Instagram Story Downloader

Video stories are as free to save as photo stories, yours or someone else's, and there is nothing to sign up for. The one thing that won't wait is the story itself: once it expires, we can't fetch it anymore, so download it on the day you see it.

On Android, the file goes to Downloads and appears in Gallery or Google Photos a moment later. On iPhone, open it in Files, tap "Share", then "Save Video" or "Save Image" to move it into Photos.

That's what the story link is for. Paste it for an insta story download of that story alone, without the account's other stories. To pick from everything posted in the last day, enter the username instead.

Only if the author added it to a highlight. Instagram removes a story 24 hours after it goes up, and its link stops working. Pinned stories stay on the profile. Look for them in "Instagram Highlights Viewer".

Phone-screen quality, as in the app. Photos come as JPG and videos as MP4, exactly the files Instagram sends to a phone. They are sized for a vertical screen, so a saved story fills your phone's display just as it did in Instagram.

Of course. Type your own username or copy the link from one of your stories, then save the ones you forgot to keep. An Instagram story download is a quick backup of what you posted this morning, before it expires tomorrow.

The story has probably expired, or the author deleted it early, so the link leads nowhere. If you pasted a profile link by mistake, that still works: the account opens on the "Stories" tab, and you can pick the story from there.

Yes, on Windows, Mac or Chromebook. Copy the story's address from the browser bar, paste it here and the file goes to your Downloads folder. This Instagram story saver works the same in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.