Comparison
Metricool alternative: measuring is not planning
Metricool is an analytics tool that also schedules. ReadyMonth is a planning tool that also publishes. Reading that sentence carefully answers most of the question.
Start 21-day free trial1. What Metricool does well
Analytics, and by a distance. It brings Google and Meta ad data next to your organic numbers, it handles multiple brands cleanly, and it has a free plan that is genuinely usable.
If the question you are trying to answer is "did what I posted work", ReadyMonth is not the tool and Metricool is.
2. The other question
There is a second question, and it comes first in time: what am I going to post next month. No dashboard answers that one, a chart tells you Tuesday worked, not what to write on Tuesday.
- The month written from your pillars, in one sitting, with a draft per network.
- Pillar health: which pillar is starving and which is eating the month.
- Best posting times taken from your own publishing history, not from a generic table.
- Your own AI key, so generation cost stays yours and there is no quota to run out of.
3. Price, side by side
Metricool has a free plan and paid tiers above it. ReadyMonth starts at $9 (Starter), then $29 (Creator), $79 (Professional) and $149 (Team), with a 21-day trial and no card required.
They are not really substitutes. Plenty of people would be well served keeping Metricool for the numbers and using ReadyMonth to fill the month.
Prices checked in August 2026. Tables change, confirm on their site before deciding.
4. Which one to pick
Pick Metricool if reporting is the job, client reports, ad data, several brands measured in one place.
Pick ReadyMonth if the blank calendar is the job, and the reason last month was thin is that nobody had time to decide what to write.
Fill next month before measuring it
21 days, no card. Generate the month from your pillars and see what there is to measure.