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How do I start with PostMimic Free?

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Create an account, import/connect real posts, generate up to five drafts to review and publish—on phone, web, or desktop. Free is enough to prove whether history-trained drafts sound like you before you commit to more volume or automation.

What Free includes

PostMimic Free is a capped, full-loop trial of the product—not a watered-down demo that stops at “generate text.” For how Free compares to paid tiers, see PostMimic Free vs paid plans.

Typical Free scope:

  • An account you can use on phone, web, or desktop independently
  • Import or connect so the system can learn from real posts (writing voice, not audio)
  • Up to five drafts to generate, review, edit, and publish or schedule
  • Brand/rules and human approve in the same flow you would use later at higher volume

Five drafts sounds small until you use them well: one LinkedIn narrative, one X thread, one Instagram caption, one Facebook Page post, one blog intro—or five iterations on the same idea until the voice feels right. Pair that with a practical first week on PostMimic if you want a day-by-day rhythm. The point is proof, not a month of calendar fill.

Free does not invent engagement stats, featured images, or a “beta” waitlist. You either get drafts that look like your history or you do not—and you decide with your eyes.

Create your account

Sign up at https://postmimic.app. Pick the surface you actually use:

  • Phone — when you draft between meetings
  • Web — when you want a full browser workspace
  • Desktop — when you prefer a native Mac/Windows app

You do not need to “train on phone then finish only on web.” Each surface can run the same Free loop on its own. Use whichever device you have when you have twenty focused minutes.

Keep the account under your control (or under one named owner on a team). Shared logins make review ownership fuzzy later.

Import or connect real posts

Voice quality comes from examples you already published, not from a bio line or “write like a witty founder” prompt.

Two common starts:

  1. Import an archive — export or upload past posts so the profile can learn vocabulary, structure, humor, and perspective.
  2. Connect a channel — pull recent history from an account you control so training stays tied to live posting.

Either path beats starting from a blank tone slider. Stay with formats your product actually supports; if you are unsure whether a given export type works, use the in-app import path rather than inventing a pipeline.

Good Free training material:

  • Posts you wrote yourself (or closely edited)
  • Enough variety to show hooks, lists, stories, and CTAs you actually use
  • One identity per profile (personal vs company, founder vs product brand)

Skip dumping three ghostwriters’ styles into one profile and hoping for a coherent “you.”

Generate and review (use the five drafts)

With a profile in place:

  1. Pick a platform and a clear intent (one buyer question or one update).
  2. Generate a draft in the trained writing voice.
  3. Read it like a skeptical teammate: Would you hit publish under your name?
  4. Edit length, examples, or claims; reject and regenerate if it drifts.
  5. Approve only when it passes your bar.

That is the whole Free curriculum. You are testing fit, not burning credits on volume. Writing-voice cloning is not audio deepfakes—you are matching how you write, not synthesizing speech.

If draft one feels generic, improve the archive or tighten the prompt (topic + angle), then spend draft two on a better sample. Do not burn all five on the same weak source set.

Schedule or publish

When a draft is approved:

  • Publish now to a connected channel, or
  • Schedule for later so cloud publishing can fire when you are offline

Facebook support is for Pages, not personal timelines—connect the Page you actually manage. LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook Page posts should still be rewritten for each network’s shape even when the idea is shared.

WordPress Connect tip: if you publish to a site that only matches existing categories, use the exact WordPress category name or Uncategorized. Tags in the app are for your own labeling; they do not invent WP categories.

When to upgrade (soft)

Stay on Free while you are answering: “Does this sound like me enough to keep going?” Upgrade when you need more than five drafts, more profiles, heavier scheduling, or Agent Mode after you already trust human-reviewed output.

You do not need to upgrade to learn the loop. You need to upgrade when Free’s ceiling becomes the bottleneck—not when a landing page says so.

Try Free

Create the account, feed real posts, spend five drafts on honest review, and publish only what you would stand behind. Start at https://postmimic.app—phone, web, or desktop, same Free proof.

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