Description
RyukGram is an enhanced Instagram client for iOS — the full Instagram app with a built-in suite of privacy, logging and customization tweaks. Highlights: follow-request tracking, read receipts, story-viewer insights, deleted-message logs, device-ID masking, media downloading, custom chat themes and a configurable tab bar. Everything runs on-device.
Change Log
# [release] RyukGram v1.5.0
### ✨ Highlights
• **Save all**: download every post, reel, story, highlight and profile picture from any profile, paced and resumable
• **Watchlist media**: new stories, posts and profile pictures from watched accounts saved in HD, with deletion alerts
• **Custom tabs**: add RyukGram screens, Saved and Activity as real tab bar tabs, with Instagram's own badges
• **Reels limits by weekday**: pick the days limits apply and set reels-free days
• **Shortcuts automation**: block reels, pause limits or toggle Messages-only from iOS Shortcuts, even without opening Instagram
• **Smarter search**: typo-tolerant search with highlighted matches in Settings, MobileConfig and every list
• **Safer API use**: far fewer requests, better pacing, hourly and daily limits, and full backoff on rate limits
### 🆕 New features
#### Gallery & media
• Save all from any profile menu by post count or date range, with a resumable queue, daily limit and optional HD videos
• Save all and Watchlist media can get their own Gallery folder, mix in, or stay hidden
• Upgrade saved posts, photos and videos to HD from the item menu
• New video player with pinch zoom, PiP, frame accurate scrubbing and double tap seeking
• Spot saved posts and stories deleted on Instagram, with a Deleted filter, off by default
• Save a whole folder to Photos, and delete Save all or Watchlist files by folder
• Pick several items from the gallery picker and send or post them together
• Hold any sticker to expand, save, share or copy its link, animated ones stay animated
• Cutout stickers can come from the Gallery, stay uncut, and be edited first
• Audio categories: hold a song in any music picker to file it, then pick it from a row or a manager
#### Profiles & tracking
• Watchlist saves new stories, posts, reels and profile pictures in HD, with per account choices
• Watchlist carousels save as one album, and each account's stories gather into one updating item
• Watchlist tracks bio links, pronouns, category, account type and public email and phone
• Approve or decline follow requests with a swipe or in bulk, with repeat requesters marked
• Following someone who declined you before asks first, showing how many times and when
• Follow requests get a home shortcut badge for new requests and answers
• Clone a profile: search or paste a link, pick what to copy, and optionally keep it synced
• Bio spoofing, story view count spoofing, and multipliers like 5x that follow the real count
• Spoofed posts and stories get a View button, and Boost all takes a custom amount
#### Reels & stories
• Reels limits by weekday, with reels-free days and a simpler Off, Time or Reels picker
• Extra reels time can be capped per day, with a custom amount and a wait before it unlocks
• Story playback panel adds PiP for video stories and next or previous person buttons
• Playback settings with a live preview, skip step picker and per control toggles
• Reel buttons can hide or move Instagram's new Shop similar button
• Instants eye button gets a Toggle mode, or hold it in Button mode to toggle read receipts
• Overlay layout editor can resize buttons and hide their circle backgrounds
#### Interface & shortcuts
• Tab bar editor adds real tabs with Instagram's red count badge, applied live and kept in Messages-only
• Launch tab, swiping and hold shortcuts share one Tab bar page, and launch can reopen the last tab
• Shortcuts page lists every link for iOS automations, with example shortcuts and a Siri prompt
• Messages-only page reworked with schedule days, timed sessions and undo
• Hide Meta AI per surface, including the About this post summary
• Hide some Instagram Plus upsells, and in-app banners for messages, activity or other accounts
• Hide the full screen button over feed videos
• Hide hidden chats from the share sheet
• Grid feed shading, spacing and rounded corners, and an option to turn off its cache
• Compact save sheet when you have no collections
• Safari extension opens any Instagram page in the app, and its banner swipes away
• Update prompt can be snoozed, skipped for a version or turned off
• Custom emoji fonts can be imported from Android emoji fonts
• Set the score you send in the DM emoji game
• Stacked notification pills share one width
• Slovak translation, thanks to @dddaaadddooo
#### MobileConfig & advanced
• MobileConfig marks configs and params new in the current Instagram version, with New filters
• Instagram API page shows live usage and cache hits, with an hourly background limit and a daily analyzer cap
### 🛠 Fixes
#### Instagram compatibility
• Works on Instagram 450, 451 and 452
• Reels download, expand and repost, DM inbox buttons, Messages-only, lock, story seen and notes work again on 452
• Send to group hide and confirm, story screenshot blocking and note actions work again on 451
• Force audio and the story menu hold work again on 450
• Like confirm, Hide Meta AI, story midcards and notes tray cover Instagram's newest variants
• Custom GIF in comments works with the new GIF button, and sticker slider counts update
• Note audio downloads and Plus story peek work again
• Hiding both call buttons also hides the group chat call button
• Full follower and post counts work again on the newer profile header
• Sideloaded iOS 15 and 16 builds run newer Instagram, and the share sheet no longer crashes on iOS 15.0 to 15.3
#### API & performance
• Far fewer and better paced API requests, which should cut Instagram warnings and rate limits
• Checkpoint and challenge replies count as rate limits, and the cooldown survives a relaunch
• Follow status in follower lists is correct and no longer slows scrolling
• Reels no longer stutter while downloads or background checks run
• Reel scrubber seeks respond faster and no longer stall playback
• Profile Analyzer and follow request batches keep running in the background
#### Media & playback
• Instants videos save as videos again
• Call recordings no longer sound sped up
• Voice messages sent as replies can be downloaded
• OGG voice messages play in the deleted messages log and Gallery
• HD previews start right away instead of downloading first
• Standard quality is greyed out when unavailable, and downloads no longer save broken files
• Spoofed post previews no longer go blank, and expired thumbnails reload properly
• PiP plays more videos, gives up on stuck playback and can retry
• Long links to a private account's post open the original post
• Muting from the reels playback panel sticks
• Disabling auto-unmute works again with the volume buttons
#### Interface & stability
• Message peek no longer marks chats as seen
• Grid feed respects the suggested posts and reels filters, and keeps loading after You're all caught up
• Hide suggested users also removes the suggested accounts carousel in reels
• Hide story highlights also skips them after stories end
• Story overlay buttons sit on the story on every screen size
• Reel sidebar buttons keep even spacing and no longer overlap when reordered
• Reels hold controls no longer crash Instagram
• Custom emoji fonts apply everywhere
• Profile picture in the story tray hold menu opens again
• Tab, shortcut, action bar and lock names follow the app language
• Settings icons share one size and color
• Settings search no longer shows a grey box on iOS 26
• Restoring a backup brings back the stories archive, and export ticks everything by default
### ⚠️ Known issues
• Unfollow confirmation is missing on profiles in Instagram 446 and later
Version
452.0.1 (1093431980)
Last Updated
October 22, 2026