Free Instagram story maker

SwipeAtelier is a free Instagram story maker that runs in your browser: you design 1 to 20 stories in 9:16 format (1080 × 1920 pixels) on a single canvas, add photos, text, shapes and stickers, and export them as images numbered in posting order. There is no account to create, no watermark on the result, and your photos never leave your device.

Why design stories as a series

A story rarely travels alone. Announcements, recipes, travel days or product launches often take several screens, and they look more deliberate when they share the same background, fonts and colors.

In the story maker, the stories sit side by side on one canvas. A solid or gradient background runs from one story to the next, and a photo or a shape can cross the cut between two stories for a seamless effect as viewers tap forward.

What you can do in the Instagram story maker

The story maker is the full editor set to story format, so every editor tool is there:

• Templates calculated for 9:16 and for the number of stories you choose: one photo per story, panoramas, seamless bands, grids, mosaics and scattered photos.
• Photos: import by button, drag and drop or copy and paste; crop, move, resize, rotate, duplicate, change opacity.
• Photo adjustments and filters: brightness, contrast, saturation; Original, Vivid, Soft, Black & white and Sepia.
• Text in 8 fonts, with bold, size, color and alignment.
• Shapes and emoji stickers, borders, Polaroid frames and drop shadows.
• Background: a solid color or a horizontal, vertical or diagonal gradient across the whole series.

Safe zones turned on by default

Stories are displayed full screen, with interface elements on top of the picture: at the top, on the right and at the bottom. Text placed near an edge can be hidden. In the story maker, the hidden areas are shown on every story from the start, so you can keep headlines and stickers in the readable part. The overlay is approximate and is never exported. To check a finished image or video, use the safe zone checker.

How to make Instagram stories, step by step

1. Open the story maker. The format is already set to 9:16.
2. Choose how many stories you want, from 1 to 20. You can change it at any time.
3. Pick a template, or start from a blank canvas.
4. Add your photos and crop them inside their frames.
5. Write your text, add shapes or stickers, and set a background that runs across the series.
6. Keep text out of the red areas of the overlay.
7. Open the preview to swipe through the series, then export as JPEG or PNG. On a computer, you get a ZIP of images numbered in order; on mobile, the share sheet saves them to Photos.

Post them in Instagram in the same order as their numbers.

Private, free and offline

Everything happens in your browser. Photos are not sent to any server, projects are saved on your device and come back in My collages, and the app works offline after your first visit. Undo and redo, autosave and two-finger gestures on mobile are included.

Need covers for the highlights where those stories will live? The highlight covers maker creates a matching set. All other free Instagram tools work the same way.