create a posting schedule for each network based on which types of updates you want to post at what times.
Buffer auto-populates your queue in the order in which you add content, without factoring in the types of content you're sharing.
Edgar, on the other hand, gives you the control you need to automatically post the right types of updates at the right times – in a simple, clean interface.
With Buffer, you have to manually select items to reshare. With Edgar, this happens automatically.
Edgar automatically populates a queue based on the updates you've added to your content library. If/when you run out of new updates in any category, he'll populate your queue with previously-published updates from your library. This gives your updates the opportunity to be seen by a different segment of your audience while ensuring that your queue never runs dry.
Should I use Buffer or Edgar?
So now that you know how Edgar is different from Buffer, which tool is right for you? Should you use Buffer or Edgar to manage your social media?
You add your content to Buffer.
Your update is posted once, then disappears, never to be seen again.
You constantly add new content – if not, you'll receive multiple emails from Buffer until you do. You repeat this cycle every day, forever and always.
You constantly add new content – if not, you'll receive multiple emails from Buffer until you do.
You repeat this cycle every day, forever and always.