Unlike Twitter, Instagram’s algorithm compresses images over 1080×1080. There’s also the extra assurance you are not further compressing your image unbeknownst. The added benefit is also you maintain conformity across your images. This is my method of choice but only if you edit your photos in Lightroom and Photoshop because once you have a photoshop template, it’s just a case of dropping the final photo on top and exporting. This app is the quickest way to both edit a photo, create a white border and then upload to Instagram. Now you can finish uploading the image within the Instgram app. Step 3: Select the top right button to upload the finished image. Then move the slider to select your preferred framing. I prefer to use a square so that there isn’t any of the image cut off when anyone views the image in their feed or in search. Step 1: Add Image by selecting the + button and upload an image from your camera roll. The editing tools in particular are quite powerful but I’ll explain that more in another post. While it is a paid for app, you get a lot of options to add variety to your border and also some more photo editing tools.

Unlike Whitagram which offers the one preset. Instasize offers a variety of white frame presets like IG full, IG Story and Landscape etc. With Instasize you can create white borders in three steps in just a few seconds. But it’s still the best free Instagram white border app for me.

You will need to resize the image before you import it to Whitagram. The small issue with Whitagram is you cannot transform the size of the image.

Best app to create instagram grid