Instagram highlights viewer
Open a public account's highlights and save the stories inside.
Highlights are the stories an account chose to keep. They're the only part of someone's story history that stays public indefinitely, and the app still gives you no way to save one.
Pick a highlight and every story inside it opens full size, each with its own download button.
How to use it
- STEP 01
Enter a handle
Type the public Instagram username whose highlights you want to open.
- STEP 02
Pick a highlight
Every highlight on the profile appears with its cover and how many stories it holds.
- STEP 03
Open and download
Selecting a highlight loads the stories inside it, each downloadable at full size.
Common questions
What's the difference between a story and a highlight?
A story disappears after 24 hours. A highlight is a story the account owner chose to pin to their profile, where it stays until they remove it. That makes highlights the only part of an account's story history that remains publicly visible.
Can the account owner tell I opened their highlight?
Highlights loaded through this tool are read from public data rather than played through an account, so they don't register in the owner's viewer list.
Why does a highlight show no stories?
Highlights can contain stories that have been deleted from the original archive, or that Instagram restricts in your region. When that happens the highlight cover still exists but there is nothing public inside it to load.
Not the tool you needed?
Highlights hold only the stories an account decided to pin. The rest of the profile is elsewhere:
- You want what they posted today, before it expires — the story viewer shows the live ones.
- You have the link to one of their reels — the reels downloader saves it in original quality.
- You have a direct link to a single post — the video and photo downloader handles it.
Related reading: How to see who unfollowed you on Instagram
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