What's the difference between Instagram and the Edits app? If I download Edits, can I still use Instagram?

Instagram and Edits are completely separate apps. Instagram is a social media platform where you post content and have followers. Edits is a video editing software created by Meta (Instagram’s parent company) specifically for editing Reels. Edits is similar to other editing tools like CapCut or Canva—you don’t have followers on it. The key advantage of Edits is you can download the raw edited footage and reuse it later. You can use both apps together: edit in Edits, then connect it to your Instagram account to post directly. If you start editing in one app, you can’t transfer that project to the other, but you can use both apps simultaneously without any conflict.

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Asked by an artist confused about Instagram versus Edits · Answered by Mili · art-marketing-101 · 2026-07-03