Your Instagram chats, voice notes and posts, kept on your own computer.
People have always kept what matters close: a face in a locket, a photograph in a velvet case, letters held in a rack.
Now it lives in chats. The first message from someone you love, a grandparent's voice note, the photos from a trip. On Instagram it is one deleted account away from gone.
Kept saves it to your computer, in the format Instagram itself uses for its data download, with a page you can read without an internet connection.
It runs only in your browser, with the Instagram session you already have. No account, no password, no server of ours. Try it below.
Every message, reaction, call and shared post, with the photos, videos and voice notes saved as real files.
The JSON matches Instagram's own export, so tools that read that format read this too. A plain chat.txt comes with it.
Pick conversations from your list, message requests included, or take the whole inbox in one go. No scrolling through each one.
Set a From and To date to keep just a season of it.
Open index.html and the chat looks like a chat again: bubbles, days, photos inline, voice notes that play.
Search every message, jump to a date, show only photos or voice notes, or browse all the media at once.
From any public account, or a private one you follow: every post with its caption, every reel, today's stories, each highlight in its own folder.
Your own saved posts too, by collection. Everything, the latest few, or a date range.
Save straight into a folder with no size limit. Next time, download only what is new since the last run.
If an export stops halfway, run it again and it carries on where it left off.
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Open the chat on instagram.com.
Any conversation, in Chrome, Brave or Edge, logged in as usual.
Then click Start, and Auto-scroll.
Kept reads the chat from Instagram's own API as it scrolls back to the first message.
Finally, Export. It's on your computer.
A ZIP, or a folder, with every message, photo and voice note, and a page to read it on.
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It never uses
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Your password
Analytics
Ads or trackers
Remote code
It keeps
Your files, on your disk
Your export options
Which posts you saved
You can check
Instagram check Oct 31, 2026
Instagram changes its private API without notice. Every release is tested end to end against live Instagram, and the popup's Check Instagram button tests your own setup in about ten seconds.
Every message in a chat, with photos, videos and voice notes as files, and the offline page to read it.
Pick chats from your list, or every chat in your inbox and message requests, with an optional date range.
Everything on a profile, the latest few, the oldest, or a date range, each post with its caption.
The stories an account has up right now, before they disappear.
Every highlight in its own folder, or just the one you have open.
The full-size picture, saved as it is.
The post or reel open in your tab, including private ones you follow.
Files straight into a folder with no size limit, skipping what you saved before.
All your saved posts, one collection or every collection, each post with its author, link, date and caption.
Posts an account is tagged in, your own archived stories by month, and highlight covers.
Your followers and following as CSV, with who doesn't follow back and who followed or unfollowed since last time.
A save button on photos and videos on instagram.com, videos up to 1080p with sound, and images as JPG.
A SHA-256 for every file, one fingerprint, usernames, timezone and an export log; and each post's comments.
A grid of an account's posts or highlights: tick the ones you want, export only those, and browse them offline in a gallery.
A Chrome Web Store listing is on the way. Until then this is the whole install; updates are a new download and one click on the reload arrow.
It's free, open source, and takes about a minute to set up.
Is it free? Yes, and open source under the MIT licence. There is no paid version and nothing to sign up for.
Does it need my Instagram password? No. It uses the session you are already logged in with on instagram.com, the way the Instagram website does. It never sees your password.
Does anything get sent to you? No. There is no server. The only traffic is between your browser and Instagram's own servers.
Can I save my whole inbox? Yes. Click Several chats, or the whole inbox, pick Inbox and Message requests, and tick Every chat.
Does it keep photos and voice notes? Yes, as real files beside the messages, fetched while Instagram's links are still valid. Untick the option for a quick text-only export.
How do I read a saved chat? Unzip it and open index.html in any browser. It works offline, with search, dates, filters and a gallery.
Can I keep only some dates? Yes. Set From and To before exporting, for one chat or many.
Can I download only new posts? Yes. Tick Only what I haven't downloaded yet. Kept remembers what each export saved, per account.
What about private accounts? You can save what your account can already see: public accounts, and private ones you follow.
Will Instagram mind? Kept uses your normal session and paces its requests a little under a second apart, waiting when Instagram asks it to slow down. It reads; it never posts, likes or follows.
Which browsers? Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium browsers on a computer, and Firefox 140 or later (new, from the release page). Not Safari or phones yet. The interface speaks English, Bangla, Arabic and Spanish.
Something broke? Click Check Instagram in the popup or the Export Center, then Report a problem. It opens a GitHub issue with the details filled in, usernames removed, for you to review.