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Hopper HQ at a glance

Vendor
Hopper HQ
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Hopper HQ 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. Hopper HQ is a social media planning, scheduling and analytics platform. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Community Manager

Weighted verdict

Answers the comments, including the angry ones, and lives in the inbox. Wants every mention and message in one queue with ownership and history, saved replies that save real time, and a failed 3am post that tells her rather than silently not existing.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Community Manager

Panel median The Community Manager This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Community Manager
Publishing & calendar 4 of 5 4 of 5
Engagement & community inbox 0.5 of 5 0 of 5
Analytics & reporting 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Approvals, roles & brand safety 2 of 5 2 of 5
Network coverage & API resilience 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 0.5 of 5 0 of 5

Publishing & calendar

How this is scored

Scheduling across networks: per-network formatting, the calendar as a working surface, bulk operations, and what happens when a post fails at 3am.

0 — One post to several networks at once with no per-network variation and no calendar.

3 — A calendar with scheduling and basic per-network text variants; failures are discovered by noticing the post never appeared.

5 — Per-network content, media and first-comment variants, drafts, a usable calendar with drag-and-drop, and failure notifications with a retry.

8 — Bulk upload and CSV import, evergreen or queue-based scheduling, link shortening with UTM rules, preview matching each network's actual rendering, and stories, reels or shorts supported where the API allows.

10 — Publishing is dependable at volume: hundreds of scheduled items across many accounts without collision, best-time recommendations from the account's own history, and every failure surfaced with the platform error and a one-click recovery.

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The Community Manager

This is the dependable side: per-network captions, first comment with hashtag groups, drafts, a drag-and-drop calendar and grid preview, bulk and CSV upload with bulk destination setting, evergreen scheduling up to a year ahead, and — the part I care about most — a network rejection sends an alert with a one-click retry, plus a Refresh Connection fix for the classic Facebook permissions failure. We found no public information on link shortening with UTM rules or on how it holds up at volume, so I stop short of the very top. 1 3 4 10

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Engagement & community inbox

How this is scored

Comments, mentions and messages in one queue — the half of the job that is customer service wearing a marketing badge.

0 — No inbox; engagement happens in each native app.

3 — Mentions and comments listed per network with no assignment, no status and no history.

5 — A unified inbox across the connected networks with assignment, status and internal notes, and the conversation history visible per person.

8 — Direct messages included where the API allows, saved replies, SLA timers, sentiment or priority flags, spam and hidden-comment handling, and escalation to a helpdesk.

10 — The inbox is a service desk: every public and private interaction in one queue with ownership and response-time reporting, moderation rules that act automatically, and a per-person history spanning networks.

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The Community Manager

I live in the inbox and this one leaves me cold: the only comment handling evidenced anywhere is comments counted as a metric in the analytics pages, and while the help centre carries articles asking whether you can manage a social inbox and read and send direct messages, we found no public information confirming a unified inbox, assignment, saved replies, moderation or conversation history. For my half of the job this reads as native-app territory. 5 6 8

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Analytics & reporting

How this is scored

Measurement across networks with different metrics and retention windows, plus the reporting an agency hands a client.

0 — Per-network vanity counts pulled live; no history kept.

3 — Basic post and profile metrics with a short history and no cross-network comparison.

5 — Metrics stored beyond the networks' own retention, cross-network comparison, competitor benchmarking, and scheduled exports.

8 — Custom dashboards, white-label client reporting, paid and organic combined where the API allows, UTM-based attribution into web analytics, and audience demographics over time.

10 — Reporting answers what worked and why: metrics normalised across networks with the differences documented rather than hidden, full historical retention independent of platform windows, and exports an agency can hand over unedited.

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The Community Manager

There is real substance here — per-network post and account metrics covering all posts not just scheduled ones, follower demographics by age, gender and location, top posts, follower trends over time, and one-click export to PNG, SVG and CSV to hand a client. We found no public information on retention beyond the platforms' own windows, competitor benchmarking, white-label reporting or combined paid and organic, and the captured pages give different lists of which networks analytics covers. 3 7 8

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Approvals, roles & brand safety

How this is scored

How a team of several people and an agency publish to a brand account without an accident — and who can be shown to have approved what.

0 — Shared login, no roles, no approvals.

3 — Separate users with a coarse admin split and an optional single approval step.

5 — Roles per network and account, multi-step approval workflows, comments on drafts, and an activity log.

8 — Client or brand workspaces with strict separation, configurable approval chains including legal review, content locking after approval, and an audit trail of who changed and published what.

10 — Governance a regulated brand could pass an audit on: complete audit trail of edits, approvals and publications, enforced approval before anything reaches a network, granular permissions per account and action, and no shared credentials anywhere in the design.

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The Community Manager

Three roles — admin, publishing, read only — and a single approval hop: any team member creates posts for approval, Full Publishing or Admin approve, and a Pending Approval toggle rounds them up, with multi-client dashboards on top. We found no public information on multi-step chains, comments on drafts, an activity log or content locking after approval, so this is a light guardrail rather than a governance trail an auditor could follow. 1 3 9

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Network coverage & API resilience

How this is scored

Which networks are supported through official APIs, how quickly the vendor follows platform changes, and what the customer keeps when a network breaks or leaves.

0 — A few networks, some through unofficial means, with no statement about API status or platform changes.

3 — The major networks through official APIs, but feature gaps undocumented and platform changes communicated after they bite.

5 — Official API integrations across the main networks with the per-network limitations documented, and a changelog when platform behaviour changes.

8 — Broad official coverage including the newer networks, a public status page for integrations, advance notice of deprecations, and full export of the customer's own publishing and engagement archive.

10 — Platform dependency handled as an engineering commitment: official partner status where it exists, per-network capability documented and kept current, rapid response to API changes with the history to show it, and an archive that stays the customer's whatever a network does next.

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The Community Manager

Eight to nine networks through official APIs, Meta Business Partner status, and a help centre that genuinely documents failure modes — Facebook permission errors, connection refresh, video formats per network — which is what I want when something breaks. We found no public information on an integration status page, advance notice of deprecations, or full export of the publishing and engagement archive, and the captured pages give different lists of supported networks. 3 10 11 12

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the archive and the community conversations are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors touch them. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. Note that the networks themselves are non-EU by definition — this criterion judges the tool, not the platforms it talks to.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — AI features, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and the handling of message content from the networks described with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor European, certification published, and a DPA that squarely addresses the personal data arriving from the networks in comments and messages.

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The Community Manager

The contracting entity and controller is Hopper HQ Ltd in the UK, and the only hosting detail in the privacy policy is that providers are signed up to Privacy Shield; we found no public information on data residency or any subprocessor list. Before pointing a European community's comments and follower data at this, I would need to know far more about where it is processed and by whom. 2 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a team can compute the real annual invoice for their account and user count — including the tier where approvals and the inbox begin — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-user headline exists, but the number of social accounts included, or the tier where approvals and the inbox appear, is unstated.

5 — Per-user or per-account prices public with billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed capability (inbox, approvals, reporting) sits in an unpriced tier.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with account and user limits, feature boundaries, the cost of an extra account or seat, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given number of social accounts, users and client workspaces, with every add-on priced.

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The Community Manager

The basis is stated publicly — plans sized by the number of connected social accounts with unlimited posts, and a 14-day trial where card details are taken at signup but charged only when it ends. But no actual price figures, tier boundaries or billing terms appear in what was captured, so a team cannot compute an annual invoice, and the captured pages give different signals on whether profiles are unlimited. 1 3 4

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Hopper HQ

Is Hopper HQ European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Hopper HQ is based.

Where does Hopper HQ store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does Hopper HQ have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Hopper HQ?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Swat.io (3.5/5), Hootsuite (3/5) and Agorapulse (3/5) highest among the other 28 Social Media Marketing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Swat.io (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Hopper HQ alternatives.

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Sources (12)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Publishing & calendar — found from sitemap www.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Publishing & calendar — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Engagement & community inbox — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Engagement & community inbox — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Analytics & reporting — found from sitemap www.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Analytics & reporting — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Approvals, roles & brand safety — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Approvals, roles & brand safety — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Network coverage & API resilience — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Network coverage & API resilience — found from sitemap help.hopperhq.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →