Shield Analytics alternative

People searching for a Shield Analytics alternative want the thing Shield was built for: a record of how each LinkedIn post did. Impressions, engagement, follower growth, and a way to look across months instead of opening posts one at a time. That product is gone. On 25 October 2026, shieldapp.ai, its personal pricing page, and its wind-down URL all returned a paused deployment. There is no live price card and no dashboard to sign into from the public site.

Boykli is not that dashboard. It does not archive impressions, chart follower growth, break down who engaged, or answer questions about your historical metrics. If the only reason you paid for Shield was post tracking, switching to Boykli drops the job. LinkedIn still shows performance on the posts it retains. A tool that still ships a LinkedIn analytics product is the category you are shopping in. Boykli is the other half of the week: turning a note, a conversation, a video, an article, or a document into a post, sometimes a carousel PDF or an image, and placing it on the personal profile you connect.

The comparison below is for that split. Shield tracked. It did not write or schedule. Boykli writes and schedules. It does not track.

The job, side by side

What Shield actually tracked

Shield's marketing, still visible in search indexes of the site from spring 2026, was specific. It said the product archived every post you had published, tracked impressions, engagement, follower growth, and audience demographics over time, and let Shield Agent answer questions about that history in plain language. It said you could sort, filter, and search the archive, see job titles of people engaging, and see where the audience was based. It said a new connection pulled lifetime post history, with the caveat that LinkedIn itself may not have kept every metric on older posts. The same pages said Shield was a third-party app, not endorsed by LinkedIn, and that it did not scrape or automate user behaviour. Plans were described as one profile or many, for a creator or an agency.

AuthoredUp's wind-down article, updated 11 August 2026, is a competitor's account and should be read that way. It quotes Shield's notice: Google and LinkedIn made it clear Shield could not keep operating as it was built, and the founders decided not to fight that. The practical terms AuthoredUp reports from Shield are: new signups and renewals stopped, a paying customer would not be charged again, the account stayed open for 30 days from the notice so people could export, and support@shieldapp.ai stayed open during that window. The same article lists what customers stood to lose inside Shield: post-performance history, follower-growth curves, format and topic analysis, personal benchmarks, and client reporting history. Its comparison table credits Shield with post and follower analytics, post comparison, per-hour monitoring, and chat over the numbers, and credits it with no content editor and no scheduler. It puts Shield's last-known price at $25 a month and says company pages were a paid add-on.

DemandBird's LinkedIn analytics roundup dates the shutdown to 18 May 2026. Alex Boyd, the author, is a Shield co-founder and now sells DemandBird, so that date is his account of his own product's end, not a page you can still open on shieldapp.ai. By 25 October 2026 the 30-day export window described in May is long past, and the public site does not load a product.

Boykli cannot reconstruct any of that archive. A CSV you exported from Shield stays a file on your computer. Boykli will not import it, chart it, or answer questions about it. Posts that already went live stay on LinkedIn, because LinkedIn held them, not because a writing tool absorbed Shield's database. If you never exported, Boykli has nothing to show in Shield's place.

Post tracking after the wind-down

The honest replacement for "show me the numbers" is still a numbers product.

LinkedIn's own post view shows impressions and engagement for posts it still retains. That is enough to see which recent pieces moved and which did not, one post at a time. It is not Shield's multi-year archive, side-by-side comparisons, demographic breakdown, client pack, or a chat window over the history. People who need that layer should pick a tool that still publishes it and should read how that tool gets the data. This page will not rank those tools. Two adjacent comparisons already on this site are narrower: AuthoredUp alternative covers an editor that also sells post analytics, and Taplio alternative covers a writing and scheduling product whose cheaper card includes analytics and whose higher cards add comments and leads. The direct metrics-and-scheduling comparison, including Taplio's live prices against Shield's closed archive, is Taplio vs Shield Analytics. Neither page claims Boykli absorbed Shield.

Boykli's Algorithm page is a plain-language read of LinkedIn's public algorithm notes. It does not score your posts, and it does not tell you which topic earned impressions. Radar is a feed of articles you can start a draft from. It is not a feed of your winners. The library stores pieces you made in Boykli. It does not rank last quarter by reach. The scheduler does not pick a slot from your history. You choose the days, the time of day, and the timezone, and the next item takes the next open slot. How that calendar behaves is in LinkedIn scheduling tool.

That leaves a usable split for one person. Read the recent posts inside LinkedIn and write down the pattern yourself: topic, format, length, and whether it was a story or a list. Then draft the next one in Boykli from something you actually have, which is the reason the product exists. The longer version of that choice is why Boykli was built. The pattern note is your substitute for Shield Agent. It is a note, not a model with your metrics loaded.

What you pay for when the tracker is gone

Do not compare $25 and $29 as if they bought the same seat.

Shield's last widely cited price, in AuthoredUp's August 2026 update, was $25 a month for analytics on a profile, with no drafting and no queue. There is no current Shield invoice. The pricing URL does not load. Anyone still being charged should treat that as a billing problem with Shield, not as a plan Boykli can see or cancel.

Boykli has two public seats. BYOK is $29 a month. You bring an OpenRouter key for chat and images and a Google AI Studio key for Voice Agent. Boykli does not add a monthly generation cap on that seat. You still pay those providers. Managed is $88 a month. It includes the models inside monthly caps: 210 posts, 150 carousels, 150 images, 25 Voice Agent sessions, and 130 post refinements. Both seats are the same product surface: the seven write modes, carousels with a brand kit, images, Radar, the ideas library, Algorithm notes, and scheduling on one personal profile. A paid seat is required before the app will write, create a carousel or image, publish, or schedule. Logged-in visitors can browse Radar and Algorithm without one. Browsing is not a trial of generation.

The $29 seat is four dollars over that old $25 figure and buys none of the charts. The $88 seat is more than triple and still buys none of the charts. The money is for volume of drafting and design, hosted by Boykli on Managed and by your keys on BYOK. An agency that paid Shield per client profile, or paid extra for company pages, is not looking at one Boykli login. Five client dashboards do not become five Boykli accounts with a shared report. There is no shared report.

A week of posts without a Shield dashboard

This is the Boykli path. It assumes you are the person whose name is on the profile, and that you have already accepted the numbers live in LinkedIn.

1. Save whatever history you still have outside Boykli. If a Shield CSV is on disk, keep it. If it is not, open LinkedIn and read the posts from the last month that you would be willing to repeat. Write five lines: topic, format, and what the impression and reaction counts actually were. Boykli will not pull those counts.
2. Start the next post from material, not from a blank score. A note from a call, a YouTube link, an article, or a file maps to Create posts: short, medium, or long for a note; YouTube, article, or document when there is a source; series when you want several posts from one idea. Voice Agent is the path when the material is still a conversation. Radar is the path when you want a current article to start from. Skip Algorithm unless you want the public notes.
3. Read the draft as something you would sign. Nothing in Boykli checks it against your old engagement rate. A fluent draft with a wrong claim is still your post.
4. Use the carousel page only when the idea is a deck. The output is a PDF with the brand kit (colors, profile, handle, logo). Images are a separate generation, not slides. Shield never made either asset, so this step is new work, not a migration.
5. Connect the personal profile and queue the post. You set the days, the time of day, and the timezone. There is no best-time heatmap and no auto first comment. Company pages and other people's profiles are out of scope.
6. After it is live, open the post on LinkedIn and read the impressions there. The library in Boykli will show the draft you saved. It will not update when the impression count moves.

A week whose real work is a client report, a demographic slide, or a question like "which hook won in March" never belongs in this list. That week needs an analytics product, or a spreadsheet you maintain from LinkedIn.

Who should move, and who should not

Move the writing to Boykli if you post as one person, Shield was never your editor, and the hour still disappears before a draft exists. BYOK at $29 is the seat when you will bring OpenRouter and Google AI Studio keys. Managed at $88 is the seat when you want Boykli's models inside the caps above. Confirm the cards on boykli.com. Keep a separate habit for the numbers. LinkedIn's post view is the minimum. A dedicated analytics tool is the upgrade if you miss the archive.

Stay away from Boykli as a Shield replacement if you need impressions over time, follower curves, audience demographics, job titles of people who engaged, multi-profile or company-page reporting, a CSV of performance, or a chat over that history. Those were Shield's product. They are not in this one. An editor-plus-analytics comparison is the AuthoredUp page. A scheduler that also sells analytics, comments, and leads is the Taplio page. A template carousel product with its own profile analytics is the Supergrow page. Read the one that matches the job. Do not stack them in your head as one cheaper Shield.

Use Boykli next to a tracker only with a clean handoff. Boykli produces the draft, the PDF or image, and a personal-profile queue. The tracker, or LinkedIn itself, holds the score. Paying Boykli and expecting a Shield chart wastes the seat.

FAQ

Is Boykli a Shield Analytics alternative for LinkedIn post tracking?

No. Post tracking was Shield's whole product: an archive of impressions, engagement, follower growth, and audience detail, with a way to ask questions about it. Boykli does not record or display those metrics. It is an alternative only for the work Shield never did, which is writing the next post, making a carousel or an image, and scheduling it on one personal profile. If tracking is the requirement, Boykli is the wrong buy.

Did Shield Analytics shut down?

Shield announced a wind-down in May 2026. The founders' notice, quoted by AuthoredUp and by Shield co-founder Alex Boyd on DemandBird's site, said Google and LinkedIn made it impossible to keep operating Shield as it was built. AuthoredUp's 11 August 2026 update says renewals stopped and accounts had 30 days to export. Boyd dates the shutdown to 18 May 2026. On 25 October 2026 the public site, the pricing page, and the wind-down URL all returned a paused deployment. Treat the product as unavailable. Treat any leftover login as unreliable, and do not expect Boykli to recover data you did not export.

Can Boykli import my Shield CSV or my LinkedIn data archive?

No. Boykli has no analytics import. A CSV you saved is yours to open in a spreadsheet or in a tool that accepts it. LinkedIn's own data download is a LinkedIn feature, and Boykli does not ingest it. Posts that are already public stay on your profile. The processed history Shield built does not move.

Does Boykli show impressions, follower growth, or who engaged?

No. There is no post analytics view and no audience demographics view. The Algorithm page explains LinkedIn's public notes. It will not tell you which of your posts worked. Radar surfaces articles to draft from. The library stores your drafts. The scheduler does not learn a best time from your history.

What did Shield cost, and how does that compare with Boykli?

AuthoredUp's August 2026 article puts Shield's last-known price at $25 a month, analytics only, with company pages as a paid add-on. Shield's own pricing page does not load, so there is no current card to quote. Boykli BYOK is $29 a month on your model keys. Managed is $88 a month with the generation caps listed above. Neither seat includes Shield's charts. A four-dollar gap between an old analytics price and BYOK is not a discount on tracking.

Can my team track several profiles or a company page?

Not in Boykli. Scheduling is the personal profile you connect. There is no client roster, no company page, and no shared reporting. Shield was used that way. Replacing that setup means an analytics or publishing product that still offers multi-profile reporting. Several Boykli logins are several writers, not a report.

What should I do with the posts I already published?

Leave them on LinkedIn and read them there. Boykli will not backfill a performance timeline. If you want the next month to resemble the posts that worked, write that pattern down yourself, then draft from a real source in Create posts, Voice Agent, or Radar. Check the new post's impressions on LinkedIn after it goes out.