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What are the best Instagram apps?
The answer to that question will of course vary and largely depends on numerous factors such as your needs as an Instagram content creator and what you’re looking to accomplish on the platform.
To simplify things, we’ve broken down our list of the 25 best Instagram apps (free and premium) by category so review our tips to ensure that your visual content doesn’t go unnoticed.
Types of apps for Instagram
If you’re seeking information about a certain type of Instagram app, click the links below to jump to a category:
Instagram Engagement Apps
Instagram Photo Apps
Instagram Video Apps
IFTTT Formulas for Instagram
Instagram Story Apps
Instagram engagement apps
The more time and energy you spend on executing your Instagram marketing strategy, the more shortcuts you’ll need to save time. From reporting, to increasing how much content you share, to responding to users ASAP, all marketers should consider having a tool to manage their presence all from one platform.
- Sprout Social
The ability to queue up posts in advance is a game-changer for serial Instagram users. Instagram scheduling allows you to plan out your content calendar without having to worry about crafting posts in real-time.
Additionally, Sprout aggregates your Instagram notifications so you never miss any shout-outs from your followers.
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Also, Instagram analytics from Sprout clue you in on your top-performing posts. This allows you to keep creating the content your followers are hungry for, time and time again.
Sprout IG top posts report
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Instagram Photo Apps
The era of smartphones has made us all amateur photographers, but that doesn’t mean we snap flawless photos.
Thankfully, there are plenty of editing apps to help us deal with anything from touch-ups to adding visual flair with effects and text overlays.
- BeFunky
BeFunky is a robust web-based photo editing tool, perfect for cleaning up pictures and designing graphics alike. The full suite of editing tools includes the ability to crop, resize, tilt, soften, sharpen 2nd much more.
As an added bonus, you don’t even have to create an account to use the free version.
BeFunky is a free, robut photo editing App for Instagram
- PicMonkey
Sometimes an otherwise perfect photo needs a bit of touching up. PicMonkey is great for fixing selfies, allowing users to remove wrinkles and reduce shine. Given that images on Instagram that feature a face get 38% more likes, PicMonkey can help you get the picture perfect photo every time.
PicMonkey allows you to make subtle changes to touch up your Instagram photos
PicMonkey isn’t just for pictures of people, though. For example, the “Adjustments” feature is awesome for creating epic, landscape-style photos.
PicMonkey’s motion blur feature in action
- Adobe Aviary
If you’re using an editor by Adobe, you know your photos are in good hands.
Aviary is a straightforward yet powerful Instagram app with a ton of one-touch tools on deck. Creative touches like softening, sharpening and playing with the saturation of photos may seem subtle but can be the difference to make your photos pop.
Another awesome feature of Aviary is the ability for the app to actually suggest edits on your behalf.
Aviary provides Instagram users with suggestions for editing their photos
- Canva
If you’re looking to create social graphics from scratch, look no further. Canva boasts several templates for inspirational images, text-based photos, announcements and everything in-between.
Canva provides users with a variety of templates for creative Instagram posts
- Piktochart
Infographics get plenty of love on Twitter and Facebook, so why not Instagram? Piktochart providers you with attractive templates for those times when you want to hit your followers with a data-driven post.
Piktochart provides users with endless templates to create Instagram infographics
- Framatic
With over 20 million downloads, Framatic is another raved-about Instagram app for sprucing up your images. The app sports 36 adjustable Instagram layouts, 32 vintage borders and 92 effects to apply to photos in an instant.
Framatic is a quick and easy editing tool for Instagram
- Landscape by Sprout Social
Landscape is Sprout’s very own social media image resizing tool.
How does it work? Upload any photo that you’d like to share on Instagram, choose which post size you’d like to create, then guide the cropping and presto. Now you have a freshly optimized image to download.
Landscape by Sprout Social makes resizing on Instagram easy
After you’ve cropped your images to your exact specifications, start sharing them with your Instagram followers!
- Square Sized
One of the most-downloaded resizing apps, Square Sized allows users to import photos from personal albums or Facebook to be optimized for Instagram. The app gives you the option to edit your newly sized photos too.
Square Sized is a straightforward Instagram app for resizing photos
- No Crop and Square
This app does exactly what it’s advertised to do: post full-sized pictures on Instagram without cropping. Extras such as stickers and filters are also available to give your resized photos even more creative flair.
Apps for instagram feed layout
Later
iOS | Android | Web
later.com
Later is a much more powerful social media scheduler than some of the other apps we reviewed. It has some great functionality such as the ability to cross-post content on multiple platforms. However if you just want to plan your Instagram feed these added features can bring some unnecessary complexity to the platform.
It does provide an all-in-one solution to your Instagram account from managing your one clickable bio URL with linkin.bio to being able to schedule your Instagram stories on top of regular posts. We also loved it’s ‘first comment’ feature that auto-posts all your hashtags neatly into a comment underneath your post.
One of the best things about Later is it’s media library which enables you to effortlessly source content from a variety of sources to have ready to drop into your feeds.
If you like to plan your posts visually you might find this app a bit cumbersome as you must first schedule a post to see how it would look it in the grid planner. There is however a drag and drop version hidden away in the mobile app under the ‘quick scheduler’ function.
This almost feels like a separate version of the app which enables to you to allocate your preferred posting times each day and quick drop your posts into those slots and rearrange as you see fit.
Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓
Media Integrations: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Instagram ✓ Websites ✓
Things we liked:
Sophisticated media library that you can pre-populate with great content from various sources
Search and repost feature is amazing, as we feature a lot of different peoples photos on the Creatively Squared Instagram account this means we aren’t losing quality by taking screen shots of the images to share them.
How simple it is to regram content from other accounts and to grab images from your website or blog to share
Easy sync between mobile and desktop apps
You can add other social media accounts. Aside from Instagram, Later also let you schedule posts for Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. This is heaven-sent if you want to distribute the same content throughout your other social channels.
Things to consider:
Some aspects of the web app weren’t super intuitive such as drafting a new post. I kept feeling like I was looking for a + or ‘new post’ button to create something
Feed preview in the web app was hard to find as was the drag drop visual planner in the mobile app
No options to edit or crop photos once they are added to the media library
Pricing: Free for one Instagram account and up to 30 posts per month
Planoly
iOS | Android | Web
planoly.com
Planoly is definitely a hot contender for a top all-in-one content planner for Instagram.
The mobile and web app interfaces are well designed and easy to navigate. Both iterations support all the same features and are easy to use in tandem.
Many users will love the added content calendar planning function which is a clever way to mark important dates and make notes about upcoming content – you can even add a colour code to each one. This feature combined with the image placeholder function enables you to start drafting a post even if your image isn’t ready yet.
The discover feature is handy for finding images to repost from Instagram or from free stock sites. Perfect for those to like to integrate aspirational or moodboard style images into their accounts. In the draft section you can play around with the design of different themed grids before integrating them into your feed.
Planoly’s design feels a bit less ‘tech’ and more ‘girlboss’, which we liked but some might not! It is definitely geared towards professional users and we found that a lot of features we only available to those on Business accounts so those with personal accounts may be locked out of a number of functions (primarily due to Instagrams API).
Those in eCommerce will love the ‘Shoplink’ feature which adds Instagrams shopping links on to your scheduled posts.
Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓
Media Integrations: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Instagram ✓
Things we liked:
Integration with their own stories design app
Content calendar (this could be worth the switch in itself!)
Saved hashtags grouping
What could be better:
No image editing on free version
Pricing: Free for one user and Instagram account for up to 30 posts per month
Plann
iOS | Android | Web
plannthat.com
Plann is a visual Instagram planner with a simple drag and drop interface. Adding new content is a breeze, you can upload directly from your device or via Google Drive or Dropbox, or even import from 3 major royalty-free stock sites for instant content if you’re ever stuck for something to post.
If you like to adjust your photos once they are placed in your grid, Plann allows you to edit, crop and enhance your photos directly from the app. If you want to get even more creative you’ll love their Canva Integrations where you can access your own, or build brand new designs straight from Canva, inside Plann. (Plann mobile app also integrates with Canva Stories App for stories.) This is a feature to watch and might get a lot of people over the line.
Switching between your desktop and mobile is simple and the web app has a well thought out, designer interface. You can even use Plann to cross post your best performing content across Facebook, and LinkedIn automatically.
Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓ Multi-post Stories ✓
Add media from: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Google Photos ✓ Canva ✓ Pexels ✓ Unsplash ✓ Pixabay ✓
Things we liked:
User friendly and intuitive. You don’t have to spend time watching tutorials. It’s very easy to use.
Drag and drop arrangement and enlarged grid view for planning.
Save hashtags. You can store your favourite collections of hashtags ready to copy and paste straight onto your future posts.
Desktop app is well designed and simple to navigate, with a new mobile app that syncs seamlessly.
Save to camera roll feature. This is helpful if you edit the image within the app but want to save it to your phone for further use.
‘Share to Plann’ from any app on your phone. If you’re managing multiple accounts they’ll help you import directly to the right account for either posts or stories.
Content Calendar. With Plann you’re able to add blog posts, Instagram story takeovers and email newsletters to a calendar view so you’re on top of your entire marketing workflow.
Things to consider:
There is no media library in the mobile app for you to save posts that you aren’t ready to place into your grid yet
The mobile app supports Instagram publishing but does not yet support LinkedIn and Facebook platforms, which are managed on Plann webapp.
Pricing: Free for one Instagram account and up to 30 posts per month
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Preview
iOS | Android
thepreviewapp.com
If you are looking for a super simple app to visually plan and schedule basic posts from your phone – Preview is it. It doesn’t come with all the bells and whistles of the other apps and although there is a desktop version you can not access it from the free version of the app.
It’s unlikely that you’ll need any help navigating your way around but if you do they have some tutorials available in the app.
The free version of the app has unlimited posts (whereas most of it’s competitors are capped at 30 per month)
You can crop and edit your images in app and the supplied filters are surprisingly nice, although you are limited to just 2 packs on the free version.
There’s not really much more to say about Preview aside from it’s a slick looking app that delivers exactly what it came to do and nothing else!
Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓
Media Integrations: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Free Stock Photos ✓
Things we liked:
Easy to log in, simple interface
Saved hashtags grouping
Easy to rearrange content in carousels
What could be better:
Analytics only show the last 7 days
Doesn’t support Instagram stories
You have to manually delete posts once they go live to remove from your grid
Pricing: Free for one user and Instagram account for unlimited posts. Note – Can only access desktop version with Premium plan.
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