Free LinkedIn post scheduler
Schedule & Chill is a free LinkedIn scheduler your AI tools can post through. Write a post and pick a time, or let Claude, n8n or any other tool you already use write and schedule it for you. The same queue also posts to Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube and TikTok.
Free · No credit card · No trial timer
- 2 connected channels
- 500 scheduled posts a month
- Edit or cancel anything still in the queue
- The full REST API and MCP server
- Uploads up to 400 MB
How to schedule a LinkedIn post
Four steps, about three minutes the first time.
- 1
Connect your LinkedIn account
Sign in, click Connect account, and approve LinkedIn’s consent screen. This is LinkedIn’s own OAuth flow — we never ask for your password.
- 2
Write the post
Type it in the composer, or let an AI tool write it for you. Attach images or a video; the file rules for each network are checked before the post leaves.
- 3
Pick a time
Choose any future date and time, or drop it into the next open queue slot. The calendar shows everything already scheduled so you do not double-book a day.
- 4
Change your mind whenever
Scheduled posts stay editable and cancellable right up to the moment they publish.
Already scheduled something inside LinkedIn and cannot find it again? Here is where LinkedIn hides the queue.
Why not use LinkedIn’s own scheduler?
You should, if you write every post by hand inside LinkedIn — it is free and it works. The reason to use something else is that LinkedIn’s queue is closed: no automation you run and no AI tool you use can put a post into it.
| Schedule & Chill | LinkedIn’s built-in scheduler | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free |
| Schedule a post ahead of time | ||
| Edit a post after scheduling it | Personal profiles | |
| How far ahead you can schedule | No ceiling | 3 months |
| Queue you can open on its own page | Inside the composer | |
| Schedule many posts in one pass | ||
| Your AI tools can post through it | ||
| Posts to other networks too | Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube |
Checked against LinkedIn’s live product on 2026-09-08. Other scheduling tools also offer API access — Ayrshare, Postiz and Bundle.social among them. What is unusual here is the combination of a free plan with a native MCP server; compare them side by side.
What you can schedule
Everything LinkedIn itself accepts: text, images, video and PDF carousels, published on schedule.
Text posts
Up to 3,000 characters. Only the first 140 to 250 show before the "See more" fold, which is the number that decides whether anyone reads the rest.
Where the fold actually fallsMulti-image posts
Two to nine images in one swipeable post — what most people mean when they say carousel.
The two LinkedIn carouselsDocument posts
A PDF that renders as a page-turner in the feed, up to 300 pages. The other thing people call a carousel, and the one with real reach.
Video
One video per post — LinkedIn’s limit, not ours. Uploads run to 400 MB on a free account, and LinkedIn transcodes after upload.
Specs, limits and the processing waitTry it
Where does your post hit “…see more”?
497 / 3,000 characters94 show before the fold
Your hook sits above the fold. That is the line that earns the click.
How it shows in the feed
Your Name
Founder · Helping teams post less, better
Scheduled ·
Approximate: the fold falls around 210 characters on desktop, or after the third line, whichever comes first. LinkedIn moves it with screen width. The full fold guide
Want a few words in bold or italic before you schedule it? LinkedIn has no button for that. Format it with the free LinkedIn text formatter, then paste it into the composer.
Let your AI tools schedule the posts
A language model cannot reach LinkedIn on its own. Schedule & Chill is the layer in between: a native MCP server with 22 tools, 4 resources and 2 prompts for tool-calling clients, and a plain REST API for everything else. Your tool drafts the post, reads what is already queued, and schedules it — you keep a review window before anything publishes.
Works with
- Claude Desktop and Claude Code
- n8n
- Make.com
- Zapier
- Anything else that can call an HTTPS endpoint
Guides for growing on LinkedIn
Scheduling keeps you consistent. These guides cover what to post, how often, and how to turn a profile into a brand.
LinkedIn scheduling FAQ
Yes. A free account connects 2 channels and publishes up to 500 posts a month, with the REST API and the MCP server included in full. No card, no trial countdown, and nothing expires.
Use it, if you write every post by hand inside LinkedIn — it is free and it works. The gap is everything around it: the queue lives inside the post composer rather than on a page of its own, you can only schedule three months out, there is no way to queue a batch in one pass, and no AI tool or automation you run can reach it. That last one is the real difference.
Connect your LinkedIn account, write the post, and pick a date and time in the future. The post sits in the queue until then and can be edited or cancelled at any point before it goes out.
Here, yes — a scheduled post stays editable until it publishes. Inside LinkedIn itself you can also edit a scheduled post on a personal profile: open Start a post, click the clock icon, choose View all scheduled posts, then the three dots next to the post.
Yes, and that is what this is built for. Schedule & Chill runs a native MCP server with 22 tools, so an MCP-capable client such as Claude Desktop or Claude Code can draft a post, read what is already queued, and schedule it. Tools that speak plain HTTP — n8n, Make, Zapier, your own scripts — use the REST API instead.
LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube and TikTok. Adapters exist for more networks, but a platform only becomes connectable once its approval is real and it costs nothing per post to run.
Not yet. Company Pages need LinkedIn’s Community Management API, and that approval is still pending. Personal profiles work today. Until then, LinkedIn’s own scheduler can schedule Page posts.
Every targeted account carries its own delivery status, so you can see exactly which one failed and why, and retry that account on its own rather than reposting everywhere.
Schedule your first LinkedIn post
Connect your account, write a post, pick a time. It is free — no card, and nothing to cancel later.
Free · No credit card · No trial timer