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

Pre-launch version, currently 100% free to use. Feedback welcome

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, great for sharing but at risk of being lost. One policy change, one account suspension, one hack - and all your photos and videos are gone.

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

Photo by Igor Sporynin on Unsplash

Instagram lets you export your data, thanks to GDPR. What you get back is a zip file practically unusable.
This is where Carnets kicks in!

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

1

Export your Instagram archive

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

Read the full guide.

Download your Instagram data
2

Upload it to Carnets

Drop your Instagram archive into Carnets. We handle everything — the messy encoding, the missing locations, the structure. It takes minutes, well worth the wait.

Upload your Instagram export to Carnets
3

Refine the details, and keep it forever

Your Carnet 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.

Review and edit your Carnet

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

Create your Carnet
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

For the trips worth remembering.

Backpacker on a long-term journey

For world travelers. This is for them that Carnets was built initially

Hundreds of posts. Dozens of countries. One journey that deserves more than a buried feed.

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Family traveling together

For the family trips they won't remember — until you show them.

The chaos, the wonder, the in-between moments. The ones that become the story.

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A weekend getaway

For every weekend that felt different from the last.

Short trips vanish fastest. Carnets makes sure this one doesn't.

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Cultural travel and documentary moments

For the curious mind who documented everything.

The caption you wrote outside that museum. The market stall. The thing you had to write down. It's all here.

Love it before you pay anything.

Carnets is free to use : create your Carnet from your Instagram archive,
edit and save it for 30 days.

You pay only when you're ready to share, or keep your Carnet forever.

1 year
€24.99
  • Share your Carnets with your loved ones
  • PDF download for all Carnets (coming soon)
  • Continued editing after download
  • Online access for the full year
  • Unlimited number of Carnets

No automatic renewal.

25% off2 years
€37.49
  • Share your Carnets with your loved ones
  • PDF download for all Carnets (coming soon)
  • Continued editing after download
  • Online access for two full years
  • Create, store and share as many Carnets as you like

No automatic renewal.

Traveling for a cause? We offer complimentary Carnets for qualifying non-profit and humanitarian work. Let's talk

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 Data Processing page.
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.