13 Instagram Tools Every Marketer Will Need

1. LiveDune

• Why is it useful: helps to track statistics and work with Direct.
• Price: free test period - 7 days, then from 400 rubles per month.
• Alternatives: Instahero, Minter, Iconosquare, Sked Social, Buffer, SMMplanner, smmbox.

LiveDune is a service for complex work with social networks. Here you can get detailed statistics on your account and plan posts for the future. And also work with Instagram Direct: receive and send messages, give access to employees, create notes. This is a salvation for those who do not like to answer from a smartphone.

The service has a convenient account, which has all the necessary functions for managing account from a computer.

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2. Taplink

• Why is it useful: allows you to put multiple links in the profile description.
• Price: there is a free version, extended functionality - from 90 rubles per month.
• Alternatives:Linktree, Hipolink.

Instagram does not allow you to insert more than one clickable link in your profile description. When you want to add all communication channels, a website and publications in the media, Taplink saves you. It combines several links into one to put it in the profile description.

You can also turn a Taplink page into a landing page, place a carousel of images, create an order form, and even create an online store.

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3. InShot

• Why is it useful: helps to edit video.
• Price: there is a free version, extended functionality - 3.99 euros per month, or 12.99 euros per year.
• Alternatives:KineMaster, Videoleap, CapCut.

InShot is a Russian language video editor with many free features. The application itself is simple and intuitive: to mount videos, no special skills needed.

InShot has the ability to trim and join videos, insert beautiful transitions, apply filters, speed up and slow down frames, add text and music.

4. Snapseed

• Why is it useful: helps to process photos.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives:Lightroom, ColorStory.

It's miniPhotoshop: You can change brightness, contrast and colors, retouch, work with perspective and so on. Unlike most similar apps, Snapseed is free.

5. Canva

• Why is it useful: useful for creating pictures.
• Price: there is a free version, extended functionality - 9.16 euros per month billed annually.
• Alternatives:Crello, Picmonkey, Pixlr.

One of the simplest and most intuitive editors for creating and processing images, gifs, videos, presentations and even websites. Canva has its own library of photos, fonts and templates for any popular format.

The latter are categorized, so it's easy to find the ones you want. On the home page, you can select the Social Media tab and explore options specifically for Instagram.

In Canva, you can create collages, add text or movement, and design for posts, stories, ad campaigns, Reels covers and more.

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6. "Glavred"

• Why is it useful: allows you to evaluate the quality of the text.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: «Turgenev», Text.ru.

Finds superfluous in the text: advertising and journalistic stamps, office clerks, euphemisms, abstruse words and so on. The service provides a score on a ten-point scale and tips for improvement.

With the help of Glavred, you can improve the text and shorten it to the point, and also improve your copywriting skills.

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7. Newsfeed calendar from Setters

• Why is it useful: helps to time the publication to a specific date.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: calendars from SMM Planner and Ingate.

One of the most complete newsfeed calendars. Find everything here holidays, birthdays of famous people and events in the digital sphere.

In the calendar, you can draw ideas for posts, make interesting eyeliners with reference to the holiday, launch special offers in honor of a special date.

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8. Epicstars

• Why is it useful: useful to find a blogger to advertise.
• Price: there is a free version, extended functionality - 4,999 rubles.
• Alternatives:Insense, Getblogger.

Epicstars lets you find blogger and buy ads from him. You can search for influencers from Instagram as well as from other social networks. The service shows audience statistics to check if it is screwed up.

In Epicstars, you can post an ad, and then bloggers will write to you themselves.

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9. Telegram bot Instagram Saver

• Why is it useful: allows you to save content from other people's profiles.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: FastSave.

This Telegram bot saves descriptions, photos and videos of your and other people's posts. To receive materials, send your account name to the chat via @. If you need to download a photo, video or text from a post - a link to the post.

Useful if you are collecting user generated content.

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10. Telegram bot Text4InstaBot

• Why is it useful: helps to prepare the text for publication.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: «Printer».

The bot makes "correct" paragraphs: aligns the text, draws up red lines, crosses out words on command. Counts the number of characters and warns if it exceeds 2,200 - this is the maximum for an Instagram post.

Send your text to the chat, not forgetting about the indents. Copy the answer to the social network:

@ text4instabot →

11. Telegram bot Voicy

• Why is it useful: useful if you need to dictate a post.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: «Voice notepad».

If you need to quickly write a post or you are on the way, dictate to this bot, and it will translate voice message to text.

If your team often writes voice messages, then this bot is just a godsend: Voicy can also be added to a group chat.

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12. Telegram bot Landing Page Instagram

• Why is it useful: helps to make a business card profile.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: Canva, Crello.

Useful if you need to create, for example, a contest page or a product landing page on Instagram. The bot slices photos for business card accounts: it can divide images into 3 × 3, 3 × 4 and 3 × 2 parts.

The bot determines the number of parts for each photo automatically.

@LandingPageInstagramBot →

13. Telegram bot ihashbot

• Why is it useful: useful to pick up hashtags for a photo.
• Price: is free.
• Alternatives: Display Purposes.

In the chat with the bot, you need to upload a photo that we will use, or a similar one, and he will select the appropriate hashtags.

The bot recognizes objects in the photo, checks the frequency of requests and displays a list of tags in Russian and English.

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