Instagram profile preview
See your name, bio, link and grid the way a stranger sees them, before you change anything on Instagram. Free, and your pictures never leave your browser.
The bold line at the top of your profile. Instagram matches search words against it, so put what you do here. 0/30
Your @handle, and your web address. This checks the shape of it, not whether anyone has it — we never ask Instagram anything.
Optional. The small grey label under your name on a professional account. You pick it from Instagram’s own list, and you can hide it — type the one you chose.
Press return for a new line; the preview keeps your breaks exactly where you put them, and each one costs a character. 0/150
Optional. Instagram has its own field for a link under your bio, which is where one belongs. Nothing here opens it or checks it.
Optional. Cut square from the middle and shown in a circle, so anything in the corners goes.
Up to 9, in the order you post them. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or GIF. They stay on your device.
Everything on this page happens on your own device. Your pictures and the words you type are never uploaded, never sent to Instagram, and never stored. Privacy policy
How your profile reads
Type your name and your bio on the left, and drop in a few recent pictures. Your profile fills in here as you go, and nothing is uploaded.
How to use it
Type your name, handle and bio
The Name and the username are two fields doing two jobs, so fill in both. The bio counts as you type, and spaces, emoji and line breaks all count.
Drop in your last few pictures
Up to 9, in the order you post them. Each one is cut to the 3:4 tile your grid shows, on your own device.
Read it, fix it, download it
Does the top line say what you do? Does the bio fit? Is anything you need falling off the edge of a tile? Then take the picture away to keep or to send on.
What a profile holds
- Profile pictureShown in a circle. A square logo loses its corners.
- NameThe bold line. Up to 30 characters, and search reads it.
- UsernameYour @handle. Up to 30 lowercase characters.
- CategoryPicked from Instagram’s list. Can be hidden.
- Bio150 characters, line breaks and emoji included.
- WebsiteIts own field, so a link does not belong in the bio.
- Grid3 tiles a row, each a 3:4 cut from the middle of a post.
150 characters
Bio
Spaces, line breaks and emoji all count against it.
Meta publishes this. Instagram’s own bio article says so.
30 characters
Name
The bold line at the top, and one of the two fields search reads.
Our reading. What the app accepts. Meta publishes no length.
30 characters
Username
Lowercase letters, numbers, periods and underscores only.
Our reading. The characters are published; the length is not.
3:4
Grid tile
Cut from the middle of the post, which keeps its own shape.
Our reading. Our reading of the grid since 2025. It matches the tallest post Meta accepts, 1080 × 1440.
3
Posts a row
9 of them are visible before anyone scrolls.
Our reading. What the grid shows. Meta publishes no figure.
No size
Profile picture
Send a square with nothing important in the corners.
Our reading. Meta publishes none. This page cuts yours to 320 pixels square, which is our number.
Read off Meta’s own pages on September 5, 2026: the 150-character bio, the username’s characters, the category label, the website field and what search reads. The dashed figures above are nobody’s published measurement. We apply the two 30s as ceilings, which is the safe direction to be wrong in; if Instagram refuses something shorter, shorten it.
The drawing is Soyla’s own plain shapes. There are no Instagram logos, wordmarks, icons or brand colours on this page or in the file you download.
How the bio is counted
Meta publishes the 150. It does not publish how it counts, and that matters the moment there is an emoji in the line. A wrench is one thing you see and two characters to almost every counter ever written; a flag is four; a cook with a skin tone is seven. A bio that reads as 140 on your screen can be 160 to the field.
So this page counts what a person sees, and works out the strict number alongside it. While the two agree you get one figure. When they disagree you get both and how far over the strict one is, so you can decide. Line breaks are simpler: one break is one character.
Why your posts look cut on your profile
Your grid does not show your posts. It shows a 3:4 tile cut from the middle of each one, while the post keeps its full shape when someone taps it. A 4:5 portrait — the size most small businesses are told to use — loses about 34 pixels off each side there, 6% of its width. A square post loses 135 pixels each side, 25%. That is where the price, the phone number and half a face usually are.
Drop your own pictures in above and each one is really cut to that tile, by the same code that resizes a picture. Under the grid you get the pixels each shape loses.
Instagram publishes the shapes it accepts but not the shape of that tile. 3:4 is what the grid has shown since it stopped being square in 2025, and it matches the tallest photo the Help Centre accepts, 1080 × 1440. Anything wider than 1.91:1 or taller than 3:4 is cropped before the grid ever sees it, and the preview says so when one of yours is outside that.
Need the pictures the right shape first? The Instagram image resizer does every Instagram size and lets you place the crop yourself. The Instagram bio generator writes a bio that fits 150 characters, and the Instagram name generator gives you name and username pairs.
Common questions
How long can an Instagram bio be?
150 characters, and Instagram publishes that number. Spaces, line breaks and emoji all count. Emoji are the awkward part: a phone shows one picture where a character counter may see two, four or seven, and Instagram does not publish which way it counts. This page shows you both numbers whenever they differ, and how far over the harsher one is, so you can decide rather than guess.
Why do my posts look cropped on my profile grid?
Because the grid does not show your post. It shows a 3:4 tile cut from the middle of it, while the post keeps its full shape when someone taps it. A square post loses about 135 pixels off each side there — 25% of its width — and a 4:5 portrait about 34. That is usually where a price, a phone number or half a face sits. Drop your own pictures in above and the grid here cuts them the same way.
What size should my Instagram profile picture be?
Instagram publishes no size for it, so nobody can honestly give you one. What is worth knowing is the shape: it is shown in a circle, so send a square and keep your mark, your name and anything you need to read out of the corners. This page cuts yours to a 320-pixel square for the preview, which is our number and not Instagram's.
Do line breaks in an Instagram bio survive?
They do, and each one costs a character out of the 150. Press return in the bio box above and the preview breaks the line exactly where you did — three short lines cost you two characters you cannot see. The one thing to watch is where you paste from: some apps turn a line break into a space on the way out, so read the preview rather than the thing you copied.
What is the difference between the Name and the username?
The Name is the bold line at the top. It takes spaces and capitals, it does not have to be unique, and Meta lists the similarity between a search and the account's username or profile name as one of the things Instagram Search weighs — so the words a customer would type, the trade and the town, belong there. The username is your @handle and your web address: unique, and lowercase letters, numbers, periods and underscores only. Most businesses put their trading name in one of the two and nothing useful in the other.
Can this tell me whether a username is free?
No, and it never says one is. This page has no connection to Instagram, so it can only check the shape of a handle: the characters it may contain, the 30 it stops at, and the periods it will not accept at the start, at the end or two in a row. Whether anyone already has it is a question only Instagram can answer, when you try to save it.
Can it see my real Instagram account?
No. It cannot read your account, your followers, your posts or your current bio, and it never signs in to anything. Everything on the page is what you typed and the pictures you chose, laid out the way a profile lays them out. That is also why the preview shows no follower or post counts: we cannot know them, so we do not draw them. Soyla is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta.
Is it free, and does anything I type or choose get uploaded?
It is free, with no account and no limit on how many times you use it, and nothing you put in leaves your device. The pictures are opened and cut in your own browser, the words stay in the page, and the download is drawn on your machine. Close the tab and it is all gone.
Soyla is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Instagram or Meta. Read more in our privacy policy and terms of use.