• Story viewer revamp. You can now share stories by DM.
• Performance improvements for downloading, comparing followers/following, and feed.
• Many bug fixes.

md5:

• arm64-v8a: c28cf77ce14032c3b9bf65e0e1e3ed4f
• armeabi-v7a: ea2e4546d4b293513e3d757d5190a7bf
• x86_64: 52e81a78f75388fbabbfafe98716d240
• x86: 43aae98bce2d58cca6275e6d2b5bc449
• Full: c356353bd74f17b8db6dd505f84d4dc7

It has been a year since I took over this project. Thank you for your continuous support! Remember that you can test out beta builds and provide feedback to the Developers!

• You can now share posts via DM, as well as profiles via URL.
• Implementation of Storage Access Framework. Download features are improved as a result, and the app no longer requires WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
• Android's Auto Backup (of app data, including settings, logins and favourites) is no longer enabled by default. You will need to manually enable it if you wish to use it in the future.
• Bug fixes and improvements.
  • Credits to @Vonter for contributing #1374.
• Arabic translations.

(Please reinstall if you have the old v19.2.3, which has been recalled)

md5:

• arm64-v8a: 61813821aca3e6b6393a57d52b083ee2
• armeabi-v7a: 762c04c1d549d402af21557291beea5c
• x86_64: 4fc49f405e604c87b6160a9e5dd00867
• x86: 732c9d77ccbce818b283a095caa6e96b
• Full: c3a55b3bb5ee80184c6cdf9a34ab752f

• Overhauled fragments for search, comments, likes, and posts
  • Search history and favourites are now available in the search fragment
  • Comments now have proper threading
• Profiles will no longer be scrollable if it has no posts, courtesy of @raniapl
• Alert dialog shown before clicking the "swipe up" button for stories, courtesy of @stamatiap
• You can now remove followers
• More behind-the-scene improvements and bug fixes, some courtesy of @tcely and @The-EDev
• Swedish and Korean translations

Note: Separate APKs by CPU types are now available. If you know what you're doing, you can grab the one that corresponds to your device, which is smaller than the full APK. Otherwise, you can use the full (largest) APK. This does not affect F-Droid users. Also, the GPG signature will only be produced for the full APK, but you may request one from me if desired. I'll include the md5 checksum for all variants though.

md5:

• arm64-v8a: 6b4b7d9ad43d6a27c93e3487c60196e6
• armeabi-v7a: 7cf1155eaf856753bdd06325027e1200
• x86_64: 8d2d34ec30354129e5a7f87d5fb5e451
• x86: c12afbf778eb22106136f4b5580450e1
• Full version: c5198ccf5836976ab50fe895dff198c8

• Anonymous users should now see a favourites tab
• Playing videos in background is now restored as an option (default disabled)
• Hiding muted reels is now an option (because apparently Instagram does not hide them by default)
• Various bug fixes

md5: e5d99df9430f22e7fbbd764c0e4424f8

• New bottom navigation bar design, some courtesy of @vojta-horanek
  • You can now add/reorder/remove tabs
  • Favourite and activity (notification) tabs are now options
• Keyword filter for posts (by caption), courtesy of @zerrium
• Option to prepend username onto file names for downloaded media, courtesy of @junhuicoding
• Support for receiving custom "face" stickers in DM
• You can now access the author's profile from story
• Screen now stays on when a video is playing
• You can now enable FLAG_SECURE to block screenshot & application preview
• There is now a basic splash screen on launch
• Various other refactors and bug fixes and all that jazz. Also APK is smaller.

All GitHub release users: IMPORTANT NOTICE

The following applies to users who download from GitHub as well as https://t.me/foss_Android (prior to this version), but does not apply to F-Droid users.

1. The builds will now contain Sentry for tracking errors. They're opt-in (default disabled).
2. Android Studio lost my signing key, so you must uninstall before update. You may back up your settings for restoration after update.

Moving on, users are generally recommended to use F-Droid builds and, in the future, Google Play builds. (You would also need to uninstall before switching to F-Droid.)

• Support downloading photos in original definition (wherever possible)
• DM revamp
  • New layout!
  • Support for receiving/sending GIFs, stickers, and voice messages
  • Support for adding/removing reactions, replying to messages, as well as forwarding messages
  • Support for sending pictures from in-app camera
  • Implement group chat management (approve/deny users & toggle settings)
• New setting to show/hide caption by default, shoutout to @Zopieux for contributing #609 to the project!
• Implement viewing/creating/editing saved collections
• New profile layout
• Implement un/muting a user's stories/posts from feed
• Implement "chaining" user suggestions
• Activity notifications should actually work now
• Greek and Basque translations, shoutout to @dimitrist19 and @avtkal for contributing to the project!
• Various bug fixes
  • Shoutout to @MeLlamoPablo for contributing #755 to the project!

(For those updating from v19.1.0-a1: The DM button on profiles has been restored.)

md5: d86cf519b20509989b84348c91e0bb36

READ ME FIRST

This update includes parts of the long-awaited DM update, as well as high definition downloads. This also fixes the lunar new year reel problem.

Keep in mind that this version is UNFINISHED. Most non-DM features have been tested and should work as intended. However, certain DM-related features may be unstable.

DM button on profiles has been temporarily removed.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ABOVE

• Bestie stories are now indicated with green circle
• Preliminary support for watching live videos (#383)
• Bug fixes, namely #507 #518, #524, #532 and their duplicates.
• Remove instadp

This is either the last release of 2020 or the first release of 2021. Thank you for your continuous support!

• Allow sorting feed stories, as well as viewing feed stories as a vertical list
• Support more activity notifications (Story responses, comment likes...)
• You can now see "Suggested Users" (in "More" tab)
• You can now see your story archive
• You can now see comment likes (also available for anonymous users)
• Add story "swipe up" links (as a button)
• Add Slovak and Japanese translations
• Bug fixes, namely #412, #438, #453, #455, #459, #470, #477, #478, #487, #489, #491 and their duplicates.

Important: Up to one (no more) of your favourites might crash the app, in that case simply remove it from the Favorites list and re-add it. We're sorry for any inconvenience.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

New features

• You can now see who liked a post (logged-in users only, long-click the like button)
• You can now translate comments, captions, and bios (logged-in users only, through Instagram's API)
  • Bio/Comment: Click bio once, then click "translate"
  • Caption: Scroll down, then click "translate"
• You can now respond to slider stickers on stories
• Add Dutch and Hindi translations

Improvements

• Feed now uses the app endpoint, which allows you to see posts from followed hashtags
• New profile details layout
• Viewing comments and following/followers should be faster and more stable
• The APK is now smaller (~10 MB → 6.3 MB)

Bug fixes

Fix #317, #319, #326, #361, #367, #369, #375, #385, #408, #417, #429, #436 and their duplicates, as well as Reddit posts jxn0or, k1e2k7 and kd5dve.

(If you downloaded prior to 3:30pm UTC December 23rd, re-download it)

• Bug fixes, namely #274, #276, #278, #282, #293, #295, #302, #303, #306, #310, #316, #329, #337, #351 and #365, as well as their duplicates.
• Catalan & Russian languages, thanks @retiolus & @rikishi0071

• Restore anonymous access to hashtag and location posts to a reduced level (See below).
• Resolve F-Droid compliance issues (See here).
• Chinese (Traditional) and Hindi are now supported.
• Fix #196, #247, #257, #258, #266 and #269.

Note for anonymous users only: Instagram no longer returns certain required properties on hashtag/location GraphQL, and mitigations make opening posts a bit slower. Also, your layout settings will be overridden so that no avatar nor username will be shown. AFAIK this is equally affecting Instagram on browser as well (i.e. slideshows not being shown as such, etc.) so I would assume it's a bug but it could be them cracking down on anons...

YOU MUST UNINSTALL THE ALPHA VERSIONS FIRST

We are now back to the original application ID me.austinhuang.instagrabber. Hooray!

The following list is in comparison to v18.3.

Features

• We're now (officially) Barinsta! New name, new icon!
• Total revamp of UI. Specifically, the profile/hashtag/location, feed, and discover tabs have been redone. Explore our new look!
• You can now pick a feed layout and a theme!
• You can now DM a user from their profile page!

Improvements

• You can now skip to another user in story feed by clicking the skip buttons
• URLs and emails in descrptions are now tappable
• Downloaded file names now use shortcode instead of post ID
• Support FELIX_SHARE DM message type

Fixes

• Fix file corruption bug
• Fix video autoplay & auto-mute issues

See v19.0-a1 for important notes.

• Added DM'ing a user from profile page!
• Reworked all profile/hashtag/location actions (buttons => icons).
• Fixed DM attachment bug
• Most old features should be restored (with the most notable exception being the download indicator)

This is the UI change trial build. Features are subject to adjustments.

WARNING

Since this is a pre-release (aka. non-production-ready), a separate application ID is assigned to it: me.austinhuang.instagrabbr (without e). This means you can use the current release (v18.2 or v18.3) parallel to this pre-release.

Your settings are not carried over from the current release, since it's a separate app. Your settings made in this pre-release will not be carried over to the current release either. However, once we are ready to publish a full release, we will revert to the original application ID, and then you can update your original app and retrieve your settings.

This release only contains translations and bug fixes, specifically addressing #115, (dup. #118, #120 and #123), #124, #126 and #127. No new features are implemented.

This is the final regular release for the old UI/codebase. Moving on, it will be moved into a legacy branch, and updates will only include API changes and (significant) bug fixes.

Details about the trial releases for the new UI/codebase will be released later.

Non-DM

• You are alerted before unfollowing a private account
• Update checker can now be toggled
• "Swipe up" story sticker type is now supported

DM

• Unread DM are now indicated
• You can now mark DMs as seen, either automatically (settings) or manually
• You can now kick DM members
• "Clip" message type (basically sharing reels) is now supported

Bug fixes

• Proper login support for those under Android 8 (#76, #89, Telegram-7566, Telegram-7573)
• Temporary Glide error handling (#90, #98, #105, Telegram-7963) ("Temporary" because we're phasing Glide out in the next version)
• New line in DM message (#104)
• URL parser (#92, Telegram-7843)
• Comments query hash change (#100)
• Hashtag query hash change (#106, Telegram-8010)
• MultiDirectDialog location unserializable fix (Telegram-7880)
• Notification mark-as-read

• You can now change the topic or leave a room, as well as see members
• More optimizations on activity check (You can now disable it) and DM
• Fix the inconsistent autoplay setting bug

We're on F-Droid now, but where's the description and screenshots? Let's see what happens when I publish this version...

• InstaGrabber will check activity/notifications every minute, when the app is on and when you're logged in
• Changes to DM interfaces (#65)
• You can now unsend messages
• Adding favourite button on profile views (#61)
• Enforcing a limit of 100 posts per download due to #63 & #67
• Fix updater

• You can now upload images in DM (#57)
• You can now like messages
• Fix #53, #54, #56, #58, plus missing avatar actions on profile view

• New profile view for visiting profiles from mention/post/comment without losing all previous screens
• Bug fixes (incl. #49 and #50)

• Added AMOLED dark mode (#45, Thanks @ammargitham)
• Various bug fixes, including
  • #39 (Updater shows the next version instead of the latest version)
  • Downloading stories still uses @... folder
  • Story highlights not being shown
  • Discover view being shown to non-logged-in users
  • URL opener

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.

• Implements #36 and #37, both massively improve the feed stories bar
• Story viewer will tell you to slow down if you scroll across users too fast (Instead of launching another window)
• Fixes a bug where emoji messages in DM crash the app
• Improvements on login/logout

(No new features in this version, sorry. Also 42 is the build code)

• You can now view public stories and highlights WITHOUT logging in, but only if you enable it in Settings
• Originally, viewing HD avatars without logging in automatically uses Instadp, now you have to enable it in Settings as well
  • Consent is important! A button now tells you
• Highlights now support showing sticker infos
• Fixed the getColor compatibility issue

• You can now send text DMs
• You can now reply DM to stories
• DM title and (some) members are now shown on DM screen
• Seen stories (API) are now displayed transparently (only if all stories are seen)
• Story creation date is now shown on the story screen
• A new setting allows you to mark stories as seen (Default disabled)
• Fixed a bug related to the favourite button on profile
• Fixed a bug where liked/saved status does not carry over across slides
• Fixed #25

We're now listed on Up for Grabs!

• You can now use discover by topics
• You can now see posts you liked (it's in your own profile, also despite supposedly having a limit of 300 InstaGrabber seems to let you scroll infinitely)
• Some DM improvements, including #28 (Our first real PR!) & make sure messages are attributed to the right person

• You can now respond to quizzes, plus you get to see correct answer beforehand (FYI: I will not support music questions)
• Fixed feed story fetch approach

Thank you, kind redditors!

READ: WAIT FOR v17.2 IF YOU FOLLOW MORE THAN 500 PEOPLE

READ: If you downloaded before 3am UTC August 4, you need to re-download.

• You can now respond to question boxes in stories
• You can now check out story mentions (except non-Spotify music stickers, but you can hear them by playing the story)
  • Above 2 does not apply to highlights
• You can now click on locations from feed
• Fixed a bug where you cannot access your own follower/following list when you are private and have no posts

READ: If you upgraded from a previous version, you need to press Quick Access (compass icon) at least once to retrieve your favourites and enable favouriting new accounts, otherwise your app will crash. Your favourites will not show up on first click but it'll happen on the second click.

READ: If you downloaded before 1:35am UTC August 2nd, you need to re-download it.

• You can now see tagged/"saved" posts. Tagged will work without login.
• You can now write comments, and reply/like/delete comments through the menu (by clicking the comment)
  • Liked comments are shown with a pink background.
• You can now share posts in the post viewer.
• You can now respond to green/red polls in stories (you also get to see results before voting)
• You can now open Spotify if a story has linked it (non-playing ones)
• Geotag viewing/searching support
• Added automatic cookie detection on login
• Search field is now empty if you're viewing your own profile while logged in
• Post like counts are now displayed (The button texts are slightly reduced to accommodate @world_record_egg) (logged in only)
• Mute buttons are changed to display the current status (i.e. muted icon when muted, sound icon when not muted)
• Added some new user guidance stuff
• Fixed bugs related to the "Downloaded" icon
• Fixed a bug relating to viewing feed stories
• Fixed a bug where scrolling in full screen causes it to quit full screen

Note: v16.8 introduces an F-Droid button as update checker, however since F-Droid is unexpectedly slow in doing things, it is not functional, and please do not report "it's not working" because I know it's not.

• Full support on hashtags, including stories, "profile picture" (SD only), post count, and (un)following. Removed "Hashtag:" prefix.
• Non-logged-in users now have an "add/remove from favorites" button on the profile/hashtag page, alongside Quick Access.
• Update checker will now have a F-Droid button
• Updated Italian and Simplified Chinese translations
• Crash reporter now directs to [email protected]
• Adjusted grid sizes at popular request
• Adjusted post viewer component sizes (to prevent the buttons being squished downwards, but the exact outcome depends on device)
• Fixed a bug where highlights of the viewed user gets carried to other users
• Fixed a bug where mentions in feeds were parsed incorrectly
• Removed Insta-Stalker (defunct) as an HD profile picture provider, existing users are moved to Instafullsize upon first run.