InstaDesk: Post to Instagram from PC — Upload Reels, Stories & Schedule

AI for Instagram on your PC: ask about your account, draft replies to comments & DMs, schedule posts, reels & stories.

Instagram's website can post and schedule now — but it still won't do stories, won't queue a batch, and won't tell you who unfollowed you. InstaDesk fills in the rest, right inside instagram.com: post reels, stories and carousels from your PC, schedule them on a calendar, download in full quality, track unfollowers — and ask a built-in AI anything about your account. WHAT'S NEW — 3.1, SEPTEMBER 2026 • STORIES POST AGAIN. Instagram changed how its website takes stories this week, and some accounts got an error instead of a story. InstaDesk now posts stories, photo or video, close friends or not, the way Instagram's own website does • A LINK STICKER YOU CAN SEE. On a photo story, drag the sticker to where you want it; it shows the site's name, like the app's, and opens the link when tapped • ONE VIDEO ON THE POST TAB GOES UP AS A REEL, the way Instagram posts every video now • ACCOUNT INSIGHTS AND REPORTS READ YOUR NUMBERS THE WAY INSTAGRAM'S OWN PROFILE PAGE DOES, so a "please wait" limit on the old routes no longer leaves them empty • IF INSTAGRAM BLOCKS A POST for a while, InstaDesk asks once, pauses its other tools, and tries again in half an hour instead of pushing into it • A MESSAGE OR REPLY INSTAGRAM DIDN'T TAKE is never marked as sent, and its free use comes back • AUTOPILOT WRITES, YOU SEND. Every reply, welcome and thank-you waits for you to read it and press Send • MUSIC ON YOUR STORIES. A photo goes up as a 5, 10 or 15-second story with the song playing; a video story gets the song laid over it, with or without its own sound • PRO IS $1.99 A MONTH. One plan, cancel anytime. Posting, stories, real Instagram audio and downloads stay free forever WHAT'S NEW — 3.0, SEPTEMBER 2026: THE SECOND BRAIN • ASK. A small window over Instagram — press the orb in the corner or Ctrl+Shift+K — that answers from your own record: who unfollowed you this week, your best post this month, whether anyone commented, what's rising in your feed. Plain commands are understood at once, without the AI: "switch to the galaxy theme", "start growth on #sourdough", "open insights" • IT ACTS, ON ONE CLICK. Ask for a plan — a week of posts from a folder of files, a reply to the DM you have open, a comment on your latest post — and every step is shown first with one button to run it. Switch Ask to Just do it and plans run as soon as they are made, except messages, comments and posts, which always wait for the button • AUTOPILOT, IF YOU CHOOSE IT. Writes replies to comments on your posts and to your DMs, in your voice. If you switch each one on, it can also write a welcome for new followers, a set message for anyone who comments a word you pick, and a thank-you for people you already talk to who tag you in a story, and it can like comments on your posts. Message requests can't be read on instagram.com right now; Autopilot says how many are waiting. Off until you read and tick a plain risk notice; every reply waits for your Send; capped in code at a few an hour; everything written down • MEMORY. One local record of your account — followers by day, every post's numbers, who left, what you queued, the sounds in your feed — and an About you card so it writes like you. Kept a year, on this computer, with export and forget • A TODAY CARD at the top of the menu: up to six short lines from your own record, each one a tap away from the tool it is about • CAPTIONS WITHOUT A KEY. The caption generator and the composer's Write with AI run on InstaDesk's model, sharing Ask's free goes; your own key still works and is never counted • FREE USES THAT SURVIVE A REINSTALL. What you have used is kept against your account, not the install MORE IN THE DESK • A full report on any public account, read up to 250 posts deep: posts per month, engagement against accounts of a similar size, which format earns more, best hours and top posts • Your posting times, not a stopwatch: set the hours you post and drop a batch of files into them • A caption per post from a spreadsheet: load a CSV and each file gets its own caption and first comment, matched by filename • Pinned posts: press the pin on any photo or reel to keep it on your own shelf, then save the lot in one press • Eleven themes that restyle Instagram in your browser only; nobody else sees them and your account is untouched SIX THINGS PEOPLE LEAVE OTHER DESKTOP TOOLS OVER • No watermark. Not on stories, not on anything, not on the free plan • Instagram's own music on reels and stories is free. It is not the thing you pay for • Alt text is written here, on your computer, when you post — not later from your phone • Repost to your story, your grid or a reel, from any saved post • Autopilot is capped in code at a few replies an hour and a day, and every reply waits for your Send. Grow account runs at a speed you pick, with a ceiling nothing can raise. Both stop the first time Instagram pushes back on an action • Nothing likes, follows, comments or messages in the background without a notice you have read and ticked. InstaDesk does read from Instagram in the background, slowly: the sounds in your feed, the accounts you watch, and your own numbers POST AND UPLOAD FROM YOUR PC • Photos, carousels up to 10, reels and stories — no phone, no emulator • Drag files straight from your computer, or upload from your desktop in one click • Scrub to pick any frame of your video as the cover • Tag collaborators, add a location, write alt text • Turn off commenting or hide like counts before you post • Put your hashtags in the first comment automatically • Add a link sticker to a photo story, placed where you drag it, or share to close friends only • Repost content you've saved, without leaving Instagram REAL INSTAGRAM AUDIO ON YOUR REELS AND STORIES — ALWAYS UNLOCKED Most desktop tools charge to add music, or serve you their own stock library. InstaDesk uses Instagram's own tracks. On a reel the song is credited to its audio page, exactly as if you'd posted from the app. On a story the song is mixed into the story itself, and InstaDesk asks Instagram to show the song's name; Instagram decides whether it does. • Watching a reel with a sound you want? One button attaches it to your next reel • On a story, a photo becomes a short video with the song playing. If Instagram mutes a story's song, InstaDesk tells you • InstaDesk quietly notes every track Instagram serves you as you browse • It counts how often each one comes back, so you can see what's climbing in your niche instead of guessing (Pro; two free looks) • Preview anything before you commit, and keep a library of the ones you like • Music on video (Pro; one free go): lay your own audio over a clip in the browser before posting WHAT INSTAGRAM'S OWN SCHEDULER STILL WON'T DO Instagram added scheduling for feed posts. These are the gaps it left: • STORIES. Instagram's website can't schedule a story. InstaDesk can, link sticker and all • BULK. Drop a folder in, set one cadence, and queue a week in a single sitting • A MONTH CALENDAR you can actually see. Drag a post to another day to move it • Publish early on one click, or cancel without rebuilding the post • Every attempt is logged — pending, published or failed, with the reason. A post that fails tells you why instead of vanishing • If Chrome closes while a post is going up, or Instagram's answer goes missing, InstaDesk marks the post for you to check and does not upload it again. A post Instagram refused is tried again later, up to three times; if Instagram is limiting the account, every scheduled post waits half an hour • Your files stay on your own computer until they go out. Nothing is uploaded to a server in advance • Scheduled posts publish while Instagram is open in a tab DOWNLOAD IN FULL QUALITY • A built-in downloader that saves photos, videos, reels and stories at original resolution • Works on posts, permalinks and the scrolling reels feed • Files land in a tidy InstaDesk folder in your Downloads KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE • See exactly who doesn't follow you back — by name, not just a number • Track who unfollowed you between scans • Export your followers or following to CSV (up to 5,000 per list) • Flag likely bot followers (read-only — nothing is removed for you) • Account stats at a glance A BETTER FEED • Hide sponsored posts • A real seek bar on reels and videos • Mobile view on desktop • Hashtag collections: save sets of hashtags and reuse them in one click • Quick DM replies: save the messages you send constantly • Ghost mode (Pro): watch stories without being marked as seen GROW ACCOUNT — AND EXACTLY HOW IT BEHAVES InstaDesk can like posts, and follow accounts if you choose, on hashtags you pick. It tells you first whether a hashtag is even winnable for an account your size, so you aren't spending the day on tags where you'll never be seen. Grow account and Autopilot are the two tools here that act without a click for each action, so both are governed carefully. Both ship switched off, and neither can be turned on until you have read a notice explaining the risk and ticked a box. Grow account runs at a speed you choose, from 100 to 500 likes a day with follows at a third of that, and nothing can take it past 500 likes and 160 follows a day. It warms up over its first week by default. It stops itself the moment Instagram pushes back on an action and stays off until you restart it; a plain limit on reading, it waits out. And every single action is written to the Activity log on your own computer, so you can always see exactly what was done on your behalf — and open the post to check. Automated liking, following, commenting and messaging are against Instagram's terms, and a restriction falls on your account, not on ours. That is why both are off by default, why Grow warms up over a week, why Autopilot's replies wait for your Send, and why both stop at the first sign of trouble rather than pushing on. WHAT IT WILL NEVER DO ON ITS OWN Grow account and Autopilot don't follow or like anything until you have read and ticked their risk notice. Nothing is ever sent to anyone, in a DM or a comment, until you have read it and pressed Send. And nothing goes up on your account that you didn't make or schedule. PRIVACY Your photos, videos, captions, drafts, scheduled posts, sound library, follower lists and Memory are stored on your computer, not on a server of ours. Parts of them leave it only in the cases listed below. There is no account to create, and InstaDesk never asks for your Instagram password — it works through the session already in your browser. What leaves your machine, and it's fair that you know: • Your Instagram account's numeric ID, a random install ID and how many free uses of each Pro tool you have spent go to InstaDesk's relay when you open Instagram and when you use a Pro tool, so a reinstall does not reset them. The relay keeps those counts, and a daily count of AI requests for 35 days. It does not keep what you ask • When you use Ask, Autopilot, Write with AI or the weekly summary on InstaDesk's own model, the text it needs goes to the relay and on to the model provider (currently DeepSeek) to be answered: your question, the parts of your record it needs, and the page you have open. For Autopilot that includes the comments and messages it is replying to and the usernames of the people who wrote them. A question about a post can also send up to three still frames of it to a vision model. With your own AI key, that text goes to your own provider instead • A licence check with ExtensionPay once you have opened checkout. Payment itself goes through Stripe • A small configuration file that tells InstaDesk which parts of Instagram have changed • If Instagram's own music search finds nothing, the words you searched go to Apple's iTunes search for 30-second previews, which play from Apple's servers • A song you put on a reel or story is fetched from Instagram's own servers and mixed on your computer PRICING No account to create. No card unless you buy. Publishing is free forever: photos, carousels, reels and stories, with tagging, locations, alt text, link stickers, hashtags in the first comment, and real Instagram audio on your reels and stories. Downloads are free forever too, with no limit. So are your own Account insights dashboard, the ad blocker, mobile view, video controls, hashtag collections and saved replies. Pro is one plan at $1.99/month, cancel anytime: scheduling with the calendar and bulk queue, full reports on any account, unfollower tracking, bot detection, follower export, ghost mode, the music studio, sound momentum ranking, eleven themes, Grow account, and Ask and Autopilot on InstaDesk's AI. Every Pro tool except ghost mode can be tried for free first, on your own account: one unfollower scan, one bot scan, one follower export, one full report or media kit, one Music Studio session, two looks at sound momentum, two posts in the queue at a time, one theme, ten growth actions, five AI questions or captions, and ten Autopilot actions, with InstaDesk's model answering up to five a day for free, shared between them. Pro gets up to 100 answers a day. With your own AI key, Ask and Autopilot are never counted. Checkout runs through ExtensionPay and Stripe, and "Manage subscription" on the Pro page opens ExtensionPay's sign-in, where you can change or cancel the plan with the email you paid with. Nothing you buy today will ever be moved behind another plan. Guides for posting from a PC, adding music to a reel, scheduling and downloading: https://instadesk.pro Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. "Instagram" is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.