13 Great Instagram Tools For Professionals

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Instagram is the best social media platform to share personal moments and inspirational experiences. With more than 300 million monthly users, it’s also a perfect place for businesses to develop and post engaging content, monitor posts and campaigns, and analyse their engagement with an expanding audience.

In today’s post, we will share a list of tools to help businesses establish, manage, and grow their presence on Instagram. There are tools to create and schedule posts, manage relationships, run promotions, display content, and analyse engagements. Several of these tools are free. Let’s start the list with:

1. ScheduGram

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ScheduGram is a tool to manage Instagram accounts. Upload and schedule multiple images to post later to multiple accounts. Let multiple users log into your ScheduGram account, schedule posts for your accounts, and see who has scheduled what. ScheduGram provides direct integration with Canva to design images. Price: Starts at $5 per week.

2. Tagboard

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Tagboard is a tool to experience content from social networks. Each tagboard is a collection of social media posts that share a common hashtag. Tagboards can be embedded on websites, integrated in to mobile apps, and shown on displays. Viewers can favorite, retweet, reply, comment, and like — right from your tagboard. Price: Basic is free. Contact them directly on pricing.

3. Iconosquare

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Iconosquare is a tool to manage and promote your Instagram account. Manage your community and analyse your followers’ growth. Promote your account across other social networks with feed tabs or photo widgets. Engage your community with photo contests. Set up, promote, moderate, monitor, and publish results of an Instagram contest all within Iconosquare. Price: Contact on pricing.

4. Crowdfire

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Crowdfire is a tool to manage your relationships on Instagram and Twitter. Find inactive users and unfollowers, and locate relevant users to follow. Keep track of how your social media updates affect your follower/unfollowers states. Check the relationship between any two Twitter/Instagram accounts. Price: Free.

5. TakeOff

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TakeOff is an app from Crowdfire to schedule Instagram posts. Automatically schedule posts for times when they’ll be seen by most of your followers. TakeOff analyses your captions to suggest relevant, high discovery hashtags. Add clients or team members who help you review or create content for Instagram. Price: Free.

6. INK361

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INK361 is a web app to manage your Instagram account. Create albums, discover new contacts, sort who you follow into Circles, and set up alerts for new posts. Get a clear overview of your Instagram stats to keep track of your social impact over time. Embed an Instagram Gallery on your website or blog. Using the INK361 Facebook Instagram App, view your Instagram images on Facebook or share them on your Facebook page. Price: Free.

7. Repost

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Repost is an app to repost photos and videos on Instagram, while giving the credit to the original poster. Pro upgrade lets you manage multiple Instagram accounts. Price: Free. Pro is $4.99.

8. Piqora

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Piqora is a visual marketing platform for Instagram and Pinterest. Piqora provides recommendations for images to publish, and enables your entire team to collaborate on a calendar. Launch a promotion and track results. Put the best user generated content from Instagram on your website as a branded gallery. Price: Contact on pricing.

9. Tapshop

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Tapshop from Piqora helps to get your Instagram fans shopping. Your audience will find a custom page of products they’ve liked and get an email with links directly to your product pages, as you collect email addresses. Measure the likes, clicks, orders, and revenue generated by your Tapshop page from within your Piqora Publishing Dashboard. Price: Contact for pricing.

10. Offerpop

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Offerpop helps you run interactive promotions and utilise user-generated content. Create sweepstakes and sampling programs. Reward loyal customers with exclusive offers and content. Track performance and export data to email and CRM systems. Display branded content, offers, and ads within user-generated-content feeds to create shop-able content galleries. Price: Contact on pricing.

11. Collec.to

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Collecto is a web platform to manage your Instagram presence. Organise images into albums, get stats on your account, utilise the enhanced browsing feature, and syndicate your content with RSS feeds. For brands, it offers tools to run effective contests and get accurate statistics. Price: Basic is free. Pro is 8.99€ per year. Brand is 169€ per year.

12. SnapWidget

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SnapWidget allows you to easily embed a photo gallery in a website or blog. Display an Instagram photo gallery for a specific username or a hashtag on your blog or website. Price: Free.

13. Instagram for Business

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Instagram for Business is one of the best tools to grow your brands. Visit its blog for tips, brand spotlights, API examples, and news. Recently, Instagram is rolling out a new suite of business tools, including account insights, ad insights, and ad staging. Price: Free.