The right Redaktionsplan tool, or editorial calendar tool, is the one that fixes your actual bottleneck. Planners and project tools organise work your team still does, while an AI agent produces the articles itself. If the work exists but keeps slipping, a planner helps, and if nobody writes, an agent is the place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Planners and project tools organise content work that someone on your team still has to produce. An AI agent produces the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A free planner gives one person a calendar view of what goes out when. Project tools like Trello, Notion and ClickUp add owners and due dates to each piece, so a small team can coordinate across channels. CoSchedule sits deliberately in between. It’s part project tool and part social scheduler, built for teams that want blog articles and email campaigns next to their social posts in one view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An AI content agent handles the research and the writing, then publishes to your site. Your job shrinks to approving the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Planners fix forgetting. Project tools fix coordination between people. Agents fix the empty writer’s chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every free plan here works for one person or a very light team, but the five vendors cap three different things. Trello and CoSchedule limit people and volume. Notion and ClickUp let you invite the team and squeeze storage or history instead. Planable gives you a lifetime allowance<\/b><\/i>, so its free plan ends on a date you can predict from your posting rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a quick fit check, count two things: how many people need edit access and how many posts you schedule each month. Whichever number hits a cap first tells you which free plan dies first for your team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most “content calendar” tools are built around social posts, and only CoSchedule in this group ships with a view that puts blog articles, email and social side by side. Pure social schedulers like Buffer or Later have no blog content pipeline at all. Planable belongs in the social camp too. Its strength is approval on post previews, and nobody buys it to manage a topic backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The build-your-own group is perfectly workable for SEO topics. Expect to spend an afternoon creating the board and agreeing on statuses, and expect to keep it alive by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Per-seat pricing turns every “from” price into a multiplier, so a three-person team usually pays two to three times the headline. The figures below assume three users and come from independent pricing breakdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Planable breaks the per-seat pattern. Basic costs $39 a month per<\/b> workspace with no seat charge. On annual billing that drops to about $33, and Pro costs $59, with unlimited users in each workspace, so the bill stays flat when you add your boss or a client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currency check:<\/b> These vendors list prices in USD. Your euro invoice moves with the exchange rate and local VAT, so treat the dollar figures as a close guide for budgeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If a manager or client has to approve before anything goes live, Planable and CoSchedule’s Agency tier are the confirmed options here. The rest offer shared boards and comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a team of three where one person approves, the manual column setup holds up fine. Once an outside client signs off, a real preview-and-approve flow saves you a lot of screenshot emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Google Sheet or a free Notion page is enough as long as one person owns the plan and publishes to one or two channels. Columns for topic, keyword, owner, status and publish date cover a solo blog completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spreadsheet stops working at a few concrete points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If none of those apply and the blog is still quiet, look hard at the backlog. A full column of topics that never got written means planning was never the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A writing gap is a different purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTool<\/th> Free plan limit<\/th> Users<\/th> Where it breaks<\/th><\/tr> Trello<\/a> Free<\/td> 10 boards per workspace, 10 MB per attachment, 250 automation runs a month<\/td> 10 collaborators (guests and pending invites count)<\/td> When you need an eleventh board or your freelancers push you past 10 people<\/td><\/tr> CoSchedule Free Calendar<\/td> 1 social profile, up to 15 scheduled messages<\/td> 1<\/td> The moment a second person needs access<\/td><\/tr> Notion Free<\/td> 5 MB file uploads, 7 days of page history<\/td> Up to 10 guests, no real team management<\/td> When you share drafts with images or need to roll back an edit from last week<\/td><\/tr> ClickUp Free Forever<\/td> 60 MB total storage, 100 automation runs a month<\/td> Unlimited<\/td> When files pile up or your status automations run out mid-month<\/td><\/tr> Planable<\/a> Free<\/td> 50 posts in total, 4 social pages per workspace<\/td> Unlimited<\/td> At post 51, and deleted posts count too<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Which Tools Actually Plan Blog Articles and SEO Topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tool<\/th> Advertised “from” price<\/th> Real monthly cost for 3 seats<\/th> Billing catch<\/th><\/tr> Trello Standard<\/a><\/td> $5 per user (annual)<\/td> $15 annual, $18 monthly<\/td> Premium doubles the seat price to $10<\/td><\/tr> CoSchedule Social Calendar<\/a><\/td> $19 per user (annual)<\/td> $57<\/td> Agency Calendar at $59 per user lands at $177<\/td><\/tr> Notion Plus<\/a><\/td> $10 per user (annual)<\/td> $30 annual, $36 monthly<\/td> Full Notion AI needs Business at $20 per user<\/td><\/tr> ClickUp Unlimited<\/a><\/td> $7 per user (annual)<\/td> $21 annual, $30 monthly<\/td> AI add-ons push the bill up to $105<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n \n
Approval Workflows: Who Actually Supports Sign-Off<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When a Spreadsheet Still Wins (and When It Stops)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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AI Content Agents: What Claire and Similar Tools Actually Do (and Don’t)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n