Ramme

Unofficial Instagram Desktop App

[![](media/screenshot.png)](https://github.com/terkelg/ramme/releases/latest)

Features

Background behavior

When closing the window, the app will continue running in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows. Right-click the dock/tray icon and choose Quit to completely quit the app. On macOS, click the dock icon to show the window. On Linux, right-click the tray icon and choose Toggle to toggle the window. On Windows, click the tray icon to toggle the window.

Install

macOS 10.9+, Windows 7+ & Linux are supported.

macOS

Homebrew Cask

$ brew update && brew tap caskroom/cask && brew cask install ramme

Manually

Download, unzip, and move Ramme.app to the /Applications directory.

Linux

Download and unzip to some location.

To add a shortcut to the app, create a file in ~/.local/share/applications called ramme.desktop with the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Ramme
Exec=/full/path/to/folder/Ramme
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/full/path/to/folder/Ramme/resources/app/static/Icon.png

Windows

Download and unzip to some location.

Roadmap

v2.0

Upload Photo feature
Shortcuts

v3.0

"Instagram Stories" support
Dark mode

Dev

Built with Electron.

Commands

Init: $ npm install
Run: $ npm start
Build macOS: $ npm run build:macos
Build Linux: $ npm run build:linux
Build Windows: $ npm run build:windows
Build all: $ brew install wine and $ npm run build (macOS only)

Inspiration from the super human Sindre Sorhus. Please check out his stuff:

Anatine - Pristine Twitter app
Caprine - Caprine Facebook Messenger app

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