Hashtag counter for Instagram’s 5 hashtag limit

Up to 5 per post, Reels included. Instagram lowered the limit from 30 starting in December 2025, and its Help Center now says “up to 5 tags on a post”. Some accounts still had the old limit while it rolled out, but 5 is the safe number everywhere.

Yes. Instagram counts the tags in the caption and in your comments together, so 5 in the caption leaves none for the comment. Paste your first comment in the second box and the counter adds them up.

Instagram says a comment that takes the post over 5 tags won’t post. The counter marks every tag past the limit, and “Keep the first 5” removes the rest, starting with the caption.

Foliwo counts every use, the way it checks posts before scheduling, so a repeat takes a place a new tag could have. #Travel and #travel are the same tag. “Remove repeats” keeps the first use of each.

Yes. Each tag, # included, counts toward the 2,200 character limit. The counter shows the caption’s length and how much of it is hashtags.

A tag needs at least one letter (#2026 isn’t one), can’t touch the word before it, and stops at the first character that isn’t a letter, digit or underscore, so #self-care is #self. The counter lists anything that looks like a hashtag but isn’t one, and why.

The ones that describe the post. Instagram itself suggests a few specific tags over generic ones like #reels or #explore, which say nothing about what you posted.

Yes, the count, repeats and cleanup work for any text. The limit it checks is Instagram’s, the one network Foliwo caps hashtags on when you schedule.

Foliwo checks the hashtags of every Instagram post as you write and won’t schedule one over the limit, so the count is done for you.

No. The counter runs in your browser and nothing you type leaves it. Your draft is kept in this browser only, so it is still there when you come back.