How to Schedule LinkedIn Posts (Free and With a Tool)

You can schedule a LinkedIn post without any extra tool: open the post composer, click the clock icon, pick a date and time, and press Post. That covers one post at a time on one network. The rest of this guide is for when you post more than that: a week of posts, several channels, or posts written by an AI agent.

The short version: LinkedIn's own scheduler is free and works on desktop and mobile. Use it if you post a few times a week to LinkedIn only. If you post to LinkedIn and other networks, use a tool that goes through LinkedIn's official API and shows every channel on one calendar. Never use a tool that drives your browser; LinkedIn's terms forbid it.

How do I schedule a post on LinkedIn?

In the post composer, write your post, click the clock icon, choose the date and time, then click Post. LinkedIn holds the post and publishes it at that time. On mobile it is the same: tap Post, write it, tap the clock icon, pick the time, tap Post. These are the steps in LinkedIn's own help page.

1. Click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn home page.
2. Write the post. LinkedIn allows up to 3,000 characters.
3. Click the clock icon at the bottom of the composer.
4. Pick the date and time, then confirm.
5. Click Post. The post is now scheduled, not published.

Is there a way to see scheduled posts on LinkedIn?

Yes. LinkedIn says you manage scheduled posts from the post composer: open it again and go to your scheduled posts, where you can change or delete them before they go out. There is no calendar view, so with more than a handful of posts it gets hard to see the week at a glance.

Can I schedule LinkedIn posts for free?

Yes. The scheduler built into LinkedIn costs nothing. Most third-party schedulers have a free tier with limits on posts or channels. Skryvo's free plan lets you write and draft posts; scheduling and auto-publishing start on the Hobby plan at $15 a month, with 20 posts queued at once.

Scheduling LinkedIn posts with a tool

A scheduling tool earns its place when you post to more than LinkedIn, or more than a few times a week. What to check before you connect one:

• It signs in through LinkedIn. You should land on LinkedIn's own consent page. Posting needs one permission, w_member_social. A tool that asks for your password, a cookie or a browser extension is not using the official API.
• It shows every channel on one calendar. That is the main thing LinkedIn's scheduler cannot do.
• It tells you when a post went out. A scheduled post can fail if the connection expired. A good tool says so instead of failing silently.

Here is how it works in Skryvo, as one example:

1. Connect your LinkedIn profile in Settings › Connected accounts. You approve Skryvo on LinkedIn's sign-in page.
2. Write the post, or let Skryvo draft it in your brand's voice, then pick a time on the calendar. Posts go out on the quarter hour, in your time zone.
3. Skryvo publishes through LinkedIn's Posts API, then reads the post back from LinkedIn. Only then does the calendar mark it published.

The same post can go to X, Bluesky, Mastodon and your other channels at the same time, each rewritten for that network's length. LinkedIn scheduling in Skryvo lists what it can post today.

Can I schedule LinkedIn posts from ChatGPT or Claude?

Yes, if the AI agent is connected to a scheduler through an MCP server. Ask Claude "Write a LinkedIn post about our launch and schedule it for Tuesday at 9am", and it drafts the post, shows it to you and schedules it after you agree. Our guide to LinkedIn MCP servers explains which kinds are safe to connect, and the Claude setup takes about a minute.

Can I automate my LinkedIn posts?

You can automate the publishing, not the judgment. Scheduling through LinkedIn's API is allowed; using bots or scripts to post through your browser is not. Section 8.2 of LinkedIn's User Agreement forbids "bots or other unauthorized automated methods" for creating or sharing posts. LinkedIn's help page also warns that posting too much in a short period can limit how many people see your posts, so automation that floods your profile works against you.

Do scheduled posts get less views on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn has not said that scheduled posts are shown less, and a post scheduled in its own composer is published by LinkedIn itself. Reach depends on the post and on when your audience is online. If you want to know what works for your account, compare your own posts by hour and day over a month instead of trusting a general "best time" chart.

Scheduling a LinkedIn company Page post

Page admins can post as the Page from the same composer by choosing the Page as the author. Third-party tools need LinkedIn's separate approval to post to Pages (the Community Management API), so check that a tool has it before you rely on it. Skryvo's Page posting is built and waiting for that approval; personal profiles work today.

If you post to LinkedIn alone, start with the clock icon today. If you post to three networks, put them on one calendar and stop copying the same post between apps.