Beautiful, Minimal Stories with Instagram Story Templates

Eric Lu
Kapwing
Published in
2 min readOct 16, 2018

There’s been many times when I wanted to create a simple, but beautiful Instagram Story from multiple images. Instagram makes it easy to snap a picture, and post it to my story, but I haven’t been able to find a good way to give it some extra pizzazz.

With the idea of making stories a little bit more exciting, we set off to build Instagram Story Templates. Our thinking behind this product was to make something that made it really, really easy to create a beautiful Instagram Story.

We realized from the beginning that replacing elements was going to be more straightforward than trying to come up with a design from scratch. When it comes to creation, it was always helpful to see examples of what a finished product could potentially look like instead of starting from a blank canvas.

To this end, we hand-curated a collection of templates that make sense for fitting images and videos together for a 9:16 Instagram Story. We even gave them all appropriate names, like the Sunset in the Desert Template. The result was a large (and growing!) collection of Instagram Story templates that anyone could easily click on and directly use right in their browser.

We hope you’ll find these useful as a small way to create cool content online! We’re planning to add more templates to the collection over time, so stay tuned for updates and in the meantime, enjoy the Instagram Story Templates!

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