@your.year2026
2026
You loved these.
Your year by@prevz_app
December, but honest
Your Instagram year recap, without the guesswork.
Every year the grid fills with recaps: best nine, top posts, a wall of covers. Prevz builds yours from the posts you actually published — your nine most-loved, your totals, your monthly rhythm and the colours your year was made of.
Updated 1 November 2026 · Prevz 0.6
iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free to preview
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Story cards, Post cards, one identity.
Each card has its own ink and accent drawn from the brand, a serif moment line, your numbers, and the same signature at the bottom. Export vertical Stories at 1080 × 1920 or Posts at 1080 × 1350.
- — Top 1, top 5 or top 9, by likes, saves or comments
- — Totals, averages and the share taken by your best post
- — A palette sampled from up to 36 photos across the year
@your.year2026
2026
That was a year.
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Your year by@prevz_app
What a good year recap is made of
A recap is not a screenshot of your profile. It is a reading of twelve months: what worked, how often you showed up, and what your year looked like in aggregate. The interesting parts are rarely the totals — they are the shape.
- Your top nine. The posts that collected the most likes, saves or comments — your choice of metric.
- Your totals. Posts, photos (carousel slides included), likes, comments.
- Your rhythm. Posts per month and per format, so a quiet July is visible next to a busy October.
- Your palette. The colours sampled from up to 36 photos spread across the year.
- Two picks. The one you love, next to the one your audience loved.
The top 9 of the year
“Top 9” means something different in December. Here it is a ranking, not a layout: the nine posts with the highest count on a metric you choose. Likes measure reach, saves measure usefulness, comments measure conversation — and the nine look different for each.
You can also make the card smaller: top 1 for a hero post, top 5 for a tight selection. The gallery keeps the photos' proportions intact, so a tall photo is not stretched to fill a square.
Built from the posts you actually published
Most best-nine tools ask you to select photos from your camera roll, which produces a recap of your year rather than of your account. Prevz reads your published posts instead — captions, carousels and counters included — so the recap matches what your audience actually saw.
Connect a Creator or Business account once and the app imports your posts and the statistics Instagram makes available. Counts that the API does not return are shown as unknown, never as zero.
Looking for the 2026 card?
There is a dedicated page for the seasonal recap: Instagram top 9 2026 — the window, the metric, and when to post it.
No invented numbers.
If a metric is missing, the card says so instead of guessing. A recap that flatters you with wrong totals is not worth sharing.
From the grid to the slides
Each card exists in two editions. In the spotlight puts the numbers first — big, legible, made for a screenshot. Photo diary puts the photos first, with a serif moment line and a lighter touch.
Export format follows where it will live: vertical 1080 × 1920 for Stories and Reel covers, 1080 × 1350 for a feed post. The same card, two canvases, no re-layout by hand.
A recap that stays optimistic
The tone is a design decision, not a marketing one: a recap is always positive, even in a quiet year. The optimism comes from the angle — “you kept showing up”, “a different league”, “every frame counts” — never from changing the numbers. Your totals stay your totals.
Small years get celebrated for their consistency. Big years get put in perspective with references you can check. Both are honest.
Related guides
- Instagram Wrapped 2026 — the trend, explained honestly.
- Best nine 2026 — best nine vs top nine, and which metric to use.
- Instagram Wrapped vs Spotify Wrapped — what each platform actually gives you.
- The iPhone app — build the card from your published posts.
Questions
About the recap.
How do I get my Instagram top 9 of the year?
Rank your year's posts by one metric and keep the first nine. Prevz does this from your published posts once an account is connected, then lays the nine out as a Story or Post card you can export.
Do I have to connect Instagram to build a recap?
For a recap of your published posts and their counters, yes — the app needs permission to read your media. You can still use Prevz to preview grids and plan posts without connecting anything.
What if some counters are missing?
Instagram does not always return every metric for every post. Missing values are treated as unknown, and any ratio that depends on them is skipped rather than estimated.
Which format should I post?
Use 1080 × 1920 Stories for the swipe-through version and 1080 × 1350 for a single feed post. Both are exported directly; the layout is already composed for each canvas.
A year, worth sharing.
Your photos. Your numbers. Your recap. Built from what you actually published.
iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free to preview