Yes, you can technically put off your Instagram likes– but isn’t it only more enjoyable to know exactly how many likes your photos get?

If you want to bask in the pride of your Instagram’s best-performing announces, you can get a neat little report of your top nine most liked poles, delivered in an aesthetically satisfying square collage.

Usually it’s customary to check on your best berths at the end of the year, but we say why not do it whenever you want? In the olden days, beings used to screenshot this report and upright it to their actual grids. These eras, that’s unheard of, but there’s no dishonor in posting your Top Nine to Instagram Stories. Here’s how you can get in on the action.

1. Pick a website

There are two main business that’ll pluck your nine most-liked poles together for you: Top Nine and Best Nine. They’re very similar to each other, but there are a couple of key gaps.

Top Nine gatherings as both a website and an app. If you choose the app route, you can actually opt out of handing over your email address in the process, whereas the desktop version doesn’t allow this. It are also welcome to research both private and public accountings. Best Nine doesn’t ask for an email at all, but it does seem to run quite a bit slower than Top Nine, and it can only search public notes. Both promise not to sell your data to any third party within their privacy policies.

2. Input your handle

Like I mentioned earlier, the different apps will ask for different things, but your handle is essential information. Earlier in 2021, we observed Top Nine was rerouting us to the 2020 volume( now part of CreatorKit, which houses video and motif tools for social media) from the central website if you’re consuming the browser form, but as of the end of December, it seems to be working better. Still, make sure you’re in the best place — especially if your 2020 and 2021 top posts are all an unnervingly similar mixture of your “cat-o-nine-tail”, your baking jobs, and disguised selfies.

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3. Literally just wait

The locates will do the work for you, it’s only a matter of how long you want to wait. Top Nine’s browser version told me to download the app for the process to take exactly “seconds, rather than minutes, ” but since I pass it my email, it actually likewise emailed my top nine to me upon completion, so I didn’t have to sit on the website.

Best Nine’s disclaimer informed me it is possible to take up to 10 times, but from personal experience, it seems to take even longer. I have no patience, so I will personally be skedaddling right on over to Top Nine.

4. Brag

Obviously, we’re not just doing this to gather metrics. We’re doing this to show off. Top Nine’s built-in share button are creating rectangular Instagram Story and square regular berth templates for you boasting your personal pinnacle nine, which is really nice for aesthetic purposes. It’s easy to save to your Camera Roll and upload via Instagram the road you ordinarily would.

Screenshot of the Top Nine interface, showing options to create shareable posts.

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Best Nine renders a basic square likenes that you can download to your design. Neither Best Nine or Top Nine’s idols are watermarked, if that’s something that tends to bother you.

If all else fails, just take a screenshot. You can jazz it up on your Instagram Story nonetheless you like, and your adherents will surely be impressed by the same affixes they already saw the first time you affixed them.

But hey, we all deserve some innocent, vain fun. Bring on the Instagram top nines!

This story was originally published in December 2020 and informed in July and December 2021.

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