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Instagram Feed Preview Planner

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Your images stay on this device
Add your own images from this device. This tool cannot read your Instagram account or fetch an existing profile — there is no server here to sign a request with, and a browser will not let one page read another site's pixels. Every file is decoded by this tab and nothing is uploaded, which is also why there is no box for a web address.

…or drag images onto this panel, or paste them from the clipboard. Up to 60 tiles, each under 25 MB and 50 megapixels, and 750 megapixels across all of them together.

A profile grid uses three. Two to six covers other grid layouts.
Plain geometry from the shared ratio list — nothing here claims a platform uses it.
Scrub from the feed as it stands to the feed after the queue has gone out.

Nothing is published yet. Raise the slider to see the queue fill the grid.

Nothing to preview yet

Add your own images from this device — drop them here, paste them, or use the button. This tool can’t read your Instagram account or fetch an existing profile, and nothing you add leaves this browser.

A picture of the plan to send a teammate — tiles only, without the badges.

Upcoming posts — in the order you will publish them

Nothing queued. Every tile you add starts here.

Already posted — newest first

Nothing here yet. Move a tile across to stand in for a post that is already on the profile, so the queue has something to push down.

The layout is saved, the pictures are not
Saving keeps the structure — tile order, which tiles are already posted, the column count, the cell shape, each label and each focal point — in this browser on this device only. Image pixels are far too large for that store, so a restored plan shows labelled placeholders and you re-add the files. Nothing syncs to an account or to another device; the plan file below is the way to move a plan. Emptying the planner clears the saved copy too, so an empty page never offers a stale layout back.
Anything outside letters, digits, dots, hyphens and underscores is replaced.

Schema version 1. The file lists tiles, labels, focal points and settings — no image data.

About This Tool

Instagram Feed Preview Planner: see the grid before you post

A profile grid is read as a whole. Each post is its own picture, but on the profile it sits next to eight others, and what a visitor takes in first is the pattern the tiles make together. An Instagram feed preview planner lets you arrange that pattern before anything is published: load the images you are about to post, put them in the order you intend to publish them, and look at the grid preview that results.

This one runs entirely in your browser tab. You pick files from your own device, drag them into order, and the grid redraws. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is cut up, and no separate image comes out at the end — the grid itself is the output.

Not a splitter and not a collage

A grid splitter takes one picture and cuts it into tiles that reassemble on a profile. A collage maker takes several pictures and composites them into a single new image. This tool does neither: your tiles stay separate posts, and the grid is a preview surface rather than a file you publish.

Grid order is the reverse of posting order

This is the part almost everyone gets backwards, and it is the reason a planner is useful at all. A profile grid fills newest first: the most recently published post takes the top-left cell, and older posts run left to right and down. So the post you publish last is the one that appears first in the grid.

The editable list here is deliberately in posting order, because that is how people plan — Post 1 is the next thing out, Post 2 is the one after that. The grid renders that list reversed, and every tile carries a badge with its posting position, so the two directions are never ambiguous on screen.

Push-down: what a new post does to the tiles below it

Publishing does not rearrange a feed, it displaces it. Each new post takes the top-left cell and shifts every existing tile one cell later. On a three-column grid that arithmetic is easy to feel: one new post slides the whole feed sideways and breaks every row it touches, while three new posts move each existing tile down by exactly one full row and leave the columns intact.

The “show next N posts” slider is how you watch that happen. At zero the grid is the feed as it stands today; move it up and the queue drains into the grid one post at a time, with the already-posted tiles that changed row outlined so the shift is legible at a glance. It is the quickest way to answer questions like what does the top row look like after the next three go out, or whether a run of dark tiles is about to end up clustered.

Framing, columns and cell shape

Grid cells are filled edge to edge, so a tall portrait shot loses its top and bottom rather than shrinking to fit. Each tile therefore carries a focal point — two normalised coordinates between 0 and 1 — and the framing sliders move it, so you choose what survives the crop. The column count runs from two to six, which covers the three-column profile grid and other layouts besides, and the cell shape comes from a shared list of plain aspect ratios rather than from a number invented here.

What stays on your device, and what does not

Every image is decoded straight to thumbnail size and released when you remove its tile, which is what keeps sixty pictures inside a phone browser's memory. The tool has no server, no account and no API key, so it cannot read an existing profile — the tiles for posts that are already live are images you supply and mark as already posted.

Saving keeps the plan's structure in this browser: tile order, the divider between upcoming and posted, the column count, the labels and the focal points. Image pixels are far too large for that store, so a restored plan shows labelled placeholders and you re-add the files. Exporting the plan as a JSON file is the way to carry it to another device, and every imported field is re-checked and clamped before it is trusted.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Instagram Feed Preview Planner free?

Yes, Instagram Feed Preview Planner is totally free :)

Can I use the Instagram Feed Preview Planner offline?

Yes, you can install the webapp as PWA.

Is it safe to use Instagram Feed Preview Planner?

Yes, any data related to Instagram Feed Preview Planner only stored in your browser (if storage required). You can simply clear browser cache to clear all the stored data. We do not store any data on server.

How does this feed preview planner work?

You add images from your own device, put them in the order you intend to publish them, and the tool lays them out as a profile-style grid. A slider called 'show next N posts' decides how many of the queue are treated as already published, so you can scrub from the feed as it stands today to the feed after the whole queue has gone out. Every tile carries a badge with its posting position, and already-posted tiles that change row because of the queue are outlined so the displacement is visible.

Why is the grid the reverse of my posting order?

Because a profile grid fills newest first. The most recently published post sits in the top-left cell, so the post you publish last appears first in the grid. The editable list here is deliberately in posting order — 'what goes out next' is how people plan — and the grid renders that list reversed. That is also why three new posts on a three-column grid push everything already on the profile down exactly one row.

Can it load my existing Instagram profile?

No. This site is a set of static files with no server, no account and no API key, so there is nothing that could sign a request to Instagram, and a browser will not let one page read another site's profile page either. Every tile comes from a file you pick on your own device. To include posts that are already live, save those images and add them as tiles marked 'already posted'.

Are my images uploaded anywhere?

No. Each file is decoded by your own browser straight to thumbnail size, drawn onto a canvas on this page, and released when you remove the tile. The page makes no network request while you plan, and you can disconnect entirely and keep working. That is also why the tool takes no web address for an image: a picture loaded from another site cannot be read back off a canvas, so files already on your device are the only input.

Does my plan survive closing the tab?

The layout does, the pictures do not. Saving keeps the structure — tile order, which tiles are already posted, the column count, the cell shape, each tile's label and focal point — in this browser's local storage on this device only. Image pixels are far too large for that store, so a restored plan shows labelled placeholder tiles and you re-add the files. Nothing syncs between devices or browsers; exporting the plan as a JSON file is the way to move it.

How many images can I load, and why is there a limit?

Sixty tiles, with a combined ceiling of 750 megapixels across every source file. Both limits are about memory. A decoded image costs roughly four bytes per pixel, so a screen full of full-size phone photographs is hundreds of megabytes and a mobile browser ends the tab rather than reporting an error. The tool decodes each file directly to thumbnail size and releases the full-size decode immediately, and the two caps stay as a backstop.