Instatine

Instagram is one of the most popular and widely accessed online mobile photo and video-sharing, social network services of our generation. As we are sure you know, Instagram's functionality is only 100% accessible via mobile devices.

This said, you cannot upload photos to Insta directly from your computer but you can do almost everything else, such as view your Instagram feed, like, comment and share posts via the official Instagram.com web app, accessible from any modern web browser.

If you find that accessing the aforementioned web app with the help of your browser a bit counterproductive, then you can try this unofficial Instagram desktop client named Instatine.

In a few words, Instatine is an Electron-based piece of software that is basically a wrapper for the Instagram web app that offers you all its functionality but directly from your computer's desktop.

Evidently, upon first launching the utility, you are required to log in using your Insta or Facebook username and password. Once logged in, you will be greeted by the same interface you are used to, if you have ever used the web app, but fitted within a ultra-simplistic main window.

The functionality is almost identical, with a couple of small exceptions. For starters, we should point out that you can copy the link to the exact page you are currently visiting or quickly refresh its content by accessing the View menu.

And probably even more important, you can visit the previous pages you have accessed thanks to the 'Go Back' options, that is just as easy to reach from the same menu.

It is also worth mentioning that all the previously mentioned actions can be performed with the help of keyboard shortcuts. For example, 'CTRL+L' copies the link to the page you are currently visiting, 'CTRL+Backspace' helps you go back a page and 'CTRL+R' refreshed the whole content.

While it may not bring a whole lot of extra functionality, Instatine is a useful application dedicated to those that want a quicker way to access their Instagram feeds without having one more open tab in their web browsers.