# Sked vs Later
> Canonical: https://skedsocial.com/compare/later-vs-sked
Full team collaboration, approvals, 8+ native channels and analytics — not a mobile-first visual planner stretched into a platform.
## Later is a great planner. Sked is a social team's workspace.

Later built a beautiful Instagram planner, and for solo creators it still is. Running a team — real approvals, multi-channel schedules, client reporting — is a different job.

### Past the grid, past the phone.

- **Every channel, not just Instagram** — Later imposes post quotas on most plans and doesn't auto-publish to Google Business Profile. Sked publishes to eight native channels — including GBP — with no post caps on any plan.
- **Team collaboration on every plan** — On Later, external approvers need paid seats or approvals go offline. Sked sends no-login branded review links — clients approve from their inbox, no account required.
- **Reporting a CMO will open** — AI-summarised weekly reports. Custom cadence. Sent to your inbox — not exported from a dashboard.
- **24/7 humans, not chatbots** — Later runs through a chatbot first, then email. Sked gives you real humans across Sydney, London, and New York time zones — chat, email, phone, and Zoom on Grow and Accelerate, 4-minute average reply.

## When the team gets bigger, the tool needs to keep up.

Growing past 'one person, one phone' is where Later hits its ceiling. Sked is built for the gap right after.