Instagram Saves work fine until you try to find something three months later. No semantic search, no text inside images, no export, no survival when a post is taken down. MarkIt saves the image, the caption, the OCR text, and the creator handle - searchable from any device.
Tap Share on any Instagram post, reel, or story and send it to MarkIt's WhatsApp or Telegram bot. The bot saves the image, extracts text inside the image via OCR, captures the caption, files it under the right category in your library, and confirms in about 5 seconds. Search later with natural language. Free up to 40 saves per month.
Instagram is where a lot of useful reference lives: recipes from food creators, apartment finds in cities you might move to, outfit inspo, gym routines, business advice, travel itineraries, restaurant lists, product recommendations. People save constantly, often by tapping the bookmark icon, often by screenshotting, often by sending to themselves on WhatsApp.
The native Saves feature works at the moment of capture and almost never at the moment of retrieval. Saves are organized into Collections (folders you create), there is no search inside Save content, no OCR on the text inside an image, no export to anything outside Instagram, and no survival if the original post is deleted or the account is taken private.
Most people end up with the same three-place mess: some saves in IG Collections, some screenshots in their camera roll, some links forwarded to themselves on WhatsApp. None of it is one searchable library.
Instagram Saves is the first thing most people try and the first thing they outgrow. The structural gaps:
On any post, reel, or story, tap the paper-airplane Share icon, choose WhatsApp or Telegram, and send to the MarkIt bot. Or paste the Instagram URL into the web dashboard. Bot setup takes about 30 seconds the first time.
The bot pulls the image (or carousel of images), the caption, the creator handle, the hashtags, and runs OCR on every image to extract text-inside-the-image. AI picks one of your 12 categories and tags by topic. The original Instagram URL is preserved so you can revisit the post later.
Find that Reel later with natural language - 'the apartment in Lisbon with the green door' returns the right save even if the caption did not say green door. Ask the bot inside WhatsApp: 'find that recipe with the lemon olive oil cake.' No app switch.
Instagram is image-heavy plus caption text plus the creator context. The save is only useful if all three are recoverable later:
The full image or every image in a carousel post, proxied so social-CDN expiration does not break it.
Full caption including hashtags and mentions, fully searchable. Captions are often the actual content for recipe and how-to posts.
Text appearing inside the image - recipe ingredients, list-style infographics, quotes, instructions - extracted and searchable.
Filter your library by creator and refind everything you ever saved from one account.
Both the creator-set hashtags and AI-derived topic tags.
Preserved so you can revisit the post on Instagram itself - and if it gets deleted later, your saved content still survives.
Your saves are yours. MarkIt does not train AI on your library, does not sell data, and does not share what you save with other users. OCR runs server-side via OpenAI under their 30-day-retention API terms. Export your full library as JSON anytime by emailing [email protected].
No. MarkIt never logs into Instagram or any other social platform. You are using Instagram's standard Share button to send the post URL to your own chat with the MarkIt bot. The bot fetches the public preview metadata, the same way any link unfurl works.
Yes. Use the Story's Share icon, send to the MarkIt bot, and the bot captures the screenshot, caption (if added by the creator), and creator handle within 5 seconds - well within the 24-hour Story window. The save is permanent in your MarkIt library, even after the Story expires on Instagram.
MarkIt saves the Reel's URL, thumbnail, caption, creator handle, and any OCR text. The video itself remains hosted by Instagram, so it plays when you click the URL. If the creator deletes the Reel, your saved metadata still survives in your MarkIt library.
Your saved caption, OCR text, image (proxied), creator handle, and tags survive in your MarkIt library. The original Instagram URL will lead to a 'page not found' on Instagram, but the searchable content of the save remains. This is one of the main reasons people use MarkIt for Instagram over the native Saves.
Yes. The bot captures every image in a carousel post, runs OCR on each, and stores them as one save with the caption. Search across the OCR text of all images at once.
No. You are using Instagram's normal Share gesture. From IG's perspective it looks identical to sharing a post to a friend. There is no automation, no scraping, and no login.
Yes. Captions in any language are preserved as-is and remain searchable. MarkIt's OCR handles English and Hebrew today, with multilingual expansion on the roadmap.
MarkIt is one library across every source you save from. The bot understands Instagram and these:
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