Social Media
Hashtag Generator
Type a topic, a few keywords, or your whole caption and get a hashtag block you can paste straight into a post. Suggestions start with your own words, add the naming patterns real accounts use, then top up from a curated pack for your niche. Pick a platform and the counter tracks your selection against its real limit — 30 for Instagram, 15 before YouTube ignores them all — and tap any tag to drop it. Everything runs in your browser.
Enter a keyword or two to generate hashtags.
Suggested hashtags
Tap a hashtag to include or exclude it.
How many hashtags should you use?
Fewer than you think. Instagram accepts 30 and its own guidance now points at three to five; TikTok works best with three to six; X posts do better with one or two than with a wall of them; LinkedIn settles at three; and YouTube ignores every hashtag on a video that lists more than 15. The counter above tracks your selection against the platform you picked, so you can see when you have crossed the line.
Mix broad, mid, and niche tags
A tag with ten million posts buries you in seconds; a tag with two hundred has nobody reading it. The useful middle is a spread: one or two broad tags for reach, several mid-sized ones that describe the actual subject, and a few very specific ones — including your own location, product, or series name — where you can realistically be the top post. The generator orders suggestions that way, with your own words first and the broad filler last.
What makes a hashtag valid
Only letters, numbers, and underscores count. A space, a hyphen, or an apostrophe ends the tag, so #street-food is really just #street. Accents are stripped by most platforms, punctuation is dropped, and a tag made only of digits is not treated as a hashtag at all. Case makes no difference to matching, but capitalising each word — #StreetFoodTour — is easier to read and is what screen readers need to pronounce it correctly.
Where these suggestions come from
They are built from your own words, from the naming patterns real accounts use — #travelgram, #foodlover, #instadaily — and from curated packs for ten common niches. There is no live popularity data behind them, because a page running entirely in your browser has no way to know today's post counts, and a made-up volume figure would be worse than none. Treat the list as a starting point and check anything unfamiliar in the app itself before you post.
Frequently asked questions
How many hashtags should I use on Instagram?
Instagram accepts 30 per post but its own guidance now points at three to five. A handful of tags that genuinely describe the post outperforms a block of thirty, and the extra ones mostly attract bots. The counter above shows your selection against the limit for whichever platform you choose.
Do these hashtags come from live popularity data?
No, and any tool claiming otherwise from a page running in your browser is guessing. Suggestions are built from your own keywords, from naming patterns real accounts use such as travelgram and foodlover, and from curated packs for ten niches. Check anything unfamiliar in the app itself before posting.
What characters are allowed in a hashtag?
Letters, numbers, and underscores only. A space, hyphen, apostrophe, or emoji ends the tag, so #street-food is read as #street. Accents get stripped, and a tag made only of digits is not treated as a hashtag at all. This tool cleans your input to match those rules.
Should hashtags go in the caption or the first comment?
It makes no measurable difference to reach on Instagram, so choose on looks: in the first comment keeps the caption clean, in the caption keeps everything in one place. What does matter is that the tags are there when the post goes live, since tags added later are picked up less reliably.
Why does YouTube behave differently?
YouTube has a hard rule: if a video uses more than 15 hashtags, it ignores all of them, not just the extras. Only the first three appear above the title, so the ones you care about most should come first, and the total should stay well under the limit.