Stop finding out a week later. Forecast reads your Buffer queue and predicts how each post will do, where it fits the conversation in every country you post to, and what would lift it, so you can fix a weak post before it goes out instead of explaining it after.
studio.leeds on Instagram
Scheduled for Friday, 10:00 in London
Autumn knitwear drops Friday, made in Leeds. Which colour are you after? #autumn #knitwear
3.2K /6.4K
impressions in 7 days, most likely / up to
Strong match here. Keep the time.
Read-only: Forecast can't post, edit or delete anything in Buffer.
Analytics tell you what went wrong last week. By then the trend has moved, the slot has passed and the moment is gone. Forecast tells you what's likely this week, while you can still act on it.
Forecast
Every draft and scheduled post gets a 7-day reach forecast: the most likely figure and the most it's likely to get, learned from how your own channel's posts have done. Put your best slots and any boost budget behind the posts that will carry them, and rework the ones that won't.
Trends
Forecast matches each post to live searches, trends and headlines in every country you post to, so you can lean into a wave before it peaks, or rethink a post that will land flat. Connect Instagram or YouTube and it weighs each country by where your followers really are.
Timing
The best slots in each country's local time, from when your own audience actually responds. Move a post before it goes out at 5am in New York, not after.
Captions
Caption rewrites, each with its own forecast next to yours. Choose the strongest before publishing and copy it into Buffer, with the numbers to back the choice.
Pre-publish check
Shortly before a scheduled post publishes, Forecast checks it again against breaking news and public holidays. If the moment turns sensitive or the forecast drops, you're alerted in the app or by email, with time to hold it or change it.
Results
When results come in, each post shows how it did against its forecast, and forecasts sharpen as your history grows. Export the lot as CSV or PDF and plan the next week from what's ahead, not only what's behind.
Whatever your queue holds, each post gets its own forecast, counted the way its network counts reach. See the whole week ahead across every channel in one view, instead of checking a dashboard for each after the fact.
Autumn knitwear drops Friday, made in Leeds. Which colour are you after?
Forecast 3.2K in 7 days
Five ways to wear one cardigan, in 30 seconds.
Forecast 5.1K views
Restock: the oatmeal crewneck is back, in every size. It went in four days last time.
Forecast 2.3K impressions
How a jumper is made, start to finish
Forecast 7.8K views
Winter opening hours start 1 December. The shop's open late on Thursdays until Christmas.
Forecast 900 reach
Autumn layering, three ways
Forecast 4.2K impressions
Which colour sells out first: rust, moss or oatmeal? Wrong answers welcome.
Forecast 1.4K views
Every batch is dyed by hand, so no two runs match. Here's this week's.
Forecast 650 views
Example posts with illustrative forecasts.
One button, using Buffer's own sign-in. Forecast asks only to read your account, posts and their results.
Choose up to five countries your audience is in. Forecast starts watching what's trending in each.
Drafts and scheduled posts appear with their forecast, and update on their own as you edit in Buffer. Plan the week with the numbers in front of you.
Forecast reads your posts and their results. It can't publish, edit or delete anything, in Buffer or on any platform you connect. Your connections are encrypted, and you can disconnect or delete your data at any time.