Instagram mockup generator

Seeing a photo inside a post card, with the username, caption and action row in place, tells you far more than the photo alone. Content planners use it to preview a feed, designers use it in comps, and brands use it to agree a caption before posting. This guide covers composing the card and using it well.

Compose the square

The image slot is square, so a photo shot or cropped to 1 by 1 fills it perfectly. A portrait or landscape photo is centre-cropped to the square, so keep your subject near the middle so the crop does not cut it off.

Use a sharp, well-lit photo, since the square sits at the centre of the card and carries the post. A high-resolution image stays crisp once it is scaled into the slot.

If you plan a feed, mock up each post the same way so you can judge how the squares sit together as a grid.

Write the header and caption

Put the username in the handle field; it appears both in the header and in bold before the caption, just as it does in a real post. The verified tick is there if the account would carry one.

Write the caption as you would publish it. The card wraps it below the action row, so you can see whether the first line, the part that shows before the more link, does its job.

Set a believable likes count so the comp reads true, and the card is ready to drop into a plan or a slide.

Finish and use it honestly

The card floats on the studio backdrop, so a soft gradient or brand colour turns it into a finished tile for a content calendar or a deck.

Match the canvas aspect to where it lands, a square for a tile or a wider ratio for a presentation, then export as PNG for crisp edges or JPG for a smaller file.