Overview of the Hootsuite mobile app

Hootsuite's mobile app complements the web version of Hootsuite. It helps you stay on top of your social media tasks efficiently, no matter where you are.

If you’re new to Hootsuite, see Get started with Hootsuite to start exploring and setting up your account on the web version of Hootsuite.

The Hootsuite mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices. Download it for free from your phone’s app store. The minimum OS requirements are Android 5.0 and iOS or iPadOS 15.

The Hootsuite mobile app doesn't support complex workflows that take more than a couple minutes. Tasks you must complete in the web version of Hootsuite include creating analytics reports, adding new team members, and managing your Hootsuite organization.

Here’s an overview of what you can do in each area of the Hootsuite mobile app.

Account

Manage your account and settings by selecting your profile picture in the top left of the app. On the Account tab, you can manage your connected social accounts and find links to help. If you’re part of more than one Hootsuite organization, you can switch between them here. On the Settings tab, you can manage the notifications you receive, switch the app to dark mode, and find the Sign out button.

​​For more information, visit the following help articles:

• Sign in or out of Hootsuite
• Connect a social account to Hootsuite
• Reconnect a social account
• Manage Hootsuite mobile notifications
• Set preferences in the Hootsuite mobile app

Streams

Monitor conversations, likes, and mentions and engage with your audience. Select Streams to create and view content feeds from your connected social accounts. You can monitor specific keywords, mentions, topics, hashtags, or even competitors and take part in those conversations. You can also categorize and organize your streams with boards.

Streams in the Hootsuite mobile app are great for scanning for social mentions of your brand outside of office hours and replying to time-sensitive comments.

For more information, visit the following help articles:

• Overview of stream feeds
• Use boards to organize your streams
• Share stream content in the Hootsuite mobile app

Create

Create, publish, and schedule posts to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and TikTok. Select Create to create new posts that you can publish to multiple accounts at the same time. Besides text, you can include mentions, links, images, videos, GIFs, emoji, and hashtags. Business and Enterprise plan customers can also access content library images.

The Hootsuite mobile app is great for whipping up a post when inspiration strikes and saving it as a draft to polish later.

​​For more information, visit the following help articles:

• Publish and schedule posts in the Hootsuite mobile app
• Save and edit drafts in the Hootsuite mobile app

Plan

View and edit scheduled posts, work on drafts, and manage approvals by selecting Plan. You can also create new posts in empty time slots, or delete existing ones, right from the calendar. Filter your content calendar by social account or post status to find your drafts or posts that need approval before they get published.

The Hootsuite mobile app is great for double-checking your scheduled posts before they get published.

​​For more information, visit the following help articles:

• Manage your content calendar in the Hootsuite mobile app
• Approve content before it goes live
• Save and edit drafts in the Hootsuite mobile app

Inbox

Respond to incoming messages across all social accounts from one place. Select Inbox 2.0 to engage with your customers - recieving and responding to multiple messaging channels and social networks in one place. You can respond to or route messages to others on your team, and then mark them as resolved.

The Hootsuite mobile app is great for staying on top of time-sensitive engagement when conversations continue after hours, ensuring you don’t miss any responses.

​​For more information, visit Inbox 2.0 quick start guide - for agents.

Amplify

Share content created by your company with your social accounts. If your company uses Amplify, you can select Amplify to follow your organization’s Amplify feed and share posts to your social accounts right from your mobile device.

The Hootsuite mobile app is a great way to keep up with your Amplify feed on-the-go. For more information, visit Explore and share Amplify content.

Notifications

Get notified of new social activity and Instagram posts that are ready to publish. Select Streams and then Notifications in the top right to view your notifications. Get alerted to new activity on your Twitter and Facebook Pages, as well as approval notifications and those all-important Instagram publishing reminders. You can choose to receive many of these as push notifications too.

As with all third-party tools that work with Instagram, the Hootsuite mobile app is essential for publishing Instagram stories. When it's time to publish, you’ll get a notification that contains your prepared content for you to add those final touches and publish it with the Instagram app.

Important: Meta no longer allows third party tools like Hootsuite to integrate and manage Instagram Personal profiles. You can convert your Personal profile to a Business account at any time. For more information, see Instagram Personal profile deprecation - December 2024.

For approvers in Hootsuite Business or Enterprise organizations, mobile push notifications let you know whenever a new post is ready for approval.

​​For more information, visit Manage Hootsuite mobile notifications.

Finding mobile app information in the Help Center

When a Hootsuite feature is in both the web and mobile versions, you’ll find the information together in the same help article. Select the tabs within each help article to view the steps and information specific to each device type. The tabs look like this:

You can find mobile-specific help articles in the Hootsuite for mobile section of the Help Center.