Instagram started as a social network where people shared photos of their daily lives. Later, the platform became increasingly popular. Influencers and professional profiles emerged, and everyone began to take the network much more seriously. If you also want a well-organized and attractive feed , you should know that you need to keep track of what you post. Today we're going to show you a few tools you can use to make this task easier.
The first impression is the most important
As we mentioned, Instagram has evolved over the years. Posts we used to make regularly are now reserved for Stories, so they don't clutter our feed . In fact, many of us keep our most personal photos and videos private, only posting them to our 'Close Friends'.
If your goal on Instagram is to grow and increase your visibility , you already know how important it is to maintain a well-organized and eye-catching feed . There are countless ways to do this, and we invite you to discover a creative and original approach to managing yours. We discussed techniques for creating a beautiful feed some time ago , but we won't be focusing on that today. Instead, we'll talk about the tools you can use to visually plan your posts . This way, you can see how your profile will look in advance and easily make adjustments or change course.
How to preview Instagram profile before posting anything
Most influencers or brands that use Instagram have developed a style over time . When you visit one of their profiles, you can easily see that they use repetitive patterns and templates to integrate their images and videos.
All this is done to attract attention and thus increase the probability that a new user who enters the profile will hit the follow button.
There are tools, both simple and complex, for doing this. The most interesting ones are the following:
preview
This app is available for both iPhone and Android devices . It's a free app with a very simple interface that will greatly simplify the process of keeping your Instagram grid up to date.
Inpreview is able to load all the images that are on your Instagram profile. Thanks to that, you can visualize what would happen in your grid if you hide any posts. The functions it has are the following:
- Hide and show: Hide a post and see how the grid will move to determine whether or not it's worth making that change to your account. Similarly, you can show an image that was hidden and also see if that change is going to break some kind of layout that you have established.
- Check: this feature is very interesting. Allows you to load a mobile phone folder with images that you want to upload to the profile. Then, the system will do an automatic adjustment to determine which publications we should send next to follow the pattern that we have previously established.
- Reminder: Allows you to establish a notice so that you can make publications periodically. Thus, the engagement of your account will not drop, and the content of your profile will always look fresh.
- Prepare publications: you can add texts and make simple edits to future posts that you are going to send to Instagram.
- Group: Allows you to create blocks of images, as well as delete the groups that we have already published in our account.
- Multi-account management: If you use several profiles, you can manage them from the same application without problems.
Without a doubt, it is the most complete app out there for planning visually. However, there is one that we will see later that is broader in terms of other functionalities that do enter the field of managing the account itself (tags, friends...).
Previewgram
This app is one of the simple ones. You could say it's heavily influenced by Instagram Profile Previewer, an app that was used some time ago to schedule posts through GitHub. However, Previagram is much easier to use.
Previagram is a web app . That means you can use it on any device. You simply need a browser and to go to the official Previagram website . Then, click on 'Start Now' and you'll see a grid with a button to add photos. Next, all you have to do is import your posts and crop them if necessary. The tool has its own feature for choosing the aspect ratio, so you won't need to edit the images before starting.
Once you've imported your images, you can drag and drop them to change their order, rotate them, or replace them with more suitable ones. Once you have the right layout, click 'Download Preview' to download a screenshot of how your Instagram grid should look to your computer or mobile phone. As we mentioned, this is one of the easiest tools you can find right now.
PREVIEW: Planner for Instagram
This is an app for iPhone and iPad. It's similar to the first one we looked at. It not only lets you organize your posts, but also allows you to edit, automatically post, and even find hashtags.
Another interesting feature of this app is the repost function , which is used to automatically recycle a post that we usually make on a recurring basis.
This application is very interesting if you make intensive use of social networks, as it has many advanced functions that can become quite complicated if all you want is to organize your profile.
Feed Preview for Instagram
This app is similar to Previagram, but it's installed on your mobile phone. It allows you to quickly and easily organize your dashboard by importing images and exporting a preview of the result.
Feed Preview for Instagram is a free app that doesn't require your Instagram username and password to work. It also lets you control your posting schedule using its own calendar. It also has a filter preview feature and a system for cropping images to see how they would appear grouped in your feed.
This app has been installed over a million times, and has outstanding ratings. If what you are looking for is something simple that you can carry on your mobile to do quick but effective planning, this may be your application.