# ViewPrinter

> ViewPrinter schedules and publishes social posts to TikTok, Instagram,
> YouTube, X and Facebook, and finds the posts that are working in a niche
> on TikTok and Instagram. An AI assistant drives both over MCP: connect it
> in Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Claude Code, connect your accounts once, then
> say what to post and when, or ask what is working.

Pricing: ViewPrinter, $19 a month: 15 connected accounts, 15,000 research credits a month; ViewPrinter Team, $99 a month: unlimited connected accounts, 100,000 research credits a month. Each after a 7-day trial. No free plan.
Platforms: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook. Not LinkedIn.
MCP server: https://viewprinter.tech/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1). Claude directory: https://claude.ai/directory/viewprinter
ViewPrinter does not generate images, video or captions; the assistant brings the content, ViewPrinter posts it.

## Guides and comparisons

- [Best AI tools for social media marketing in 2026](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-ai-tools-for-social-media-marketing): The AI tools worth having for social media are the ones your assistant can drive: Claude or ChatGPT to write, a research tool for what is working, a scheduler with an MCP server to post, and an inbox tool for comments and DMs. ViewPrinter, Buffer, Postiz, Post Bridge, Zernio and Ayrshare, by the job each does, and what each costs once you have six accounts or more.
- [What your posts did last week, by the hour](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/what-your-posts-did-last-week): Views, likes, comments, shares and saves per post, and followers per account, read every hour and kept. Why a kept series beats a counter, what the Trends tab shows, and how to ask your assistant for the numbers.
- [What is working in your niche on TikTok, with the posts to prove it](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/what-is-working-in-your-niche-on-tiktok): Ask a question about your niche and get back the TikTok posts that answer it, with their views, how far each beat its creator’s usual, and a structure you can repeat. What research returns, what it costs, and what it will not do.
- [Instagram trial reels: test a hook on strangers first](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/instagram-trial-reels): A trial reel is shown to people who do not follow you, and only to them, so a new hook gets a cold read before your followers see it. What Instagram does with it afterwards, and how to post one from your assistant.
- [ManyChat alternative: comment-to-DM with an AI agent](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/manychat-alternative): ViewPrinter does not automate comment-to-DM for you: it tells your AI agent the moment a comment arrives, and your agent does it. That means any automation you can describe, at a cost you control by choosing the agent, instead of ManyChat’s price per person. ManyChat’s pricing in full, and when it is still the better pick.
- [How to auto-reply to Instagram and Facebook comments with Grok Bot](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/auto-reply-to-comments-with-grok-bot): Connect Grok Bot to ViewPrinter with an API key, create a routine that sends one DM with your link and a public “check your DMs” reply, and point ViewPrinter’s comment webhook at it. Three prompts to paste, the one step the Bot cannot do itself, and an add-on that saves the comments worth a post.
- [Can a ChatGPT dot post to social media?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/can-a-chatgpt-dot-post-to-social-media): Yes, through a plugin. Connect ViewPrinter in ChatGPT and your dot can draft, schedule and publish to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Facebook, and read back how each post did, asking first if you set it to. It does not answer comments on its own yet.
- [What does a social media scheduler do?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/what-does-a-social-media-scheduler-do): It publishes posts you prepared earlier at the time you chose, usually to several platforms at once, and reports how each one did. When native scheduling is enough, when it is not, and the newer version an AI assistant runs for you.
- [How to manage your TikTok account with OpenClaw](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-to-manage-tiktok-with-openclaw): Connect OpenClaw to ViewPrinter with one command and it can post, schedule and read results for your TikTok account, and the other four platforms, on its own. Then have it answer comments and DMs as they arrive, and collect the ones worth a post.
- [Buffer MCP alternatives](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/buffer-alternative): The Buffer alternative for AI agents is ViewPrinter. Buffer added an MCP server in May 2026 and it is on the free plan, capped at 10 posts per channel and built around the dashboard. ViewPrinter is built the other way round: the assistant is the interface, MCP is included in the $19 plan, and it posts TikTok video and slideshows without per-channel caps. Postiz and Post Bridge are compared below.
- [Post Bridge alternatives for AI agents](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/post-bridge-alternative): The Post Bridge alternative for AI agents is ViewPrinter: $19 a month for 15 accounts against Post Bridge’s $39, MCP included in both, and the product is built for the assistant to do the posting instead of a dashboard with an agent on the side. If you need ten networks including LinkedIn and Pinterest, Post Bridge is the better dashboard, and Buffer and Postiz are covered below too.
- [Best social media MCP servers and connectors in 2026](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-social-media-mcp-servers): The best social media MCP server for posting is ViewPrinter: 18 tools that cover accounts, media, scheduling and results across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Facebook, with every tool that publishes marked so an agent can be told to ask first. In Claude and ChatGPT they are added as connectors. Buffer, Postiz and Post Bridge also publish one. Below: what each connects to, what it costs, and where each is the right pick.
- [Best social media scheduler for AI agents (2026)](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-social-media-scheduler-for-ai-agents): Best overall: ViewPrinter. It is built for the assistant to be the interface: the MCP server is included in the $19 plan, there is no code, it posts TikTok video and slideshows, and the agent reads results back. Best free option: Buffer, whose free plan includes an MCP server with a 10-posts-per-channel cap. Best self-hosted: Postiz. Post Bridge is a good ten-network dashboard from $39 a month.
- [How to manage your TikTok account with Grok Bot](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-to-manage-tiktok-with-grok-bot): Connect Grok Bot to ViewPrinter with an API key, connect your TikTok account, and the Bot can post, schedule and read results for it, and for Instagram, YouTube, X and Facebook. A Grok Bot cannot sign in the way Claude and ChatGPT do; the prompt below sets up the key instead.
- [How to post to social media with ChatGPT](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-to-post-to-social-media-with-chatgpt): ChatGPT cannot post to Instagram or TikTok on its own. To connect Instagram to ChatGPT, add the ViewPrinter app, sign in, and connect your account: ChatGPT can then post and schedule Reels, carousels, Stories and TikToks, read how they did, and search public Instagram posts for what is working. What works on each platform and what does not yet.
- [How to post to social media with Claude](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-to-post-to-social-media-with-claude): Claude has no Instagram or TikTok access on its own. Add ViewPrinter from the Claude directory and it can post Reels, carousels, Stories and TikToks, schedule them, and read how they did. What works on each platform, what does not yet, and the setup for desktop, web, mobile and Claude Code.
- [How to post to social media with an AI agent](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-to-post-to-social-media-with-ai-agents): Connect ViewPrinter to your assistant, sign in once, connect your social accounts, and from then on say what to post and where. The assistant uploads the media, schedules the post to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X or Facebook, and reads back how it did. The setup takes three steps in Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Claude Code.
- [Can you schedule TikTok posts?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/can-you-schedule-tiktok-posts): Yes — natively, up to 10 days out, with three restrictions worth knowing. And the reach question everyone asks has a more honest answer than either side gives.
- [The MCP server: tools, auth, safety](https://viewprinter.tech/mcp)

## Posting

- [What to post on TikTok: start from what already worked](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/what-to-post-on-tiktok): Skip the blank page. Find the posts in your niche that beat their creator’s usual views, and borrow the structure, not the video.
- [How much does Facebook pay per 1,000 views?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-much-does-facebook-pay-per-1000-views): Meta publishes no rate. Facebook Content Monetization pays on several metrics that Meta says may not be linear, and it is joined by invitation. The one published number is Creator Fast Track: $1,000 or $3,000 a month for three months, for creators with an audience elsewhere.
- [How much does X pay per 1,000 views?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-much-does-x-pay-per-1000-views): It no longer pays on views at all. Revenue Sharing ended on 7 September 2026 and the Original Content Rewards Program replaced it: payment is per qualified impression — a unique view of an original post by a Premium subscriber, in the Home Timeline, with half the post on screen. X publishes no rate.
- [Does Instagram pay per 1,000 views?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/does-instagram-pay-per-1000-views): No. Instagram has no standing rate per view: the only thing that pays on views is Instagram bonuses, which are limited time and invite-only, with no published rate. What Instagram does pay through instead, and what views are actually worth there.
- [How many views do you need to make $1,000?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/how-many-views-to-make-1000-dollars): On TikTok, 1 to 2.5 million qualified views; on YouTube Shorts, about 2.5 million engaged views. Instagram, Facebook and X publish nothing you can turn into a number. The arithmetic for $1,000, $10,000 and $1 million, platform by platform.
- [How much does it cost to get 10,000 Instagram followers?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/cost-to-get-10000-instagram-followers): There is no honest price. Meta’s spam policy forbids buying, selling or exchanging follows, and sold followers are typically fake accounts, the kind Meta removes. Ads are the only purchasable route, and no Instagram objective delivers followers. The third route costs posts, not money.
- [Does TikTok pay $600 for 1M views?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/does-tiktok-pay-600-for-1m-views): Not as a rate — TikTok publishes no price per view. $600 per million is an RPM of $0.60, inside the band creators report, but the Creator Rewards Program pays only on qualified views: five seconds or more, one per account, from eight countries, on videos over a minute long.
- [Does YouTube pay $1 per 1,000 views?](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/does-youtube-pay-1-per-1000-views): Not on Shorts. YouTube’s own worked example pays $405 on a million engaged Shorts views — about 40 cents per thousand. Long-form is a 55% share of net Watch Page ad revenue, where a dollar per thousand is ordinary rather than promised. Neither is a rate YouTube offers.
- [The best time to post on TikTok](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-time-to-post-on-tiktok): On TikTok the hour genuinely matters — unlike YouTube. Here is why, and where TikTok tells you your own answer.
- [Instagram shadowban: what it actually is](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/instagram-shadowban): Instagram has never used the word — but the thing behind it is real, documented, and Instagram will tell you directly whether it applies to you.
- [The best time to post on YouTube](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-time-to-post-on-youtube): Every guide gives you a table of times. YouTube is the one platform where that table is close to meaningless — here is what to read instead.
- [TikTok shadowban: how to actually check](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/tiktok-shadowban): TikTok calls it "ineligible for the For You feed", documents it, shows it to you in the app, and lets you appeal. Most guides never mention that screen.
- [The best time to post on Facebook](https://viewprinter.tech/blog/best-time-to-post-on-facebook): Worth getting roughly right, and not worth agonising over — because on Facebook the timing is rarely what is holding a Page back.

## Site

- [Home and pricing](https://viewprinter.tech/)
- [Supported platforms: what works on each](https://viewprinter.tech/platforms)
- [Free tools](https://viewprinter.tech/tools)
- [Blog](https://viewprinter.tech/blog)
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