LinkedIn10 posts a day, free
Free LinkedIn scheduler
Write it once, put it in the queue, and it goes out at the hour you picked. 10 posts a day on the free plan, across every network you connect, with no card. The same queue is driveable by your own agent, which is the part most free plans fence off.
What LinkedIn allows in a post
| Text | 3,000 Unicode code points |
|---|---|
| Images | up to 20, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif |
| Video | 1 per post, .mp4, up to 30 min, 500 MB |
| Documents | 1 PDF, a title is required |
| Mixing | images or a video in one post, never both |
| Mentions | @[Display Name](urn:li:organization:<id>) or (urn:li:person:<id>) |
LinkedIn allows 3,000 characters per post and 20 images, 1 video up to 30 min, a PDF document, from LinkedIn's own documentation as read on 2026-07-21. Shapeless enforces that table before a draft is queued. The full table is on the LinkedIn spec page; check a draft yourself with the free LinkedIn character counter.
LinkedIn's own free scheduler
The clock icon inside LinkedIn's own Create a post box, on the web.
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Click Start a post at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
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Type the post in the What do you want to talk about? field.
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Click the clock icon to schedule it, pick a date and time, then click Next.
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Click Schedule. LinkedIn accepts a time from 10 minutes to 3 months ahead.
On the LinkedIn app
- Tap Post in the navigation bar, then type the post in the What do you want to talk about? field.
- Tap the clock icon in the upper right. In the Schedule pop-up, pick a date and time; you can type an exact time instead of the 30-minute steps.
- Tap Next. The scheduled date and time shows above the post.
- Tap Schedule in the upper right.
What LinkedIn will not schedule
- A personal profile cannot schedule events, jobs or service posts.
- A Page cannot schedule events, multiple photos, reshares, polls, jobs or service posts, and its earliest slot is one hour out rather than ten minutes.
Viewing, editing and deleting a scheduled post
- View: Start a post (or Post on the phone), the clock icon, then View all scheduled posts.
- Edit or reschedule: open the scheduled post's More menu and choose Modify schedule or Edit post.
- Delete: the Delete icon beside the post, then confirm in the Delete scheduled post? pop-up.
You post to one LinkedIn profile, a few times a week, and you are at a desk when you write.
- One account at a time. A personal profile and a Page are two different scheduling screens.
- No queue and no slots: every post needs a date and time typed by hand.
- No first comment. LinkedIn schedules the post, not the comment you wanted under it.
Read from LinkedIn Help: Schedule posts on and LinkedIn Help: Scheduled posts for LinkedIn Pages on . Platforms move menus; the source is the place to check.
Schedule it by hand
Three screens, and they are the only nouns we use. Manual writes one post yourself and lets any account say it its own way from its preview. Queue drops it into the next free slot for that account, so you never pick an hour twice. Calendar shows the week and lets you drag a post to a different day.
- Connect LinkedIn once, under Accounts, through LinkedIn's own sign-in.
- Open Manual, pick the LinkedIn account, write the post. The preview beside it is LinkedIn's own chrome, not a rectangle.
- Press Add to queue for the next free slot, Schedule for an exact time, or Post now. All three are always on screen. A first comment field appears because LinkedIn supports one.
When the queue fires. Each connected account carries its own posting times, in your zone. Add to queue drops the post into the next free slot for that account, so you pick the hours once and never pick an hour again. We do not guess a best time for you.
After it is queued. Calendar shows the week; a post still in the queue can be opened and rewritten, dragged to another day, or cancelled, right up to the moment it goes out. An agent sees the same queue through posts_list and posts_get.
Composing, scheduling and publishing never spend credits. The $5 refilled each month is only for the agents that research, write, design and render.
Schedule it from an agent
The same post, the same queue, three interfaces. Mint a scoped key under Settings → API keys, or add our LinkedIn MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own host and let it call posts_create. Tools that publish are flagged, so the host asks you first.
curl -X POST https://shapelessai.com/api/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SHAPELESS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"connectionId":"CONNECTION_ID","postText":"We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed.","queue":true,"firstComment":"The full write-up, if you want the detail."}'{
"name": "posts_create",
"arguments": {
"connectionId": "CONNECTION_ID",
"text": "We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed.",
"queue": true,
"firstComment": "The full write-up, if you want the detail."
}
}shapeless posts create --to CONNECTION_ID --text "We rebuilt onboarding this week. Here is what broke first, and what we changed." --queue --first-comment "The full write-up, if you want the detail."Swap "queue": true for "scheduledAt": "2026-09-20T09:00:00Z" to pin an exact minute; leave both out and it publishes now.
Over the daily cap the API answers 402 with free_daily_cap, the limit and the reset time, so an agent can wait rather than retry blindly.
Questions
- Is there a free LinkedIn scheduler?
- Yes, two kinds. LinkedIn schedules posts itself - the clock icon inside LinkedIn's own Create a post box, on the web. You post to one LinkedIn profile, a few times a week, and you are at a desk when you write. Ours is free too: 10 posts a day across every network you connect, no card, and the same queue is driveable by your own agent.
- How many characters can a LinkedIn post be?
- 3,000, and 20 images, 1 video up to 30 min, a PDF document, from LinkedIn's own documentation as we last read it on 2026-07-21. We enforce the same table before a draft is queued, so a post that breaks a rule is fixed rather than rejected at publish time.
- Can an AI agent schedule my LinkedIn posts?
- Yes, on the free plan. Add https://shapelessai.com/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP host and the posts_create tool schedules through your connected LinkedIn account, or call POST /api/posts with a scoped key, or run the CLI. Publishing tools are flagged so the host asks you before anything goes out.
- Can I schedule a first comment on LinkedIn?
- Yes. Pass firstComment on the post and we publish it as a comment on the post once it is live, up to 1,250 characters. Platforms that have no such thing answer 422 rather than silently dropping it.
- Do scheduled LinkedIn posts get less reach?
- LinkedIn publishes a scheduled post through its own API, the same path its clock icon uses, so the post arrives the way a typed one does. We have no reach data of our own to show you, so we will not claim a number in either direction.
- What does the free plan cost me later?
- Nothing for the rail. Scheduling and publishing never spend credits. The $5 refilled each month is for the agents that research, write, design and render - a paid plan refills more of it and lifts the daily cap.
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