About Peekghost
Peekghost is an independent, free tool for viewing public Instagram stories, highlights and posts without an account. Here is who we are and how it works.
Peekghost lets you look at public Instagram content — stories, highlights, posts, reels and profile pictures — without logging in. Because no Instagram account of yours is involved, you do not appear in the account owner's viewer list.
Why it exists
Peekghost started in September 2026 to do one job: show what a public Instagram account has posted, meaning its stories, highlights, reels, posts and profile picture, in a browser and without an Instagram login. It is free and paid for by ads, and when a lookup fails it says so instead of showing an empty result.
What it does
- Fetches public content on our servers, so your device never talks to Instagram.
- Plays stories in a player that behaves like the app: tap to skip, hold to pause, swipe to change account.
- Lets you download what you can see, in the quality Instagram serves it.
- Keeps your watchlist, recent searches and settings in your browser.
- Is upfront about limits: it only works for public accounts and can be slow when Instagram throttles requests.
- Tells you what we record, including daily counts of page views and lookups, how often each public username was looked up and a visit log kept for seven days (when, country, device, pages, searches and which public accounts were looked up in each visit). No cookie identifies you. "Anonymous" here means anonymous towards Instagram and the account owner. The privacy policy has the full list.
What it does not do
- It does not show private accounts. Only approved followers can see those, and we do not bypass that. Any site that claims to is a scam.
- It does not ask for your Instagram password, and it never posts, likes or follows anything.
- It does not archive Instagram's media. Videos and original files are streamed through us and not stored; we keep only resized copies of public images in a size-capped performance cache.
Independence
Peekghost is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. "Instagram" is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc., used here only to describe what the tool works with.
Who is behind it
Peekghost is run by one independent operator, based in Israel, and there is no company behind it. Contact: support@peekghost.com. Account owners can use the removal page, copyright owners the DMCA page, and our methodology page explains how we fetch content and what we record. All legal texts are on the legal hub.