Instagram grid maker

Add your photo above and pick 3, 6 or 9 posts. Drag and zoom to frame it, then download all the posts at once. Each file is numbered in the order you post it.

Post 1 first and the highest number last. Instagram shows the newest post top left, so post 1 is the bottom-right tile and the last post completes the top-left corner. The number is in each file name too.

Every tile is 1,080 × 1,440 pixels, a 3:4 portrait. That is the shape Instagram gives each post on the profile grid, so the grid shows the whole tile and the picture lines up across the seams. Square or 4:5 tiles get trimmed at the sides on today’s grid, and the picture no longer lines up.

For full-size tiles your photo should be at least 3,240 × 1,440 for 3 posts, 3,240 × 2,880 for 6 posts or 3,240 × 4,320 for 9 posts. A smaller photo works too: the tool tells you when the tiles are enlarged and may look soft.

Pinned posts sit at the start of the grid, before your newest posts, so one or two of them push the picture along by one or two places. Unpin them while the grid tops your profile, or pin three so the picture starts on a fresh row.

Each new post moves every tile one place along, so the picture breaks unless you post in threes. Instagram’s Reorder grid option in the app (press and hold a post on your profile) lets you move posts back without deleting them.

No. The photo is cut in your browser and never leaves it. It is kept in this browser only, so it is still here when you come back, until you clear it.

Yes. Add the posts to your Instagram queue in Foliwo, post 1 first, and it publishes them one after another, so the picture builds up without you being there.