Privacy Policy

Effective 9 November 2026

Unreeled is a free, open-source app for using Instagram without Reels, suggestions or ads. It isn't made or endorsed by Instagram or Meta. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it. The short version: Unreeled collects nothing about you. Your account goes only between your phone and Instagram.

What stays between your phone and Instagram

• Logging in. You log in on Instagram's own login page, shown inside the app. Unreeled never reads or stores your password.
• Your session. Instagram's cookies stay on your phone, in the app's own web data store. The session values the website provides (such as fb_dtsg and lsd) are kept in your phone's Keychain, on this device only.
• What you see and send. Feeds, stories, messages, profiles and activity come straight from Instagram's servers to your phone. Messages, photos, videos, voice messages, likes and replies you send go straight from your phone to Instagram. None of it passes through any server of ours.
• Saved copies. So screens open instantly, the app keeps recent responses from Instagram (your feed, conversations, profiles you visit) and pictures in its cache on your phone. Anything unused for two weeks is deleted automatically. Logging out deletes all of it.
• Camera, microphone and photos. The camera and microphone are used only while you take a photo or video for your story or record a voice message. Photos you pick from your library are only the ones you choose to send or post.

What you do on Instagram through Unreeled is subject to Instagram's own privacy policy, as it would be on the website.

What we collect

Nothing. Unreeled has no accounts of its own, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking, and it contains no third-party code.

The query list

Instagram changes the IDs of the requests its website makes from time to time. To keep working, Unreeled downloads the project's current list of those IDs from unreeled.app, or from GitHub if that fails: at launch at most every 6 hours, and when a request to Instagram fails. The download carries nothing about you or your account. Like any web request, it reaches the server with your IP address and the app's version. Those servers are run by Cloudflare (unreeled.app) and GitHub; we don't log these requests or use them to identify anyone.

Children

Unreeled is for people who can use Instagram, which requires being at least 13.

Changes

Changes to this policy are published in the project's repository, with their date, and on unreeled.app.

Contact

Questions or problems: write to hello@unreeled.app, or open an issue at github.com/Mdavoigneau/Unreeled.