I've used all three for clients and my own profiles and prefer Hootsuite Pro. I currently manage five different sets of profiles, so it can get messy easily.
Sprout Social has beautiful analytics, but with a hack I can get the same for only a quarter of the price. I also work better with multiple columns so Hootsuite wins me over there. With more than a couple of profiles, it's too hard working out what came from which profile in Sprout.
I was using Buffer free to post content, but Hootlet is built into Hootsuite and gives me Ow.ly URLs for tracking, so I found myself not using Buffer as much then not at all.
Probably the biggest clincher for me with Hootsuite Pro is the price and extra user. I have a client also managing their profiles, so I set them up with my extra user. At $10 a month it's amazing value. Two users on Sprout Social is at least $80.
Sprout Social has beautiful analytics, but with a hack I can get the same for only a quarter of the price. I also work better with multiple columns so Hootsuite wins me over there. With more than a couple of profiles, it's too hard working out what came from which profile in Sprout.
I was using Buffer free to post content, but Hootlet is built into Hootsuite and gives me Ow.ly URLs for tracking, so I found myself not using Buffer as much then not at all.
Probably the biggest clincher for me with Hootsuite Pro is the price and extra user. I have a client also managing their profiles, so I set them up with my extra user. At $10 a month it's amazing value. Two users on Sprout Social is at least $80.