Load up to twelve photos, drag them into the order you want, and see exactly what the tall profile grid keeps and cuts, with nothing leaving your browser.
The grid preview loads here.
Drag a tile to move it, or focus one and use the arrow keys. Your browser reads the photos itself; they're never uploaded, so nothing here reaches a server, including ours.
Do you still need an Instagram feed planner?
An Instagram feed planner is a preview of your profile grid that lets you arrange posts and check their crop before you publish them. Instagram itself now does part of that job: Engadget reported on 8 June 2026 that grid reordering had gone live worldwide, so published posts no longer sit in reverse chronological order.
What the app has no version of is a private rehearsal. You reorder by long pressing a post on your own profile and dragging it, so every arrangement you try is the arrangement visitors see while you try it. A planner is where an order is allowed to be wrong first.
How this grid preview works
How the grid crop is worked out
The centre crop
Example:
On a fresh load: phone profile grid, square 1080 by 1080 post, twelve empty tiles in order. The readout says: No photos loaded, so all twelve tiles use the shape you selected. Tile 1 is a square 1080 by 1080 post. In the phone profile grid it keeps the middle 810 by 1080 pixels and loses 135 pixels from each side, 25 percent of its width.
What's behind the defaults:
Watch the shape you post more than any other setting: in the tall grid a landscape 1080 by 566 loses 61 percent of its width, a square 25 percent, a portrait 1080 by 1350 just 6.
What a planner still does that the app does not
Ten free grid planners, and the feature none of them mentions
We checked the ten most popular free grid planners in August 2026 and read what each page claims. None of them tells you Instagram has let you reorder published posts since 8 June 2026.
| Free planner | Account needed | Crop it says it previews | Says photos stay on your device | Names Instagram's Reorder grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopper HQ | No | Not stated | Yes | No |
| PlanMyGrid | No | Not stated | Not stated | No |
| OneUp | No | Not stated | Yes | No |
| Kontentino | No | Not stated | Not stated | No |
| SocialKit | No | 3 by 4 and 1 by 1 | Yes | No |
| GridPeek | No | Not stated | Yes | No |
| PostQuickAI | No | 1 by 1 only | Not stated | No |
| SocialCal | No | 3 by 4 | Yes | No |
| Grid34Sync | No | 3 by 4 and 1 by 1 | Yes | No |
| Postplanify | No | Not stated | Yes | No |
| All ten | None of the ten gate you | 4 name a crop | 7 say photos stay local | None of the ten |
Preview App, Plann and UNUM all want an account before they show you anything, so they sit outside a free-planner comparison. Later's visual planner and Planoly's grid planner pages were both unreachable in early August 2026.
A square preview flatters every photo, then the phone grid takes 25 percent off the sides and the composition changes.
Dragging posts around on the real profile is visible to anyone looking, so a half finished experiment is public while you work.
Pinned posts hold the top slots, so a plan that starts at position one won't match what a visitor actually sees.
Check the tall crop before you shoot, since a landscape frame loses most of its width and a face can fall outside it.
Keep the first row on one subject, so a stranger meets one idea on your profile instead of three unrelated ones.
Load packshots and lifestyle photos together, because a square product shot loses a quarter of its width in the tall grid.
Copy the order into the brief for each client, since this page saves nothing and the plan disappears when the tab closes.
Instagram can reorder your grid now, but only in public, one drag at a time on a live profile. Plan the run here first, check what the tall crop takes off each photo, then publish the version you already know works.
Turn a planned post into DMs
Every post in your plan can trigger a DM. Inrō replies to comments and mentions on Meta's official API. The free plan covers 100 active contacts a month, 3 automations, 3 campaigns and 50 AI credits.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Engadget reported on 8 June 2026 that grid reordering had rolled out worldwide that day: you long press a post on your own profile, choose Reorder grid, then drag it wherever you want it. Posts keep their original date, their likes and their comments, so nothing is republished. Pinned posts are the exception. Engadget noted that a pinned post stays at the top and is blacked out inside the reorder window, so you have to unpin it before it will move. This is the change that dates the old planner pitch, and it is worth saying plainly: none of the ten free planners we checked in August 2026 mentions that the feature exists.
No. The grid is the layout of your profile, which is the page someone lands on after tapping your name. The feed your followers scroll is assembled separately, so moving a photo from position nine to position one does not push it back into anyone's timeline. What changes is the first impression, because the top row is what a visitor reads before deciding whether to scroll. That is also the honest limit of the feature. Reordering is a presentation choice, not a distribution one, and the only thing it moves is the order of the tiles on your own profile.
Post at 1080 pixels wide, then decide which view you are optimising for. The phone profile grid shows a tall tile, so a square 1080 by 1080 post keeps its middle 810 by 1080 pixels and loses 135 from each side, a quarter of its width. A 1080 by 1350 portrait loses about 6 percent. A 1080 by 566 landscape loses 61 percent, which is why wide shots rarely survive a grid intact. Desktop web still shows squares, where a portrait post gets cut top and bottom instead. The tool prints both numbers for whichever shape you choose, so you can check before you shoot rather than after you publish.
Usually yes. Instagram has an Adjust preview option that moves the part of a photo shown in the grid without touching the post. How-To Geek documented the path on 30 March 2025: open the post, tap the three dot menu, choose Adjust preview, drag the image inside the frame and save. It changes the crop and nothing else, so the caption, the comments and the publish date stay where they are. It works one post at a time, which is fine as a rescue and slow as a rebuild. Deciding the crop before you publish is the cheaper habit, and that is what the overlay in this tool is for.
No. The planner uses the browser's FileReader, which reads a file you picked straight into the page. Your image never becomes an upload, so it does not reach Inrō, a storage bucket or anyone else, and the tool makes no network request of any kind while you use it. That also means nothing is saved. Close the tab and the grid is gone, which is deliberate rather than a limitation: an unpublished plan is one of the more sensitive things a creator holds, and the safest place for it is a page that cannot keep it. Use the copy button if you want the order in writing before you leave.
The planner holds twelve, which is four rows of three. That is a working choice rather than a rule. Fewer than nine and you cannot see a row repeat, so a pattern is invisible; many more than twelve and you are arranging content that does not exist yet. Plan the order here, then decide separately when each post goes out, because this tool has no opinion about timing and the Best Time to Post planner is the page that does. Since published posts can be reordered on Instagram itself now, treat a plan as a starting point rather than a commitment.
No, and it is a different job. This planner arranges whole photos and shows what the profile grid crops from each one. Cutting a single image into three or nine tiles that line up as one picture needs exact pixel boundaries, which the Instagram Grid Splitter handles. The two work together: split the image there, then load the pieces here in the order they have to sit, so you see the seam before it is public. One thing to know first is that a split image only reads as one picture until something new is posted above it, and the pieces are cropped by the same tall tile as everything else.
No. Every number on this page is arithmetic your browser does from the shape you selected or from the real pixel dimensions of a photo you loaded. The crop is one multiplication and one subtraction, the order is the order you dragged, and the same inputs always produce the same output. There is no model, no prompt and no request to any service. That matters more for a visual tool than for most, because a suggestion you cannot check is worth nothing when you are deciding whether a face survives a crop. The formula sits above the tool, and you can redo any figure by hand.
Different frame, different rules. A Reel plays at 9 by 16, and its cover has to survive both the full screen player and the profile tile, so the areas hidden behind buttons and captions matter as much as the crop. The Reels Safe Zone Checker is the page for that, and it also carries the provenance of the taller profile grid: Adam Mosseri confirmed a taller grid on 20 January 2025 without naming a ratio, which is why the 3 by 4 tile used here is called community measured rather than documented. Plan the still grid in this tool and check the Reel frames there.
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