Instagram grid planner
Upload your images, drag them into the order you will post, and see the profile grid exactly as it will look. Nothing is uploaded, no account is needed, and your plan is still here when you come back.
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Your grid is saved in this browser only, never uploaded. It will not follow you to another device, and Safari clears unused site data after seven days, so export a PNG for anything you would hate to lose.
Save and send for approval
This grid lives in this browser. Pro keeps your grids on your account instead, one per client, so they survive a new laptop, and turns any of them into a link the client opens and approves without signing up.
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How to plan a feed
- 1
Upload the images you are considering
Drop in as many as you like. They are resized in your browser to keep things fast, and nothing leaves the device.
- 2
Drag them into the order you will post
The top left slot is your most recent post, the same way Instagram fills a profile. Drag any tile anywhere and the rest shift around it.
- 3
Check the rows, not just the tiles
A feed is read three across. Two similar images side by side, or three dark photos in a row, only show up once the grid is assembled.
- 4
Export it or send it on
Download the grid as a PNG for your notes, a client email, or a content calendar.
What the grid tells you that a single post cannot
A post is judged on its own for about a day. A profile is judged as a whole every time someone decides whether to follow you, and the two do not always agree. A photo that works alone can sit badly next to the one it lands beside.
Three things only become visible once the grid is assembled: the balance of light and dark across a row, whether two similar images have ended up adjacent, and where a run of text-heavy graphics has crowded out the photography. All three are cheap to fix before you post and awkward afterwards.
If you are checking the post itself rather than the profile, the Instagram post preview shows the caption cut-off and crop for a single post, and the character limits reference covers where each platform truncates.
Planning a feed for a client
Agencies and freelancers tend to hit the same wall: the grid plan lives in a tool the client cannot see, so it gets flattened into a screenshot and pasted into an email, and the feedback comes back as a paragraph describing which square to move.
PostDecks exists for that step. Export the grid as a PNG here, or use the main preview tool to send individual posts as a link the client opens and approves without an account.
Questions
- Do I need an account to use the grid planner?
- No. There is no signup and nothing to install. Upload images, drag them around, and export the result. Your images stay in your own browser and are never uploaded to us.
- Where is my grid saved?
- In this browser, on this device, using its local storage. That means your plan survives a refresh and is still there tomorrow, but it will not follow you to your phone, and clearing your browsing data clears it. Safari also clears unused site data after seven days, so export a PNG of anything you would hate to lose.
- Can I plan around posts I have not made yet?
- Yes. Add an empty slot wherever a future post will go and drag it into position, so you can see how the finished row will read before you have the image.
- Does this schedule or publish to Instagram?
- No. PostDecks does not connect to your Instagram account, schedule anything, or publish anything. It plans and previews, and you post the way you post today.
- Why does my image look cropped in the grid?
- Because Instagram crops it. Grid thumbnails are square, so a portrait or landscape photo is centre-cropped to a square in the profile view even though the post itself keeps its shape. Seeing that crop before you post is most of the point of a grid planner.
- How many images can I plan at once?
- Sixty, which is roughly a quarter of posting. Past that the grid stops being readable in one view.