What Does “IG” Mean? Plus Common Instagram Slang
A short, accurate glossary: what "IG" means and the common Instagram slang and abbreviations decoded.
Every tool on StealthGram runs inside your browser. No account connection, no password, no file upload, no server that quietly keeps a copy. Open the network tab and check — once the page has loaded, nothing else leaves your device.
We never ask for your Instagram username or password, and there is nowhere on this site to enter one. Any tool that wants your credentials to show you “who unfollowed you” is asking for the keys to your account.
Images you drop into the carousel splitter, size checker or grid planner are read by your own browser with the Canvas API. They are never transmitted, because there is no upload endpoint to transmit them to.
Because the maths runs on your device, every tool keeps working if your connection drops mid-session. That is not a feature we added — it is what “no backend” actually means.
Privacy claims are cheap. This one takes about thirty seconds to verify, and you don’t need to understand any of the code.
F12 on Windows, ⌥⌘I on a Mac, or right-click anywhere and choose Inspect.blob: entries, which are references to memory on your own machine, not network transfers.That is the whole architecture. There is no application server behind these tools to send anything to.
Numbers you can take into a brand conversation.
Work out your real engagement rate by followers or by reach, and see how it sits against the benchmark for your follower tier.
Turn followers, engagement and usage rights into a defensible price range you can take into a brand negotiation.
Project how long your current growth rate takes to reach a target, under both linear and compounding maths.
Convert your audience’s active hours across up to three time zones into a heatmap in your own local time.
Read the full guide: Instagram Analytics: How to Read Your Own Numbers →
Captions, bios and hashtags that behave.
Eighteen Unicode text styles you can paste into a bio or caption, with an honest note about which ones break screen readers.
Instagram eats ordinary line breaks in the bio field. This puts them back, with a live 150-character counter and preview.
Characters, hashtags, mentions and the 125-character “… more” cut-off, all counted live with a feed preview.
Build a balanced set from a curated niche dataset, mixing broad and specific tags instead of stacking 30 mega tags.
Read the full guide: Captions, Bios and Hashtags: The Complete Guide →
Get pixels right before you post.
Cut one wide image into seamless swipeable panels at 4:5, 1:1 or 3:4, then download them individually or as a ZIP.
See whether your file posts clean or gets cropped, and fix it to spec with a focal point you control.
Overlay the buttons, captions and progress bars that cover your design, and test whether your text survives.
Arrange up to 18 images in a real 3-column grid, reorder by drag or keyboard, and export the plan as one PNG.
Read the full guide: Instagram Sizes and Dimensions: The Complete Reference →
The tools give you a number. These five guides explain what the number means, where it comes from, and when to distrust it. Each one is the long version of a question people ask constantly — written to be checked rather than believed.
Which Instagram numbers actually mean something, how to turn them into rates that survive a change in follower count, and a twenty-minute monthly…
A transparent model for pricing sponsored posts, from a per-follower base to usage rights and exclusivity, with every multiplier shown.
Every Instagram size that matters, the safe zones measured in pixels, and what happens to files that fall outside the accepted window.
The real limits on captions, bios and hashtags, the behaviour behind each one, and what to do about the parts Instagram never explains.
How Instagram scams actually work, what genuinely protects an account, and exactly what to do in the hours after something goes wrong.
If you are not sure where to begin: read the analytics guide if a number in your Insights confused you, the pricing guide if a brand has asked for your rate, the sizes reference if something got cropped, the captions guide if your text is not behaving, and the safety guide if you are worried about an account or were caught by something that asked for your password.
Most free Instagram tools work the same way: you paste something in, it goes to their server, the server does the work and sends an answer back. That is a perfectly ordinary way to build software, and for most things it is fine. It stops being fine the moment the thing you are pasting in is personal — your unpublished caption, your client’s campaign image, your follower numbers before you have told anyone.
StealthGram is built the other way round. There is no application server behind these tools. When you load a tool page, your browser downloads a JavaScript file and then runs it locally, in the same sandbox that runs every other page you have open. The engagement rate calculator does arithmetic on numbers that never leave the input box. The carousel splitter uses the Canvas API to slice an image that only ever exists as an object URL in your own memory. The grid planner saves your arrangement in localStorage — a store that belongs to your browser, on your machine, that no server here can read.
A client-side architecture is not free of trade-offs, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise:
We think those are the right trade-offs for this kind of tool. You may not, and that is a reasonable position — it just means a different tool suits you better.
There are popular Instagram “tools” we will not make, because they cannot be made honestly:
Several tools compare your figures against benchmarks — engagement rate by follower tier, sponsored post rates by niche, active hours by audience type. Those benchmarks are published ranges from creator-marketing reporting and platform documentation, not a private dataset and not live Instagram data. We show you the exact multiplier applied at every step so you can disagree with a number and adjust it, rather than trusting a black box. Where a tool cannot know something, it says so instead of inventing a figure.
That principle occasionally works against us. The rate calculator tells you, in its own results panel, that its engagement multiplier bottoms out at ×0.70 — which means it will still quote a higher price for an account padded with bought followers than for a smaller genuine one. A brand running a real audit will not. We would rather publish that limitation than let the number look more authoritative than it is.
Yes, and there is no account to create, no trial, and no paid tier being withheld. The tools are static files your browser downloads — running them costs us nothing per use, so there is nothing to meter.
No. There is no server-side processing of anything you enter, because there is no application backend. Two tools save data in your own browser’s localStorage — the theme preference and the grid planner’s saved arrangement — and those never leave your device. The privacy policy names every key.
No, and we could not get it if we wanted to. There is nowhere on this site to enter an Instagram username or password, and no tool connects to Instagram’s API on your behalf.
No. StealthGram is an independent project with no connection to, endorsement from, or affiliation with Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. We use the word “Instagram” only to describe what the tools are for.
Because the calculation happens on your device rather than on our server. Turning JavaScript on is precisely what keeps your data off the network — a no-JavaScript version would have to send everything you type to a server to process it.
They are published industry ranges and transparent models, not measurements of your niche. Every calculator shows the multipliers it applied so you can audit the arithmetic and override anything you disagree with. Your own trend over time is more informative than any benchmark table.
Yes. Nothing you process here is transmitted, which is exactly why they suit agency and freelance work with unpublished campaign assets. The terms cover the details.
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