Instagram Photo Downloader
Paste the link to any public Instagram post and save the picture to your phone.
How to save a photo from Instagram
You need the link to the post. You’ll get the full-size picture Instagram keeps, not the smaller one the app shows you.
1. Copy the link from Instagram
Open the photo in the Instagram app. Tap the three dots above the picture, then tap Copy link. On a computer, copy the address from the bar at the top of the browser.
2. Paste the link into the box above
Tap the box, hold your finger down, and choose Paste. Then press Download.
3. Press the download button
The picture appears with a button under it. Press it and the picture saves.
4. Find the picture on your phone
Look in Downloads. On iPhone that means the Files app rather than Photos, which catches most people out - the homepage walks through both.
Why a screenshot is worse
A screenshot copies your screen. It doesn’t copy the picture. That costs you three ways:
- Size. A screenshot can only be as wide as your screen. The real picture is usually wider than that.
- Extra stuff. It catches the clock, the battery, the buttons and any comments along with the photo.
- Quality. Instagram already squashed the picture once when the creator posted it. Your phone squashes it a second time when it saves your screenshot.
Save the picture properly and none of that happens.
How big is the picture?
Pixels are the tiny dots that make up a picture. More dots, more detail.
Instagram stores feed pictures 1080 pixels wide. The height depends on the shape the creator chose, so a square post is about 1080 by 1080, a portrait post about 1080 by 1350, and the taller 3:4 shape Instagram added in 2025 about 1080 by 1440. Inside the app you are shown a much smaller copy than any of those. You get the stored one.
There is a limit here, and it is worth knowing about. A photographer might post a picture from an expensive camera that is 6000 pixels wide. Instagram shrinks it to 1080 wide the moment they press share, and keeps only that smaller copy. The full-size original is never stored anywhere you can reach it. So when a website claims it can give you the untouched camera photo, it is lying.
The photo still belongs to whoever took it
A photo belongs to the photographer the moment they take it. They don’t have to register it anywhere.
Keep a picture for yourself and nobody minds. Print it, put it on your own page, or use it for your business without permission, and they will. Photographers watch for this and they report it.
So send them a message first. Most people say yes.
Questions about photo
Anything that applies to the whole site is on the FAQ page.
Can I see the camera details or the location?
No, and no website can. Instagram wipes that information the moment someone posts a photo. The location, the camera name and the date are gone long before the picture reaches you.
It looked sharper in the app. Why?
A phone screen is small and packs its dots very close together, so any picture looks sharper on it than the same picture does on a big monitor. Nothing happened to the file you saved.
Can I take just one photo from a swipe post?
Yes. Each picture in the post gets its own button, so you can save the one you want and skip the rest.
The picture saved but I can’t find it.
On iPhone it lands in the Files app rather than Photos. Open Files, tap Downloads, then use the share button and choose Save Image to move it across.
Pasted a different kind of link?
The box above sorts it out on its own. These pages explain what changes.