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Ideas, posts and feed consistency

The Instagram planner that fills your plan with finished posts

An Instagram planner for deciding what to post, creating it in your brand's style and previewing it before it goes live. Socials Creator turns the plan into finished posts on a calendar and keeps your feed consistent.

  • 7-day free trial
  • Preview before publishing
  • One look per brand
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What is an Instagram planner?

An Instagram planner helps you decide what to post and when, ahead of time, and how the posts look together. Socials Creator suggests ideas for your niche, dates and offers, designs each post in your brand's style, shows a phone preview and places it on a calendar with a publishing time. It does not include a drag-and-drop mock-up of your profile grid.

Plans
Ideas, finished posts and dates in one place
Previews
Phone preview with notes on crops and the 3:4 grid thumbnail
Feed consistency
Brand kit on every post and one shared style per batch
Not included
A drag-and-drop mock-up of your profile grid

What you get

A planner that covers ideas, design and the look of the feed

Planning is easier when the next post is already made. These are the parts of the app that do the planning work.

  • An Instagram content planner with an idea bank

    Ask for post ideas by niche, upcoming dates and current offers, and save the good ones to your idea bank. When the week arrives you pick from ideas you already liked.

  • Plan Instagram posts as a series

    Give a topic and one of eight categories, such as educational, promotional, storytelling or community. You get a headline and caption per post to edit, then the images, all in one style and format.

  • Preview before you commit

    See each post in an Instagram phone frame. Notes tell you if a tall photo will be cropped in the feed, if the text is cut after the first lines, or if you are past 2,200 characters or 30 hashtags.

  • Instagram grid planner? Consistency instead of a mock-up

    There is no draggable mock-up of your profile. The grid stays tidy because every post uses your colors, fonts and tone, and a batch shares one style. The preview also warns that grid thumbnails are cropped to 3:4.

  • An Instagram feed planner built on the calendar

    Place posts on days in a month or agenda view, spot gaps and repeated topics, and move a post to change what comes next. The order of your feed is the order of your dates and times.

  • One plan per brand

    Each brand has its own kit and calendar, so a freelancer or agency plans every client's Instagram separately. Pro covers 3 brands, Agency 10 and Agency Plus 30.

How it works

How to plan Instagram posts for a week in 3 steps

  1. 1. Pick a theme and collect ideas

    Choose one theme for the week, for example a seasonal offer. Ask for ideas around it and keep three or four, mixing a carousel, a single post and a personal behind-the-scenes angle.

  2. 2. Create and preview each post

    Generate the posts, edit headlines and captions, and open the phone preview. Fix anything the notes flag, such as a long caption or a crop.

  3. 3. Place them on the calendar and set the time

    Drop each post on its day, set the hour and check the agenda for gaps. Images and carousels are published to Instagram by the app at that time.

Who it is for

Planning Instagram for routines, campaigns and clients

  • A Monday planning routine

    Spend an hour on Monday: review last week, ask for ideas, create five posts and place them across the week. By Tuesday morning the week is planned and the posts are set to go out on their own.

  • A campaign with a look of its own

    For a launch, make all the posts as one batch so they share a style, then place them before and after the launch date so the feed reads as one story.

  • An agency with a client per brand

    Keep each client's colors and tone in its brand kit. Planning for a client means switching brands, and the calendar and the look follow.

Pricing

Simple pricing, with a 7-day free trial

Every plan includes all features. Choose by how many brands you manage and how much you create.

Simple pricing, with a 7-day free trial
  • Pro

    Freelancers and solo brands

    $69/month

    $690/year

    ≈ $57.50/month

    Start free trial
    • 800 AI credits per month
    • Up to 3 brands
    • Posts, carousels, stories and ads
    • Captions, hashtags and ideas
    • Calendar and Instagram publishing
  • Most popular

    Agency

    Small agencies

    $179/month

    $1,790/year

    ≈ $149.17/month

    Start free trial
    • 2,500 AI credits per month
    • Up to 10 brands
    • Posts, carousels, stories and ads
    • Captions, hashtags and ideas
    • Calendar and Instagram publishing
  • Agency Plus

    Lots of client accounts

    $399/month

    $3,990/year

    ≈ $332.50/month

    Start free trial
    • 6,000 AI credits per month
    • Up to 30 brands
    • Posts, carousels, stories and ads
    • Captions, hashtags and ideas
    • Calendar and Instagram publishing
  • The 7-day trial includes 100 credits and requires a card. You won’t be charged until it ends, and you can cancel before then.
  • An image costs 1 credit; a video costs 30 to 180 credits depending on model, quality and length. Failed generations are refunded.
  • Extra credit packs from $29. They never expire. Prices exclude tax.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is an Instagram planner?

It is a tool for deciding in advance what you will post, in which order and with what look. In Socials Creator that covers ideas, finished designs with captions, previews and a calendar, so the plan is made of real posts and not only titles.

How do I plan Instagram posts for a month?

Give each week a theme, create the posts for it and place them on days, mixing formats. In the app you can generate a batch per week, review the copy first, then create images and drop the whole series on the calendar with a gap of 1, 2, 3 or 7 days.

Does Socials Creator have an Instagram grid planner?

Not in the sense of a draggable profile mock-up. It does not show your posts in a 3-column grid you can rearrange. It supports a consistent grid through the brand kit, shared batch styles, previews with crop notes and an ordered calendar.

Can I use it as an Instagram feed planner?

Yes for order and rhythm, not for layout simulation. Place each post on a day and time, check the agenda view and the posts go out in that order. Because every post uses your brand kit, the feed reads as one account.

How do I plan my Instagram grid layout?

Decide a few repeatable post types, for example a bold announcement, a photo with text and a carousel cover, and alternate them. Keep colors and fonts fixed, which the brand kit does for you, and vary the subject. It works as an Instagram layout planner in method, not as a simulator.

Does the planner publish for me on the planned day?

Yes, for images and carousels. Set a day and time and the app publishes to your connected Business or Creator account then. Stories, videos and Reels are not scheduled: videos are downloaded and stories are published from the post creator when you make them.

How are images cropped on my profile grid?

The preview notes that thumbnails on the profile grid are shown cropped to 3:4. Keep the headline and the key subject near the center of the image, so it survives both the feed view and the thumbnail.

Can I plan Reels in it?

You can create short videos scene by scene and place them on the calendar as a plan. Videos are downloaded, and you upload the Reel to Instagram yourself, since scheduled publishing covers images and carousels.

Does it tell me the best time to post?

No. Every post defaults to 9:00 on the day you drop it, and you can change the time. To learn when your followers are active, read the insights of your own Instagram account and adjust the calendar to match.

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Plan this week's Instagram in one sitting

Collect ideas, create the posts, preview them and place them on your calendar.

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