# Grabowl — Downloader for Instagram

> Save Instagram photos, videos, reels, carousels and stories at original quality. Free, no account, no limits.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabowl](https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabowl)

## Overview

- **ID:** `grabowl`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bidi Media LLC
- **Category:** download-management,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2026-08-22
- **Size:** 73 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-03
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grabowl/)

## Description

Grabowl puts a download button inside Instagram's own action bar — next to like, comment and share — so saving a post is one click, with nothing new to learn.

WHAT IT DOES
• Photos, videos, reels and stories, saved at original quality — the real file, never the on-screen preview
• Carousels: save the slide you are actually looking at, or all of them at once
• Grid thumbnails: hover a tile on any profile and save without opening the post
• Whole profiles in one go, including the Reels tab, with pause and resume
• Your own filename pattern and a folder per account, or a single .zip
• English, Turkish, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, German and French

WHY IT KEEPS WORKING
Most downloaders break whenever Instagram changes its internal queries. Grabowl reads the data Instagram already sends to your browser instead of guessing at those queries, so it survives changes that take other extensions offline.

COMPLETELY FREE
No account, no sign-up, no download limits, no watermarks, no ads, no premium tier. Every feature is available to everyone.

PRIVACY
Grabowl collects nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no servers. Media goes straight from the site to your computer, and the only thing stored is your own settings.

Please respect the rights of the people who created what you download, and the platform's terms of use.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram or Meta.

## Rankings

- #49,603 — Overall
- #112 — instagram

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `downloads`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `*://www.instagram.com/*`
- `*://i.instagram.com/*`
- `*://*.cdninstagram.com/*`
- `*://*.fbcdn.net/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.instagram.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: instagram.com, cdninstagram.com, fbcdn.net
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabowl)