Instagram Photo Downloader

Yes. There is nothing to install, no extension, no permissions to grant, and no account to create. It works the same on iPhone, Android and desktop because it is just a web page.

Be wary of downloaders that push you toward an app or a browser extension. An extension that can read Instagram pages can read a great deal else besides.

You get the largest version Instagram keeps for that photo, usually 1080 pixels wide, or smaller if the original upload was smaller. Carousels come as one file per slide. Nothing here re-compresses the image, so it works as a full-size Instagram image downloader with no quality loss, but it can't make a small original bigger.

Yes, because we don't re-encode anything. We hand you the original file, so the only watermark is whatever the creator put there themselves.

• Private accounts. If you can't see the post while logged out, no tool can fetch it, and anything claiming otherwise is either lying or trying to get your password.
• Stories. They aren't covered here.
• Deleted posts. They are gone.

The link you get points at Instagram's own content servers, not ours. Two things follow from that:

• The links expire within a few hours. Save the file rather than bookmarking it.
• Your browser fetches the file directly, so Instagram's servers see that request. Our profile viewer proxies its images so browsing profiles stays private; full-size files are different, and pushing them through our servers would slow the site down for everyone.

Downloading a photo for your own reference is one thing. Re-uploading someone else's work as your own is a copyright problem and a reputation one. If you're resharing, credit the creator and ask when it matters.