Instagram feed planner
Drop in your upcoming posts, drag them around the 3-wide grid until the profile reads right, and get the exact posting order. Images never leave your browser.
What to look for while you drag
- Alternation: two same-looking posts side by side (two text graphics, two near-identical product shots) flatten each other. Spacing them one tile apart is usually enough.
- Rows read together: visitors scan the grid in rows of three, so a row that is all one color or all one format reads as a block, for better or worse.
- The top row is the profile: the three newest tiles carry most of the first impression. If a post matters, do not bury it the day before two throwaways.
- Portrait posts crop to square in the grid. Check that the crop keeps the subject; the planner shows the same center-crop the profile will.
Frequently asked questions
What is an Instagram feed planner?
A grid where you arrange upcoming posts the way your profile will show them, before you publish anything. You drop in the images, drag them around until adjacent tiles work together, and then post in the right order. This one runs entirely in your browser: the images never upload anywhere.
What order do I post in to get this layout?
Instagram's grid fills newest-first: your latest post takes the top-left tile and pushes everything else along. So you publish the planned grid BACK to front. Turn on 'Show posting order' and each tile gets its publish number: post number 1 first, and by the time you post the highest number the grid matches your plan.
Does this tool post to Instagram?
No. It is a planning surface only: nothing connects to Instagram and nothing leaves your browser. When you are ready to actually schedule the posts, that is what posthell itself does, Instagram included.
What size should the images be?
Feed thumbnails render square in the grid, and 1080 x 1080 is the safe square size. Portrait posts (1080 x 1350) show cropped to square in the grid, which is exactly the kind of surprise this planner exists to catch before you publish.
Why plan the grid at all?
Because profile visitors see nine tiles before a single caption. If your last three posts are all text screenshots, or two near-identical product shots sit side by side, the profile reads worse than any individual post deserves. Thirty seconds of dragging catches it.
The plan is the grid. posthell is the posting.
posthell schedules your Instagram posts (media required, captions tailored) alongside 14 other networks, so the order you arranged here actually happens without you setting fifteen reminders.