Alternative
The Kitly alternative built in the UK
People look for a Kitly alternative for ordinary reasons: a job it does not cover, a price that moved, or a product that grew in a direction they did not. Some of it is what public reviewers report, which is quoted with its source on the comparison page. This page is the honest version for UK creators: what changes on Herd, what you give up, and how the move actually goes.
A media kit and collaboration tracker for creators, with a separate product, Kitly Business, for agencies managing a roster. For a lot of people that is enough, and if it is enough for you there is no reason to move.
Herd is a UK product with three sides in one account. Creators run content, deals, contracts and invoices. Brands run campaigns, review content and pay creator invoices by card. Agencies run a roster with commission splits and white-label client portals. Herd costs from £99/month for creators, billed in pounds. That breadth is the whole trade: Herd covers more of the week, and in a few places it covers it less thoroughly than Kitly does.
The rest of this page is the practical version: what lands in the same account when you switch, what you give up by leaving Kitly, what it costs in pounds, and the order to do the move in. There is no importer, so it is manual work, and that belongs above the pricing table rather than under it.
What changes when you switch
Each line below is something we could not find in Kitly's published feature list when we checked on 21 September 2026, or a difference in how the two are priced. On Herd they are part of the same account, which is the practical difference a switch makes.
Not in Kitly
No content calendar and no publishing to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or X.
Not in Kitly
No Gmail or Outlook inbox and no video meetings.
Not in Kitly
No contracts with e-signature and no proposals with an accept or decline.
Not in Kitly
No video editor.
Different on Herd
Kitly Business does not process payments, so commission and payouts happen elsewhere.
Not in Kitly
No brand side, so a campaign invitation cannot go out and come back on the same record.
In practice that means one composer posting to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X, an invoice that carries a card pay link and settles into your own bank through Stripe, and a contract drawn from the deal and signed in the browser. Herd does not publish to LinkedIn or Pinterest and has no link-in-bio page, so a switch is rarely a clean swap.
What you would give up
A switch costs you something. These are Kitly's advantages, not ours, and any one of them can be a good reason to stay where you are.
- Audited first-party platform data in the media kit, pulled through API connections rather than typed in.
- A mobile-first app, where Herd is a desktop-first web product.
- Kitly Business reports more than 17,000 managed creators, according to Influencer Marketing Hub, with an established base of Australian and UK agencies.
- Far cheaper for a creator who only needs a media kit: $19 a month against £99.
Moving over
There is no importer. Herd cannot read a Kitly export, and we would rather say that plainly than bury it. Moving is manual, for most people an afternoon rather than a fortnight, and this is the order that leaves the fewest gaps.
Rebuild the media kit and rate card
Rebuild the media kit in Herd and reconnect your social accounts so the numbers refresh.
Export what you can
Export your collab history from Kitly and re-enter the live ones as deals. Closed work does not need to move.
Set the commission rate
Agencies: re-enter the roster in Herd Creators, then set your default commission rate before the first routed invoice.
Connect Stripe
Connect Stripe in Herd. Kitly Business payments are handled elsewhere, so there is nothing to port.
Keep what still works
Keep Kitly running until your next reporting cycle closes if brands are expecting its report format.
What each one costs
According to third-party listings, Kitly is free, $9 or $19 a month in USD, and Kitly Business is $99 a month or $79.17 a month billed annually. Kitly does not publish those figures in a form we could read directly, so they come from a third-party listing, last checked on 21 September 2026. Herd is priced in pounds and costs from £99/month for creators, with 17% off when you pay for the year and a 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.
Herd, in pounds
For creators
- FreeFree, no card
- Starter£99/month, £986/year
- Pro£299/month, £2,978/year
For agencies
- Agency£1,999/month, £19,190/year
Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan. 14-day cooling-off on every paid plan. Brands and agencies can book a live demo before subscribing.
Kitly, as published
- Kitly Free$0
USD per month · 1 account, 1 media kit, 1 report, 1 collab; 3% fee plus Stripe fees
- Kitly Starter$9/mo
USD · 2% fee
- Kitly Creator$19/mo
USD · Unlimited; 1% fee
- Kitly Business$99/mo or $79.17/mo annual
USD · 25 creators, 25 media kits, 3 campaigns, 3 reports; 30-day trial
Pricing last checked 21 September 2026 from influencermarketinghub.com (a third-party listing).
Kitly does not publish those figures in a form we could read directly, so they come from a third-party listing, last checked on 21 September 2026.
Prices in USD; features change, check Kitly's site before deciding.
Invoices and money
The invoice, the pay link and the payout in one place
An invoice in Herd is attached to the deal it came from and carries a card pay link, so the brand can settle it without a bank transfer form. What it is not is a general accounting package: Herd does not replace your accountant, and it does not track billable hours.
- Send real invoices with a card pay link from Starter upwards.
- On Pro, Stripe Connect settles the money into your own bank rather than a platform wallet.
- Expenses, cashflow and a tax view sit beside the invoices in Financials.
Moving from Kitly
- No. Herd has no importer for Kitly. You rebuild the pages that matter, re-enter the live work, connect Stripe and leave finished work where it is. The steps on this page are the whole job.
- Yes, and for a month or two that is usually the sensible way to do it. Nothing in Herd depends on Kitly being switched off, so you can let a reporting cycle or a billing period finish before you cancel.
- Herd does not publish to LinkedIn or Pinterest, has no link-in-bio page, no affiliate link or sales attribution, no Shopify integration and no audience-demographics database of its own. Agencies get an external index of 300M+ public profiles; brands search the creators who are on Herd.
- Every figure was checked on 21 September 2026 against the source linked above. Prices and plan contents change, so read Kitly's own pricing page before you decide, and tell us at support@herduk.co.uk if something here is out of date.
Simple pricing in pounds
One price per side of the market. Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan.
Free
Have a proper look around
£0/month
No card needed.
- Content calendar and drafts
- One draft deal to set up
- Invoice preview
- Dashboard with sample data
- Video editor · 1 watermarked export a month
- Community
- Send invoices or activate deals
- Inbox, meetings, media kit
- 7 days of history
- No social integrations
Starter
Run the business by hand
£99/month
Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.
- Active deals · Up to 5 at a time
- Send invoices your clients pay by card through Stripe
- Stripe payouts to your own bank
- Gmail or Outlook inbox and opportunities queue
- Live media kit, rate card and video meetings
- Video exports · 5 a month, no watermark
- Social integrations · 2 connected accounts
- Contracts, expenses, products and memberships
- 90 days of history
- No automated reminders
Pro
The whole business, no limits
£299/month
Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.
- Unlimited active deals and video exports
- Contracts with e-signature
- Proposals to brands and agencies
- Payments page with your Stripe balance and payout history
- Digital products and memberships
- Expenses, cashflow and tax-ready exports
- Asset library and email
- Unlimited social integrations
- Prices in GBP. VAT added where applicable.
- Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan.
- 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.
- Card payment through Stripe. Cancel from your settings at any time.
- Platform fee on digital product sales: 5%.
Keep reading
The full comparison, the other tools UK creators weigh up, and how Herd works once you are in it.
Herd has a page for each side of the market: creators, brands and agencies. The full list of what the product does is on the features page, and every plan and fee is on the pricing page.
- Herd vs KitlyThe feature table, the pricing side by side and the verdict on Kitly.
- Beacons alternativeA creator toolkit built around a link-in-bio page, with a storefront, an auto-updating media kit, email and invoicing attached to it.
- Later alternativeA social media scheduler with a visual planner, publishing to seven or more networks, a link-in-bio page and post analytics.
- Collabstr alternativeA two-sided marketplace where creators list packages with published rates and brands book them through escrow.
- How creators use HerdWhat a week on Herd looks like from the creator side.
- All Herd comparisonsEvery comparison page, grouped by who is doing the comparing.
Run the business side from one screen
Plan the week, send the invoice, sign the contract and watch the money land in your own bank account.
The free plan does not expire and needs no card.