20 Free Awesome Instagram Tools to Help You Grow Your Following
“If only one could follow one’s dreams as easily as one follows others on Twitter and Instagram!”
– Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
– Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Instagram is used by over 700 million people, with 400 million of them checking the service on a regular basis. So, how do you make yourself stand out and expand your Instagram following? It’s amazing to think that there are so many free resources available to assist you in increasing your Instagram followers. Here’s a list of over 20 free Instagram resources to support you with your Instagram marketing, including everything from awesome Instagram posts and stories to free icons for infographics and highlighted stories.
Note: Some of the tools mentioned below have limited features on their free plan and offer more features in their paid plans.
20 Free Awesome Instagram Tools to Help You Grow Your Following
01
SnapSeed
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android, Chrome (Free)
Snapseed is a photo-editing application for iOS and Android that enables users to enhance photos and apply digital filters. It was created by Nik Software, and is now owned by Google.
02
Adobe Lightroom
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android, macOS, Windows (Free on mobile only)
Adobe Lightroom is a creative image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Inc. as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family. It is supported on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and tvOS.
03
Facetune 2
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Facetune is a photo editing application used to edit, enhance, and retouch photos on a user’s iOS or Android device created by Lightricks. The app is often used for portrait and selfie editing.
04
Afterlight
Apps for Photo editing
Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Afterlight is an image editing app for Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices. Afterlight allows the user to take a photo or load one from the previously taken photos. After loading a photo, the user has various buttons to edit a photo.
05
PicsArt
Apps for Photo editing
Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices (Free & Paid)
A suite of online photo and video editing applications, with a social creative community. The platform allows users to take and edit pictures and videos, draw with layers, and share the images on PicsArt’s and other social networks.
06
Photoleap
Apps for Photo editing
iOS (Free)
From layers and blending modes, to special effects, brushes, filters, fonts, tonal adjustments, film, black and white and duo presets, with Photoleap photo editor, you’ll turn the ideas in your head into brilliant art right on your phone.
07
Remove.bg
Apps for Photo editing
Windows, Mac, Linux, Adobe Photoshop, Online (Free & Paid)
Remove backgrounds 100% automatically in 5 seconds using AI technology. Integrates with pouplar image editing softwares.
08
Motionleap
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
This animation creator brings your photos to life in just a few taps. Create 3D photo animation, from a flicker of flame to cascading waterfalls – the creative possibilities are endless.
09
StoryZ
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
A unique app to create and share photo motion art. Bring your photographs to life with user-friendly and simple tools. A Photo animation suite is equally suitable for beginners as well as experts. Create amazing visual effects like Cinemagraph, double exposed gifs or magical moving portraits.
10
Layout
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android (Free)
Layout lets you create one-of-a-kind layouts by remixing your own photos and sharing them with your friends. You can tell a story, show off an outfit or just splice, dice and change the look of your regular photos to convey a mood or theme.
11
Bitmoji
Apps for Photo editing
iOS, Android, Chrome (Free)
Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar and choose from a huge library of stickers – all featuring YOU.
12
Canva
Apps for Photo editing
Website (Free & Paid)
Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content. The app includes templates for users to use.
13
StoryArt
Apps for Instagram Stories
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Be an outstanding story-teller with Artory! You should never miss over 3000 stunning templates that help you win more likes and more followers.
14
Unfold
Apps for Instagram Stories
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Create beautiful content for social with over 400+ templates to choose from. Add filters and effects to your photos directly within the template. Write your text with unique fonts and use advanced text tools. Select a background color or choose a texture. Then share your story with the world!
15
Adobe Spark Post
Apps for Instagram Stories
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Discover new ways to design and animate graphics, video and Instagram stories. Engage on the go – no design skills needed! Your design partner, your time-saver, your graphic design, story and video-maker.
16
Mojo
Apps for Instagram Stories
iOS, Android (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Make use of 300+ amazing templates, combine text effects and GIFs, add music and share your story on any social platform.
17
Reversee
App to search graphics on the internet
iOS (Free, Offers in-app purchases)
Reversee is a bridge between your pictures and reverse image search engines, allowing you to make a search by image. Use Reversee to search for webpages displaying a picture, a higher resolution version of a picture and someone’s social network profile.
18
Clips
App for automatic video subtitles
iOS (Free)
Clips is a free app for making fun videos to share with friends and family. With a few taps you can create vertical and horizontal videos with immersive camera effects, artistic filters, dynamic music, animated text, emoji, stickers and more.
19
Flaticon
Free icons for infographics or highlighted stories
Website (Free & Paid)
Free vector icons in SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS format or as ICON FONT. Thousands of free icons in the largest database of free vector icons! Free graphic resources for personal and commercial use.
20
Lingojam
Tool for creating crazy texts in BIO or Captions
Website (Free)
Simple generator that you can use to make fonts for Instagram. Simply put your normal text in the first box and fonts for Instagram bio/captions/etc. will appear in the output box with all sorts of cool symbols and fonts.
Free Ebooks
A site that brings both authors and readers into the world of free legal ebooks.
Bookworm Videos
Watch videos about books, reading and writing. Expect weird, amazing, never known before facts and many more.
