# Free Instagram post video templates

> Square and 4:5 templates for the feed, animated so they stop the scroll. Edit the text, add your pictures and export an MP4 for the grid.

- Page: https://cutluma.com/templates/for/instagram-post
- 173 templates; each opens in the editor with a free account and exports as MP4.

A feed post is either square (1080 × 1080) or portrait 4:5 (1080 × 1350), and 4:5 takes up the most room on a phone screen without being cropped. This page shows templates in both sizes: quote cards, product tiles, price stickers, testimonial walls, tip cards, event announcements and before-and-after frames. Where a Reel is a performance, a feed post is a poster that moves, and the designs here keep the typography big and the motion gentle.

Animated posts stand out on a grid full of still photos, and the loop plays automatically as people scroll. Open a template, write your caption line into the heading, replace the placeholder image and adjust the brand colour. The result exports as an MP4 you post like any video, and it still reads as a clean image when paused. If you later want the same design as a Story or Reel, Magic Resize converts it to 9:16 and repositions the layers.

## Templates (first 40 of 173; the full list is at https://cutluma.com/templates.md)

- [Retro error pop-up](https://cutluma.com/templates/error-popup) — 1:1, 7 s, Trending formats: Y2K desktop nostalgia: grey error windows pop up on a teal screen with a joke of your choice. A meme format that works for brands and creators alike.
- [Magazine cover](https://cutluma.com/templates/magazine-cover) — 4:5, 8 s, Trending formats: Turn any clip into a cover: giant serif masthead, cover lines, issue number, price sticker and barcode. Put yourself on the cover.
- [Starter pack](https://cutluma.com/templates/starter-pack) — 1:1, 8 s, Trending formats: The starter-pack meme, animated: plain bold title on white, six items popping in with tiny captions and a red marker circle around the most relatable one.
- [Word puzzle](https://cutluma.com/templates/wordle) — 1:1, 10 s, Trending formats: The daily five-letter word game: guesses type in row by row and tiles flip to green, yellow and grey until the answer — VIDEO — and a “got it in 4” sticker. Swap the words for your reveal.
- [Year in letters](https://cutluma.com/templates/year-letters) — 1:1, 7 s, Trending formats: Your year in one word: a photo fills a giant 2026 on butter paper, with a serif caption, a "photo dump" sticker and a swipe prompt. Drop your favourite photo onto the year.
- [Fully booked](https://cutluma.com/templates/tr-booked-month) — 1:1, 9 s, Trending formats: A calendar month that fills up in front of you: red crosses strike out every booked day, one lime “last spot” is left and a FULLY BOOKED stamp lands. Edit the dates and the waitlist line for any studio, salon or service.
- [Doc screenshot](https://cutluma.com/templates/tr-doc-screenshot) — 4:5, 10 s, Trending formats: A letter typed live in a familiar online document: menu bar, toolbar, collaborator avatars, a highlighted line and a friend’s comment card. Replace the letter with your own list, confession or advice.
- [Streak](https://cutluma.com/templates/tr-streak) — 1:1, 8 s, Trending formats: A language-app streak screen for any habit: a jelly flame, 365 rolling up in chunky 3D type, a week of ticks and a green EXTEND STREAK button. Change the number and the headline for your own streak.
- [Post screenshot](https://cutluma.com/templates/post-card) — 1:1, 7 s, Social posts: Your best one-liner as a social post card on butter yellow — avatar, name, handle and likes included. Perfect for hot takes, tips and quotes.
- [Five-star review](https://cutluma.com/templates/sp-review-stars) — 1:1, 8 s, Social posts: A customer review on butter yellow: five stars pop in, a giant quote mark drops and the review slides up in serif, signed with the customer’s photo and your product shot. Paste in a real review.
- [Photo dump](https://cutluma.com/templates/sp-photo-dump) — 1:1, 9 s, Social posts: An event recap as a pile of polaroids: six photo frames drop in with handwritten captions, a “200+ came!” seal lands in the middle. Drop your best shots from the night.
- [Holiday hours](https://cutluma.com/templates/sp-holiday-hours) — 1:1, 9 s, Social posts: A shop-door notice in forest green: a “sorry, we’re CLOSED” sign sways on its string over a tidy table of holiday opening hours. Edit the dates and times for any closure.
- [Work anniversary](https://cutluma.com/templates/sp-work-anniv) — 4:5, 9 s, Social posts: A LinkedIn work-anniversary post on falling confetti: your headshot, a huge cobalt 5 rolling up, “years at Your Brand” in italic serif and a colleague’s comment card. Change the years and the company.
- [Carousel tip](https://cutluma.com/templates/sp-carousel-tip) — 4:5, 10 s, Social posts: A carousel in motion: a cherry cover slide with a crossed-out price tag and a nudging “swipe →”, then slide two pushes in with a big outlined 01, the tip and what to do instead. Duplicate it for every slide of your carousel.
- [Carousel cover](https://cutluma.com/templates/so-carousel-cover) — 4:5, 10 s, Social posts: A LinkedIn carousel cover in editorial serif: “5 things I learned from 100 client calls”, five numbered lessons sliding in, a handwritten aside, a spinning SWIPE seal and a nudging swipe pill. Rewrite the list and duplicate for the inner slides.
- [Scan me QR card](https://cutluma.com/templates/so-qr-card) — 1:1, 8 s, Social posts: A lime “SCAN ME” card: giant Archivo Black type, a hand-drawn arrow to a QR frame with viewfinder corners, your link on a black band and three link chips. Drop your real QR code into the frame.
- [Two-panel meme](https://cutluma.com/templates/so-meme-panels) — 1:1, 8 s, Social posts: The classic two-panel meme with Impact-style captions: a calm first panel, then the second one slams in and shakes. Drop the two clips, rewrite the captions and the lime “relatable?” sticker.
- [Newsletter teaser](https://cutluma.com/templates/so-newsletter) — 4:5, 9 s, Social posts: A Substack-style post preview: publication name, a Caslon headline, an italic dek, the author row, the first lines fading out and an orange Subscribe bar. Paste in your post title and first paragraph.
- [Swiss poster](https://cutluma.com/templates/swiss-poster) — 4:5, 8 s, Hooks & intros: International-style poster for an event or announcement: a giant 26 over a red circle, a slowly turning hairline, a rotated side label and tidy grid columns for when, where and tickets.
- [Bauhaus title](https://cutluma.com/templates/bauhaus-title) — 1:1, 7 s, Hooks & intros: Bauhaus tiles keep turning behind a cream title card with a hard shadow; the title slides up line by line and a spinning “new episode” stamp lands on the corner. Great for podcasts and series.
- [Declassified](https://cutluma.com/templates/hk-classified) — 4:5, 9 s, Hooks & intros: A manila folder with a hard shadow: the file number and headline type themselves, black redaction bars slide off two lines to declassify them while the third stays blacked out “(in the video)”, and a red TOP SECRET stamp slams on. A paper-clipped photo frame takes your face.
- [This Friday](https://cutluma.com/templates/hk-this-friday) — 1:1, 9 s, Hooks & intros: A trailer tease on a violet spotlight: “coming” pulls into focus in a hairline serif, THIS FRIDAY glows in wide caps over a breathing orb and a flare line, then the time and a reminder chip with a swinging bell. Change the day and the handle.
- [Did you know?](https://cutluma.com/templates/did-you-know) — 1:1, 8 s, Lists & tips: Cobalt graph paper, a giant lime question-mark sticker, the fact in bold and a stat card whose number counts up. Made for one surprising fact per post.
- [Word of the day](https://cutluma.com/templates/word-of-day) — 4:5, 9 s, Lists & tips: An editorial dictionary entry on blush paper: masthead, a giant Caslon headword, phonetics in mono, the definition and an example, plus a spinning badge. Swap in any word.
- [Shortcut cheat sheet](https://cutluma.com/templates/shortcut-keys) — 1:1, 9 s, Lists & tips: Chrome keycaps with hard shadows on a graphite dot grid: each shortcut pops in and gets pressed, with what it does beside it. Swap the keys for your app or workflow.
- [Pros & cons](https://cutluma.com/templates/pros-cons) — 1:1, 10 s, Lists & tips: Two hard-shadow cards — mint pros, blush cons — fill in point by point, then an ink verdict bar settles it. Rewrite the question, the points and the verdict.
- [Bento tips](https://cutluma.com/templates/ls-bento-tips) — 1:1, 9 s, Lists & tips: Four sleep tips in a bento grid: three frosted-glass cards over a cobalt-and-pink aura and one lime card whose temperature counts up. Swap the emoji and the four tips for any topic.
- [House rules poster](https://cutluma.com/templates/ls-rules-poster) — 4:5, 9 s, Lists & tips: A brutalist 4:5 poster: thick ink border, HOUSE RULES slammed in Archivo Black, five numbered rules in Anton with black number blocks, a red “no exceptions” ticker along the bottom and a NEW seal. Edit the rules for your studio, gym, flat or team.
- [Bingo card](https://cutluma.com/templates/ls-bingo) — 1:1, 10 s, Lists & tips: Creator-burnout bingo: a 4×4 card of relatable squares pops in, four get stamped in tomato along the diagonal, a line slashes through and BINGO! slams on. Change the sixteen squares for any niche.
- [Terminal tip](https://cutluma.com/templates/terminal-tip) — 1:1, 9 s, Tutorials & courses: “Command of the day” on tangerine: a terminal window types the command, the output counts up to gigabytes freed and the copy chip flips to “copied”. Swap in any CLI trick.
- [Curriculum](https://cutluma.com/templates/curriculum) — 4:5, 10 s, Tutorials & courses: Your course outline as a learner would see it: cover, progress ring, six modules with lessons and run times, ticks for finished ones, a lock on the rest and the totals counting up.
- [Do vs don’t](https://cutluma.com/templates/do-dont) — 1:1, 8 s, Tutorials & courses: A common beginner mistake, side by side: a DON’T card and a DO card with slots for your two example screenshots and a one-line fix. Brutalist cards on dot grid paper.
- [Formula card](https://cutluma.com/templates/formula-card) — 4:5, 10 s, Tutorials & courses: An annotated formula on graph paper: compound interest in serif italic with hand-drawn notes, every variable explained and a worked example that counts up. Works for any formula or definition.
- [Student win](https://cutluma.com/templates/student-win) — 1:1, 8 s, Tutorials & courses: A student result straight from your community’s #wins channel: their photo, message and reactions, then the result in big type with a highlighter. Social proof that does not look like an ad.
- [Cheat sheet table](https://cutluma.com/templates/tc-cheat-sheet) — 4:5, 10 s, Tutorials & courses: A save-worthy reference table on cream paper: a black header row, six scenes with their settings in mono that wipe in one by one, an orange outline around your go-to row with a handwritten note, and a rule-of-thumb pill. Swap in any table of values.
- [Apps I use dock](https://cutluma.com/templates/tc-tools-dock) — 1:1, 9 s, Tutorials & courses: A macOS-style frosted dock with the six apps you actually use: each icon bounces up in turn with a tooltip saying what it is for, under a menu bar and a big title. Swap the emoji, names and roles; drop your wallpaper behind it.
- [Activity rings](https://cutluma.com/templates/activity-rings) — 1:1, 8 s, Stats & data: Three progress rings draw themselves in tomato, lime and sky on black, with move, exercise and stand totals counting up beside them. Made for workout recaps and streak posts.
- [Survey results](https://cutluma.com/templates/survey-donut) — 1:1, 8 s, Stats & data: Poll results as a donut chart that draws slice by slice on cream paper, with a big centre figure and a legend whose percentages count up. Change the question, answers and shares.
- [Before → after metric](https://cutluma.com/templates/then-now) — 1:1, 8 s, Stats & data: A case-study result in oxblood and blush: the old number gets struck through, an arrow draws itself and the new number slams onto a colour block with a multiplier sticker.
- [By the numbers](https://cutluma.com/templates/st-bento-numbers) — 1:1, 8 s, Stats & data: A 2×2 bento of cobalt, lime and ink tiles whose numbers count up, plus a fourth tile for your team photo. Rewrite the three figures and labels for a year-end or about-us post.

## Tips

- **Pick 4:5 for reach, 1:1 for the grid** — Portrait 4:5 fills more of the screen in the feed, while square previews cleanly on your profile grid. Many of the templates exist in both; choose by where people will see it first.
- **Treat the first frame as the thumbnail** — The grid shows a still of your post. Make sure the opening frame already has your headline or product visible rather than a blank background that animates in.
- **One message per post** — Posts are glanced at. A template with one line and one image outperforms a crowded one; put the detail in the caption text, not the video.

## FAQ

**What size should an Instagram post video be?**

Square posts are 1:1 at 1080 × 1080 and portrait posts are 4:5 at 1080 × 1350. Both sizes are on this page and export as 1080p MP4.

**Can I post an MP4 to the Instagram feed?**

Yes. Instagram accepts video posts in the feed; upload the exported MP4 from the app as you would a photo and it plays and loops in the grid.

**Are the Instagram post templates free?**

Yes. Every template is free to edit and export with a small watermark; paid plans export without it.

**Can I convert a post to a Story or Reel?**

Yes. Magic Resize switches a design between 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 and 16:9 and moves the elements so the layout still works.