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Instagram Grid Planner
Drag your next nine posts into place before anything goes live — export the plan and the crops.
Start from a grid that already works
Each pack fills the board size, the tile ratio, the dressing and the slot roles — your photos drop straight into it.
Your photos
Add them in as many passes as you like — a bestseller can sit on the board twice.
0 of 9 tiles filledPhotos are read on your phone for the board, and stored with your account so a saved plan can reopen with its pictures. Nothing is posted anywhere, and no Instagram login is ever asked for.
How many posts you're planning, and the shape of each tile. It opens on 3×3 · 3:4 — change either, or take them as they are.
Gutters, keylines and mats — baked into the exported board, never onto your photos. It opens on Hairline — pick another, or keep it.
Drag tiles to reorder, tap one to set its focal point — then lock the order.
Brand tiles
Drop your logo tile or a cream Bodoni text tile (shop name, DM to order) into any slot — and split one wide photo across a whole row.
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Your feed, before it goes live
Add your photos and the board fills here — with Instagram’s 3:4 crop drawn on every tile, so nothing gets shaved off an earring after you’ve posted it.
Saved boards
Keep up to five named plans — size, dressing, order, focal points and slot roles — and reopen any of them complete, with the photos back on the board.
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Sellers also ask
Instagram cut the sides off my earring photos in the profile grid — why?
The profile grid now shows tiles at 3:4, so a square 1:1 photo loses 12.5% on each side in the grid view. The planner overlays that exact crop on every tile while you arrange, so you set the focal point before you post instead of finding out after.
Does this post to Instagram for me?
No — and honestly, that keeps it free and safe. You plan the board here, download the per-post crops in posting order (r1c1, r1c2 …), and post them yourself or through Meta's own scheduler. Nothing touches your account login.
Should I upload jewellery photos to Instagram as 1080x1080 or 1080x1350?
1080×1350 (4:5) is the safer choice for jewellery. It takes more screen in the feed, and the profile grid's 3:4 tile trims only about 3.1% off each side of it — far less than a square gives up. Pick the tile shape in the planner and every post exports at that exact size: 1080×1350 for 4:5, 1080×1080 for square.
What is a banner row or puzzle grid on Instagram?
It is one wide photo cut across three tiles so a whole row of the profile grid reads as a single picture — used for a bridal set or a new collection hero. The banner row here comes with Tools Pro: drag the strip to choose what the row shows and the three cuts stay joined, with a gap slider that widens each cut so the app's roughly 2px hairline between tiles does not break the seam.
My iPhone photos will not open in the grid planner — why?
They are almost certainly HEIC files, which decode in Safari and fail in most other browsers. Open the photo in your gallery and save or share it as JPEG, then add it again — JPEG, PNG and WebP all work here. To stop it happening on every shoot, set Camera > Formats to Most Compatible on the iPhone.
Is the Instagram grid planner free, and what is the limit?
Planning is unlimited and never counted — adding photos, rearranging tiles, setting focal points and previewing the grid crop. Only the download is counted: three a day free, on a 3×3 board of nine posts, with three board styles and a slim credit line on the exported board. Tools Pro opens 12-, 15- and 18-post boards, five more styles, logo and text tiles, and a double-size board with no credit line — 2160px wide, or as wide as a 15- or 18-post board can be and still draw on a phone, which the tool quotes before you download.
How do I plan a jewellery Instagram feed before posting anything?
Add your photos, pick the board size and tile shape, then arrange until the run reads well — dark and light pieces spaced out, macro shots between full-piece shots. On a phone switch on tap-swap, because drag-and-drop does not fire from touch in mobile browsers: tap one tile, then tap the tile it should trade places with. Tap any tile to set its focal point against the grid crop.