Does Bluesky have a free trial?

The short answer

Creating a Bluesky account, posting, following people, using custom feeds and sending messages all cost nothing. There is no subscription to buy and no premium tier to unlock, so a “Bluesky free trial” does not exist.

If a page offers you one, read the small print: it will be a trial of another company’s product, usually a scheduler or an analytics tool, that connects to your Bluesky account. Those can be useful, but they are not Bluesky, and you never need one to use Bluesky.

What about Bluesky+?

In December 2024 Bluesky showed a mockup of a possible subscription called Bluesky+, with things like a profile badge, custom app icons, profile customisation and higher-quality video uploads. The mockup showed a price of $8 a month or $72 a year. Bluesky described it as a design mockup whose features could change before launch.

As of 12 November 2026, it has not launched. There is no purchase page and nothing to subscribe to in the app. Bluesky has also said that if subscriptions arrive, paying will not push your posts higher in anyone’s feed and will not buy a blue check. So even if Bluesky+ launches one day, the free app stays the same app.

If that changes, this page will change. The date above is when it was last checked.

What can cost money around Bluesky

Bluesky itself is free. A few things people pair with it are not:

• A custom handle. You can use a website address you own as your handle, such as @yourname.com, instead of @yourname.bsky.social. Setting it up is free in Bluesky; the domain is bought from a domain registrar, which charges for it.
• Scheduling tools. Bluesky has no built-in scheduling, so tools fill the gap. Some have free plans, some only offer a trial before a paid plan. That is where most “Bluesky free trial” results come from.
• Analytics tools. Bluesky shows likes, reposts and replies on each post. Tools that chart them over time are third-party, and some are paid.

None of these is required to use Bluesky.

Scheduling Bluesky posts without a trial

Several schedulers include Bluesky on a free plan that never expires, so you don’t need a trial to schedule Bluesky posts. As checked on each vendor’s own site and listed in the free Bluesky schedulers comparison, Buffer, Publer, Metricool and Bloom all schedule Bluesky for free; each free plan stops somewhere different, such as the number of channels or posts waiting in the queue.

Bloom publishes to Bluesky automatically on its free plan, with no time limit and no card. You connect with a Bluesky app password, which is not your main password and can be revoked from Bluesky at any time. The same post can go to your other accounts at once: Bloom publishes to Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky on the free plan. Pro ($4.99 a month) adds automatic X posts and more storage; Bluesky stays free.

How to spot what you are actually signing up for

1. Look at the web address. Bluesky lives at bsky.app and in the Bluesky apps. Anything else is someone else’s product.
2. Look for a card form. Bluesky never asks for a card. A trial that does is for a tool, and it may start charging when the trial ends.
3. Check how it signs in. A tool that asks for your Bluesky password, rather than an app password, is asking for more than it needs. Create an app password for it instead.

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