How to Download Instagram Carousel Posts

Carousels — those swipeable multi-photo posts — are Instagram's favorite format for recipes, tutorials, photo dumps and infographics. They're also the most annoying format to save manually: up to 20 items behind one link, and a screenshot spree butchers all of them.

iGram treats carousels as first-class citizens: paste the post link once, and every single item appears in a grid with its own download button.

Saving a full carousel, step by step

1. Copy the post link. It doesn't matter which slide you're viewing when you tap Share → Copy Link — the link identifies the whole post.
2. Paste it into iGram. Press Download.
3. Save what you want. iGram displays the full grid — photos and videos mixed, in their original order. Tap Save Photo or Save Video under each item you want. Photos come down as full-resolution JPGs, videos as HD MP4s.

Mixed carousels: photos + videos together

Plenty of carousels mix formats — a recipe with photo steps and a final cooking video, for example. iGram labels each item correctly and gives videos an MP4 button and photos a JPG button. Files are numbered in post order (-1, -2, -3…), so a 10-step tutorial stays in sequence in your Downloads folder.

Why carousels beat screenshots even harder

• Aspect ratios vary per slide. Carousel slides can be portrait, square or landscape in one post; screenshots crush them all into your screen's shape.
• Videos can't be screenshotted at all — you'd be screen-recording, with quality loss and UI overlays baked in.
• Text stays readable. Infographic slides downloaded at full resolution zoom cleanly; screenshots pixelate.

Limits worth knowing

The usual rules apply: the post must be public, and Stories/private content are out of scope (see the Stories explainer). Very new posts occasionally take a minute to propagate through Instagram's CDN — if a fresh carousel returns an error, a retry moments later almost always works.

And the standing reminder: downloading for personal use is fine, but every slide belongs to its creator. Get permission before you repost — details in the legal guide.