# I Tried the 10 Best EasyGen Alternatives in 2026 (Honest Review) > Real testing across 6 axes -- narrative timeline, tone-of-voice clone, conversational iteration, research grounding, pricing transparency, and LinkedIn safety. Plus the onboarding bug and the expired 2020-era broetry playbook that made me leave EasyGen. **By Aitijya Sarkar** - Published 2026-05-30 - Updated 2026-05-30 - 22 min read ## Why I wrote this **TL;DR**: After trying EasyGen and testing 10 alternatives across the same 6 axes, Oiti -- the AI clone for LinkedIn content -- ranked #1 ($49-$79/mo, currently 50% off yearly for early adopters), Supergrow #2, AuthoredUp #3. EasyGen's core problem isn't only the $59.99/mo price. It bottles an expired 2020-era influencer broetry playbook -- generic, templated output that LinkedIn now actively penalizes -- behind a one-shot form with no conversational iteration. Even ChatGPT does better here, because ChatGPT at least lets you go back and forth. The right alternative depends on what you wanted EasyGen to do. If you want content that sounds like the way you actually talk, pick a tool that trains on your real posts and iterates with you, like Oiti. If you just want cheap LinkedIn-safe scheduling, the picks differ. Jump to the full ranking or the 6 axes I scored on. I heard about EasyGen from Ruben Hassid -- a LinkedIn influencer with 800,000+ followers. He'd posted about it on LinkedIn and, given my LinkedIn ghostwriting background, I jumped into the app genuinely excited, hoping it had intelligently solved some of the problems I'd hit with every other LinkedIn tool. It broke on the way in. When I tried to add my LinkedIn URL during setup, it kept failing with "Setup failed. Unexpected end of JSON input." I retried three or four times before it finally let me through. A connect-your-LinkedIn step is the most basic thing a LinkedIn tool has to get right, and it crashed. Bad first impression for something you're being asked to pay for. Then I tested the output. I gave it an idea about AI taking away jobs, and what came back was templated, reactive broetry --"AI is taking away jobs, change is happening fast." That's the content that worked in 2019-2020, when LinkedIn rewarded it. Today LinkedIn suppresses vanilla, templated posts. EasyGen bottles an expired playbook and sells it as a system. I went in hoping it would teach me how Ruben and his team grew so fast; instead it just force-feeds the formula that worked for him onto everyone else. I left disappointed again. Because this wasn't the first time. Over the last 6 years I've been a LinkedIn ghostwriter,writing on LinkedIn for 50-60 founders, coaches, and consultants -- close to 100 million views between them. And I've tried virtually every LinkedIn AI tool: EasyGen, Supergrow, AuthoredUp, Postiv, MagicPost, ContentIn, Leaps, Scripe, Stanley, Kleo, Shield Analytics (shut down in May 2026), and a long tail of smaller ones, hoping one of them intelligently solved the LinkedIn content thing. Only one did. Here's my honest take on which one it is, after trying the 10 best EasyGen alternatives in 2026. Short answer first, then the long one. ## The 10 best EasyGen alternatives at a glance | Rank | Tool | Best for | Pricing | Trial | What sets it apart | | ---: | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | [Oiti](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com) | content that sounds like you and iterates conversationally | $49 - $79 / month (50% off yearly: $245 Creator / $395 Pro) | 7-day free trial, no usage caps | Builds a 3,000+ word clone of you in 30 seconds; chat-based with memory that compounds; official LinkedIn APIs only | | #2 | [Supergrow](https://www.supergrow.ai) | multi-account scheduling for teams | $19 - $139 / month | Free trial | Scheduling via official LinkedIn APIs; deep Kanban + multi-tenancy workflows | | #3 | [AuthoredUp](https://authoredup.com) | formatting-only power users | Free + paid tiers | Free tier available | The best LinkedIn formatter + hook variation (Chrome extension though) | | #4 | [Postiv](https://postiv.ai) | carousel-heavy publishers | $99 / $229 / $399 per month + per-seat add-ons ($20-$76/seat) | Trial (requires $1 card-on-file) | Chat-style AI personalization + built-in carousel design tools | | #5 | [MagicPost](https://magicpost.in) | a LinkedIn preview before publishing | Low-cost tier | Free trial | The most polished LinkedIn-preview editor in the category (vanilla content though) | | #6 | [ContentIn](https://contentin.io) | budget-first ghostwriters | $15 / $31 / $48 per month | Free trial | Cheapest entry in the category; LinkedIn-OAuth-safe scheduling | | #7 | [Leaps](https://leapshq.com) | multi-channel publishers (LinkedIn + newsletter + X) | $49 Basic / $99 Pro / $149 Premium per month | Free trial, no credit card | Voice-note -> outline -> article interview pipeline for execs | | #8 | [Scripe](https://scripe.io) | teams needing approval + scheduling workflows | EUR 69 / EUR 99 / EUR 149 per month (~$76 / $108 / $164) + EUR 45/mo per extra account | 14-day free trial | Approval flows + shared workspace KB + Amplifier seats | | #9 | [Stanley](https://stanley.stan.store) | curious indie buyers (with caveats) | $149/mo, no trial | No free trial | Hosted on stan.store; paywalled before you can draft | | #10 | [Kleo](https://kleo.so) | viral-format content (one account) | $99/mo or $999/yr (~$83/mo effective) | No free trial | Rebuilt as a full-stack tool after LinkedIn forced its Chrome extension offline | ## Why people are looking for EasyGen alternatives 1. **The output is an expired playbook.** EasyGen productizes a 2020-era influencer formula -- broetry, reactive hot-takes, "change is happening fast." That content built big followings during the COVID content boom. It doesn't work now. LinkedIn's 2026 algorithm penalizes generic, templated posts, so you're not just getting mediocre content, you're getting content that fights your own distribution. 2. **It's a one-shot form, not a conversation.** You fill in a form, you get an output, you see a preview. That's the whole experience. There's no way to say "this hook is fine, rework the middle" and have the tool respond. Even ChatGPT beats it on this single axis, because ChatGPT lets you iterate. 3. **The onboarding broke for me.** "Setup failed. Unexpected end of JSON input" on the connect-your-LinkedIn step. Three or four retries. A small thing, but it's the first thing a paid tool does, and it failed. 4. **The price is $59.99/mo, and it's gated.** EasyGen doesn't publish pricing on its homepage -- /pricing redirects to sign-in. From inside the paid flow, the real numbers are $59.99/month or $599.88/year. That's more than every tool below it on this list except the premium team plans. 5. **Billing complaints are a pattern.** EasyGen's Trustpilot sits at 3.0/5, and two of three reviewers warn about refunds. One quotes EasyGen's own terms back at them: "All purchases on EasyGen are final and non-refundable." If you do try it, treat that as the deal. Onto the 10 alternatives -- and how I tested them. ## How I tested I trialed all 10 alternatives hands-on, plus EasyGen itself. Then I benchmarked them on the same 6 axes -- the six places where EasyGen specifically falls down: ### 1. Narrative timeline -- who you are over time The deepest layer of voice: who you are, how you've evolved, what you actually believe, the stories you'll tell. EasyGen, like most tools, attempts the surface tone layer only -- and then force-feeds an influencer's playbook on top of it. Oiti's is a structural extraction of who you've already been: your last 100 posts, your website, your ICP's pain points pulled live from the web. ### 2. Tone-of-voice clone -- your voice, not an influencer's Vocabulary, hook rhythm, sentence shape, grounded in your real posts. This is the exact axis where EasyGen inverts the job: instead of cloning you, it asks which creator's playbook to copy, then prints that. The weak tools hand a generic LLM a tone instruction; the strong ones extract structure from your actual archive before a word is written. ### 3. Conversational iteration -- back-and-forth, not one-shot Can you refine a draft through conversation, or is it form -> output with no second pass? EasyGen is one-shot. That's the failure I keep coming back to -- even ChatGPT does it better, because ChatGPT lets you go back and forth. Oiti is chat-based with memory that compounds. ### 4. Research grounding (Knowledge Base) + trend intelligence Does it ingest YouTube, PDFs, and notes and run real research before drafting, or does it just surface viral posts? This is where I judge EasyGen's "Track Creators" feature fairly: it shows you viral posts, but it stops there. It doesn't break them into reusable one-click templates with a knowledge base underneath. ### 5. Pricing transparency -- no login-gated prices, no non-refundable traps Does the tool show you the real price before you sign up? EasyGen's is gated behind login ($59.99/mo, $599.88/yr, visible only inside the paid flow), and its own terms -- quoted by a Trustpilot reviewer -- say all purchases are final and non-refundable. ### 6. LinkedIn safety -- official APIs vs Chrome extension, and algorithm fit Does it publish via LinkedIn's official Marketing Developer Platform APIs, or hook your cookies through a browser extension? And does the output survive LinkedIn's 2026 dwell-time algorithm? Generic, templated output is structurally penalized now. ## The 10 best EasyGen alternatives in 2026 ### 1. [Oiti](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com) -- content that sounds like you and iterates conversationally **Category**: AI content engine - **Pricing**: $49 - $79 / month (50% off yearly: $245 Creator / $395 Pro) - **Trial**: 7-day free trial, no usage caps - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **TL;DR**: the best of the entire list. A LinkedIn content engine that pairs long-term memory with a deep AI clone of you that adapts as you add to your Knowledge Base, plus one-click viral infographics and 3-account scheduling via LinkedIn's official APIs -- and a back-and-forth chat that EasyGen's one-shot form simply can't do. **What sets it apart**: Builds a 3,000+ word clone of you in 30 seconds; chat-based with memory that compounds; official LinkedIn APIs only Disclosure: Oiti is mine. I built it because I was doing LinkedIn ghostwriting for a wholesale B2B SaaS founder (Forbes 30U30, Seed stage) in a boring niche -- and realized every existing tool, EasyGen included, was matching topics to viral posts instead of grounding posts in who the client actually is. EasyGen is the cleanest version of that inverted logic: it takes one influencer's playbook and pushes it on you. The wedge was the opposite -- bridge "what works on LinkedIn" with "who you actually are," and let the AI compound on both halves over time. The half nobody else builds is the deep one: a 3,000-word persona built from your last 100 posts, a Knowledge Base you feed YouTube videos, PDFs, and meeting notes, and long-term memory that holds every instruction you've ever given it. Every draft compounds on all three -- the writing gets more like you the longer you use it, instead of resetting at submit the way EasyGen's one-shot form does. **When I tested it**: The inspiration tab rides on top of that. See a post you liked -> "use as inspiration" -> 1-click template, adapted to your niche by your persona, KB, and memory. Most tools have inspiration libraries; none of them refill the template from a model of who you actually are. That bridge -- between "what works on LinkedIn" and "who you are" -- is the whole reason Oiti exists. When I onboard a new user, the AI Clone is finished by the time they've scrolled to the second tab. My own first draft, trained on my past posts, landed about 80% of the way to publishable; two memory instructions later ("don't open with 'I'", "stop using 'unlock'") the third draft was indistinguishable from something I'd have written by hand. That's the ceiling I've been chasing for two years. **Key features**: - **Conversational iteration with memory that compounds**: Oiti is chat-based, so you go back and forth -- "this hook is fine, rework the middle," "kill the broetry, write it the way I actually talk" -- and every edit and instruction sticks across sessions. The draft gets more like you each turn. EasyGen's one-shot form ends the moment you submit it; even ChatGPT clears this bar, and EasyGen doesn't. ![Oiti's chat-based content composer -- a left-hand chat thread refining a LinkedIn draft turn by turn, with the rendered post on the right and a task input bar at the bottom.](/comparisons/competitors/oiti/product-screenshots/content-creation-flow.webp) -- Chat composer -- refine a draft turn by turn instead of EasyGen's one-shot form - **A model of you, not an influencer's formula force-fed onto you**: A 3,000-word narrative timeline built in 30 seconds from your last 100 LinkedIn posts, your website, and an ICP search across X, Reddit, and the deep web -- voice profile, brand pillars, beliefs, ICP painpoints. EasyGen does the inverse: it asks which creator's playbook you want copied, then bottles it. Oiti starts from who you are and bridges that into what works. ![Oiti's Knowledge Base table showing dozens of the user's own LinkedIn posts synced as reference material, each marked Ready, with a Sync LinkedIn Posts and Add Material control.](/comparisons/competitors/oiti/product-screenshots/knowledge-base.webp) -- Knowledge Base -- your real posts synced as reference material the AI grounds every draft in - **Knowledge Base + 5-9 parallel research agents**: Drop in YouTube videos, PDFs, meeting notes, competitor posts. Before writing, research agents spawn 5-9 parallel sub-queries across your KB, your memories, and the live web. This is the layer underneath "Track Creators" that EasyGen never built -- a feed without a system below it. - **Inspiration -> 1-click template loop**: See a post you liked, click "use as inspiration," and get a 1-click structural template refilled by your persona, KB, and memory. EasyGen's Track Creators shows you the viral post and stops; Oiti breaks it into a reusable structure your model of you refills. ![Oiti's Inspiration Library showing a searchable feed of viral LinkedIn posts (60 of 10,640) with a "Use as Inspiration" button on each card.](/comparisons/competitors/oiti/product-screenshots/viral-linkedin-templates.webp) -- Inspiration Library -- turn any viral post into a 1-click structural template, not just a feed to scroll - **Multi-account scheduling via LinkedIn's official APIs**: Pro at $79/mo covers 3 personal profiles plus 10+ company pages. Official, approved community-management APIs -- no browser-script injection, so it can't get your account flagged. ![Oiti's scheduling calendar for May 2026 showing queued posts across multiple days, with persona and account selectors at the top.](/comparisons/competitors/oiti/product-screenshots/full-feature-scheduling-calendar.webp) -- Scheduling calendar -- queue across 3 personal profiles + 10+ company pages on official APIs - **8,300+ viral outlier templates and hooks**: Patterns drawn from 100M+ views and 1M+ organic engagement -- but refilled through your persona, not pasted as a formula the way EasyGen serves them. **Best for**: Solo founders and creators in boring or technical niches (B2B SaaS infra, fintech, wholesale, dev tools, supply chain) where generic creator-economy content costs you credibility.; Ghostwriters and agencies running 3+ client voices -- Pro is built for multi-Clone, multi-voice work.; Consultants and coaches with deep IP -- book authors, podcasters, YouTubers, PDF-playbook owners -- because the KB ingests YouTube transcripts and PDFs and grounds every post in your actual material. **Pros**: - **Conversational iteration is the headline difference vs EasyGen**: You refine drafts turn by turn instead of submitting a form once and living with the output. The thing EasyGen can't do, and even ChatGPT can. - **Memory compounds across sessions**: Every edit and instruction sticks. Drafts get more like you, not less. EasyGen resets the moment you submit the form. - **Deep context engine is the real moat**: The 3,000-word persona is what makes drafts sound like you, then multi-account scheduling for 3 personal profiles and 10 company pages rides on top at $79/mo -- writing and publishing in one tool, not a formula and a form. **Cons**: - **No native iOS or Android app**: Mobile is browser-only. The web app works fine on a phone, but there's no App Store download. - **No Chrome extension overlay into LinkedIn**: Oiti lives in its own editor instead of injecting into linkedin.com. A deliberate choice -- extensions break with every LinkedIn UI shuffle, and they're the category LinkedIn is clamping down on -- but worth flagging if you wanted the in-feed overlay. - **Doesn't generate Twitter/X or Instagram content**: Oiti is LinkedIn-first. If you want one tool that also handles X threads, you'd need a second tool. - **No carousels or slide decks (yet)**: Oiti is post-first -- infographics yes (40+ templates), carousels no. If your primary LinkedIn medium is multi-slide carousels, Postiv (#4) beats Oiti on that specific axis. ### 2. [Supergrow](https://www.supergrow.ai) -- multi-account scheduling for teams **Category**: Scheduler + AI writer - **Pricing**: $19 - $139 / month - **Trial**: Free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Scheduling via official LinkedIn APIs; deep Kanban + multi-tenancy workflows Supergrow is the closest peer to Oiti on the one thing EasyGen lacks entirely: ToS-safe publishing. They built scheduling on LinkedIn's official APIs -- no Chrome extension, no automation that risks your account. Same compliant positioning as Oiti. I first knew them from a lifetime deal back in 2023, used them for a stretch that year, and signed up again in 2026 to retest. The honest story: Supergrow has grown hard on the team and scheduling side. The individual writing side hasn't kept pace. If you're managing 3+ LinkedIn accounts and you need a real scheduling backbone -- approval flows, comment workflows, a shared Kanban queue -- Supergrow's structure is well-built. Indian founders, came up the indie way, thoughtful multi-tenant workflows. **When I tested it**: Where it falls down is the same gap that sinks EasyGen: the content reads generic. No persona depth. Doesn't sound like you. The chat is primitive -- feedback I gave in one session didn't carry over to the next. There's no long-running agent pattern. The interface felt clunky and slow when I used it. So you avoid EasyGen's account-safety problem, but you inherit EasyGen's voice problem. G2 reviewers ding analytics depth as a recurring weakness -- "the analytics side of things is something that I think could do some improvements" (Rohan K., Statistician, Small-Business, 4/5, 2026-03-16). That tracks with where Supergrow put its investment: deep on scheduling and multi-account, lighter on writing depth and analytics. **Review receipts**: - [Rohan K., Statistician, on G2 -- 4/5, 2026-03-16](https://www.g2.com/products/supergrow/reviews) -- ![G2 review of Supergrow by Rohan K., Statistician at a small business, 4 out of 5 stars, noting the analytics side could use improvement.](/comparisons/competitors/supergrow/reviews/g2-rohan.webp) **Key features**: - **Scheduling via official LinkedIn APIs**: ToS-safe, no Chrome-extension risk. A genuine peer to Oiti on safety, and the thing EasyGen never built. ![Supergrow's multi-account connection screen showing several LinkedIn accounts wired to one workspace via official LinkedIn APIs.](/comparisons/competitors/supergrow/product-screenshots/connect-multiple-accounts-supergrow.webp) -- Multi-account connection via official LinkedIn APIs - **Multi-tenancy + Kanban queue**: Built-in comment and approval workflows, deep scheduling pipeline. If your job is to schedule across 3+ accounts with a team, this works. ![Supergrow's scheduling calendar showing the team Kanban queue and multi-tenant workflow.](/comparisons/competitors/supergrow/product-screenshots/supergrow-scheduling-view.webp) -- Scheduling calendar + Kanban queue - **Carousel + post editor**: Unified editor in one tab, optimized for team approval cycles. ![Supergrow's editor view with a selected-text popup for AI rewriting.](/comparisons/competitors/supergrow/product-screenshots/editor-view-select-text.webp) -- Unified editor -- inline AI rewrite - **Approval workflows**: Per-post approval routing for agencies managing client content. **Best for**: A team or agency managing 3+ LinkedIn accounts that needs the scheduling backbone and is fine using a separate tool (or Claude) for the actual writing.; Not for solo creators, and not for anyone in a niche where vanilla output costs you credibility. **Pros**: - **Scheduling via official LinkedIn APIs**: ToS-safe, no Chrome-extension risk. A genuine peer to Oiti on safety, and the thing EasyGen never built. - **Multi-account / multi-tenancy is well-built**: Kanban queue, comment and change workflows, deep scheduling pipeline. - **Honest indie-founder team**: Well-built for what they built it for. **Cons**: - **Content reads generic -- no persona depth, doesn't sound like you**: Confirmed in my 2026 trial. Oiti's narrative timeline + persona + KB grounding catch this exact failure mode before the AI writes a word. - **No retained memory across posts**: Chat is primitive; feedback doesn't carry over. Same one-shot reset as EasyGen. Oiti's long-term memory persists every edit and instruction; drafts get more like you over time. - **Analytics depth is weak**: Recurring G2 reviewer complaint. If reporting depth is a top need, you'll feel the gap. ([source](https://www.g2.com/products/supergrow/reviews)) ### 3. [AuthoredUp](https://authoredup.com) -- formatting-only power users **Category**: LinkedIn formatter + analytics - **Pricing**: Free + paid tiers - **Trial**: Free tier available - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: The best LinkedIn formatter + hook variation (Chrome extension though) AuthoredUp is the category pioneer that AI commodified. Back in 2020-21, when I was ghostwriting, they were one of the earliest Chrome extensions trying to build ethically for LinkedIn creators. I used them mostly for the LinkedIn preview -- to see what the line breaks and formatting would look like before posting -- plus the hook-variation feature where you could swap hooks. Their formatter is rock solid. Still the best for pure formatting. They earned real goodwill being a Chrome extension that didn't violate LinkedIn's ToS. Then ChatGPT changed everything. The preview is still excellent, but formatting itself has been commodified -- every modern tool, Oiti included, ships great formatting now. The bigger issue: AuthoredUp doesn't write. So if you're leaving EasyGen because the writing is generic, AuthoredUp doesn't solve that. It formats; you'd still need a separate writer. **When I tested it**: When I signed up, their dashboard said an AI ghostwriter was on the way. As of writing, it hasn't shipped. The other piece is ToS risk. LinkedIn is actively clamping down on Chrome extensions, even the ethical ones. Shield Analytics had to shut down in May 2026 from exactly this class of risk. AuthoredUp has been well-behaved, but the category itself is under pressure. While digging through reviews I came across Jostein R. Hareide on Trustpilot at 1/5: "formatting is lost on paste." That's different from my experience -- I've used AuthoredUp's formatter for years and it's been rock solid for me. Could be a one-off bug on his end, could be a workflow thing. I didn't hit it. **Review receipts**: - [Jostein R. Hareide on Trustpilot -- 1/5, 2025-03-22 ("Does not work")](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/authoredup.com) -- ![Trustpilot review of AuthoredUp by Jostein R. Hareide (Norway), 1 out of 5 stars, titled "Does not work", saying all formatting is gone when you copy-paste to LinkedIn and that the $200/year paid version is insanely expensive.](/comparisons/competitors/authoredup/reviews/trustpilot-jostein.webp) **Key features**: - **Best-in-class LinkedIn rendering preview**: Matches LinkedIn's actual formatting -- bold, italic, line breaks, the 210-char cutoff. ![AuthoredUp's editor with the LinkedIn-rendering preview pane showing exactly how the post will look once published.](/comparisons/competitors/authoredup/product-screenshots/authoredup-editor.webp) -- Editor + LinkedIn-rendering preview - **Saved drafts + templates**: Reusable post-template library with placeholder variables. ![AuthoredUp's All Posts view -- the saved-drafts library with templates and reusable post structures.](/comparisons/competitors/authoredup/product-screenshots/authoredup-allposts-view.webp) -- Saved drafts + templates library - **Hook variation feature**: Swap hooks and post endings to test different opening structures. ![AuthoredUp's hook-variation pane offering multiple opening-line swaps for the same post body.](/comparisons/competitors/authoredup/product-screenshots/authoredup-hooks.webp) -- Hook variation -- swap openings in one click - **Light analytics layer**: Per-post and per-account analytics that LinkedIn's native dashboard doesn't surface. ![AuthoredUp's analytics dashboard showing per-post engagement metrics not available on LinkedIn's native dashboard.](/comparisons/competitors/authoredup/product-screenshots/authoredup-dashboard.webp) -- Analytics dashboard -- LinkedIn engagement metrics surfaced **Best for**: People using it purely for formatting who don't want any AI.; Paid formatting where you specifically want AuthoredUp's polish -- a narrow niche, since free formatters exist. **Pros**: - **Post formatter is rock solid**: Still the best for LinkedIn formatting and preview. - **Pioneered ethical Chrome-extension building for LinkedIn**: One of the earliest, and one of the few that played fair. - **Light analytics dashboard included**: Real LinkedIn engagement data if you're tracking your own posts. **Cons**: - **Chrome extensions are getting banned**: Shield Analytics shut down in May 2026 from this exact risk. The category is fragile. Oiti's philosophy: official LinkedIn APIs only -- not exposed to this. - **No AI writing layer**: Formatting only. The dashboard says an AI ghostwriter is "on the way," but nothing has shipped -- so it doesn't fix the EasyGen complaint that brought you here. Oiti pairs a full AI content engine plus top-tier formatting in one tool. - **No knowledge base, no memory**: A pure stateless tool; every session starts fresh. - **Trustpilot -- "formatting is lost on paste"**: Jostein R. Hareide rated 1/5 on Trustpilot saying formatting disappears on paste. Different from my experience -- I've used the formatter for years and it's been solid -- but the complaint exists. ([source](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/authoredup.com)) ### 4. [Postiv](https://postiv.ai) -- carousel-heavy publishers **Category**: AI content + carousel suite - **Pricing**: $99 / $229 / $399 per month + per-seat add-ons ($20-$76/seat) - **Trial**: Trial (requires $1 card-on-file) - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Chat-style AI personalization + built-in carousel design tools Postiv is going where the category is going. Agentic flow, knowledge inputs, a chat-style composer, a KB-equivalent assets feature, an inspiration tab. The direction is right -- the agentic, KB-grounded direction is the future, and unlike EasyGen, Postiv is at least pointed at it. Where Postiv wins: carousels and slide decks. They have pre-built carousel workflows that work well, plus 7 infographic templates that are decent (Oiti has ~40, but Postiv's are usable). If your primary LinkedIn medium is carousels, Postiv beats Oiti there. Where it falls down -- the persona and memory layers are shallow. **When I tested it**: I tested by creating a post on a LinkedIn-content topic. Postiv did not pull intelligently from my past LinkedIn posts, even though the product implies it does. The persona setup is form-based ("who do you want to write for?") -- the same gap as ContentIn and MagicPost -- not the structural extraction from your last 100 posts that Oiti does. There's no dynamic cross-chat memory, so your feedback resets between sessions. The output came off generic because those layers are thin. On pricing, Postiv is transparent: the tiers are public -- $99 / $229 / $399 -- no login-gating, no surprise like EasyGen's hidden $59.99. The catch is the $1 card-on-file trial paywall, and the entry tier is 3-5x the cheaper alternatives at a similar surface. UI-wise it felt a bit vibe-coded. This take is time-bound: Postiv iterates fast, so some of this may have closed by the time you read it. **Key features**: - **Pre-built carousel workflows**: The one feature where Postiv beats Oiti. If carousels are your primary medium, this is the lane. ![Postiv's image-style selector for carousel and slide-deck generation.](/comparisons/competitors/postiv/product-screenshots/postiv-image-style.webp) -- Pre-built carousel + image-style workflows - **Chat-style composer**: Agentic direction is right -- chat + inspiration tab + 7 infographic templates. ![Postiv's chat-style content composer with the agentic flow surfaced in the right panel.](/comparisons/competitors/postiv/product-screenshots/postiv-chat-content-editor.webp) -- Chat composer -- agentic direction - **KB-equivalent assets feature**: File uploads for grounding posts in your material -- closer to a real KB than form-based personalization. ![Postiv's knowledge-assets ingest screen -- their KB-equivalent feature accepting file uploads.](/comparisons/competitors/postiv/product-screenshots/add-knowledge-assets.webp) -- Knowledge assets -- file upload as RAG source - **Transparent pricing tiers**: $99 / $229 / $399, no login-gating -- unlike EasyGen's gated $59.99. **Best for**: Carousel-heavy publishers -- if your primary LinkedIn output is carousels and slide decks, Postiv's pre-built workflows are worth the $99.; For post-first creators, the persona/memory shallowness means you'll hit the same generic ceiling -- at three times the price. Try Oiti first. **Pros**: - **Carousel and slide-deck workflows are real**: The one feature where Postiv beats Oiti. If carousels are your primary medium, this is the lane. - **Agentic direction is the right direction**: Chat composer + KB-equivalent assets + inspiration tab + 7 infographic templates. - **Transparent pricing tiers**: $99 / $229 / $399, no login-gating -- unlike EasyGen's gated $59.99. **Cons**: - **Persona, memory, and RAG layers are shallow**: Form-based persona setup, no cross-chat memory, RAG didn't pull from my past posts in testing. Output came off generic. Oiti builds a 3,000-word persona from your last 100 posts + ICP painpoint web search; long-term memory across sessions; KB-grounded research agents. - **No one-click templates from inspiration**: Postiv has an inspiration tab but no equivalent of Oiti's "use as inspiration -> 1-click structural template" loop. That loop is the wedge that closes the bridge between "what works" and "who you are." - **Entry $99/mo is steep with a $1 card-on-file trial**: ContentIn entry is $15, Oiti Creator $49. Oiti Creator $49 / Pro $79 covers persona-grounded writing + multi-account scheduling; 7-day trial, no card. ### 5. [MagicPost](https://magicpost.in) -- a LinkedIn preview before publishing **Category**: LinkedIn post composer - **Pricing**: Low-cost tier - **Trial**: Free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: The most polished LinkedIn-preview editor in the category (vanilla content though) I came across MagicPost from an influencer's post about it, which is the same way I found half the tools in this category. I tried it. The one thing I'd actually recommend MagicPost for: the LinkedIn preview. It shows you roughly what the post will render like before publishing -- useful for checking formatting and line breaks. The caveat is that it doesn't show the full post (the "see more" cutoff and a few rendering details are off), so even MagicPost's strongest feature has friction. Everything else underwhelmed me -- and the failure mode is exactly EasyGen's. The onboarding output was very vanilla. It picked up small patterns in how I write, but small patterns aren't enough; you could tell it hadn't gone through my full archive of hundreds of posts. And the input is form-based -- type what you want, get an output -- not chat. There's no way to give continuous feedback or iterate. Same one-shot trap as EasyGen. **When I tested it**: The deeper problem is distribution. LinkedIn's 360Brew algorithm down-ranks generic content -- dwell time rules now, not likes (see LinkedIn's March 2026 engineering blog). So MagicPost's vanilla output is worse than mediocre -- it's working against your reach, the same way EasyGen's broetry does. That said, Trustpilot tells a different story. I came across Adam Darer at 4/5: "great tool... the tool analyzes your own writing so if you've already been posting, it does great to keep your personal touch" (2025-08-30). MagicPost sits at 4.7/5 across 91 reviews -- the most-reviewed LinkedIn-only tool in the category. I think the gap is honest to name: casual posters who haven't pushed hundreds of posts through real engagement data don't notice the voice ceiling that a ghostwriter does. The 91 reviewers aren't wrong about their experience. I just hit the ceiling they didn't. **Review receipts**: - [Adam Darer on Trustpilot -- 4/5, 2025-08-30](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/magicpost.in) -- ![Trustpilot review of MagicPost by Adam Darer, 4 out of 5 stars, praising that the tool analyzes your own writing so you keep your personal touch if you have already been posting.](/comparisons/competitors/magicpost/reviews/trustpilot-adam.webp) **Key features**: - **LinkedIn preview**: See roughly how a post renders before publishing. The most polished preview in the category (caveat: doesn't show the full post). ![MagicPost's editor with the LinkedIn-preview pane showing roughly how the post will render before publishing.](/comparisons/competitors/magicpost/product-screenshots/magicpost-editor.webp) -- Editor + LinkedIn-preview pane - **Form-based content input**: Type what you want, get an output. No chat composer for iteration -- same one-shot trap as EasyGen. ![MagicPost's form-based generator -- type a topic and hit generate, with no chat-based iteration.](/comparisons/competitors/magicpost/product-screenshots/generate-post-view.webp) -- Form-based generator -- no chat composer - **Onboarding flow is simple**: Low-friction trial -- small surface area to navigate. - **Trustpilot social proof**: 4.7/5 across 91 reviews -- the most-reviewed LinkedIn-only tool in the category. **Best for**: Casual posters who want a preview plus a simple AI assist and aren't trying to scale a personal brand on substance.; If that's you, it works, and 91 reviewers prove it. **Pros**: - **LinkedIn-preview feature is genuinely useful**: See roughly how a post renders before publishing (caveat: doesn't show the full preview). - **Simple, clear onboarding**: Low-friction trial. - **Trustpilot social proof is real**: 4.7/5 across 91 reviews. **Cons**: - **Content reads vanilla**: Small patterns of voice, no deep persona, no ICP grounding, no web search for trending material. Oiti builds a 3,000-word persona from your last 100 posts + website + ICP painpoint search. - **Form input, no chat composer**: Can't iterate through conversation. Same one-shot trap as EasyGen. Oiti pairs a chat-based composer + long-term memory. - **No KB, no persona depth, and 360Brew buries generic output**: The post is fighting your distribution under LinkedIn's 2026 dwell-time algorithm. ([source](https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering)) ### 6. [ContentIn](https://contentin.io) -- budget-first ghostwriters **Category**: Budget AI ghostwriter + scheduler - **Pricing**: $15 / $31 / $48 per month - **Trial**: Free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Cheapest entry in the category; LinkedIn-OAuth-safe scheduling ContentIn is the cheapest credible answer to "what's a cheaper EasyGen alternative." At $15/mo it undercuts EasyGen's $59.99 by 4x, and most of the category by 2-3x. The honest framing: right surface, wrong substance. What ContentIn gets right structurally is real. LinkedIn-OAuth scheduling (no Chrome extension -- LinkedIn-safe), a week-view calendar, a Kanban writing queue where ideas sit and you can edit and schedule from there, and a composer plus scheduling in one place. It's closer to a full tool than AuthoredUp's formatter. But the content is where it falls down -- and it's EasyGen's exact two pains, just cheaper. Same generic output: the composer was extremely vanilla, influencer-template-flavored, the broetry-adjacent stuff LinkedIn now penalizes. Same one-shot logic: it didn't ask a single clarifying question before generating; it just generated, fire-and-forget, no turn-by-turn refinement. **When I tested it**: It also doesn't run web search for trending content -- it ideates from your past posts alone, which misses the point. What you actually want is both: your voice and what's trending in your ICP. ContentIn does one without the other, at $15 instead of $59.99. Their "personalization" is a four-question multiple-choice quiz at onboarding -- "What best describes your role? What are your primary goals? What challenges are you facing? How did you hear about us?" -- then they use those answers to "train" your AI. Calling a multiple-choice quiz "training" is a stretch. Oiti's persona is a 3,000-word document built from your last 100 posts plus website plus ICP painpoint research. One structural flag: ContentIn has a "who from your ICP just engaged with your content" feature, which implies they're pulling engagement-level LinkedIn data per person; my hunch is it's scraped, which would be against LinkedIn's ToS. Capterra lined up with my trial: Gabriel K., an IT & Services owner, at 3/5: "Templates -- they are just nonexistent... when tested it isn't really well planned." **Review receipts**: - [Gabriel K., IT & Services Owner, on Capterra -- 3/5, March 29, 2023](https://www.capterra.com/p/276290/ContentIn/reviews/) -- ![Capterra review of ContentIn by Gabriel K., IT & Services Owner, 3 out of 5 stars titled "Interesting concept", saying the templates are nonexistent and the AI integration isn't really well planned, with a public response from ContentIn.](/comparisons/competitors/contentin/reviews/capterra-gabriel.webp) **Key features**: - **$15/mo undercuts the category 2-3x -- and EasyGen 4x**: Cheapest dedicated AI ghostwriter at a comparable surface. - **Right structural product**: LinkedIn-OAuth-safe scheduling, week-view calendar, Kanban writing queue, composer plus scheduling in one place. ![ContentIn's dashboard showing the Kanban writing queue and scheduling integration in one workspace.](/comparisons/competitors/contentin/product-screenshots/dashboard.webp) -- Dashboard -- Kanban queue + scheduling unified - **4-question personalization quiz**: Multiple-choice onboarding the product calls "training your AI" -- much shallower than persona extraction from past posts. ![ContentIn's onboarding personalization -- a 4-question multiple-choice quiz the product calls 'training your AI'.](/comparisons/competitors/contentin/product-screenshots/clarifyingquestions.webp) -- "Personalization" = a 4-question quiz - **Vendor responds to negative reviews publicly on Capterra**: Credibility signal. **Best for**: Budget-first solo creators who want a clean Kanban + scheduling workflow at a low price and accept the voice trade.; If voice depth matters, the gap to Oiti Creator ($49 -- just $34 more) doesn't justify the ceiling. **Pros**: - **$15/mo undercuts the category 2-3x -- and EasyGen 4x**: Cheapest dedicated AI ghostwriter at a comparable surface. - **Right structural product**: LinkedIn-OAuth-safe scheduling, week-view calendar, Kanban writing queue, composer plus scheduling in one place. - **Vendor responds to negative reviews publicly on Capterra**: Credibility signal. **Cons**: - **Composer content is extremely generic and doesn't retain voice**: No clarifying questions, no web search for trending content. Same flaw as EasyGen, cheaper. Oiti's research agents search Reddit + ICP painpoints + your KB before drafting; persona from your last 100 posts, not a quiz. ([source](https://www.capterra.com/p/276290/ContentIn/reviews/)) - **"Personalization" is a 4-question quiz**: That doesn't train an AI on who you are. Oiti builds a 3,000-word persona document. - **"Who from your ICP engaged" feature pulls per-person engagement data**: Worth knowing how it's sourced before connecting -- the mechanism looks like scraping, which is against LinkedIn's ToS. ### 7. [Leaps](https://leapshq.com) -- multi-channel publishers (LinkedIn + newsletter + X) **Category**: Interview-led ghostwriter - **Pricing**: $49 Basic / $99 Pro / $149 Premium per month - **Trial**: Free trial, no credit card - **LinkedIn-native**: Partial **What sets it apart**: Voice-note -> outline -> article interview pipeline for execs Interesting concept, wrong channel focus -- and the one entry on this list that's the deliberate philosophical opposite of EasyGen. EasyGen's entire premise is force-feeding an influencer's template onto you; Leaps' entire premise is the inverse -- extracting your own views before it writes a word. Its tagline is literally "anti-slop by design -- we don't write from generic prompts. Instead, we capture your unique points of view in a short interview." So Leaps and EasyGen sit at opposite ends of the same spectrum: one starts from a borrowed formula, the other from your actual point of view. That did sound interesting. Their guided interview surfaces a set of questions and helps you build responses, rather than just asking "what do you want to write about?" The talking-points step lets you pick which angles to explore. There's a built-in mic for voice-to-text, you can drop in writing samples to ground the voice, and they ship pre-written one-click edits ("make hook stronger," "add more details," "shorter"). **When I tested it**: The dealbreaker: it's not LinkedIn-optimized. Leaps covers LinkedIn plus newsletters, tweets, outlines, articles, and notes. For someone whose primary need is LinkedIn quality, that breadth dilutes per-channel depth. And the interview format is one-shot -- questions -> responses -> output, then start over to revise. Compare to a chat composer (Oiti) where you iterate back and forth; Leaps is faster for a first draft, slower for a fifth one. There's no real-time preview while editing, no "see more" cutoff to optimize hook length, no knowledge base, no memory across sessions. They're also doing SEO and GEO features -- LinkedIn isn't the one thing they're focused on. The pricing is competitive -- $49 entry with unlimited team members at every tier. So unlike EasyGen, this isn't a price-pain story; it's a focus story. **Key features**: - **Anti-slop interview concept**: Guided interview + talking-points selection forces specificity in a way generic-prompt tools (EasyGen included) don't. ![Leaps' guided-interview screen asking the user to answer specific questions before generating content.](/comparisons/competitors/leaps/product-screenshots/leaps-interview-questions.webp) -- Guided interview -- questions before generation - **Talking-points selection**: Pick which angles to explore from the answers given -- narrows the output before drafting. ![Leaps' talking-points selector -- pick which angles to explore from the answers given.](/comparisons/competitors/leaps/product-screenshots/leaps-choose-talking-points.webp) -- Talking-points selection step - **Multi-channel output + voice-to-text mic**: LinkedIn + newsletters + tweets + outlines + articles + notes, all from one interview. Voice-to-text mic + writing-sample uploads. ![Leaps' onboarding screen showing multi-channel output options and voice-to-text setup.](/comparisons/competitors/leaps/product-screenshots/leaps-onboarding.webp) -- Onboarding -- multi-channel + voice-to-text - **One-click edit workflows**: "Make hook stronger", "add more details", "make it shorter" -- quick one-click refines. ![Leaps' edit-workflow menu offering one-click refines for hook strength, post length, and detail level.](/comparisons/competitors/leaps/product-screenshots/match-style.webp) -- Edit workflows -- one-click refines **Best for**: Multi-channel publishers (LinkedIn + newsletter + Twitter + long-form) where the interview-led model fits the production rhythm.; Specifically not for LinkedIn-only creators -- the breadth plus no-memory plus no-KB plus no-chat gaps add up to a worse fit than Oiti at the same $49 entry. **Pros**: - **The anti-slop interview concept is novel**: Guided interview + talking-points selection forces specificity in a way generic-prompt tools (EasyGen included) don't. - **Multi-channel output is useful for the right persona**: LinkedIn + newsletters + tweets + outlines + articles + notes, from one interview, with voice-to-text and sample uploads. - **Competitively priced**: $49 Basic with unlimited team members. No per-seat fees. **Cons**: - **Not LinkedIn-optimized -- breadth dilutes depth**: If LinkedIn quality is your priority, the channel spread is a tax. Oiti is LinkedIn-only by design -- persona, KB, inspiration-template loop, 360Brew tuning, all built for LinkedIn. - **Interview format isn't chat-based, no real-time preview**: One-shot per article, not back-and-forth. Oiti pairs a chat composer with long-term memory across sessions. - **No knowledge base, no memory layer**: Can't ingest YouTube, PDFs, or past posts; each session starts fresh. ### 8. [Scripe](https://scripe.io) -- teams needing approval + scheduling workflows **Category**: Team LinkedIn content suite - **Pricing**: EUR 69 / EUR 99 / EUR 149 per month (~$76 / $108 / $164) + EUR 45/mo per extra account - **Trial**: 14-day free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Approval flows + shared workspace KB + Amplifier seats Scripe is European-founded and built for teams. Approval flows, a shared Kanban content pipeline, a shared workspace knowledge base, Amplifier seats that split auto-engagement accounts from posting accounts, custom labels and analytics at higher tiers. If your job is to run LinkedIn content for a 5+ person team and you need the structure, Scripe thought through the workflows. They also bundle a tone-of-voice setup and a KB at the Solo tier -- they try the depth layer. But Scripe is EasyGen's failure mode wearing a team-workflow coat, and it rhymes with EasyGen on the two things that matter most here: viral-pattern bias is the same family as EasyGen's expired broetry, and billing-after-cancel is the same trust pattern as EasyGen's "final and non-refundable." Scripe's idea listing is built on what's viral right now, and at scale that leaning on viral templates makes everyone sound the same. **When I tested it**: Underneath that, the depth layers are thin the way EasyGen's are: no long-term memory (every session is square one), a KB that holds files but doesn't compound on prior outcomes, and a "describe how you sound" tone form rather than structural extraction of your last 100 posts. An agency I spoke to was running Scripe for a finance-founder client. According to him, the content was "AI slop" -- generic, no depth -- and the infographics were "cringe" (his word). A finance founder of a fast-growing company cannot post that; it actively damages credibility in a serious niche. They switched to Oiti. Trustpilot lined up. Scripe sits at 2.6/5 across 6 reviews. Nitant Harani at 1/5 hits both EasyGen parallels in one breath: "Terrible Product. They Charged me even after I cancelled the subscription. Post Ideas are AI Slop..." -- the billing-after-cancel and the "AI Slop" are both his words, not mine. One positive too -- Fabio from Italy at 4/5 praising the analytics depth, which does work. **Review receipts**: - [Nitant Harani on Trustpilot -- 1/5, Apr 2026: charged after cancelling, "Post Ideas are AI Slop..."](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/scripe.io) -- ![Trustpilot review of Scripe by Nitant Harani (India), 1 out of 5 stars, titled "Terrible Product Unprofessional Billing," saying he was charged after cancelling and that the post ideas are AI slop.](/comparisons/competitors/scripe/reviews/trustpilot-nitant.webp) **Key features**: - **Deep team workflows**: Shared Kanban pipeline, workspace KB, approval flows, Amplifier seats. A genuine wedge vs solo tools. ![Scripe's dashboard showing the "Weekly post ideas" engine -- auto-generated personalized post drafts -- and a prompt bar to create content.](/comparisons/competitors/scripe/product-screenshots/scripe-dashboard-ideas.webp) -- Scripe's dashboard -- auto-drafted "Weekly post ideas" plus a prompt bar to create content - **Tone-of-voice + KB bundled at the Solo tier (EUR 69/mo)**: They attempt the depth layer Oiti owns, even if execution misses. ![Scripe's workspace knowledge base -- file storage without a memory layer on top.](/comparisons/competitors/scripe/product-screenshots/scripe-knowledge-base.webp) -- Workspace KB -- files yes, memory layer that compounds no **Best for**: Teams of 5+ who specifically need deep LinkedIn workflows and will actually use the structure.; Not for solo creators, and not for anyone in a serious niche (finance, B2B, legal, deep technical) where generic AI content damages credibility. **Pros**: - **Team workflows are deep**: Shared Kanban pipeline, workspace KB, approval flows, Amplifier seats. A genuine wedge vs solo tools. - **Tone-of-voice + KB bundled at the Solo tier (EUR 69/mo)**: They attempt the depth layer Oiti owns, even if execution misses. **Cons**: - **Content is generic at scale and flattens voice**: Snapshot ideas, no memory, form-style persona, viral-pattern bias. Oiti pairs persistent memory + persona from your last 100 posts + ICP painpoint search. - **Billing-after-cancellation reports**: Two independent Trustpilot reports of being charged after cancelling -- the same trust pattern as EasyGen's "final and non-refundable." ([source](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/scripe.io)) - **Multi-account math gets expensive**: Solo covers 1 account; EUR 45/mo per extra. Three accounts on Scripe Solo = EUR 159/mo (~$175). Three on Oiti Pro = $79 flat -- 3 personal + 10 company accounts, no per-account add-ons. ### 9. [Stanley](https://stanley.stan.store) -- curious indie buyers (with caveats) **Category**: Indie LinkedIn coach + writer - **Pricing**: $149/mo, no trial - **Trial**: No free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Hosted on stan.store; paywalled before you can draft Stanley and EasyGen share a GTM, not just a category. I found EasyGen through Ruben Hassid's posts; Stanley name-drops Justin Welsh, Steven Bartlett, and Lara Acosta on its checkout -- both sold to you by paid influencers whose own playbook is the product being pushed. But here's what Stanley actually is: a coach, not a writer. The entry flow is "add your LinkedIn URL, get a free profile analysis," and the whole free experience is Stanley analyzing you -- your numbers, your posts, what you "should" be doing. It ran a real analysis on my account: pulled my actual follower count (14,820), my engagement, my top posts, even name-checked Oiti, my 7-agent system, and surfaced my own posts as the things it "analyzed." Then the textbook fear-then-hope -- a scary 0.25% engagement rate, a dangled +12,179 projected follower growth -- right before the paywall. **When I tested it**: And that's the problem. If I wanted a LinkedIn coach, I'd just use ChatGPT -- for free. Stanley brands itself as a coach for LinkedIn content, but I came to write posts, not to be told my engagement is low and have my own posts mirrored back at me. The actual drafting -- the thing you'd pay for -- sits behind a hard $149/month paywall, no free trial. And that's the opposite of why you'd leave EasyGen: you're leaving because the output is generic, expired-playbook broetry, and Stanley wants $149/mo sight-unseen before you can find out whether its writing is any better, after coaching you on numbers you already knew. EasyGen at least shows you its output before the (non-refundable) charge; Stanley won't show you the writing at all. **Review receipts**: - Stanley's $149/mo paywall -- name-drops Justin Welsh, Steven Bartlett, Lara Acosta, the same paid-influencer GTM as EasyGen -- ![Stanley's checkout/paywall screen -- "$149.00 per month", a "Subscribe to Stanley" panel, and marketing copy name-dropping Justin Welsh, Steven Bartlett, and Lara Acosta with the claim "the top 1% of Content gets 80%+ of the returns."](/comparisons/competitors/stanley/paywall-stanley.webp) **Key features**: - **LinkedIn-native profile-analysis onboarding**: It does read your real public posts and numbers -- follower count, engagement, top posts. The analysis layer is technically impressive. ![Stanley's profile-analysis onboarding screen showing engagement metrics computed from the user's past LinkedIn posts.](/comparisons/competitors/stanley/product-screenshots/onboarding-analysis.webp) -- Profile-analysis onboarding -- reads your real public numbers **Best for**: If you respond well to a polished, personalized analysis of your numbers and you're fine paying $149/mo to find out whether the drafting holds up, maybe.; For everyone else, the no-trial wall plus a "free analysis" that just mirrors your own posts back is reason enough to test something that lets you try the writing before you pay. The drafting -- the thing you actually came for -- is the one part Stanley won't show you up front. **Pros**: - **LinkedIn-native focus with a profile-analysis onboarding**: It does read your past posts live and benchmark off your real numbers. As conversion design, it's well-built. **Cons**: - **$149/mo, no free trial, paywalled before value**: You pay before you can use the product you came for -- after an analysis engineered to make you anxious about your numbers. Oiti puts pricing on the homepage, $49 Creator / $79 Pro, 7-day trial, no cold charge. - **It's a coach, not a content engine**: The free experience analyzes you and mirrors your existing posts back -- it doesn't write anything new. If you want coaching on your numbers, ChatGPT does that free. Oiti builds a persona from your posts + website + live ICP research and actually writes in your voice, adapting to feedback over time. ### 10. [Kleo](https://kleo.so) -- viral-format content (one account) **Category**: Full-stack LinkedIn content tool - **Pricing**: $99/mo or $999/yr (~$83/mo effective) - **Trial**: No free trial - **LinkedIn-native**: Yes **What sets it apart**: Rebuilt as a full-stack tool after LinkedIn forced its Chrome extension offline Kleo's original Chrome extension was forced offline by LinkedIn after two years and 70,000+ users. Here's how one user put it on r/socialmedia: "Just saw that Kleo is officially removing their Chrome extension after 2 years and 70,000+ users. Apparently LinkedIn asked them to shut it down. Kleo was genuinely helpful for finding content ideas fast." The team took that and rebuilt from scratch as a full-stack web tool. That's the version this entry reviews, and the shutdown is the reason the new tool exists, not a flaw of it. The relaunched Kleo has real bets, and on the writing surface it's the closest feature-parity to Oiti of anyone here: a Context Engine that mirrors Oiti's persona/KB direction, an Inspiration Swipe File that mirrors Oiti's 1-click templates, and a chat composer. The infographics aren't as polished or as varied as Oiti's, but they're well done. There's still a narrow Chrome extension piece now -- but only for saving posts, not the full experience that got nuked. **When I tested it**: Where it falls down -- and it's the same trap as EasyGen. Kleo optimizes for viral content, fast. That's their opinionated angle. But chasing virality flattens your voice, and going viral is often the wrong play -- for boring niches, for educated audiences, for anyone whose distribution depends on credibility rather than reach. The 2026 algorithm rewards dwell time, not virality: a post 200 people read for 90 seconds beats one 2,000 people skim in 4. Optimizing for viral patterns bakes in the wrong outcome, exactly the way EasyGen's expired broetry does. On top of that, the KB is primitive and there's no long-term memory -- every session starts fresh. And it's $99/mo single-account, no free trial -- more than Oiti Pro at $79 for 3 personal accounts, and you can't evaluate without paying $99 upfront. I came across Kina from the UK on Trustpilot at 2/5: "I paid the discounted rate of GBP 79 (instead of the full price), and even at that price point, I don't feel the experience justifies it..." That lined up with my own math. **Review receipts**: - [r/socialmedia -- "Kleo ... officially removing their Chrome extension after 2 years and 70,000+ users. Apparently LinkedIn asked them to shut it down."](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/1lik2zn/kleo_chrome_extension_shut_down_what_are_you/) -- ![r/socialmedia post titled "Kleo Chrome extension shut down, what are you using now for LinkedIn content ideation?" -- the body says Kleo is removing their Chrome extension after 2 years and 70,000+ users because LinkedIn asked them to shut it down.](/comparisons/competitors/kleo/reviews/reddit-shutdown.webp) - [Kina on Trustpilot -- 2/5, 2025-12-27 (UK)](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/kleo.so) -- ![Trustpilot review of Kleo by Kina from the UK, 2 out of 5 stars, titled "Disappointed", saying that even at the discounted GBP 79 rate the experience did not justify it, plus onboarding and support complaints.](/comparisons/competitors/kleo/reviews/trustpilot-kina.webp) **Key features**: - **Inspiration Swipe File**: Mirrors Oiti's 1-click templates -- a viral-format library you can pull from. ![Kleo's Inspiration Swipe File showing high-performing viral LinkedIn posts ready to be templated.](/comparisons/competitors/kleo/product-screenshots/kleo-inspiration-swipe-file.webp) -- Inspiration Swipe File -- viral-format library - **Context Engine**: Mirrors Oiti's persona/KB direction. A real bet on grounding posts in who you are. ![Kleo's Context Engine -- their persona / Knowledge Base equivalent feature.](/comparisons/competitors/kleo/product-screenshots/kleo-context-engine.webp) -- Context Engine -- persona/KB mirror - **Chat composer + infographics**: Feature parity on the writing surface. Infographics aren't as polished or varied as Oiti's, but they're well done. - **Pivoted away from the full Chrome extension**: After LinkedIn forced the original extension offline, the team rebuilt as a full-stack tool -- only a narrow save-posts extension piece remains. **Best for**: Someone who specifically wants viral-format content for one LinkedIn account, doesn't mind $99/mo with no trial, and will push back when the viral bias tries to strip their actual voice. **Pros**: - **Built intelligently post-pivot, for viral content fast**: If you specifically want viral-format content for one account, this is the lane. - **Feature parity with Oiti on the writing surface**: Chat composer + inspiration tab + infographics (fewer and less polished, but real). **Cons**: - **Viral-format opinion flattens voice**: The strongest angle is also the biggest pitfall, and for boring niches or educated audiences it's the wrong play -- same trap as EasyGen's expired playbook. Oiti's narrative timeline + tone clone prioritize sounding like you over viral pattern matching. - **No free trial, $99/mo single-account**: Can't evaluate without paying $99. Kina UK at 2/5 even at the discounted GBP 79. Oiti Pro at $79/mo covers 3 personal accounts; 7-day free trial, no usage cap; 50% off yearly. ([source](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/kleo.so)) - **No long-term memory, primitive KB**: Every session starts fresh. Oiti pairs persistent memory + a KB that ingests YouTube, PDFs, meeting notes, competitor posts. ## How to choose - **If your top concern is getting off the expired playbook** -> Content that sounds like you instead of broetry LinkedIn penalizes -> Oiti. The narrative timeline + persona + KB + memory + conversational iteration is the loop nothing else in this list closes end to end. - **If your top concern is safety / ToS** -> Oiti or Supergrow, both on official APIs. Skip anything Chrome-extension-based. The category is under active pressure -- Shield Analytics shut down in May 2026, Kleo's extension was forced offline, AuthoredUp is fragile. - **If you're budget-first, under $30/mo** -> ContentIn at $15/mo is the cheapest credible option and undercuts EasyGen 4x. The structural product is right; the content has a ceiling. Pair the trial with Oiti's 7-day free trial and compare output side by side. - **If you want a thinking partner for long writing sessions** -> Deep context, memory that compounds, a real KB -> Oiti. That's the wedge. - **If you're a ghostwriter or agency writing for 3+ clients** -> Oiti Pro at $79/mo. Multi-Clone, multi-voice, multi-account scheduling, separate KB per client. Pro isn't agency-only -- many solo users opt up for the multi-voice headroom (founder voice + company page, two unrelated projects). - **If you only need formatting** -> Oiti's free LinkedIn Text Post Formatter (no signup). - **If you only need scheduling across multiple accounts** -> Supergrow's scheduling is the genuine wedge. Oiti Pro covers the same at $79/mo and adds the writing layer. - **If your primary medium is carousels and slide decks** -> Postiv. Their pre-built carousel workflows are the one thing where they beat Oiti. - **If you publish across multiple channels (LinkedIn + newsletter + Twitter + articles)** -> Leaps, if the interview-led model fits. Specifically not for LinkedIn-only creators. - **If you need deep team workflows for 5+ people** -> Scripe (with the caveat that writing quality plateaus). Pair it with a strong content lead so the structure doesn't carry generic output to your audience. ## FAQ ### What's the best EasyGen alternative in 2026? Overall, Oiti -- it's the one tool here that fixes EasyGen's two core problems at once. EasyGen gives you a generic, templated output from a one-shot form; Oiti builds a 3,000-word persona of who you actually are, then lets you iterate conversationally with memory that compounds. If your priority is multi-account scheduling instead, Supergrow is the pick; if you only want formatting, Oiti's free formatter covers it. But for the specific pain that makes people leave EasyGen -- content that doesn't sound like you -- Oiti is the answer. ### Is EasyGen worth it? / EasyGen review For most people, no. I tried it. The onboarding broke on the connect-your-LinkedIn step ("Setup failed. Unexpected end of JSON input," three or four retries). The output was templated broetry -- I tested it on "AI taking away jobs" and got back the "change is happening fast" content that worked in 2019-2020 and that LinkedIn now penalizes. It's a one-shot form with no conversational iteration -- even ChatGPT does better, because ChatGPT lets you go back and forth. At $59.99/mo with login-gated pricing and a non-refundable policy, I wouldn't pay for it. One Trustpilot reviewer (5/5) did like it for fast post-and-image creation, so if raw speed is all you want, your mileage may vary -- but my critique is about content quality, and there it falls short. ### How much does EasyGen cost? $59.99/month, or $599.88/year (~$49.99/mo on annual). The catch worth knowing: EasyGen doesn't publish pricing on its homepage -- /pricing redirects to sign-in, so you can't see the price until you're inside the paid flow. Two of three Trustpilot reviewers also flag billing: one quotes EasyGen's own terms -- "All purchases on EasyGen are final and non-refundable" (Bilal Şengül, 1/5, 2025-07-28). If you try it, treat it as a non-refundable purchase, not a trial-and-cancel. ### What's the cheapest EasyGen alternative? Is there a free one? Cheapest paid: ContentIn at $15/mo -- it undercuts EasyGen 4x. For a free path, two options: Oiti's free LinkedIn Text Post Formatter (no signup, full formatting + the 210-character cutoff preview) covers the formatting and preview job at zero cost, and Oiti's 7-day free trial has no usage caps if you want to test the actual writing before paying. Most other tools have trials with usage caps -- check before signing up. ### Which EasyGen alternative actually learns my writing style / sounds like me? Oiti -- and the reason is the precise inverse of what EasyGen does. EasyGen's whole model is to push one influencer's expired playbook onto you; Oiti's is to learn you first. It trains on your last 100 LinkedIn posts plus your website plus an ICP painpoint search across X, Reddit, and the deep web -- a 3,000-word persona, not a 4-question quiz (ContentIn) or a "describe how you sound" form (Scripe, Postiv), and definitely not "pick a creator to copy" (EasyGen). Then, because it's conversational rather than a one-shot form, it absorbs your feedback across sessions and gets more like you over time instead of resetting the second you submit. ### What does EasyGen do that alternatives don't? Its "Track Creators" / EasyTrend feature is the honest answer. It surfaces a feed of viral posts from creators you track, which is a real signal source. But that's where it stops. It shows you the viral post; it never breaks it into a reusable, one-click template with a line-by-line teardown you can apply with your own knowledge base. So it's an inspiration feed, not a system. Oiti turns any inspiration post into a 1-click structural template that your persona and KB then refill -- the layer EasyGen never built underneath the feed. ### Is there an EasyGen Chrome extension alternative? Most modern tools, including Oiti, are full web apps on LinkedIn's official APIs -- not Chrome extensions. That's intentional: LinkedIn is clamping down on extensions (Shield Analytics shut down in May 2026, Kleo's extension was forced offline). AuthoredUp is the main extension-based formatter still standing, but it carries the category-level ToS risk. If you specifically wanted the in-feed overlay an extension gives you, know that you're choosing the riskiest category to be in right now. ### Which EasyGen alternative is best for multi-platform (X/Twitter + blogs)? Leaps, if you genuinely publish across LinkedIn + newsletter + tweets + articles -- its interview-led model fans out across channels from one session. Oiti is LinkedIn-first by design and doesn't generate X or Instagram content, so if multi-platform is your main need, Oiti isn't the fit. That's an honest expectation to set: Oiti trades platform breadth for LinkedIn depth. ### Why is Oiti at rank #1? Because it fixes EasyGen's two defining failures in one tool, and nothing else here does both. EasyGen serves a generic, expired-playbook output from a one-shot form; Oiti grounds every draft in a persona built from your real posts (no expired formula) and lets you iterate conversationally with memory that compounds (no one-shot dead end). The full wedge -- inspiration -> 1-click template, multiplied by persona + KB + long-term memory, with that back-and-forth on top -- is the only loop in this list that runs end to end from "what works on LinkedIn" to "who you are." The 6 axes weren't picked to rig the order; read the Oiti entry for the real cons and How to choose for the personas where Oiti is the wrong pick. ### How do I switch from EasyGen to Oiti? Three steps, and the first one matters more with EasyGen than with most tools. (1) Cancel EasyGen before your next billing date -- its terms say all purchases are final and non-refundable, so a trial-and-cancel only works if you beat the renewal. (2) Sign up for Oiti's 7-day free trial -- no card-on-file, so there's no symmetrical trap on this side. The AI Clone reads your past posts + website + runs an ICP search in about 30 seconds, so you're writing within a minute. (3) Add creators in your niche to the inspiration tab, turn the posts you like into 1-click templates, and refill them in your own voice. Because Oiti is a conversation rather than EasyGen's one-shot form, memory absorbs every edit -- by your third or fourth post the AI is closer to how you actually write. ## Verdict EasyGen bottles an expired 2020-era influencer playbook -- generic broetry that LinkedIn now penalizes -- behind a one-shot form (even ChatGPT iterates better) at $59.99/mo, with login-gated pricing and a non-refundable policy. The onboarding even broke on me at the connect-your-LinkedIn step. It's the inverse of what a LinkedIn tool should do in 2026: it pushes a formula onto you instead of learning who you are. For content that actually sounds like you and iterates as you give feedback, Oiti is the pick -- $49 Creator / $79 Pro, official APIs, no Chrome-extension risk, yearly 50% off for early adopters ($245 / $395). For cheap LinkedIn-safe scheduling, Supergrow or ContentIn ($15). For formatting only, Oiti's free formatter. For carousels, Postiv. Yearly plans are 50% off for early adopters right now: $49 Creator -> $245/year (~$20/mo effective), $79 Pro -> $395/year (~$33/mo effective). Active as of 2026-05. Expires when the early-adopter window closes -- no renewal at this rate. **Get started**: [Try Oiti free for 7 days](https://tryapp.ghostwriting-ai.com/sign-up) - [See how the AI Clone works](/use-cases/ai-ghostwriter-for-linkedin) ## Keep reading - **Category-wide ranking -- [I tested all 33 LinkedIn AI content tools](/comparisons/best-linkedin-ai-tools-2026)**: The category-wide ranking on the same 6-axis methodology. Broader context for any EasyGen refugee. - **Free tool -- [LinkedIn Text Post Formatter](/tools/linkedin-text-post-formatter)**: Bold, italic, line breaks, the 210-character cutoff preview. Free, no signup. Does EasyGen's preview job at zero cost. - **See Oiti -- [See Oiti](/)**: The full product walk-through: persona + Knowledge Base + long-term memory + multi-account scheduling. What the #1 pick actually does.