Everything you need to go from download to daily habit: setting up your account, connecting your platforms as they open up, and getting the most out of every tab. About a five-minute read — and about a five-minute setup.
No CSV imports, no browser extensions, and you never hand over a platform password. Four steps and your HQ is running.
Grab CreatorHQ for Mac or Windows, or get it on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and open it. Create your account with your name, email, and a password — the only password you'll ever set with us, stored as a secure one-way hash. If you subscribed on the web first, sign in with the same email and your plan is already active.
Go to the Settings tab, open Platforms, and tap Connect YouTube. You're taken to Google's official sign-in and consent screen — you approve access there, on Google's servers, not ours. Once you're back in CreatorHQ, your channel stats, video performance, and every new comment start flowing in.
Still in Platforms, connect Bluesky or Mastodon — both are open today, and your mentions, replies, and messages join the same inbox. Facebook and Instagram connect from this same screen the moment Meta's review clears: one Meta Connect approval through Facebook Login for Business will import both your Facebook Page and the Instagram Business or Creator account linked to it.
CreatorHQ pulls in your comments, mentions, follower counts, and post performance from every connected platform. From then on it keeps itself current: Home builds your Today's Mission, the Inbox counts what actually needs a reply, and Analytics scores your Creator Health — automatically.
CreatorHQ is organized into five tabs. Here's what each one is for and how to use it — every screenshot is CreatorHQ itself on real connected accounts.
Open CreatorHQ and Home tells you exactly what today needs. No digging through three platforms to figure out where to start.
Everything your audience sends you across your connected platforms lands in one feed. Here's the fastest way to work it.
Create is where CreatorHQ's AI lives. It's wired into your own accounts, audience, and brand knowledge — not a generic chatbot.
Analytics aggregates your stats across every connected platform, then explains them in plain language and recommends your next move.
The Settings tab is the control room behind the control room — come here whenever you need to change what's connected or how CreatorHQ runs.
Once you're set up, CreatorHQ works best as a short daily loop instead of an all-day tab. Most creators settle into something like this.
Check your Creator Health score and Today's Mission. In under a minute you know whether today is a reply day, a posting day, or a "everything's fine, go create" day.
Work the actionable items — Critical first, then filter by Question or Opportunity. Let the AI Copilot draft replies where it helps, review each one, and send. Your Inbox Health score tracks the payoff.
Check your Content Pipeline, move ideas toward drafts on the content calendar, and use Copilot Chat to draft captions and replies grounded in your Knowledge Base. You approve everything before it goes anywhere.
Once a week, open Analytics for the cross-platform picture and read the AI Strategy Report — wins, risks, and next moves. Adjust the coming week's plan, then get back to creating.
Twenty platforms are built into CreatorHQ — YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Patreon, Shopify and more (see the full list). Each platform has to approve our API access before we can open it up. YouTube (Google-verified), Bluesky, and Mastodon have the full two-way inbox today; LinkedIn, Twitch, Discord, Telegram, Tumblr, Patreon, and Etsy accept account connections now with syncing rolling out; Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are furthest along in review. We turn each on as it clears.
Facebook and Instagram are in Meta's review now. Once Meta Connect is live, Instagram comes in through the Instagram Business or Creator account linked to your Facebook Page — if it's missing, open Meta's settings, make sure your Instagram account is a Business or Creator account linked to your Page, then reconnect from More → Platforms.
You can subscribe on the web first and then sign in to CreatorHQ with the same email, or start right in CreatorHQ — either way, your plan and your account are the same everywhere. See plans and pricing for what each tier includes.
The Support page covers billing, account, and connection questions, and you can always reach a real person at support@usecreatorhq.com — we reply within 1–2 business days.
Download CreatorHQ for Mac, Windows, iPhone, or iPad, connect your platforms in two taps, and let your command center build itself.