Instagram tools, free and private.
The small jobs around an Instagram post, done in a browser tab. No account, no sign-up, and nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.
Instagram capped posts and Reels at five hashtags in December 2025, down from thirty, and removed the ability to follow hashtags a year before that. Both changes point the same way: tags are a labelling system now, not a reach lever, and reach itself comes from watch time, sends and saves. The tools here are built around that rather than around the thirty-tag folklore.
1 tools, all free.
No account on any of them, no usage limit, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Want the reasoning rather than the tool?
The tools assume a fair amount: why a hashtag set should be mixed by size, what actually moves reach in 2026, how the four separate ranking systems behind Feed, Reels, Stories and Explore differ. All of that is written up in the Instagram guides, which is where the long-form work lives. This page is just the utilities.
The questions we get most.
How many hashtags can you use on Instagram in 2026?
Five. Instagram capped posts and Reels at five hashtags in December 2025, down from thirty. It is an enforced cap rather than a recommendation, and it belongs to the post rather than to a field, so splitting tags between the caption and the first comment gives you no extra slots.
Are these Instagram tools free?
Yes, with no account, no email address and no usage limit. They run in your browser, so nothing you type is sent to us, logged or stored. That matters because most people paste a caption for a post that has not gone out yet.
Do Instagram hashtags still work?
They work as a labelling system rather than a reach lever. Instagram removed the ability to follow hashtags in December 2024, and Adam Mosseri has said they help distribution marginally at best. Reach comes from watch time, sends and saves.
The tool is five minutes. The channel is the week.
bbuddy reads your brand, drafts posts built for Instagram rather than broadcast across eight platforms at once, and either queues them for your approval or publishes them itself. Hashtags included, chosen per post rather than pasted from a saved block.
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