10 terrific Instagram tools and apps for marketers

These handy items help you improve your brand’s visual content with better cropping options, slideshows and even contests. Get the picture?

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Only 28 percent of marketers use Instagram. That means 72 percent are missing out on great opportunities.

These 10 Instagram tools and apps will help you make the most of your Instagram efforts, whether you’re creating captivating posts, monitoring your Instagram analytics or converting your Instagram followers to customers:

1. Flipagram

Flipagram enables you to assemble photos into a slideshow, which it calls a “photo video story.”

Through these posts, followers can quickly and easily consume a brand’s products—it’s much faster than going through photos manually—as each photo is seen for about a second before it flips to the next.

Clothing retailer Reformation uses Flipagram to introduce its Instagram followers to its new collection.


This post drives traffic to its e-commerce store, as Instagram users can shop for the look with the link provided in its bio.

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