Social Media for Lazy People – The Best Instagram Management Tools

Instagram Management Tools to Make Your Life Easier

Growing an Instagram presence organically takes real, sustained effort: engaging with your community, replying to comments, and consistently posting content people actually react to. It’s a lot, but there are tools built to take some of that weight off your shoulders.

There are a number of Instagram management tools tailor-made to ease the burden, and some would even say suffering, of having to manage your account 24/7. Who wants to be awake at 2am pushing Likes to random people’s photos?

Here is our list of Instagram management tools that you can use, sure to give you the time to still see your loved ones or do whatever else makes you happy.

Nitreo

Nitreo has shifted its pitch since it first launched: it now leads with organic, targeted engagement rather than the raw automation angle it started with, worth knowing since Instagram has cracked down hard on inauthentic activity in the years since. In practice, Nitreo grows your account by engaging with accounts that match hashtags, usernames, and locations relevant to your niche, on the logic that a smaller account is more likely to follow back when it gets real attention from a relevant profile.

Nitreo says it combines real device technology with an account manager who checks in periodically, rather than running on pure automation, which is also how it stays inside Instagram’s current rules on inauthentic activity. Plans run $69-$239 a month depending on how much engagement volume you want.

Upleap

If you’d rather have an actual person handle the day-to-day of growing your account, that’s Upleap’s whole pitch. Upleap pairs you with a dedicated account manager who manually handles your engagement activity instead of running it through software.

The tradeoff for a human doing the work instead of a bot is a higher price point: expect to pay more than Nitreo’s entry tier for that dedicated attention. Upleap offers a short free trial so you can see the results before committing to a monthly plan.

Sked Social

Sked Social makes it easy for you to prepare all your content for the week at one time and then send it out in the coming days. It’s like it helps you Skedule Social…wait a minute!

Be proud of how SMART you are working

Sked Social also ties in with the other social networks; Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Not only that, they provide you with a metric tonne of statistics to help you find your niche’s most active times and when interactions are most likely to occur. A similar company, Later, provides a free version too, but with limited functionality.

There’s no question that someone with millions of followers has a lot of influence, and if you’d rather partner with them than build your own following from scratch, Later covers that angle too. Its Later Influence tools help you find creators in your niche and manage the outreach and campaign side of things, so you’re not stuck doing it all through cold DMs.

Combining These Tools With Your Own Content

Something important to keep in mind: No matter how many tools you use, your content has to be great. These services can only amplify what’s there, not turn something uninteresting to gold. If video is part of that content mix, our video marketing tools roundup covers what’s actually worth using to make it.
With the right combination of great content and these tools, however you will free up a lot of time you can dedicate to taking care of yourself and improving your work-life balance.
A quick tip for the uninitiated, don’t try using all these at one time. I recommend you try the ones that you like the sound of, but wait a few days between trying the next. At the end of the day, we all want our accounts to thrive to ultimately bring us customers and money. Lots of money. And retire early. And then go fishing.