Stories vanish 24 hours after they go up, and Instagram gives you no way to keep someone else's before it does. This tool closes that gap: enter a username and every Story that account has live right now comes back as a file you can save.
It runs in the browser you already have, on any phone, tablet or desktop. Nothing to install, no account to connect, and no point at which you hand over an Instagram password.
You need the account's username, not a link to one Story.
The tool loads every Story that account has live right now, and you pick the ones you want.
Open the account on Instagram and copy the handle under their photo, the part that starts with an @. That handle is often different from the display name shown in bold above it, and the handle is the one that works here. You do not need to open the Story itself, and you do not need to be following the account.
Type or paste the handle into the box and press Download. The @ is optional, since it is stripped either way. If you happen to have a full Story link on your clipboard instead, paste that: the username is pulled out of it automatically. The request then goes out from our server, not from your account, which is why your name never reaches the viewer list.
Every Story the account has live right now comes back as a grid. Play any video or open any photo in place first, so you can check you have the right segment before saving it, then use the Download button under that card. Each item saves on its own, so you can take one segment or all of them, and nothing is watermarked or re-encoded on the way through.
Enter a username or paste a Story share link. Everything that account has live comes back at once, in Instagram's own quality, without you appearing in the viewer list.
Instagram stores Stories as separate segments rather than one continuous clip, so an account with a 3-part Story gives you 3 items to choose from. Photos come back as JPEG and video segments as MP4 (H.264 video, AAC audio). These are the same files Instagram serves to the app, passed through untouched. Nothing is re-encoded, so there is no second round of compression and no watermark is added.
The tool asks Instagram for the highest-quality version it lists for each item. For material uploaded at full quality that is typically 1080×1920; older or lower-quality uploads come back at whatever was actually posted, because no downloader can add detail that was never there. Instagram caps each Story segment at 15 seconds, so files are usually well under 10 MB and finish downloading in a second or two.
On Windows and macOS, Download saves to your browser's usual downloads folder. On Android, it lands in Downloads and shows up in your gallery once the media scanner indexes it. On iPhone and iPad it works differently and this trips people up: Safari saves to the Files app, not to Photos. Open Files → Downloads, tap the file, then use the share sheet and choose "Save Image" or "Save Video" to move it into your camera roll. If a video opens in a player tab instead of downloading, press and hold it and pick Download, or use the share sheet from there.
Worth knowing up front, so you do not waste time trying:
Most often it is a typo in the username. Check it against the profile page, because an account's display name and its handle are frequently different, and it is the handle you need. A message saying the user has no Stories right now means the username resolved correctly but that account has nothing live at this moment; because Stories expire on a rolling 24-hour cycle, that can change within hours. A private account or a recently changed handle produces the same empty result.
Anonymous in the way that matters: the request is made by our server rather than by your Instagram account, so you never appear in the viewer list and the account owner receives no notification. You do not log in, so there is no account of yours involved at any point.
To be specific about the privacy claim rather than just asserting it: the photos and videos that pass through are not stored on our servers; they are fetched and streamed to your device. Like any web server, we do write ordinary access logs, which include IP addresses. The privacy policy sets out what is kept and for how long.
One thing worth stating plainly: saving a Story does not give you the right to republish it. Whoever made it holds the copyright. Keeping something for yourself is a different matter from reposting it, and reposting without permission can get your own account actioned.
Use the Reels downloader for Reels and feed posts, the profile picture downloader to pull an account's DP at full size, or copy an Instagram bio as plain text. There is also a private video downloader, though it involves a more manual process.
Type the account's username into the box at the top of this page and press Download. Every Story that account currently has live is fetched and shown as a thumbnail, and you save the ones you want. It runs in the browser you are already using, so there is nothing to install and nothing to log in to.
No. The request is made by our server, not by your Instagram account, so your name never enters the viewer list and no notification is sent. You do not sign in at any point, which is what makes this anonymous: there is no account of yours involved for Instagram to attribute the view to.
No. The tool works from a public username, which anyone can look up while logged out. If you do happen to be logged in to Instagram in another tab, it makes no difference to what comes back.
Both. Photos come back as JPEG and videos as MP4, which are the formats Instagram itself uses. Nothing is re-encoded on the way through, so what you save is the file Instagram serves rather than a converted copy of it.
Usually one of three things. The account is private, so a logged out visitor sees nothing at all. The account has not posted a Story in the last 24 hours, so there is nothing live to fetch. Or the username was mistyped: it needs to be the handle from the profile URL, not the display name, and the @ is optional.
Instagram removes a Story 24 hours after it is posted, and once it is gone it is gone for everyone, including this tool. There is no archive to fall back on, so if a Story matters to you it is worth saving the same day you see it.
Neither, and it is worth being straight about why. Highlights are not supported by this page. Private accounts cannot be read at all, because our server is not one of their approved followers and sees exactly what any logged out visitor sees. If you already follow a private account and want media from it, that needs the private video downloader, which works from access you already have.
No limit and no sign up. You can come back as often as you like, and the tool is free to use with no account, no email address and no subscription.