iSaver
iSaver helps people save public Instagram content for personal, research and archival use while respecting privacy boundaries. Built and maintained by a single founder operating from Ahmedabad, India.
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iSaver is a free, browser-based downloader for public Instagram content — videos, reels, stories, photos, carousels, highlights, profile pictures and full profile snapshots. The site runs entirely in your browser: there is no Instagram login, no account signup, no browser extension to install, no APK to side-load, and no watermark added to any saved file. iSaver is operated independently and is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc.
Saving a public Instagram post you found inspiring used to require either a screen recording (low quality, ugly UI bars) or handing your Instagram password to a sketchy third-party app. iSaver started in 2024 to remove both of those compromises. The goal is narrow on purpose: download the public file Instagram already serves, in the original quality, without asking for anything in return. Tools that do one thing well, without dark patterns, are rarer than they should be — iSaver is meant to stay on that side of the line.
iSaver does not bypass private accounts, follower-only stories, Close Friends content, archived posts, or any media Instagram does not publicly expose. We treat those as hard privacy boundaries — not features we are working on. The site does not show "who viewed your story", does not run unfollower analytics, and does not offer a paid "private profile viewer". Tools that advertise any of those are misrepresenting how Instagram's access controls work.
iSaver is free with no daily caps, no email gate, no waiting-room, and no signup. Operating costs are covered by lightweight analytics and Google reCAPTCHA v3 (an invisible bot-abuse check on download requests). We do not sell user data, do not store a per-user download history, and never ask for an Instagram password. See the Privacy Policy for the full data picture.
iSaver ships in 21 languages — English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian — with full RTL support for Arabic. Each tool page is fully translated, not auto-machine-rendered into a wrapper UI.
Downloading a file through iSaver does not transfer copyright, a licence, or any republishing right. Copyright stays with the original creator. Personal reference is generally acceptable in most jurisdictions; republishing, modifying, monetising or redistributing a downloaded file without the creator's permission is the user's responsibility. When in doubt, ask the creator first.
Peter G — Founder & operator of iSaver
Peter G is a full-stack developer based in Ahmedabad, India. iSaver started in 2024 as a personal project to scratch a specific itch — saving a friend's public Reel without handing an Instagram password to an unknown app — and has grown into a free utility now serving 21 languages. Peter G handles the entire stack: the Next.js frontend, the GraphQL backend, the infrastructure on AWS, and the SEO/i18n work that keeps the site reachable in every locale. Reach the team at support@isaver.online — every message goes to a real person and is answered within 24 hours.
