An Instagram planner
built by photographers

Curate your feed
like a gallery wall.

Plan your posts before anything goes live.
Build carousels, frames and captions around the whole grid.

Download on the App Store Free to start$9.99 USD once for Pro
Loved by creatives
The Swatch grid planner on iPhone, a photography feed arranged in a three-column grid
Inside Swatch

From the whole grid to the smallest detail.

See the whole feed first, then shape every post down to the caption and crop.

A Swatch grid with each post marked: carousel, reel, caption and posted badges on the tiles
On the grid

Post status at a glance

A glance down the grid tells you what each post is and how far along it is.

Carousels
Panorama
Reels
Captions
Posted
Placeholder
The editor

Edit like a pro.

Add photos, text, frames or grid blocks, adjust the background and reorder layers, then share the finished canvas. Start from a single-photo frame, a multi-photo layout or a nine-tile grid, and set the spacing and background before you fine-tune the post.

Three iPhones showing Swatch's compose flow: an empty grid template, a filled multi-photo grid and the photo and layout add menu
The caption sheet with tone choices and on-device caption suggestions
Captions Pro

Captions you'd actually post.

On supported iPhones, use on-device intelligence to shape a caption in your tone, then auto-copy into Instagram when you're ready to post.

What it does

A focused toolkit for a better-looking feed.

Grouped around the way photographers work: plan the grid, compose the post, then keep track of what's ready to publish.

Plan

Multiple grids

A separate grid for every account, season or launch.

Colour placeholders

Reserve future tiles with solid colours while a shoot is still in progress.

Colour map

Turn finished photos into tone blocks to check the balance at a glance.

Compose

Photo layouts

Arrange several shots inside one finished canvas.

Carousels

Build and reorder multi-slide posts.

Frames

Wrap any photo in a white or palette border.

Post

Real feed preview

See the post sitting in a real Instagram feed.

Caption status

Know which posts still need words before publishing.

Posted tracking

Mark what's live, see what's still to come.

The difference

Built for planning, not platform management.

Subscription tools are built for calendars, teams and reports. Swatch stays focused on the visual work of composing a feed.

Swatch
Subscription planners
Cost
$9.99 once
$11–23 / month, forever
Your grids live
On your device
On their servers
Account
None
Login required
Works offline
Always
Needs a connection
Built to
Compose the grid
Schedule, analyse, automate
Captions
Written on-device
Cloud AI
No auto-posting No scheduling No analytics No ads or trackers

What other photographers say.

Early users on planning their feeds with Swatch.

I used to post one photo and hope the grid still worked. Now the whole month is laid out before anything goes live.
Dan CartwrightWedding photographer
Being able to quickly add placeholders one after the other is so good. I block out a whole shoot in colour before we've taken a single frame.
Tom StewartWedding photographer
No account, no subscription, and my photos never leave my phone. It does the one thing I needed and nothing else.
Trent BeckettTravel photographer
Pricing

Some subscription planners cost over $200 a year.
Swatch costs $9.99. Once.

Unlock Pro.
Keep it for good.

$9.99 USD · one time
Unlock Pro

All Pro tools unlock together.

Good to know

Common questions

The things photographers ask before they swatch.

Do I need an Instagram login?

No. Swatch never connects to Instagram. You plan privately, then post from the Instagram app yourself when you're ready.

Does the grid match Instagram's real proportions?

Yes. Tiles use Instagram's current 3:4 portrait crop, so the grid you plan is the grid your profile shows. Reels and carousels sit in the same grid, so nothing shifts once you post.

What happens to my free grid if I don't upgrade?

Nothing. Your first grid stays yours, free, on your device. Pro adds more grids and accounts, photo layouts, Frames, seamless Panoramas and AI captions.

Is it really a one-time payment?

Yes. $9.99 once unlocks Pro for good, including offline. No subscription, no renewals, no surprise charges.

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