• Instagram Download For Mac

There are quite a number of out there that let you interact with on your Mac. While elegant apps like, ‘s own desktop interface and others let you organize, like, sync and download images from the service, uploading photos directly from the computer has proven elusive. That’s because Instagram was designed as a mobile app, to capture the world via your phone, and was not intended to be used from a computer. A few flawed online and emulation workarounds have made the rounds over time, but a new app for the Mac platform, by Anobot LLC, works as advertised. Developed by 17-year-old Caleb Benn, an extremely sophisticated 12th grader who already owns two software companies, this app launches from your menu bar. It is elegantly designed, and when you launch it, it tells you exactly how to access it. The app is super easy to use.

Just find the image you want to upload to Instagram anywhere on your hard drive or Dropbox folder and right-click the mouse. Then, scroll down to the Services menu until you see the Share to Instagram command (alternately, you may just see the share command on the menu right away). But the enterprising developer did not stop there. When you click the share command, the picture loads into a small window with additional controls.

With the Camera control, you can resize the image and move it around in the window. The app includes a set of 47 Photo Booth-style filters, and you can use your iSight camera to take pictures. When you’re finished tweaking and saving the image, you are taken back to the menu bar where you can write a caption and send it to Instagram. You will get a notification of its arrival. Benn knows that Instagram is not exactly welcoming apps like his, but he is not worried that anything bad will happen.

“I am aware that Instagram and the developer community who utilize 3rd party APIs can have a sour relationship at times. Notwithstanding that, since Instagram’s being acquired by Facebook, the company has not directly come into contact with developers of these products,” Benn told TNW in an email. “After the acquisition and migrating over to Facebook infrastructure, Instagram became more lenient with the developer community regarding third-party APIs,” Benn said. I sent a query to Instagram seeking clarification of its current policies regarding desktop uploads but have yet to hear back. I’ll update the story if and when there’s additional information on that.

Benn says people can relax about security, too. “All posts are sent via HTTPS and nothing is sent to a server owned by us. The app doesn’t store the user’s password on the machine, only a cookie (which is encrypted–this is what Instagram does.” Meantime, Benn is continuing to tweak the app. He says he’s working on adding PNG upload capability to the JPEG upload already available, as well as video uploading and higher-quality filters (like VSCO filters) in an update a few months from now. “It’s just that with my school workload, I can only work on these features slowly over the weekends.” Uploader for Instagram costs $4.99 and is available now on the App Store.

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Instagram has always been mobile first. Its website feels like an afterthought — it doesn't even let you upload photos. Flume is a native Mac app that lets you do more, and once Instagram fans get a look at it, they might even prefer Flume to the native Instagram app for iPhones. 21 things you can do with Flume, a native Instagram app for Mac Discover what's in a, a recent addition to Setapp. Viewing your Instagram photos on a Mac Instagram is for beautiful photos and videos, and Flume makes them all pop right off of your Mac’s screen.

Here’s how it works. Scroll your Instagram feed Sign in with your Instagram credentials, and Flume displays your feed as a floating window for you to scroll through vertically. All you see is the content, including photos and videos (and ads), no comments or usernames disturbing the beautiful images. Get a closer look As you scroll through, press the space bar when you're hovering over a photo or video, and it will pop out to a bigger preview window to let you see more detail.

At the same time, the username appears temporarily over the photo in the feed. Double-tap to heart photos Just like the iOS app, Flume lets you double-click a photo in the feed to like it. The little heart appears on the center of the photo and everything. It's just another example of Flume acting the way you'd expect. Click a photo for more details To interact with a photo more, click it once, and the window changes to show just that photo, along with the name, caption, comments, and likes.

Comment and like from the detail view In the detail view, a row of buttons along the top lets you like the photo, comment, bookmark it for later, and share it. You can also use key commands to do this: Just press C to leave a comment, or L to like. See more photos at once in grid view If you follow tons of people, you can see your feed in a grid view, and then just click anything you want to see bigger. To switch views, mouse over the top of the Flume window, and click the button that looks like a grid of squares, instead of the one that looks like a list.

Uploading photos Setapp includes all the Pro features in Flume, including the ability to upload new photos and videos. This is huge! It's the best way to get photos you edited on your Mac onto Instagram—no need to sync them back to your iPhone first. Here’s how it works. Post to Instagram from your Mac Press ⌘-N or choose File  New  Post to get started. A floating window invites you to drag in photos and videos from anywhere on your Mac. Flume lets you add a caption, tag people, and add the photo's location.

You even get editing tools to add more photos (Instagram supports up to 10!) for a slideshow. Edit your images Click the button that looks like a paintbrush, or select View  Toggle Edit Options to see all the edits you can make to your photo.

Flume lets you apply real Instagram filters, crop your photos, as well as adjust the alignment, brightness, and contract. But wait, there's more! Keep scrolling down in the Edit pane for every control Instagram has, all with handy sliders. In fact, Flume also has its own filters, which you can enable in Flume  Preferences  Uploads.

Just change the drop-down menu at the top-right from Instagram Filters to either Flume Pro Filters or All. You can reorder the filters in the list, too, to make sure your favorites are right up front. Compare the edited photo to the original Need to see how your photo looked before all the edits? Just click the little eye button that's at the top-right corner of the photo. That lets you toggle between the edited view and how the photo looked originally. Take photos Want to post an Instagram selfie with your Mac's FaceTime camera?

No problem, just press ⌘-N or choose File  New  Post, and then click the camera icon in the middle of the new-post window. A pop-up will appear with an option to Take a Photo.

Select that and another window will open with a feed from your Mac's camera, and a shutter button to click to take the photo. You can't take a video however, but you could take a video with Photo Booth on your Mac and then drag that into a new-post window in Flume. Choose your own cover in a video post If you've uploaded a video, you can choose which frame should be the cover, that displays as the still image in the feed before people play the video.

With a video in the Upload window, select Upload  Select a Cover Image from the menubar. Then click and drag across your video to scrub through, and click Done when you're happy. Choose wisely to entice people to click! Disable comments If you don't want to hear from the peanut gallery, click the gear button on your photo in the Uploads window, and check the box to Turn Off Commenting. That option is also hidden in the ellipses button at the top of each of your photo posts. Discovering more in Instagram Instagram is more than just the people you follow.

Head back to the main feed and mouse over the bottom of the window. A toolbar pops up with buttons to Upload, see your Home feed, your Likes, the Explore view, Search, Notifications, and your own Profile. Dig into the Explore tab Click the star button in that toolbar to view the Explore tab. Or press ⌘-3 or choose View  Explore. (Everything in Flume has a keyboard shortcut, as you'll see the more you use it.) Explore suggests videos and photos you might like, based on people you follow and what you've interacted with before.

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It's a great place to find new accounts to follow. Explore a location or #hashtag As you scroll around your feed or the Explore tab, don't forget to click hashtags or the names of locations to see more public images with those same tags. Who knows, if someone else keeps posting from your favorite beach or coffee shop, maybe you can make a new real-life friend! Power user tricks If you use Instagram to promote your brand or your artwork, Flume has some special features just for you. Manage multiple accounts Instagram's mobile app lets you switch between accounts without having to log out and log back in each time, but on the desktop, only Flume lets you switch so easily. Just open the Accounts tab in the app's preferences (Flume  Preferences  Accounts) and click the plus sign to add a new account. Then anytime you want to switch, just click Account in the menu bar and select a new one, or use the keyboard shortcut Get desktop notifications Flume can send you desktop notifications through macOS, and you can customize which notifications you want in Flume  Preferences  Notifications.

Notifications can be a Dock icon badge, an alert in Notification Center, a sound, or all three. This is a big help if you use Instagram's messaging feature, since you can get notifications just for messages, to be sure to reply promptly. Like, comment, and save with hover shortcuts Keyboard commandos will love Flume's keyboard shortcuts—there's one for pretty much everything. One of the coolest is the hover shortcuts. When hovering over an image, press L to like it, C to comment, or S to save. Get insights on Business Pages Flume supports Instagram's Business Pages feature, which includes Insights into how your business's account is growing engagement.

When viewing your own profile, click the Insights button — it looks like a little graph. There's even a Download button that can save your Insights in a.txt format. Customize Touch Bar controls If you have a new MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, select View  Customize Touch Bar to customize the order of the buttons that appear on the Touch Bar while you're using Flume. Every view in the app puts different buttons on the Touch Bar, but you can reorder them or remove a button from the default set.

Receive photos from Lightroom Pros who manage their photos in Adobe Lightroom can create an Export Preset inside of Lightroom that sends processed images to Flume to post to Instagram. This can be a big time-saver versus having to sync those images back to Lightroom Mobile to post on Instagram for iOS. Repost photos This is also huge — on iOS, reposting an Instagram photo requires another app like. Click a photo to see more details, and then click the ellipses button at the far right.

In that menu, choose Repost Photo, and a new-post window will open with that image, credited of course, and a place for you to write your own caption and confirm which account to repost to. It's exactly what you'd want a re-gramming feature to be. That isn’t even every trick Flume has up its sleeve.

It’s definitely a must-have for Mac users who love Instagram. And let us know what you think!