Match your brand
Use your brand colours, or one background for all covers, so the row of Highlights looks consistent.
Free Tool
Instagram Highlight Cover Maker
Make matching covers for your Instagram Story Highlights in seconds. Pick an icon or type a word, choose your colours and download — free, with no watermark.
Use the same background and colour for every Highlight, with a different icon for each, so your profile looks consistent.
How It Works
Highlight covers in three steps
Pick an icon or text
Choose one of 36 icons or type a short word such as Travel, Food or Shop.
Choose your colours
Pick a background colour or gradient and a colour for the icon or text, then adjust the size.
Download and add
Download the PNG, open a Highlight on your profile, tap Edit Highlight, then Edit Cover, and choose the image.
About
What are Instagram Highlight covers?
Highlights keep your best Stories on your profile, just below your bio, each shown as a small circle with a cover image. Matching covers — the same background and style with a different icon for each topic — make a profile look tidy and help visitors find what they want, such as prices, reviews or travel. Instagram shows the centre of the cover as a circle, so this maker keeps your icon or text centred and ready to use.
Keep text short
Highlight covers are tiny on phones. One short word or a single icon is easier to read than a long label.
No need to post it
When you edit a cover, Instagram lets you pick an image from your phone, so the cover doesn't have to appear in your Stories.
FAQ
Highlight cover FAQ
Open your profile, press and hold the Highlight and tap Edit Highlight, then Edit Cover. Tap the photo icon, choose the cover you downloaded and tap Done.
Use 1080 × 1920 px (the Story size) or a square 1080 × 1080 px. Instagram shows the centre as a circle, so keep the icon or text in the middle — this maker does that for you.
No. You can choose the cover straight from your phone's photos when you edit the Highlight, without adding it to your Story.
Yes. It's free, with no watermark and no sign-up, and the covers are made in your browser.
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