<b>Approval workflows: who stops a bad post going live</b>

<b>Approval workflows: who stops a bad post going live</b>
Approval workflow means a post sits in 'pending' until a manager or client signs off. Skip this and an intern ships a typo to 80k followers.

✔ Sprout: multi-stage approval, internal notes, role permissions
✔ Loomly: per-post approval with comment threads, very cheap for the feature
✖ Buffer: no approval below the $100 tier, just shared access
✖ Publer: 'workspace' sharing but no true gated approval

Best for: Loomly for small agencies needing sign-off without enterprise pricing.
Price: Loomly $42/mo, Sprout $299/seat/mo for full workflow.
Pick this if a client must approve everything: Loomly delivers gated approval at agency-starter pricing. Buffer makes you upgrade hard for it.