# InstDown: Save Stories & Reels — user reviews > 136 indexed App Store user reviews of InstDown by Ersen Sahin, rated 4.77/5 from 9,101 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instdown-save-stories-and-reels/id1644387580/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instdown-save-stories-and-reels/id1644387580.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8,104 · 4★ 453 · 3★ 205 · 2★ 113 · 1★ 223 ## What do users think of InstDown? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and efficient - 💡 Useful for saving content - 👍 Easy to use **Cons** - 🤬 Excessive ads - 🐛 Glitches and crashes - 💸 Paid version required for full functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - App not working or connecting to servers - Forced to watch long ads without being able to download - Subscription issues and app not functioning as expected **Most requested features** - Reduce ads or offer ad-free version - Improve reliability and stability - Provide more download options ## Newest reviews (15 of 136) ### 2/5 — Very often thinks I didn’t pay for Premium -keep having to “Restore” purchase *2025-07-22* I often launch the app and am greeted with ads, despite paying for a subscription. I have to close and re-launch the app. Sometimes two, three times, before it realizes I have “premium “ subscription. I don’t recommend this app, will not renew. When it works, it’s good. But it’s buggy to the point of frustration. Will not renew subscription. ### 2/5 — Often thinks I didn’t pay for Premium *2025-07-05* I often launch the app and am greeted with ads, despite paying for a subscription. I have to close and re-launch the app. Sometimes two, three times, before it realizes I have “premium “ subscription. I don’t recommend this app, will not renew. When it works, it’s good. But it’s buggy to the point of frustration. ### 3/5 — Video vs. Photo *2025-06-12* Video downloads are lower quality than photo downloads. Videos are 360p when photos retain at least a 1080p. They need to fix the quality of video downloads; otherwise, it’s great for photos but not much for videos. ### 1/5 — Ad Farm extraordinaire *2025-05-23* Only download this app if you enjoy watching 5 minutes of adds then being tricked into thinking you can now save a video or clip then being redirected to another 1-2 minute add before actually being allowed to save the video. EVERY TIME. That’s 5-6 minutes of unskippable adds per video download. If it’s worth the time to you, good luck ### 1/5 — The ads are impossible *2025-05-21, version 1.1.6* The ads are impossible To get out of and the quality is super blurry once it finally downloads. Idk why it has good Reviews ### 1/5 — opinion *2025-05-20, version 1.1.6* So Bad . Too many ads. Too many ads. Too many ads👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 ### 2/5 — Works but the ads are ridiculous *2025-05-12, version 1.1.6* Iv never used an app with this many ads at this high of frequency ### 2/5 — Dos estrellas porque pude hacer lo que hice se pueden descargar vídeos pero tienen más anuncio que *2025-05-10, version 1.1.6* Mala la app ### 1/5 — Жесть *2025-05-07, version 1.1.6* Столько рекламы не видел никогда ! Не советую , разработчики удивили ### 1/5 — Too many adverts *2025-05-03, version 1.1.6* 60 sec at beginning, after that if you want to save it, watch another 2 more adverts, which is 60sec each! Rubbish! ### 1/5 — Гно *2025-05-01, version 1.1.6* Чтобы что-то скачать, нужно 10 телодвижений и посмотреть 100 реклам ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-04-30, version 1.1.6* Unusable because of ads ### 1/5 — Instdown *2025-04-30, version 1.1.6* Too many ads stay away ### 1/5 — Money based *2025-04-26* This app just wants to use you in order to get rich, understandable, but such ads force you to leave the app and go to external links and other apps for you to download, they show you ads once you paste the link and then once you tap save, it begins showing you even more. Forces you to interacts with these ads in order for you to be able to move on. For you to save a little vid it will take you a while. Should be plug and play. ### 1/5 — Too many ads!! *2025-04-24, version 1.1.6* I couldn’t save a video because of amount of ads I forced to watch without of possibly to skip or press any key. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Just ads *2025-06-14* Horrible app! Won’t let you download anything without sitting through multiple ads and some of the ads give you no option to opts out of them so you literally have to close the app, open the app again and sit through 5 more minutes of ads. Don’t waste your time. ### 1/5 — Literally just ads *2025-06-09, version 1.1.6* Don’t even know if the app works because I never made it past the 3 minutes of ads to even test it out ### 1/5 — its awful *2025-06-09, version 1.1.6* I think that the creator of this app should be shot ### 1/5 — Way too many Ads! Don’t download this app. *2025-06-08, version 1.1.6* Do not download, the amount of Ads is infuriating. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t worth the time you wait for ads *2025-06-08, version 1.1.6* They crazily heavily put advertising. Super annoying. ### 1/5 — 👏 *2025-06-01, version 1.1.6* Not bad, can't download but can watch ads ### 1/5 — Terrible Ads *2025-05-29, version 1.1.6* Don't download this. The ads took so long upon opening of the app and then when you click save. ### 1/5 — Ads *2025-05-26, version 1.1.6* This app teeters on unusable because an add pops up for two minutes anytime you try to do anything. Absolutely predatory ad use on a simple app nobody would spend more than thirty seconds on otherwise. Pitiful strategy to monetize a simple app ### 1/5 — To many ads *2025-05-25, version 1.1.6* (Title) ### 1/5 — Too much ad *2025-05-23, version 1.1.6* The ads are too much .. download the app , run ads , download the video and all of this are done with my data .. then why is there so much ads ? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Review *2025-06-13, version 1.1.6* I give you review after proper ur services..just open dis app ### 5/5 — Great app (subscriber) *2025-05-30* I’ve used this app for two months now without any issues. Works great. ### 5/5 — Your flowers *2025-05-21, version 1.1.6* Satisfying ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2025-04-29* I don’t write reviews often but this app is amazing it doesn’t ask for your account information yes there are a lot of ads but that’s how they make it free I took forever to find a app to save photos or videos this might be the one. ### 5/5 — Exelente *2025-04-26, version 1.1.6* Muy buena aplicación para descargar videos, fácil y rápido ### 5/5 — It works flawlessly *2025-04-14* There are so many people trying to make an app like this. Well, InstDown works without any single issues constantly. And now they’ve even added Threads support. I use this app regularly and absolutely love it. Worth every premium subscription penny. ### 5/5 — …… *2025-04-11, version 1.1.6* Very Good ### 5/5 — Great App *2025-03-27, version 1.1.6* This has been a great and useful app so far Thank you ### 5/5 — AMAZINGGGG!!!!!!!! IT WORKS!! *2025-03-23* I just spent over an hour downloading all these different apps trying to save a single Instagram reel and none of them worked. In THREE clicks of this app the video was downloaded. Truly cannot recommend this enough. I was scared all the good reviews were bots, they are NOT. Happy saving:)! ### 5/5 — Updated *2025-03-12, version 1.1.6* Thank you Admin for fixing the mistake ^^ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*