The 5 best apps to organize your Instagram feed easily

Influencers flock to Instagram every day. The social network now offers incredible features to entertain its users and help them create even more harmonious content. Numerous Instagram apps are also being created.

But the best way to make your audience want to view your publications is to make a pretty Instagram feed so that it's perfect. Organizing your posts on your Instagram grid to please your audience is an art form in itself!

At Boostfluence, we're here to help you boost your Instagram account. Our tool lets you organize your Instagram feed the way you want and schedule your posts. But today we're bringing you the full list of the best apps for organizing your Instagram feed.

These apps regularly add new, more powerful features, better integrations and smarter ways to add content.

We've rounded up our best free apps to organize your feed and discuss all the details that might help you decide which one is right for you.

Most of these apps have premium versions accessible via paid subscription, but to level the playing field, we're going to compare only the free versions and features of these apps.

Professionals, businesses and experienced users will probably need more tools than the basic free versions of these apps to properly harmonize their feed, but for the average user, they will be more than sufficient.

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Later

Available on: iOS | Android | Web

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Later lets you program your content. It's much more powerful than some of the other apps we've reviewed. It has some interesting differences, such as the ability to post content cross-platform.

However, if you just want to schedule your Instagram feed, these extra features can bring unnecessary complexity to the platform.

It provides an all-in-one solution for your Instagram account, from managing your clickable URL bio with linkin.bio to the ability to schedule your Instagram stories in addition to the usual posts. We also loved its "first comment" feature, which automatically displays all your hashtags in a comment below your post.

One of Later's best assets is its media library, which allows you to effortlessly get content from a variety of sources, ready to drop into your feeds.

If you like to schedule your publications visually, you may find Later a little cumbersome, as you first have to schedule a publication to see how it would look in the grid planner. There is, however, a hidden drag-and-drop version in the mobile app, under the "quick scheduler".

This is almost a separate version of the tool that lets you allocate your favorite publishing times each day and quickly drop your posts into these slots and rearrange them as you see fit.

Publication types : Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓

Media integrations : Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Instagram ✓ Websites ✓

What we liked:

• Sophisticated media library that you can pre-fill with great content from a variety of sources.
• The search and repost function is amazing, it means we don't lose quality when screenshotting images to share.
• It's very easy to crop content from other accounts and grab images from your website or blog to share.
• Easy synchronization between mobile and desktop apps
• You can add other social networks. In addition to Instagram, Later also lets you schedule posts for Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. It's a godsend if you want to spread the same content across your other social channels.

Points to consider:

• Some aspects of the web version aren't very intuitive, such as editing a new post. I always felt like I was looking for a + or "new post" button to create something.
• The grid to organize your feed in the web app was hard to find, as was the drag-and-drop visual planner in the mobile app.
• No option to edit or crop photos once they're added to the media library.

Price: Free for an Instagram account and up to 30 posts per month.

Planoly

Available on: iOS | Android | Web

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Planoly is definitely a contender to be the best all-in-one feed scheduling app for Instagram.

The mobile and web app interfaces are well designed and easy to navigate. Both iterations support all the same tools and are simple to use in tandem.

Many users will love the added content calendar scheduling feature, which is a clever way to mark important dates and make notes on upcoming content - you can even color-code each one. This, combined with the image reservation function, means you can start writing a post even if your image isn't ready yet.

The discovery function is handy for finding images to repost from Instagram or free image sites. Perfect for those who like to integrate quality images. In the draft section, you can play around with the design of different themed grids before integrating them into your feed.

Planoly's design is a little less "tech" and more "girlboss", which we liked, but not everyone! It's definitely geared towards professional or corporate users, and we found that many features are only available to those with a professional account. So those with a personal account may be excluded from a number of features (mainly due to Instagram's API).

Those who work in e-commerce will love the " Shoplink " feature, which adds Instagram purchase links on your scheduled posts.

Post types : Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓

Media integrations : Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Instagram ✓

What we liked:

• Integration with their own story design app.
• Media calendar (this might be worth the change in itself!).
• Grouping of saved hashtags

What could be better:

• No image editing on the free version

Price: Free for one user and one Insta account for up to 30 publications per month.

Plann

Available on: iOS | Android | Web

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Plann is a Instagram visual planner with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Adding new content is a breeze, you can upload directly from your device or via Google Drive or Dropbox, or even import from 3 great royalty-free stock sites for instant content if you ever run out.

If you like to adjust your photos once they've been placed in your grid, Plann lets you edit, crop and enhance them directly from Plann. If you want to get even more creative, you'll love the Canva integrations, which let you access your own designs or create new ones directly from Canva, in Plann.

Switching from your desktop to your mobile version is simple, and the web app has a well-thought-out design interface. You can even use Plann to autopublish your best-performing content to Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓ Stories ✓ Multi-post stories ✓

Add media from: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Dropbox ✓ Google Drive ✓ Google Photos ✓ Canva ✓ Pexels ✓ Unsplash ✓ Pixabay ✓

What we liked:

• Friendly, intuitive operation. You don't need to spend time watching tutorials. It's very easy to use.
• Drag-and-drop arrangement and enlarged grid view for planning.
• Save hashtags. You can store your favorite tag collections, ready to be copied and pasted directly onto future posts.
• The desktop software is well-designed and simple to navigate, with a new mobile app that syncs seamlessly.
• Record function in the camera roll. This function is useful if you edit the image in the app, but want to save it on your phone for later use.
• Share with Plann from any app on your phone. If you manage multiple accounts, this feature will help you import directly to the right account, whether it's articles or stories.
• Content calendar. With Plann, you're able to add blog posts, Insta story replays and email newsletters to a calendar view, so you're in control of your entire marketing workflow.

Points to consider:

• There's no media library in the mobile app so you can save posts you're not yet ready to place in your grid.
• The mobile app supports posting on Instagram, but not yet LinkedIn and Facebook platforms, which are managed on the Plann webapp.

Price: Free for an Insta account and up to 30 posts per month.

Preview

Available on: iOS | Android

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If you're looking for a super-simple app to visually plan and schedule basic posts from your phone - Preview is the way to go. It doesn't come with all the features of other apps and, although there's a desktop version, you can't access it from the free version of the tool.

It's unlikely that you'll need help getting around, but if you do, tutorials are available in the app.

The free version of the app allows you to publish an unlimited number of publications (whereas most of its competitors are limited to 30 per month).

You can crop and edit your images on Preview and the filters provided are surprisingly nice, although you're limited to 2 packs on the free version.

There's not much more to say about Preview, except that it's an elegant app that does exactly what it's supposed to do, and nothing else!

Post types: Standard ✓ Video ✓ Carousel ✓

Media integrations: Files ✓ Camera ✓ Free stock photos ✓

What we liked:

• Ease of connection, simple interface.
• Grouping of saved hashtags
• Ease of rearranging content in carousels.

What could be better:

• Statistics only show the last 7 days
• Doesn't support Instagram stories
• You have to manually delete publications once they're live to remove them from your grid.

Price: Free for one user and one Instagram account for an unlimited number of posts.

Note: the desktop version is only accessible with a Premium plan.

Unum

Available on: iOS | Android | Web

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Unum is one of the most creative planning tools on the market and we really wanted to love it. Unfortunately, recent updates have had a detrimental effect on the user experience and, due to system speed and bugs, start-up time has been much longer than with its competitors.

Navigating the mobile app and web app interface was not very intuitive, and it lacked many features and integrations supported by other apps on the market.

Visually, the app offers good functionality and allows creative control over the look and feel of your grid. Unum has filters and tools for editing your images in the app, as well as some editable templates for creating Instagram stories. You can create multiple versions of your grid and drag and drop to organize the order of your posts. Another feature we liked was the " grid shift " which lets you toggle the view between your upcoming posts and the grid'look directly after the next one goes live.

Scheduling seems to be a secondary function to the visual grid planner, and there's no auto-publish option. Unum has very basic analytics and you can save drafts and captions, as does a recent tags feature to remember hashtags you use regularly.

Post types: Standard ✓ Stories ✓

Media integrations: Camera Roll ✓ Pexels ✓ Unsplash ✓ Google Drive (web app only) ✓ Drop Box (web app only) ✓

What we liked:

• The Instagram Story templates were a nice feature.
• Some users will appreciate the option to design an offset grid
• Ghost mode to temporarily hide a post.

What could be better:

• I didn't like the large empty grid that was pre-filled with gray squares.
• The app was a bit blocky and it took a while to register and log in to our profile, which didn't work at all on the web app.
• Speed, very slow
• No save function in the camera roll for photos edited in the app.

Summary of the best apps for organizing your Instagram feed

Choosing the app that suits you best is a personal choice and different features will appeal to different people. All of these apps have the same basic functionality and promote safe posting with notifications, analytics and support for multiple Insta accounts.

• Later - Use it if you want a powerful social media planning tool to distribute your content across multiple channels.
• Planoly - Use it if you want a professional planning tool where you can stay organized with a media calendar and visual planner in one.
• Plann - Use it if you want a visual planning tool for Instagram that gives you creative control over the visual appearance of your feed.
• Preview - Use it if you want a super-simple visual planner on your smartphone that gets the job done.
• Unum - Use it if you're clamoring for something that lets you be a little more creative and experimental, and if you're not afraid of a bit of a learning curve.