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Instagram Photo Downloader

Save an Instagram picture at the size it was uploaded — and every slide of a carousel.

  • Full-size originals
  • Every carousel slide
  • No login

How it works

  1. 1

    Copy the Instagram link

    Use the share button and copy the Instagram link.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    Drop it in the box and press Download.

  3. 3

    Pick a quality

    Choose a file and it saves straight to your device.

Which of the five files is the photo?

Instagram does not store one copy of your picture. It stores several — a square crop for the grid, a small one for previews, a couple of intermediate sizes for different screens, and the original as uploaded. They all sit in the same place, under names that look nearly identical.

A downloader that takes the first one it finds, or the one the page happened to display, hands you a crop. It looks right in a thumbnail and disappoints the moment you open it properly — and by then the post may be gone.

Looking for a reel?

The Reels Downloader handles video posts, with the audio available on its own as an MP3.

Instagram Reels Downloader

Frequently asked questions

Do I get the full-size original?

Yes, and it is the whole point of the page. On a typical post the original is 1152×1536 at around 229 KB, sitting beside a square crop at 1080×1080 and 67 KB — the same picture with two-thirds of it thrown away. Tools that grab whichever file the page happened to display hand you the second one.

Does a carousel give me every slide?

Every one, numbered Photo 1 to Photo N in the order the author arranged them. If a slide is a video it stays in place as Video 6 between Photo 5 and Photo 7, rather than being dropped or pushed to the end.

Why not just right-click and save?

Because the browser saves what the page is showing, which is a display copy sized for your screen. On a phone there is no right-click at all, and a long press on a carousel saves the slide you are looking at, one at a time.

What format do the files come in?

JPEG, which is what Instagram stores. Converting to PNG on the way out would produce a much larger file containing the same compressed picture, so nothing here offers it.

Do stories and private accounts work?

Neither. Instagram serves both only to a logged-in account, and this site keeps none. Public posts are the whole scope — that is a deliberate limit, not a gap waiting to be filled.