A Circleboom Alternative That Never Touches Your Account
Circleboom wants your X login before it will show you anything. Postory finds the dead, bot-shaped and suspended accounts you follow read-only — and you can see the first ten without signing up at all.
No login, no card
Why People Look for Circleboom Alternatives
Circleboom is a capable follow-management tool. The friction is what it asks for up front, and where it stops.
It Wants Access to Your Account
Circleboom's unfollow feature needs permission to act as you on X. That's the price of one-click unfollowing — and a lot of people would rather not pay it just to see who went quiet.
You Can't Look Before You Buy
There's no way to see what's rotting in your following list without signing up and connecting first. Postory shows you ten dead accounts from any public handle before you create anything.
It Only Does Follow Management
Cleaning your following list is one afternoon's work. Circleboom stops there — it won't tell you if X is limiting your reach, and it won't help you post.
Postory vs Circleboom — Feature Comparison
A side-by-side look, including the one thing Circleboom does that Postory deliberately doesn't.
How Postory Does It Differently
Same cleanup, no write access — plus the reach and writing tools a follow manager doesn't have.
Read-Only, By Design
Postory holds no permission to follow, unfollow or post on your behalf when it checks your list. It finds the accounts; you unfollow them on X. Nothing can go wrong with an access token that was never granted.
See the Problem First, Free
Enter any public X handle and get ten dead accounts back in seconds — no signup, no connection, no card. Then decide whether the full list is worth running.
Ban Risk, Not Just Clutter
A follow list full of suspended and bot-shaped accounts is a signal, not just noise. Postory's Social Shield reads it alongside your reach, cadence and follower velocity to flag ban risk.
It Writes, Too
Circleboom manages who you follow. Postory also drafts posts in your own voice from a YouTube link, an article, or a sentence — then schedules them.
X, Threads and Bluesky
One workspace across all three. Write once, adapt automatically, publish everywhere.
Pay for What You Run
No subscription required. 50 credits free on signup, and the following check quotes an exact upper bound before it starts — the bill can only come in lower.
When Circleboom Might Be the Better Fit
If what you want is a button that unfollows hundreds of accounts while you make coffee, Circleboom does that and Postory does not. X gives third-party apps no bulk-unfollow API, so tools that offer it act as you — and we decided we'd rather not hold that permission over your account.
But if you'd rather see the problem before granting anything, want to know whether X is limiting your reach as well as who's gone quiet, or need the posts written in the first place — that's what Postory is for.
See What's Rotting in Your Following List
Free check, no login. Then 50 credits on signup if you want the whole list.