Instagram Highlight Cover Maker
Make matching Instagram highlight covers.
Your highlight cover
Instagram crops covers into a circle. The preview shows exactly that.
Saves a 1080×1080 PNG to your device. Everything runs in your browser.
This Instagram highlight cover maker makes matching covers for the circles under your bio and downloads them as PNGs. It's free, with no login and no watermark, and the cover is drawn in your browser.
How to make highlight covers that match
By default Instagram uses a frame from one of the stories, so the row looks like random crops. A set looks like a set when every cover has the same background and only the icon changes. The circle is small, so one bold icon or two letters reads better than a detailed picture.
- Background: 12 preset colours, any custom colour, or your own photo. Dim the photo up to 70% so the icon on top stays readable.
- Icon: 70 emoji icons in 7 groups (Everyday, Travel, Food, Fitness, Work, Style and Life), 1 or 2 letters, or no icon at all.
- Icon colour: light, dark or any colour. It changes letters; emoji keep their own colours.
The preview crops your cover to a circle, the way Instagram shows it.
Highlight cover ideas
- Shops and businesses: one cover each for prices, reviews, FAQ, delivery and new arrivals.
- Creators: one per topic, like travel, food or gym, with the matching icon from that group.
- Personal: your initials on every cover in one colour, or a letter per highlight: T for trips, F for friends.
- Calm and neutral: cream background with dark letters.
- Black and white profile: charcoal background with white letters.
- Photo look: one of your own photos, dimmed, with a white letter on top.
What size is an Instagram highlight cover?
A square of at least 1080 x 1080 px, which is what you download here. Instagram shows the cover as a small circle and cuts off the corners, so keep the icon in the middle. A 1080 x 1920 story-size image from a template site also works, but you crop it down to the same circle.
How to add or change a highlight cover
- Download the cover here. It saves to your camera roll or downloads folder.
- On Instagram, open your profile and press and hold the highlight.
- Press Edit highlight, then Edit cover.
- Press the photo icon, pick the PNG, centre it in the circle and press Done.
You don't have to post the cover to your story first, as some older guides say. It goes straight from your camera roll to the highlight and never shows up in anyone's stories. To start a new highlight, press New under your bio, pick the stories, name it and press Add, then change the cover the same way.
Frequently asked
How many stories fit in one highlight?
Up to 100. After that, start a second highlight on the same topic.
Why does my highlight cover look blurry?
Usually the image was small or a screenshot. Upload the PNG itself, not a screenshot of it, and don't zoom in a lot when Instagram asks you to frame the circle.
Can you see who views your Instagram highlights?
Only for 48 hours after the story was first posted. Adding it to a highlight doesn't restart the clock, and after that Instagram shows no names. Anyone can open public highlights without an account, for example with an Instagram highlight viewer.
Why use highlights instead of posts?
Stories disappear after 24 hours. A highlight keeps them on your profile, above your posts, without touching your grid.
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