Curia — Support

Last updated: October 16, 2026

See it. Save it. Keep it.

Curia saves publicly posted Instagram, X and Threads media to your device, then lets you organise, edit, collage and share it. There is no Curia account and nothing is stored in the cloud. The Library works offline. Finding new media needs a connection.

What Curia does

Getting started

Saving from a link

  1. Copy the link to a public Instagram post, Reel, Story or Highlight, an X post, or a Threads post.
  2. Open Curia and paste it into the box on the Save screen.
  3. Curia finds the media and shows you a preview.
  4. Deselect anything you don’t want, and tap Save.

Saving by sharing

From another app, tap Share and choose Curia. The link goes straight into Curia, which resolves it and shows you the preview.

If you share text containing more than one link, Curia won’t guess which one you meant — it asks you to share just the post link instead.

Checking a Source

Sources is a manual check of a public Instagram or X handle you add, not a feed Curia watches for you.

  1. Add the handle, then tap Check.
  2. New public posts appear as results you can open and save. Nothing is saved until you choose it.

For an Instagram Source, sign in on Instagram’s own page if Curia asks — Curia never sees that password. Checking an X account needs no sign-in at all: Curia’s own service reads the public profile page and hands back a few recent public posts.

Hashtags are not a Source in this version.

Common questions

Can Curia save private posts, Stories, or anything behind a login?
Curia saves only from public accounts, never from private ones. Most public posts need no sign-in. Instagram shows Stories, and some public posts (for example ones an account limits by age), only to signed-in accounts. For those, Curia opens the page on your phone using your own Instagram sign-in, the way your browser would, and Instagram may count that as you viewing it. Curia never asks for your Instagram password; you sign in on Instagram’s own page inside the app. An X post or X check needs no sign-in at all.
Why did Curia ask me to sign in to Instagram?
Instagram shows Stories, and some public posts, only to signed-in accounts, and it may ask you to sign in when you check an Instagram Source. You sign in on Instagram’s own page, inside the app. Your password and sign-in go only to Instagram, never to Curia’s servers. Before Curia first uses your sign-in to open a post, it tells you and asks. Curia only checks whether you’re signed in.
Why doesn’t the video play before I save it?
Curia shows a still frame and the duration on the preview screen. Video plays once it’s saved, in the Library — this keeps everything Curia downloads inside its own validated, safety-checked transport rather than handing an unverified address to the system video player.
Where are my saved files? I can’t find them in Photos.
Saved media lives in Curia’s own private storage, not your photo library. To put a copy in Photos, open an item and choose Add to Photos.
If I delete something from Photos, does it disappear from Curia?
No, and vice versa. “Add to Photos” makes an independent copy. Deleting in one place never touches the other.
I saved the same post twice and Curia said “Already in Library”.
Curia spots duplicates and skips them by default. If you actually want a second copy, choose Keep Another Copy when it asks — or Save Anyway, which is what the button says for a single item.
Does Curia watch accounts or download things automatically?
No. Curia does nothing in the background — no monitoring, no polling, no scheduled checks, no notifications. It acts only when you ask it to.
Will my Library survive an app update?
Yes. Your Library is stored durably on the device and is carried forward across updates.
How do I get rid of everything?
Settings → Clear Library & data deletes saved items and collections. It does not remove an Instagram sign-in kept on the device, and it does not revoke a Curia Pro purchase. Uninstall removes the sign-in too. Nothing is held on a server. Curia declines to clear while a save is still running — finish or cancel it first.

Curia Pro

A one-time purchase that removes Curia’s Library and save ads permanently for the store account that buys it. Google Play and the App Store show the price in your currency (US$9.99 in the United States). There is no subscription and it is not a cloud entitlement. Payment belongs to the Google Play or App Store account that completed the purchase.

On iPhone, the App Store product is Family Sharing enabled. Family members who can use your purchases can use Pro. Curia learns that from the store; it does not keep a family list of its own. Google Play has no family-sharing field on this one-time product. On Android, restore on any device signed into the same Google account.

I bought Pro but it’s showing ads / asking me to buy again.
Go to Settings → Go ad-free (or Ad-free — purchased) → Restore Purchase. A completed purchase belongs to the store account that bought it. Restore works on a device where that store can answer. On iPhone, Restore may ask for your Apple Account password. Opening Curia after a reinstall, while signed into the same Apple ID, is enough — that query does not present the password sheet.
I bought Pro, then cleared Curia’s data. Did I lose it?
No. Clearing local data never revokes a purchase. Restore it as above.
Pro isn’t restoring.
Check you’re signed in to the store account you bought it with, and that you have a connection. If the store is unreachable, Curia keeps your last known Pro status rather than downgrading you.

Troubleshooting

“Saving is temporarily unavailable.”
Your Library is safe. Try again in a moment. Curia couldn’t reach the service that finds media.
“Saving from this platform is paused.”
It’s temporarily unavailable. Your Library is safe — try again later. The service is reachable but isn’t offering that platform right now.
“You’re offline.”
Finding media needs a connection. Media already in your Library is still there. Browsing, Collections, editing, collages, sharing, and exporting work offline.
“That doesn’t look like a post link.”
Check the address and paste the whole link, including the part before the site name. A profile page, a search page, or a shortened link that doesn’t expand won’t resolve.
“This media link has expired.”
Try again and Curia will fetch a fresh one. Your Library is safe. If the post itself changed — items removed, reordered, replaced — Curia stops rather than save you something different from what you chose.
“This post isn’t available.”
It may be private or restricted. Your Library is safe.
“This post is gone.”
It looks like it was removed. Nothing changed in your Library.
“Nothing here Curia can save.”
This post has no media Curia supports.
“Too many requests right now.”
The platform is asking us to slow down. Your Library is safe — try again shortly.
“Not enough space.”
Free up some space on your device, then try again. Your Library is safe.
“Download stopped.”
Nothing new was added to your Library. Try again.
“Curia can’t reach your photo library.”
Saving a copy to Photos needs permission. Media already in Curia is unaffected. On iPhone, Curia asks before adding a copy. On Android 10 and newer, putting a copy in Photos does not need a permission prompt.
A preview thumbnail is blank or broken.
The preview image failed to load, which doesn’t mean the save will fail. Tap Retry, or just tap Save.
Some items saved and some didn’t.
Curia reports exactly what happened and saves what it can. Retry picks up only what’s missing — it won’t duplicate what already landed.

Accessibility

Curia is designed for screen-reader use. Every control carries a label, media thumbnails have meaningful descriptions, and selection state is signalled by a tick, a border and the word “Selected” — never by colour alone. All seven themes pass WCAG 2.1 contrast in both light and dark mode.

If something is unusable with assistive technology, please tell us — that’s a bug, and we’d like to fix it.

Privacy

Curia holds no account and stores nothing about you on any server. Full detail: Privacy Policy.

Contact us

support@hmb-software.com

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