The grid is the first impression
When someone decides whether to follow you, they don’t read your last caption — they glance at your grid. Nine tiles, two seconds, a yes or no. And a feed that looks cohesive in that glance does the converting: a sense of colour, rhythm, and care that tells a visitor you’re worth following. The catch is that you can’t see that whole-profile view while you’re making individual posts — each one looks fine on its own, and only together do you notice two loud images colliding or a palette that wanders. This planner gives you that view in advance, so you arrange the feed deliberately instead of discovering the clash after it’s public.
Drag until it flows
Planning a feed is mostly sequencing: alternating busy and calm posts, spacing out similar colours, keeping a rhythm down the three columns. The way to do that is to move tiles around and watch the whole grid respond — which is exactly the workflow here. Drag any post to a new spot and the rest shift to fill in, live. Switch between the Instagram profile grid, the Reels tab, and the TikTok view to check the feed in each place a visitor might land. And because Instagram now crops the grid to 3:4 portrait thumbnails, the planner shows that real crop — if a post was framed for the old square, you’ll see it here, and the image resizer can re-fit it to the new ratio.
Planner or splitter?
These two get mixed up, so the distinction is worth stating: this planner helps you arrange several separate posts into a feed that looks good as a whole. If instead you want one giant imagesliced into tiles that join up into a single seamless picture across the grid, that’s the job of the Instagram grid splitter. Use the splitter for a panorama spanning nine squares; use the planner for sequencing normal, individual posts — which is the everyday job.
Your images, your browser
The whole tool runs locally. Your images are read from your device and arranged in the mockup in the browser; nothing is uploaded, stored, or seen by anyone else, and there is no account. That matters for the feeds most worth planning carefully — a brand relaunch, a client account, a campaign you haven’t announced. Plan as much as you like, switch platforms, reorder a hundred times, with zero exposure.
Frequently asked questions
What is a grid planner?
It's a tool for designing how your profile feed will look as a whole, before you post. Individual posts can each be good and the feed can still look messy — clashing colours, two busy images side by side, a layout with no rhythm. A grid planner lays your upcoming posts out in the 3-wide grid the way they'll appear on your profile, so you can drag them around, see the whole-profile view, and fix the flow before anything goes live. It's how creators and agencies keep a feed looking intentional instead of accidental.
Is my image uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything runs in your browser — your images are read from your device, arranged locally, and never sent to a server. There's no account and nothing is saved; close the tab and it's gone. The tool only ever touches the files you add, which means you can safely plan an unreleased campaign or a client's feed without exposing anything.
Why are the Instagram grid thumbnails 3:4 now?
Instagram moved the profile grid from square (1:1) to portrait (3:4) thumbnails, so a feed designed for squares now gets cropped on the profile. The planner uses the current 3:4 ratio for the Instagram grid view, and 9:16 for the Reels tab, so what you arrange matches what visitors actually see today. If your key subject was centred for the old square crop, the 3:4 view will show you whether it still works — and the image resizer can re-fit it.
How do I reorder posts?
Drag any tile and drop it where you want it — the rest shift to make room, and the grid updates live. That's the whole workflow: keep dragging until the feed flows. Remember the feed is reverse-chronological, so the top-left tile is your newest post; arrange with that in mind, and publish in the order that lands each post where you planned it.
Does this work for TikTok too?
Yes. Switch to the TikTok view and the same images render in TikTok's portrait profile grid with its dark layout, so you can plan that feed's aesthetic the same way. TikTok's grid is just as much a first impression as Instagram's — a visitor who lands on your profile scans the grid before they watch anything — so planning the thumbnails is worth the same care.
Is this the same as a grid splitter?
No — they're opposite jobs. A grid splitter takes one large image and slices it into tiles that join up into a single seamless picture across several posts. This planner takes several separate posts and helps you arrange them into a feed that looks good as a whole. Use the splitter when you want one giant image spanning the grid; use the planner when you're sequencing normal, individual posts.