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You can generate your Top Nine collage for 2022 using topnine.co or the Top Nine apps! Just enter your Instagram username, email (to be notified when it’s ready), tap "Get my Top Nine" and boom! You’ll receive your Top Nine in your email box right away.

Top Nine is both an app, and an Instagram trend. The Top Nine app is a tool that we created to help you generate a collage featuring your Top Nine Instagram photos of the year. The app went viral and grew into a trend where every year millions of Instagram users, influencers, and celebrities share their Best Nine Instagram moments of the year using the Top Nine app.

The Top Nine trend was created by Beta Labs, a team of engineers, marketers, and designers building awesome tools and apps for social media. You can learn more about who is behind Top Nine on our About Us page.

Your Top Nine Instagram posts selected by the Top Nine app are not only the most-liked Instagram photos. We believe that your Top Nine Instagram posts should represent your best 9 moments of 2022, and those are not just selected based on the number of likes they have. There's a very complex algorithm in place to select these. In fact, that’s what makes Top Nine unique :)

The algorithm selects your Top Nine Instagram posts based on a number of factors: number of likes, comments, among others. You can read more about how the Top Nine algorithm works following this link..

Top Nine is developed and maintained by a team with years of experience building tools and apps used by millions of users. Your data and Instagram account are safe, and we never gain access to your Instagram password because the authentication process happens on Instagram.com itself. You can read more about security and privacy using Top Nine following this link.

In certain cases, like when your account is private, we may ask you to sign in to Instagram to provide us with read-only access to see your Instagram posts. This sign up process happens on Instagram.com, meaning we don't have access to perform any other action than "reading" your Instagram posts. We don't have access to any settings, messages, or any other part of your Instagram account.

User privacy is super important to us. We never use your email address other than to make sure you get the best out of Top Nine. Top Nine is used by millions during December, which can cause some service delays. This means you may have to wait a few seconds for your Top Nine to be generated. However, entering your email enables us to deliver it to your inbox as soon as it's ready, so you don't have to wait on the app. Receiving this notification is just one use case, but most importantly, your email is our way to provide support to your account, in case you run into any issues. You can read about how we use your email and more about how we handle your data on our Privacy Policy.

Apps named "Best Nine for Instagram" are not provided by us. Many clones that claim to be Top Nine or similar services are currently available on the App Store. We receive messages from people explaining that they used our app when they've actually used an app called Best Nine or a Top Nine clone.

We understand this confusion as Top and Best are used as synonyms in many articles, but the name of our app is "Top Nine", and it's only available on topnine.co, topnine.app, and our official mobile apps linked from our official websites. If you use a different Top Nine app, the selection of the 9 photos will be different, and more importantly, we can only ensure the security of your account if you use our app.

Top Nine is the original app that started the Top Nine Instagram trend, and the one trusted by millions of Instagram users, influencers, and celebrities. That’s the reason why every year it gets to the #1 spot of the App Store in most countries, including United States . Also, the Top Nine algorithm, together with our commitment to data privacy and security , is what makes us be trusted by each of those millions of users. This enables us to continue building more creative ways to re-live and share those best moments of your year in new formats, building new tools for creators year after year.

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How to find, generate and post your Instagram Top 9

Yes, you can technically turn off your Instagram likes – but isn't it just more fun to know exactly how many likes your photos get?

If you want to bask in the vanity of your Instagram's best-performing posts, you can get a neat little report of your top nine most liked posts, delivered in an aesthetically pleasing square collage.

Usually it’s customary to check on your best posts at the end of the year, but we say why not do it whenever you want? In the olden days, people used to screenshot this report and post it to their actual grids. These days, that’s unheard of, but there's no shame in posting your Top Nine to Instagram Stories. Here’s how you can get in on the action.

1. Pick a website

There are two main services that’ll pull your nine most-liked posts together for you: Top Nine and Best Nine. They’re very similar to each other, but there are a couple of key differences.

Top Nine functions as both a website and an app. If you choose the app route, you can actually opt out of handing over your email address in the process, whereas the desktop version doesn't allow this. It can also search both private and public accounts. Best Nine doesn’t ask for an email at all, but it does seem to run quite a bit slower than Top Nine, and it can only search public accounts. Both promise not to sell your data to any third parties within their privacy policies.

2. Input your handle

Like I mentioned earlier, the different apps will ask for different things, but your handle is essential information. Earlier in 2021, we found Top Nine was rerouting us to the 2020 edition (now part of CreatorKit, which houses video and design tools for social media) from the main website if you’re using the browser version, but as of the end of December, it seems to be working better. Still, make sure you’re in the right place — especially if your 2020 and 2021 top posts are all an unnervingly similar mix of your cat, your baking projects, and masked selfies.

SEE ALSO: How to post Live Photos on Instagram

3. Literally just wait

The sites will do the work for you, it’s just a matter of how long you want to wait. Top Nine’s browser version told me to download the app for the process to take just "seconds, rather than minutes," but since I gave it my email, it actually also emailed my top nine to me upon completion, so I didn’t have to sit on the site.

Best Nine’s disclaimer warned me it could take up to 10 minutes, but from personal experience, it seems to take even longer. I have no patience, so I will personally be skedaddling right on over to Top Nine.

4. Brag

Obviously, we’re not just doing this to gather metrics. We’re doing this to show off. Top Nine’s built-in share button will generate rectangular Instagram Story and square regular post templates for you featuring your personal top nine, which is really nice for aesthetic purposes. It’s easy to save to your Camera Roll and upload via Instagram the way you normally would.

Ooooh, pretty! Credit: screenshot: top nine

Best Nine generates a basic square image that you can download to your device. Neither Best Nine or Top Nine's images are watermarked, if that's something that tends to bother you.

If all else fails, just take a screenshot. You can jazz it up on your Instagram Story however you like, and your followers will surely be impressed by the same posts they already saw the first time you posted them.

But hey, we all deserve some innocent, vain fun. Bring on the Instagram top nines!

This story was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July and December 2021.

How to get 9 of your best photos on Instagram in a year

Best9.app application developer writes to us

My name is Mikhail Lutsky, I am currently a master's student at a Moscow university. I work as an iOS programmer, mostly writing in Swift. I have been fond of programming for more than 7 years, I periodically use it for educational, work purposes, I participate in large hackathons. However, getting the experience of developing my own product is much more pleasant for me, and ideas suitable for implementation rarely arise and at the most inopportune moments, when all the deadlines are already burning. So it happened this time, when work began on the creation of best9.app.

This application will show your best Instagram photos of the year

At the beginning of the 20th of December, my morning began with listening to a voice message from my friend Gleb, who, in a sleepy voice, said that it would be nice to develop an application that counts the total number of likes and comments on a user's Instagram for the outgoing 2019, and a tile of the nine most "liked" photos on a beautiful modern background. Naturally, with the ability to share the resulting collage and report in stories - after all, the user will want to brag about the resulting numbers with everyone, which means that others will learn about the application.

The idea is not fresh in principle, but the idea was to make it as simple and attractive as possible for a potential user: the application should not ask for any authorization or email data, the picture should be juicy and downright compelling an Instagram lover to make a story with results. It would seem to sound good. However, to all this, one more necessary condition was added: the application must be in the App Store before the last days of the year. In other words, as soon as possible, literally right now.

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With the exams closed and some free time, I decided this crazy idea was worth it. Moreover, the experience of hackathons suggested that nothing is impossible.

Two hours later I contacted my fellow programmers, we got together, discussed the work plan and the process started. I did iOS development, my friends did back-end, front-end, Android development, design rendering, testing.

We decided to choose a client-server app concept, so that mobile apps first go to our server, which in turn receives feeds with posts and analyzes them to identify the most popular posts. This made it easier and faster for us to develop. For the mobile application, the Swift language was chosen as the most modern and fastest, while we decided to write the server in Go. In a short time, we managed to raise the server, write an application for iOS, as well as a website with the functionality of the application. Very soon we will have a release for Android.

Through discussion, we came to the conclusion: under the photo collage, the total number of comments and likes will be displayed, and the collage itself can be sorted either by likes or by being discussed. The background of the story is dynamic: a gradient of bright cold colors that changes its shades.

Application development process

Time has passed unnoticed. Torn between everyday activities, development and control of the entire process, I did not notice how it was already the second day from the moment I received a voice message from a friend. Time was already pressing hard. After testing the application first on our own accounts, and then on celebrity accounts, we realized that everything really works. Under a beautiful tile of nine photos, the number of likes and comments is given out, and the background shimmers, creating a combination of bright colors.

The most crucial moment came on the evening of December 22, when the deadline for uploading the build to App Store Connect was running out, because the store's moderator team went on vacation until December 27. If we did not have time to send our application, then all the work would be in vain, because we could lose relevance. And so, at about 23:00 Moscow time, we send the build for verification, write a request to Apple to be considered without a queue, and after 8 hours our application appears in the AppStore.

The application was downloaded in the last hours

The result of our work once again proved that it is possible to develop a product in the "extreme programming" mode from idea to implementation even in such an incredible time as a day. It is enough to get excited about the idea and invest in a 100% properly assembled motivated team, as it happened in our case.

We have already found out our best photos. Try it too!

We are currently preparing an update that we are going to release after December 27th. In the new version, we plan to add more filters and video stories. best9.app is now available for everyone to download, the application is free and does not require any registration.

Title: Best9.App Best nine photos
/Developer: Mikhail Lutskiy
Price: Free
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How to Create a Mosaic on Instagram*

October 27, 2017Web Services

Turning your Instagram* into a work of art is easy. It is enough to evenly cut the photo you have taken.

What kind of mosaic?

Just look at what @micahnotfound or @c.syresmith are doing with their accounts. You can do the same.

How to do?

Desktop editors

You can cut a photo into equal parts in any graphics editor such as Photoshop or GIMP. Just open the photo in the editor, divide it into equal square parts and save each part as a separate file.

Photoshop

From the View menu, choose Show→Grid. Go to the Edit menu and open Preferences → Guides, Grid and Slices.

You can divide the image into parts depending on the panorama you want to create. Just enter the desired value in the "Internal division by" field.

Now that your image is divided into parts, select and copy the desired fragments into separate files.

GIMP

Go to the View menu and enable the Show Grid and Snap to Grid options. Then click on "Image", select "Adjust Grid" and split the image into parts.

Select parts of the image one by one, copy and save to separate files using "File" → "Create" → "From clipboard". Use the hotkeys Ctrl + C and Shift + Ctrl + V to speed up the process.

Web services

Divide a photo into equal parts using web services such as Griddrawingtool.com and Imgonline.com. It's faster and easier.

When the image is cut, you can start downloading. Just remember to upload the bottom right piece of the photo first and the top left piece last.

Mobile Apps

There are many mobile apps that create and upload mosaics to Instagram*.