Flume is an Instagram desktop client developed for Mac computers. With its help, you can send messages to your Instagram friends, leave comments to your favorite posts, upload new pictures and videos on your profile page, and so much more.
The program is very intuitive and fully customizable. What's more, it comes with a built-in help manual that teaches you how to work with Flume on your Mac.
You can use the utility to share your newest pictures and video clips, mark your favorite posts or follow other people's accounts like you would normally do from your default web browser, smartphone or tablet.
The only thing you need to consider before using this program on your Mac is that it violates Instagram's Community Guidelines. To be more exact, this tool isn't an official client created by the company owning the Instagram service. As a consequence, based on the guidelines from the aforementioned service, there's a chance that your account might be deleted after using Flume on your Mac. Still, on the Flume website, it says that "0 accounts have been banned through their use of Flume".
Therefore, it's up to you to decide if it's worth taking the risk to start using Flume on your computer to manage your Instagram account.
v2.3 [Sep 15, 2016]
- NEW: Videos can now be uploaded in 1:1 square format, and also cropped in original format should they be too wide or tall.
- NEW: “Hover shortcuts”. Quickly like, comment, or zoom media using the L, C or Spacebar keys while hovering the mouse over items.
- NEW: “Show Media Details” now displays captions and likes/comment counts in Column-View mode.
- NEW: Added support for Ukrainian.
- NEW: Long-press support. Hold down the left-mouse on Media to toggle the Large Preview window.
- NEW: You can now browse items directly from the Detail View.
- FIXED: Sharing to a Facebook page from the Upload window now correctly shares to the correct page, rather than the Timeline.
- FIXED: High resolution images in portrait orientation did not upload correctly.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur randomly in the future, after viewing the location tagged posts of a user.
- FIXED: A crash that would occur when typing the # character in the Upload caption.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur after pasting text in the caption text area.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur when using multiple accounts and pressing the “Post” button.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur when trying to deselect a selection.
- FIXED: Video duration labels were clipped and not always center-aligned.
- FIXED: Older conversations did not always load.
- FIXED: A rare but potential crash that could occur when popping a view.
- FIXED: A fix for a potential crash, after trying to download the same avatar twice.
- FIXED: Some some rare crashes related to viewing the followers/following/requested followers on the Profile tab.
- FIXED: A potential crash that could occur when clicking on the tagged profile posts of a user.
- FIXED: A potential crash that could occur when trying to switch quickly between tabs.
- FIXED: A crash when trying to request content and the session had timed-out (potentially from a previous crash).
- FIXED: A potential crash when pressing the “Clear Caches” button and new content was being downloaded/updated.
- FIXED: An issue that could result in duplicated items in Profiles.
- FIXED: A crash related to emoji-hashtags you had composed as a comment or caption
- FIXED: Compatibility with an upcoming OS release.
