The Instagram scheduler that runs itself

Feed photos and videos, carousels, reels and stories. You compose once, preview the result, and postqueen publishes each piece in its native format at the scheduled time.

Yes. Instagram's official API only allows scheduled publishing for professional accounts, meaning Business or Creator. Switching is free and takes about a minute in the Instagram app settings, and your content and followers are unaffected.

There is no universal best time: it depends on when your audience is online. Schedule the same kind of post into a few different slots for a couple of weeks, then compare the results in postqueen analytics and standardize on the winners.

Yes. The built-in assistant drafts captions in your tone, suggests hashtag sets and rewrites anything you highlight. Nothing publishes until you schedule it, and agents like Claude Code or OpenClaw can generate whole batches through the MCP server.

Yes. Compose the vertical video once, select Instagram, TikTok and YouTube as destinations, and adjust the caption per platform before scheduling. Each network gets its own native upload, not a watermarked repost.

postqueen tracks the post-level engagement metrics Instagram's API exposes, such as likes, comments and reach, plus how your follower count moves over time. Use it to compare formats and time slots instead of guessing.

The usual causes are an expired Instagram connection, an account that is not a professional account, an image outside the supported aspect ratios, or hitting Instagram's daily cap on API-published posts. Note that the API expects JPEG images. postqueen shows the error on the post so you can fix the issue and reschedule.

Yes. Every cloud plan starts with a 7-day free trial and you can cancel anytime. If you prefer full control, the open source version is free to self-host with Docker.