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.
v2.7 [Jul 27, 2017]
- NEW: Carousel (multi-post) uploads! Additions to the Touch Bar, drafts, as well as opening multiple files/folders to support carousel posts.
- NEW: Saved collections! You can long-click the save button to quickly save posts to a new or existing saved collection, as well as via the Touch Bar.
- NEW: Two-factor authentication settings. Enable/disable two-factor authentication and retrieve backup codes.
- NEW: Archived posts.
- NEW: A new "PRO" macOS Menu Bar item with quick access to Flume Pro licence features.
- NEW: Login via email and phone number is now supported.
- NEW: New comment activity now includes an actions menu, for quick access to reply/delete/report new comments.
- NEW: The top likers on posts are displayed when using "All" for the "Media Details" preference setting.
- NEW: A "Copy to Clipboard" option added to the Share menus.
- NEW: Added a subscribe to mailing-list option.
- FIXED: In-progress video exporting, video compressing, and uploads, can now be cancelled.
- FIXED: Video upload reliability improved.
- FIXED: Multiple edit and share windows can be opened at the same time.
- FIXED: Reliability improvements to automatic background refreshes.
- FIXED: A crash that could occur during mouse swipe gestures.
- FIXED: An issue that could cause profiles to hide or quickly refresh content.
- FIXED: Improved the speed of opening and closing Large Preview windows.
- FIXED: The search indicator and icon didn't always reflect the search status when searching for locations to tag.
- FIXED: The image cropping window would not fit on low resolution displays.
- FIXED: The Flume Pro preferences panel now displays the license code button outside of the actions menu.
- FIXED: An issue with an incorrect user tagging window size on uploads.
- FIXED: The photo cropping tool can now crop freely and not just 1:1 (holding shift while resizing will a force 1:1 aspect ratio cropping region).
- FIXED: The upload window title will display draft filenames if opened.
- FIXED: Cmd+S and File > Save Draft… support for uploads.
- FIXED: An issue with dimmed feed items when using Page Up/Down keys.
- FIXED: Support for carousel items that have multiple captions (ads).
- FIXED: Movie playback issue when moving quickly between feed and detail views.
- FIXED: Don't show the follow button for posts when all media details are display.
- FIXED: "Media" is now referred to as "Post/s".
- FIXED: User tags on carousel posts correctly updated.
- FIXED: Slide animations when navigating carousel posts improved.
- FIXED: An issue that could make the "Username" text-field not clickable.
- FIXED: The typing speed in the upload / edit windows is improved.
- FIXED: Messages that contain newlines no longer display "\n".
- FIXED: Messages that contain links correctly include and display link previews.
- FIXED: An issue with cropping videos.
- FIXED: An issue that could cause video previews in upload windows to continue playing with no ability to stop/pause.
- FIXED: Multiple issues related to reliability of non-realtime messaging in Instagram Direct.
- FIXED: Updated placeholders and empty content styles.
- FIXED: Empty upload windows are re-used, when dragging files onto Flume's Dock icon or using the Open command.
- FIXED: A memory-leak related to pop-up "sheets".
- FIXED: Carousel posts now indicate the current "page" briefly.
- FIXED: An issue with detecting certain email addresses as clickable links.
- FIXED: Corrupt/invalid Flume draft files will now display errors.
- FIXED: Improved filter chooser for Touch Bar.
- FIXED: Improvements to location searching display when no results are found.
- FIXED: Display and handle errors when temporary blocked by Instagram for performing too many actions too quickly.
- FIXED: Upload caches are removed on launch/quit.
- FIXED: The App Store License Migrator Tool will no longer create a backup of Flume on the desktop.
- FIXED: Purchasing a Flume Pro license will now open the default browser instead of the in-app window.
- FIXED: A potential fix for rare crashes related to text input.
- FIXED: Reduced the scrolling threshold to trigger a "pull-down-to-refresh".
- FIXED: New version notifications won't appear the next launch after you reset Flume.
