Crux compared / Typefully
A Typefully alternative for deciding what to write, not where to publish it
Typefully is a place to write, schedule and publish, for one person or a whole team, on five networks. Crux sits before the writing: it reads your π history and tells you which hooks, formats, topics and times have worked for you.
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Typefully and Crux answer different questions. Typefully is an AI-powered, collaborative scheduler: you write in its editor, share drafts for comments, and publish to π, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon, with π analytics on its paid Creator plan. Crux (cruxpost.com) is not a scheduler: it posts only the drafts you schedule, on Autopilot, and only to π. It reads your own π posts from your archive or a read-only import, compares each one with the posts published around it, and reports the hooks, formats, topics and posting times that do better or worse than usual for you, only when the pattern passes a test against chance. You can use both: Crux to decide what to write and when, and a scheduler to post it, or post it yourself.
What Typefully is
Typefully calls itself an AI-powered, collaborative social media scheduler. Its editor shows pixel-perfect previews of threads, mentions and media before they go out, and a calendar shows what is scheduled, in review and ready across a team.
Collaboration is the centre of it: comments, mentions and shared drafts, teams with roles and permissions, and Slack notifications when posts go live. Its AI assistant brainstorms, rewrites and expands drafts and, in Typefullyβs words, learns how you actually write. Integrations and AI agents can queue drafts through its API and MCP server.
It also lists engagement features for π: scheduled retweets, an automatic plug, auto-DMs and giveaways, and a thread finisher. A free plan allows 10 posts a month on one social set; the Creator plan adds π analytics and AI features and is billed annually.
Crux and Typefully, side by side
| Feature | Crux | Typefully |
|---|---|---|
| Posts to π for you | Only what you schedule, on Autopilot. Sign-in is read-only (tweet.read, users.read, offline.access). Drafts wait in your Inbox: Post on π copies one and opens π with it, for you to post. | Yes. It schedules and publishes, with a calendar and natural-language scheduling. |
| Automations | None. No auto-retweet, auto-plug, auto-DM or auto-delete. | Scheduled retweets, automatic plug, auto-DMs and giveaways, thread finisher. |
| Analytics | Each post against the median of the 20 posts nearest it in time, grouped by hook, format, topic, weekday and 3-hour slot. | π analytics on the Creator plan: detailed metrics, profile conversion rate, tweeting streaks, CSV download. |
| Tests patterns against chance | Yes. A group of at least 5 posts is reported only when it falls outside 500 random draws of your own posts. | Not stated on their site |
| Reads your full post history | Yes. Your π archive (a .zip up to 500 MB, or just the text files), or a read-only import through π. | Not stated on their site |
| AI writing | Drafts in your voice from your commits, merged pull requests and releases, and when you ask, from a free model through OpenRouter, checked against your own rules. Other peopleβs posts are never sent to it. | A writing assistant that brainstorms, rewrites and expands drafts and learns your style; included usage grows with the plan. |
| Networks | π only. | π, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon. |
| Price and trial | Pro is $19 a month or $180 a year ($15 a month), and the launch deal is Pro for life for $49 once, for the first 100 buyers. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial of Pro that needs no card. When it ends without a paid plan, the account is read-only: you can still see, download or delete your data, and choose a plan. Cancel anytime. | A free plan with 10 posts a month and one social set. Creator is billed annually; Business is billed yearly per social set. |
Typefullyβs column was checked against its own site on : typefully.com and typefully.com/pricing and Typefully help: analytics metrics. βNot statedβ means we found nothing about it there that day, not that it cannot exist. Prices and plans change: check their site for todayβs.
The difference that matters
Crux never replies, likes, follows, retweets or sends a message on your account, and signing in asks X only for read-only permissions. Crux posts only what you schedule, on Autopilot.
Typefullyβs analytics are there to show what happened: which posts did well, your streaks, how profile visits turn into followers. Crux is built to say which of those differences are real. A hook or topic becomes a finding only when enough posts share it and their median beats what random groups of your posts produce.
The other difference is scope. Typefully is for teams and for five networks. Crux is for one personβs π account and has no collaboration features, no other networks, and no posting beyond the drafts you schedule on Autopilot.
Using Crux and Typefully together
Nothing needs connecting. Posts Typefully publishes are ordinary posts on your π account, so Crux reads them from your archive or the read-only import like any other, and measures them with the rest of your history.
One way to split the work: read which hooks, topics and posting slots do better than usual in Crux, then write and schedule in Typefully. Crux never sees your drafts there, only what ends up on π.
Which one to pick
Pick Typefully instead ifβ¦
- You publish to LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads or Mastodon as well as π.
- You write with other people and need comments, roles and approvals.
- You want a free plan for light posting.
- You want agents or scripts to queue drafts through an API or MCP.
Pick Crux ifβ¦
- You mainly post on π and want to know what works on your own account.
- You want patterns tested against chance, not only charts of what happened.
- You want to see what does worse than usual, so you can stop doing it.
- You want a tool that signs in with read-only π access and posts only what you schedule, on Autopilot.
Other comparisons
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- Crux vs Hypefury: Hypefury says it no longer supports π and now schedules to five other networks. Crux measures what works on your π account and posts only what you schedule, on Autopilot.