All Instagram Tools

Which tool do you actually need?

Most people arrive with one of about six problems. Start here rather than reading twelve descriptions.

Measure & price

These four turn raw numbers — followers, likes, reach, growth — into figures you can defend in a conversation with a brand. Each shows the multipliers it applies, so you can disagree with a benchmark and adjust it rather than accepting an answer from a black box. Most rate calculators online produce a number with no working shown, which makes it useless the moment a brand pushes back.

The natural order is engagement rate first, then pricing. Your engagement rate is the input a brand actually checks, and it is the single largest multiplier in any rate model — so knowing it before you quote is the difference between a number you can justify and a number you guessed. The background for all four sits in the analytics guide and the creator pricing guide.

Write & format

Instagram’s text handling has quirks that quietly cost people engagement: line breaks vanish from the bio field, captions truncate at 125 characters mid-sentence, Unicode “fonts” break screen readers, and thirty identical mega-hashtags do approximately nothing. These four deal with them directly. The captions, bios and hashtags guide explains why each quirk exists.

One honest note on the font generator: those styles are not fonts. Instagram has exactly one typeface. What you paste in are different Unicode characters — mathematical symbols that happen to look like letters. They work, they are eye-catching, and they make your profile difficult or impossible for a screen reader user to read. The tool says so on every affected style.

Size & design

Getting cropped is the most avoidable mistake on the platform, and the most common. These four check dimensions before you upload, show which parts of a Reel are covered by Instagram’s own buttons, cut a wide image into a seamless carousel, and plan how nine posts will look side by side. The sizes and dimensions reference carries the numbers.

All four read your image with the Canvas API from a local object URL. Nothing is uploaded, which is why they are safe to use with a client’s unpublished campaign assets — there is no upload endpoint on this site for a file to go to.

How these tools feed each other

Several of the twelve exist mainly to produce an input for another one. Used out of order, the second tool guesses at something you could have measured.

• Engagement rate → rate calculator. The rate calculator turns your engagement rate into a multiplier against a follower-tier benchmark — 4.0% for nano accounts under 10k, 2.5% for micro under 100k, 1.8% for mid, 1.2% for macro. Feed it a guess and every figure downstream is a guess.
• Size checker → safe zone checker → carousel splitter. The size checker tells you what shape your file actually is; the safe zone checker tells you which parts of it get covered by interface elements; the splitter cuts to a ratio you should therefore already have chosen.
• Caption counter ↔ hashtag set builder. The counter marks the 125-character truncation point and counts hashtags against the 30-per-post limit, including tags repeated across caption and hashtag block — a repeat burns a slot without counting twice.
• Carousel splitter → grid planner. A split carousel occupies one grid square, not several, so a panorama shows up as its first panel. Drop that panel into the planner before committing to the layout.
• Best time to post → engagement rate, reach mode. A schedule is a hypothesis. Log the reach rate it produces in the engagement calculator’s saved history, so in a month you have a before-and-after rather than an impression.

Three workflows, end to end

Individually each tool answers one question; the sequence is what matters.

Workflow A — preparing a single feed post

Fix the crop before you write: a re-crop can change what the caption needs to say.

1. Check the file first. Drop your export into the Image & Video Size Checker. It reports the true ratio, whether it sits inside Instagram’s range from 1.91:1 landscape to 4:5 portrait, and whether the file will be downscaled.
2. Export the crop you actually want. The same tool exports 4:5, 1:1 or 9:16, plus a profile crop with the circular mask drawn on. Choosing 4:5 deliberately is the biggest free win in the feed: it is the tallest crop allowed.
3. Check what the grid thumbnail will cut. Run the export through the Safe Zone Checker in feed mode. A 4:5 post shows as a 1:1 square on your profile, so roughly the top and bottom tenth disappears there.
4. Write the caption against the counter. Draft in the Caption Length Counter: it marks where the feed collapses to “… more” at 125 characters and counts against the 2,200-character limit.
5. Build the hashtag set separately. Use the Hashtag Set Builder for a mixed-size set rather than thirty of the biggest tags in your niche, then paste it into the counter to check you are inside 30 with no duplicates.
6. Pick a time you can test. Take a starting window from the Best Time to Post Calculator, then replace it with your own Insights data.

Workflow B — building and shipping a carousel

Carousels punish late discoveries, because the panel ratio is decided at cut time and changing it means re-cutting everything.

1. Decide the panel ratio before you cut. 4:5 is the tallest crop the feed displays, so it gives the most reading room; 1:1 is safer if the carousel gets reused elsewhere. The Carousel Splitter asks up front for a reason.
2. Cut, then read the guide overlays. The splitter draws the slide-counter chip position and a 6% edge margin. Those overlays are preview-only and never burned into an export.
3. Treat panel one as the grid tile. The splitter marks the 1:1 profile-grid crop on the first slide only, because that is the panel your profile shows.
4. Verify an exported panel. Run one back through the Size Checker — editors quietly re-encode, and a panel slightly off ratio shifts the whole seam.
5. Write the caption last. A carousel caption usually has to tell people to swipe, so it is written against a finished sequence. Draft it in the Caption Counter so the instruction lands before the 125-character cut.
6. Slot it into the grid. Drop panel one into the Grid Planner alongside your next posts to check it does not clash either side.

Workflow C — answering an inbound brand enquiry

The order here is about defensibility: anything you can show working for, you can hold in a negotiation.

1. Measure your engagement rate from your own Insights. In the Engagement Rate Calculator, use likes, comments, saves and shares from recent posts, and calculate on reach as well as on followers. Reach-based is the honest one; follower-based is the one brands quote.
2. Save the calculation. The tool keeps a local history of up to 50 entries, so a rate trending over three months carries more weight than one number from this week.
3. Price the actual deliverables. In the Influencer Rate Calculator, enter each deliverable rather than a package. A Reel carries ×1.4 and a carousel ×1.15 against a feed post, so “one Reel plus three stories” and “four posts” are different jobs.
4. Price the rights, not just the content. Usage adds 20% for 30 days of paid amplification, 40% for 90 days and 100% for perpetual; category exclusivity adds 15% or 30%. These are the line items creators forget.
5. Apply the retainer discount honestly. The published steps run from 5% at two to three months to a 20% cap at twelve, capped because your cost per deliverable does not fall just because someone booked a year.
6. Send the working, not just the total. The calculator exports a breakdown of every multiplier applied. A brand can argue with a number; an itemised model you will adjust in front of them is harder. The creator pricing guide covers what to do when they push back.

What these tools cannot do

An upload-free, account-free toolkit buys privacy and costs access. The limits, plainly:

• They cannot read your account. Nothing is auto-filled — every figure is one you typed, so last month’s follower count gets last month’s answer.
• They cannot see your real Insights. Reach, saves, shares, profile visits, follower demographics and your audience’s actual active hours live in Instagram’s own Professional dashboard. For anything about your own account’s behaviour, Instagram’s Insights beat anything on this site — they are measured rather than modelled.
• They cannot verify a hashtag’s live volume. The hashtag builder ships a curated dataset and makes no network requests, so it deliberately displays no post counts. It also publishes no “banned hashtag list”, because Instagram publishes none and the circulating ones are unverifiable and stale.
• They cannot guarantee a crop matches every future app version. Safe zone overlays are approximations measured from the current app; Instagram publishes no inset table. Check a real post on a real phone before a campaign ships.
• They cannot audit audience quality. The rate calculator’s engagement multiplier floors at ×0.70, so it will still overprice a padded account. A brand’s audit software will not be so generous.
• They cannot schedule, publish or track anything, because all of that needs your credentials or an API connection.

Using these tools for client work

Client assets are usually confidential before launch: an unannounced product shot, a rebrand, a campaign under embargo. Running those through a tool that uploads and stores files is a real problem, and often one the client’s contract has an opinion about. Here the file never leaves the machine, so there is nothing uploaded, nothing retained and nothing to request deletion of later.

Two things also help practically. The tools work on a locked-down laptop: no account to create, no software to install, no vendor to clear through procurement. And every calculator exports its working, so a rate breakdown or a CSV growth projection reads as a deliverable rather than a screenshot.

What all twelve have in common

That table is a claim, so here is how to check it: open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the Network tab, load any tool page and then use it. You will see the initial page load — the HTML, one stylesheet, two small scripts, the tool module and two font files — and after that, nothing. Images appear as blob: entries, pointers to memory on your own machine rather than network transfers.

Why these tools and not others

Some of the most-searched Instagram “tools” cannot be built honestly, so they aren’t here:

• Private profile viewers. When an account is private, Instagram does not serve those images to anyone who is not an approved follower. No website can work around that, because the data is never sent. Every site claiming otherwise is either harvesting logins or running visitors through “human verification” offers.
• Follower and like sellers. Buying followers damages the exact metric brands check first. Your follower count is the denominator of your engagement rate, so adding accounts that never interact drives the rate down mechanically — and it breaks Instagram’s terms.
• Anything that needs your password. Unfollower trackers, auto-DM bots and third-party schedulers that log in on your behalf hand your credentials to someone else’s server. The safety guide covers how those operations actually work.
• Downloaders for other people’s posts. That is a copyright question, not an engineering one, and it is not ours to answer for you.

Where the benchmark numbers come from

Several tools compare your figures against reference points: engagement rate by follower tier, sponsored post rates by niche, active hours by audience type. These are published industry ranges and transparent models, not live Instagram data and not a proprietary dataset we are hinting at having. Where a tool cannot know something it says so rather than inventing a figure, and the same principle applies to the ×0.70 floor above: better to publish a limitation than let a number look more authoritative than it deserves.

Common questions

Are all 12 StealthGram tools really free?

Yes. There is no account, no trial and no paid tier being withheld. The tools are static files your browser downloads and runs locally.

Do these tools upload my images?

No. The image tools read your file with the Canvas API from a local object URL. There is no upload endpoint on the site, so there is nowhere for a file to be sent.

Can I use these tools for client work?

Yes, including paid work, with no licence and no attribution requirement. Because nothing is uploaded, the image tools are usable on confidential client assets — but nothing syncs between devices, so export anything you need to keep.

Guides that go with the tools

Each tool page carries its own explanation, but the deeper background lives in the guides — how engagement rate is actually calculated and what a good one looks like, what Instagram does to your file on upload, where Reels safe zones really sit, and how the private-viewer scam economy works. Start from a pillar guide if you want the whole picture rather than one number: