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How Instaustad Is Funded, and What That Means for You
Money questions about a free tool are fair ones, so here's a straightforward answer instead of a vague line buried in a footer somewhere.
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Why Instaustad Keeps Its Design Simple
People sometimes ask why Instaustad doesn't have more features — a history of your past lookups, an account so your preferences carry over…
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How Instaustad Handles Copyright and Takedown Requests
If you're a creator and you're concerned about how your content shows up through Instaustad, or you believe something has been handled…
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The Three Principles Behind Instaustad, Explained
Our About page lists three principles in a couple of sentences each. That's fine for a summary, but each one actually came from a real decision…
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How Instaustad Is Different From Other "Instagram Viewer" Sites
We're not the only site that does this kind of thing, and we're not going to pretend the category doesn't exist. But if you've spent any time…
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Why We Say No to Certain Feature Requests
We get feature requests fairly often, and most of them are reasonable. But a few come up again and again that we've decided not to build, and…
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Instaustad vs. Copying Captions by Hand: What's Actually Different
It's a fair question: what does a tool like this actually save you, compared to just doing it manually? Here's an honest comparison, without…
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How We Research and Fact-Check Our Guides
Our full editorial policy covers this formally, but this is the shorter, more conversational version of how a guide on Instaustad actually gets…
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Five Real Reasons People Use Instaustad
It's easy to describe tools in the abstract — "read captions," "preview profile pictures" — without it being obvious why someone would actually…
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What Instaustad Looks Like From the Outside (And Why That Matters to Us)
We know exactly what the "Instagram tool" category looks like from the outside, because we've looked at it from the outside too — and honestly…
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What Actually Happens When You Paste a Link Into Instaustad
We get asked, understandably, what actually happens behind the scenes when you paste a link into one of our tools. Here's a plain-language…
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What Instaustad Will Probably Never Become
We've written before about specific feature requests we've turned down. This is the broader version — not individual asks, but the general…
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Why Every Page Says "Not Affiliated With Instagram"
If you've spent more than a few seconds on Instaustad, you've noticed the text reminding you that this site is not affiliated with, endorsed…
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Why Instaustad Never Asks for Your Instagram Password
This is one of the more deliberate decisions behind how Instaustad works, and it's worth explaining rather than just stating as a bullet point…
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Instaustad's Approach to Accessibility
Accessibility is one of those things that's easy to treat as a checkbox rather than an ongoing responsibility. Here's an honest account of…
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