This is the part I think actually makes InSave different, so I wanted it to feel good. The problem: everyone’s got a graveyard of saved reels they’ll never see again. InSave lets you dig it up. You hand it the data file Instagram gives you when you ask for your stuff, and it lays out every reel you ever saved so you can grab the few that mattered and let the rest stay buried.

The thing I cared most about: your entire saved history never leaves your phone. It gets read right there on the device, and only the handful you actually choose to keep ever get sent anywhere. The graveyard is yours and it stays yours.

Two bugs nearly slipped through, The syncing code was telling itself “yep, saved that” for reels it had not actually saved, so on a bad day reels could just quietly disappear with no error to tell you. That’s the worst kind of bug, the silent one. Fixed it so it only ticks a reel off once it can actually see it stored. The second was smaller, hit “keep all from this person” twice and you’d get duplicates. Made it so keeping something twice does nothing the second time.

Where it landed: 46 tests passing, up from 20, and a clean build. The whole import-and-triage flow holds together end to end. Still to do on the real phone, feed it an actual Instagram export and confirm it really does make zero calls out to Instagram while you browse, which is the promise the whole privacy story rests on.

One lesson I’m taking, bugs are a pain in the a** when you dont even know where theyre coming from, bugs that lose your data while smiling at you is worse than one that crashes.

More to come!