Purpose
Ins Autopilot is aimed at creators and businesses who manage their own outreach, helping them centralize contacts, conversations, and next actions into a browser-based workflow. It runs through the user's own logged-in browser session and is used to discover potential contacts on Instagram, organize relationship records, draft direct messages, and follow up.
Main capabilities
Contact discovery and organization
- You can view the followers, likers, and commenters under a profile page or post.
- Catch Up can scan the commenters of an opened post or Reel, preview potential warm leads, and then let the user choose to add them or add them to the queue.
- The contacts view centrally displays contact sources, outreach history, and recorded outcomes, and can retain contact notes, sources, message status, and recorded outcomes.
- Supports qualification fields and saved views to help focus on contacts.
- Supports a multi-account overview, and each account must use its corresponding logged-in session to perform actions.
- Relationship records are stored locally in the browser; the official documentation clearly states that this is not a shared team inbox or cloud CRM.
Repeated account actions
- Supports follow, unfollow, and like workflows with goals, filters, and daily limits.
- Provides Safe List and Relationship Guard, allowing important contacts to be reviewed before unfollowing.
- Supports Repost cleanup through "Your activity → Reposts": first scan without making changes, automatically select processable items, and have the user confirm once after adjustments; deletions are performed one by one and verified after each one. The free version allows 10 verified deletions per day, and paid plans allow 200 per day; uncertain results pause for review, and deletions cannot be undone.
Outreach and follow-up
- Direct message and comment outreach, AI drafting, follow-up sequences, and tracking links require Pro.
- The workflow is: review contacts (view source and conversation context) → approve messages (write your own or edit an AI draft) → set up and explicitly start a follow-up sequence → stop subsequent steps once a reply is detected.
- AI drafts are generated only when actively requested by the user, and the user can edit the wording and choose to send or add it to the queue; they need to connect their own supported AI provider and API key, with provider fees billed separately. AI will not write and send replies unattended.
- Approved and queued messages can, after the user starts the workflow, follow limits and detectionCheck automatic execution.
- The sequence checks replies before continuing; duplicate checks and delivery review help avoid treating uncertain results as successfully sent.
- Tracking links can be created and click activity viewed, but a click does not represent a reply, qualification, sale, or appointment.
Repost Cleanup
- Reposts can be scanned, Ready items automatically selected, the user confirms once after adjustments, and deletion and verification are performed one by one.
- The free version allows 10 verified deletions per day, and paid plans allow 200 per day.
- Uncertain results pause for review; deletion is irreversible.
How to Use
- Install and open Instagram: add the extension from the Chrome Web Store, log in to Instagram as usual, and open the side panel next to the tab.
- Choose the feature needed at the moment: the free version can try small follow, like, or Repost cleanup workflows; choose Pro when direct message outreach, AI drafts, and follow-up sequences are needed.
- Review before starting: check recipients or Reposts, content, and limits; set up a sequence only when needed, then start it explicitly.
- Check what actually happened: read the history and pending review items, keep contact notes, and record results.
The in-extension checklist can help connect accounts, save contacts, and achieve the first recorded result. Setup time depends on the account and workflow.
Use Cases
- Creators managing their own outreach and follower engagement.
- Businesses following up with leads, maintaining contact records, and planning next steps.
- Reviewing interactions that may have been missed through Catch Up.
- Performing repetitive account actions such as follow, unfollow, and like, and protecting important contacts with Safe List.
- Cleaning up Reposts.
Limitations and Notes
- Automation carries platform risk. Daily limits, configurable pacing, Safe List protection, and result review help control operations, but do not guarantee account safety. Instagram may still restrict accounts or refuse operations, and platform rules take precedence.
- The extension never asks for an Instagram password and uses the existing browser session.
- Contact records are stored locally; license and usage data reach its backend; requested AI context reaches the provider chosen by the user; tracking link clicks use its tracking service.
- Scheduled browser operations require Chrome and the corresponding Instagram session to remain available.
- Paid plan quotas are shared across linked accounts, not multiplied per account. AI requires the user to configure a supported provider themselves, and the providerFees are billed separately.
- Existing active $24.90 monthly subscribers keep their original price.
Pricing (provided on the official page)
- Free plan: no credit card required; includes follow, unfollow, and like workflows, local relationship record viewing, Repost cleanup (scan, review, and delete), 1 Instagram account; 10 follows, 10 unfollows, and 10 likes per day, 10 verified Repost deletions per day, with quotas updated daily. DM and comment outreach, AI drafts, follow-up sequences, and tracked links require Pro.
- Monthly paid plan: $29/month, cancel anytime; includes DM outreach and sequences that stop when a reply is detected, AI DM drafts and qualification suggestions, contact notes, custom fields and saved views, tracked links and recorded results, 3 Instagram accounts (shared quota), Safe List snapshot protection, priority support; 200 follows, 200 unfollows, and 200 likes per day, 30 comments and 30 DMs per day, and 200 verified Repost deletions per day.
- Annual paid plan: $249/year (about $20.75/month); includes everything in the monthly plan, plus higher daily DM and comment limits; 250 follows, 250 unfollows, and 250 likes per day, 50 comments and 50 DMs per day.
Other notes
The official FAQ mentions that outreach features are live in the PRO plan and include four tools: Direct Message (send one message to a single account), Bulk DM Queue (send according to a recipient list, with a random minimum/maximum delay between each send), Comment (reply to Reels comments matching set keywords), Monitor (track new followers, new likers, and DM replies, with an optional automatic DM template). The history shows each send and its status. DM and comment limits are calculated separately from follows, unfollows, and likes, and are not included in the free plan.