Free tool · open source

You save faster
than you read.

Prompts, tools, reels you meant to watch later. Later never comes. They rot in a folder you never reopen. Insta Save Engine goes and gets all your Instagram saves, sorts them on its own, and even reads what's inside the images and the videos. The slide text. The spoken audio. Not just the caption. Your saves turn into a searchable library in Notion.

Free New Runs local
Get it on GitHub ↗ See how it works
Vee, in Instagram colours, filing saved posts into a box

What it actually does

Five steps, all on your machine. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

1
Grabs your saved posts from Instagram, all of them or just the collections you pick.
2
Sorts each one into categories built for you. On the first run a local model reads a sample of your saves and generates the categories that actually fit your content, then files every post into them.
3
Reads the media when the value isn't in the caption: OCR on carousel slides, audio transcription on reels, on-screen text. All local.
4
Extracts the useful part: the copyable prompt, the tool name and link, the steps of a workflow.
5
Writes it all into two Notion databases, ready to search and reuse.

Two ways to run it

Full

Local AI models read the actual content of your images and reels. This is where the magic is. About 26 GB of models, one-time download.

The real thing

Light

No models, no media reading. Just fetches your saves and sorts them. Weighs almost nothing, and you can switch to full later without breaking a thing.

Start here if unsure

Get started

Clone it, run the install script, fill in two fields. The README walks you through every step, even if you've never opened a terminal.

git clone https://github.com/vousyetes/insta-save-engine.git
cd insta-save-engine
./install.sh # or ./install.sh --light

What you need: a Mac, Python 3.11+, a free Notion account, and an Instagram account with saved posts. For the full mode, a bit of disk space for the local models. Around 20 minutes for full, 5 for light.

Full guide on GitHub ↗

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Saved posts only become useful once they are sorted.