AuthoredUp

AuthoredUp is the LinkedIn post editor every serious creator quietly uses to write, format, and analyze their posts — without ever leaving the LinkedIn web app. It's a Chrome extension that overlays a real text editor on top of LinkedIn's notoriously broken native composer, with proper formatting (bold, italic, bullet points), saved drafts, post templates, scheduled publishing, and analytics on which hooks and formats actually performed for you. Pricing starts free (limited features, basic editor), $10/month Standard (saved drafts, templates, basic analytics), and $20/month Pro (advanced analytics, scheduling, hooks library, content snippets).

The killer features are formatted text (bold and italic actually work, unlike LinkedIn's native composer), the hooks library (curated patterns from high-performing posts), saved drafts that survive across sessions, and post analytics that decompose your content into hooks, body, CTAs, and shows you which combinations correlate with high engagement. Where Taplio is built around growth, scheduling, and lead generation, AuthoredUp is built around the editor and the writing experience itself — and serious LinkedIn creators consistently say it's the single tool that improved their writing the most. The trade-off: AuthoredUp doesn't do AI generation natively (no auto-write, no viral post inspiration library at Taplio's scale).

For LinkedIn creators who want to dramatically improve their writing experience without paying $39+/month for a full growth platform, AuthoredUp is the right starting point — and the right pairing with Taplio if you eventually want both editor and growth features.