Instagram lets you save thousands of posts and gives you no way to search them. Sniff reads every one — the captions, the words printed on the pictures, and what the pictures show — then fetches the one you meant.
Safari coming soon.
Needs instagram.com in a browser on a computer — the same saves you made on your phone.
Sniff walks your whole saved collection to the end — Instagram only hands over a page at a time, so this part takes a few minutes and it tells you when it has genuinely reached the bottom.
Captions, accounts, collections, hashtags, the words printed on each picture, and — if you turn it on — what each picture actually shows. One pass, no separate setup.
Newest saves first, and every result says why it matched. A post that only carries your word as a hashtag sits below a line, so a weak guess never looks like a confident answer.
Sniff installs from the browser's own store like anything else. There is no file to download and nothing to unzip.
Press Add to Chrome or Add to Edge at the top of this page, then confirm. That is the whole install.
Go to instagram.com on the computer, signed in as usual, and open Saved. Click the dog in your toolbar to open the panel beside it.
Then leave the tab alone for a few minutes. It tells you when it has reached the bottom of your collection, and the search box appears when there is something to search.
Two things at once: Sniff walks your saved collection to the end, and it reads each picture as it arrives — the words printed on it, and what it shows.
Recognising what a picture shows needs an open-source model that is too big to ship inside an extension, so it comes down once on that first run, automatically, and then works with no connection at all. You do not have to turn anything on.
After that, Check for new saves picks up whatever you have saved since, and takes seconds rather than minutes.
Nothing to do. The store updates Sniff in the background, usually within a few hours of a new version, and your index survives the update untouched.
No, and it's the thing worth knowing first. Sniff is a desktop browser extension: you open instagram.com in Chrome on a computer and sign in with the same account. Your saves are identical on both, so everything you saved from your phone is exactly what Sniff indexes — but iOS and Android don't let anything add extensions to Instagram, so there is nothing to install on a phone.
No — and not in the "we promise not to peek" sense. Sniff has no backend at all. The index lives in your own browser, the text is read off pictures by code running on your machine, and if you turn on picture search the model comes down to you rather than your pictures going up to it. Nothing is transmitted anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go.
Never. Sniff works inside the browser session you're already signed into, exactly like the page in front of you. It can't log in, and it never asks.
Sniff reads the saved page your own browser has already loaded, at roughly the speed you'd scroll it yourself. It doesn't log in, post, follow, message, or touch anyone else's data. That said, nobody can promise you anything about how a platform enforces its rules, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.
The index goes with it, immediately and completely. There's no copy anywhere else, because there is nowhere else.
Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Both run the same code from the same source — Edge is Chromium underneath, and the side panel Sniff lives in works identically there. Brave should work too. Firefox is further off, and Safari is possible but needs real work, since it has to be wrapped as a Mac app.
Free, no account, and nothing ever leaves your computer.
Safari coming soon.