Instagram is an application that lets you browse through several pictures and videos. Keep the images around your hard drive for backup purposes, transfer them to an iPad since there still isn’t a native Instagram app, turn the pics folder into a screen saver (or get Screenstagram if you want your Instagram feed as a screen saver instead), import them into iPhoto, or whatever else you can think of. At the end of this article, you will find our how-to steps which you can follow to install and run InstaSaver Photo & Video Downloader for Instagram on PC or MAC. Once you have pictures stored locally, you can do whatever you want with them. If you’d prefer a free choice, Instaport, which we already mentioned, is a web based alternative that works on any platform and is not a paid app. Each picture is named as their original upload date, which is a nice touch if you want to have an idea of when each picture originated.
Using Instabackup is a matter of launching the app, authenticating with Instagram through the default web browser, and setting a folder to download the images into. Download InstaBackup ( free DMG download link at bottom of page update: the developer turned this into a paid app at $1, it is no longer a free option).
InstaBackup, shown in the screenshot up top and below, is a small app for Mac OS X only but it gets the job done very quickly. Go to Instaport and authenticate with your Instagram login, and click “Start Export”, and soon you’ll have a bundled zip archive of all the pictures downloading to your computer.ĭownload Instagram Photos with InstaBackup for Mac OS X Instaport is a free web-based alternative that is therefore cross-platform compatible, allowing it to work in Mac OS X, Windows, or just about anything with a web browser and that can open zip files. The biggest caveat with both solutions though is they download the photos at a paltry 612×612 pixel resolution, though that is likely an Instagram limitation and not the applications fault (if anyone knows a workaround for that, let us know!).ĭownload Instagram Photos to Mac, Windows, etc, with Instaport on the Web Both serve the same function and will download all of your Instagram pictures for local storage. We’ve narrowed it down to the two best solutions, a native OS X app and a web app.