Instagram Downloader

An Instagram downloader is a web tool that saves Instagram content — Reels, videos, photos, stories and more — straight to your phone or computer. Instagram lets you bookmark posts inside the app, but a bookmark vanishes the moment the creator deletes the post, archives it or makes their account private. A downloaded file is yours to keep and to watch offline, on a plane or anywhere with a weak signal.

SaveNext works entirely in your browser. You paste a link, our servers request the public media from Instagram, and you receive the original file. There’s no app to install, no browser extension to trust and no account to create.

The box at the top of this page — and on every other SaveNext page — accepts any public Instagram link. Each type of content behaves a little differently, so each one also has its own page full of tips:

• Reels — full-length vertical videos with their original audio. More in the Instagram Reels downloader guide.
• Videos — regular video posts, including the longer videos that used to live under IGTV. See the Instagram video downloader.
• Photos and carousels — a single image or every slide of a multi-photo post. See the Instagram photo downloader.
• Stories — photo and video stories from public accounts. More in the Instagram story downloader guide.
• Highlights — the story collections pinned to a profile. See the Instagram highlights downloader.
• Profile pictures — the full-size version of any DP instead of the tiny circle. See the Instagram DP viewer.

Safari on iOS 13 and later downloads files natively, so you don’t need a Shortcut, a paid app or a computer.

1. Open Instagram, find the post, tap the share icon (the paper plane) and choose Copy link.
2. Open Safari, go to SaveNext and tap Paste.
3. Tap Search, then tap the download button on the file you want to keep.
4. Safari saves it to the Files app, inside Downloads. To move it to your camera roll, open the file, tap the share icon and choose Save Video or Save Image.

Tip: the small arrow icon in Safari’s address bar shows every download in progress, so you can check that a longer video has finished.

Android is the easiest platform of all: Chrome, Samsung Internet and Firefox save files straight into your Downloads folder, and your gallery picks them up automatically.

1. In the Instagram app, tap the share icon under the post and choose Copy link.
2. Open SaveNext in your browser and tap Paste — valid links start processing straight away.
3. Tap Download on the file. It appears in your gallery (or in Google Photos under Library → Download) within seconds.

On a computer, open instagram.com, click the three dots (⋯) on a post and choose Copy link — or simply copy the URL from the address bar while the post is open. Paste it into SaveNext with Ctrl + V (⌘ + V on a Mac), click Search and then download the file you want.

Files are saved to your browser’s Downloads folder. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave and Opera all work, and because MP4 and JPG are universal formats, you can drop the files straight into Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Canva or Keynote.

SaveNext never re-encodes your files, so what you download is exactly what Instagram serves. Videos come as MP4 (H.264 video with AAC audio), which plays on every phone, computer and editing app. Photos come as JPG.

Keep in mind that the final quality depends on what the creator uploaded. If someone posted a 720p clip, no downloader can turn it into true 1080p — anyone who claims otherwise is just upscaling.

Screen recording works in a pinch, but the result is noticeably worse. The video is compressed a second time, the status bar and Instagram’s buttons end up in the frame, audio can drift out of sync, and you have to trim the start and end by hand. Screenshots of photos are cropped to your screen and lose fine detail.

Downloading the original file avoids all of that. You get a clean, full-resolution copy in a few seconds — ready to watch, archive or edit.

• The account is private. Only public content can be downloaded. SaveNext never logs in to anyone’s account, so private posts stay private.
• The link is incomplete. Always use Copy link from the share menu rather than copying text from a caption or a bio.
• The story has expired. Stories disappear after 24 hours unless they were saved to a highlight — in that case, paste the highlight’s link instead (the highlights downloader page shows how to copy it).
• The post was deleted or archived. If it no longer opens on Instagram, it can’t be downloaded anywhere.
• Still stuck? Refresh the page and try again, or tell us which link failed — we read every message.

Saving public content for your own personal, offline viewing is widely tolerated, but the content still belongs to whoever created it. Reposting someone’s video, using their photo in an ad or passing their work off as your own can infringe their copyright and breaks Instagram’s Terms of Use.

A simple rule of thumb: download freely for personal use, ask before you reuse, and always credit the creator. If you own content and believe it’s being misused, read our DMCA policy.