Instagram story tracker

A story tracker watches a profile for you. Instead of opening Instagram to see whether a ring has appeared around someone's profile picture, you get Instagram story alerts: a message when a new story is posted, on public profiles, checked as often as every 4 hours, for up to 5 accounts.

• Can do: spot every new story on a public profile, send it to Telegram, keep it after 24 hours, and show how often and at what time of day the profile usually posts.
• Can't do: see stories on private accounts, Close Friends stories, or who viewed a story. Tools that promise these are guessing or asking for logins.

Yes. Instagram only records a story view when it comes from a logged-in account. Klupt fetches public stories from its own servers, so your name never lands in their viewer list and they are never notified. It's the same approach as Klupt's anonymous story viewer, run on a schedule. More on how it works in the anonymous story viewer guide.

Telegram stores the media it receives, so a story sent to your chat stays there for as long as you keep the chat, long after the 24 hours are up. Telegram also delivers push notifications reliably on every phone and desktop, and you don't need to keep a browser tab open.

You can add and remove profiles inside the bot, or on the web in your story alerts, which also shows each profile's live stories, how many stories it posted in the last 7 days, and the hour it usually posts. The same bot sends alerts for new follows from the follower tracker.

• Free: 1 profile, checked every 12 hours. You get a Telegram alert with a locked preview that tells you how many new stories they posted.
• Premium: up to 5 profiles, checked as often as every 4 hours, with the full photos and videos sent to Telegram. Premium starts from about $0.58/week on the yearly plan in the US; see the pricing page for your country. It also includes the follower tracker and the anonymous story viewer.

Instagram has two built-in ways to keep up with someone's stories. Neither works without effort, and neither keeps the story once it expires.

Want to watch someone's current stories right now? Use the anonymous story viewer. Have a link to one story you want to keep? The story downloader saves it. Looking for older stories saved to a profile? Those are in the highlight viewer. The story tracker is for when you don't want to keep checking: it tells you when there's something new.