A traveler sketching mountains in a notebook — Carnets turns your travel memories into a beautiful journal

From feed to forever. 

Carnets turns your Instagram travel posts into a beautifully designed journal — yours permanently.

Create your Carnet

You see the full result before paying anything.

Photo by Ilnur Kalimullin on Unsplash

Your Instagram posts and stories are ephemeral...
Travel memories should last forever.

You spent weeks — maybe months — traveling. You photographed sunrises, wrote captions at midnight, filmed moments you never want to forget. All of it lives on Instagram, a platform you don't own and can't control.

One policy change, one account suspension, one corporate pivot — and your memories become collateral damage. You agreed to terms you didn't read, on a platform that treats your life as content to monetise.

A woman taking a picture of a sunset with her cell phone

Photo by Igor Sporynin on Unsplash

Instagram does let you export your data. What you get back is a zip file of broken encoding, stripped metadata, no locations, no structure, and no design. It's technically your data. It's practically unusable.

Carnets turns your travels into moments
you'll want to live again and again.

1

Download your Instagram data

In Instagram settings, request a copy of your data. Instagram emails you a download link — usually within a few hours. Read the full guide.

2

Upload it to Carnets

Drop your Instagram export file into Carnets. We handle everything — the messy encoding, the missing locations, the structure. It takes seconds.

3

Review, edit, and keep it forever

Your journal is ready to explore. Edit any caption, add or remove photos and videos, adjust the layout. When you're happy, it's yours to keep.

No technical knowledge required. If you can attach a file to an email, you can use Carnets.

Magazine-style spread of a travel journal about Patagonia

14 days across Patagonia — 34 posts, 15 stories, 127 photos and videos.
One Carnet.
Yours, forever.

See a Carnet in action

See it in full. Pay when you love it.

Generate your full Carnet, discover every page, tailor your edits.
Your Carnet is yours to explore before it's yours to keep.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Your Instagram file is processed to build your journal and is not stored beyond what's needed. We never sell your data or use it to train AI models. Your content is processed on servers in the EU. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
Yes. You see your complete journal before paying anything. Generate it, explore it, edit it — and only check out when you're happy with the result.
Yes. Your Instagram captions are a starting point, not the final word. You can edit any text, remove photos that didn't make the cut, adjust or add locations, and change the layout before your journal is finalised.
Instagram's HTML export is technically your data but practically unusable — broken special characters, no location data, no structure, no design. Carnets starts from the same raw export and does everything the HTML file doesn't: fixes the encoding, extracts the structure, and applies a layout worth looking at.
You keep everything. Your journal downloads as a self-contained file — it doesn't live exclusively on our servers. If we disappeared tomorrow, your downloaded journal would still exist exactly as you saved it.
No. All you need is the Instagram data export file, which you can download right now from Instagram's settings. Once you have it, Carnets works entirely independently of Instagram.