Linger
Save Instagram view-once photos & DMs on Mac and PC
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Keep every photo, video and voice message people send you in your DMs, including view-once and disappearing media while it's still available. Save one by one, a whole chat at once, or turn on auto-save and let Linger do it. Read and reply from a real desktop inbox, save stories and reels, schedule messages and search your whole history. Everything stays on your computer: no servers, no account, your password never stored. Free for 14 days with no card, then €4.99/month.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: chat export and backup tools · 84 launches, 10 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Messaging
- Social Media
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Could you build this?
Partial The desktop inbox and saving UI are easy to build, but retrieving DMs and view-once media depends on Instagram's private, changing endpoints and encrypted media handling, with no official API.
What it would actually take: A real version would need reverse-engineering of Instagram's private API or web client to read DMs, handling session auth and any media decryption, plus a desktop shell such as Electron or Tauri. Maintenance is continuous because Meta changes these endpoints often, and the approach raises platform-ToS and legal risk. The hard part is the reliable, maintained access layer rather than the UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 584 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #222 of 585 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- Story Autosave · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Kepter · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Download Audio from Instagram · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MediaSave · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ReplyMagnet · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- IG Mass Media Downloader · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Chatcove · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- One Time Tool · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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