How to Schedule Posts on X (Twitter) — Free & Native (2026)

Third-party schedulers like Buffer and Hootsuite are useful for multi-network teams, but for X alone they're unnecessary. X ships a native scheduler inside the composer at no cost. It queues your post on X's own servers and publishes it at the exact time you set, whether or not your device is on.

This guide covers the free native flow only. If you also manage the media in those posts, our downloader tools pair naturally with a content calendar — grab clips with the video downloader, extract audio with the MP3 tool, or prep tweet images with the screenshot tool before you schedule.

Open the X web app and click Post to open the composer. Write your post and attach any media. In the composer's bottom toolbar — the same row with the image, GIF, and poll icons — look for the calendar/clock icon. Click it, and a scheduling panel opens.

Set the date and time (X uses your account's time zone), then click Confirm. Back in the composer the button now reads Schedule instead of Post. Click it, and the post drops into your scheduled queue. That's the entire flow — no add-on, no login to anything else.

To review what you've queued, open the composer again and click Unsent Posts (the small text link, usually near the media icons or via the drafts area). You'll see two tabs: Drafts and Scheduled. The Scheduled tab lists every queued post with its send time.

Click any scheduled post to edit the text, media, or time, or to delete it before it sends. Changes save back to the queue. If you delete a scheduled post it never publishes and leaves no trace — nothing goes out.

Scheduled posts support the same media as live posts: video, images, GIFs, and polls. Attach the media in the composer before you set the schedule time. A common workflow is to save a clip you want to re-share, edit it, and schedule the re-post for a peak-engagement hour. Remember X converts uploaded GIFs to looping MP4 — if you want a true .gif back out later, use the GIF downloader.

A few things to know: scheduling runs in your account's time zone, so double-check it if you travel or manage an account in another region. The mobile apps have historically had spottier scheduling support than the web app, so the web composer is the reliable place to schedule. And scheduled posts count toward your normal posting limits when they publish, not when you queue them.

If you're planning a content series, pair the native scheduler with a simple spreadsheet of dates and captions, and pre-download any media you'll reuse with the bulk downloader so it's ready when each slot comes up. For account-wide safety, review our guide on private vs public accounts before scheduling sensitive posts.