YouTube Shorts to Instagram Reels on Autopilot with Reels Studio

This is Reels Studio, my free tool: I click a Short, click a day in the calendar and hit schedule.

November 7, 2026 · 4 views · YouTube video: YouTube Shorts → Instagram Reels on Full Autopilot

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Quick overview

Pick a Short, pick a calendar day, hit schedule: Reels Studio posts it as an Instagram Reel on that day.
Title, description, hashtags from YouTube tags and the thumbnail as cover all carry over automatically.
Not a mockup: a real Reel went live at 5 p.m. untouched, with the comment added a minute later.

$0 Cost: free and open source
5 p.m. Reel went live with no manual action
1 min Delay before the auto comment is posted

What happened

Reels Studio lists all your Shorts straight from YouTube. You click one, click a day in the calendar and schedule it. At your publish time it goes live on Instagram with the title, description and hashtags built from the YouTube tags, and the YouTube thumbnail as the cover. A minute later your comment appears under the Reel.

The Short ends on the creator's real Instagram feed: the Reel went out at 5 p.m. and nobody touched it.

Why it matters

Repurposing Shorts to Reels by hand means downloading, re-uploading and retyping captions for every clip. Here a whole week of Reels is planned in a few clicks from one calendar, and the code is open source on GitHub, so you can check exactly what it does.

Watch the full video to see the free Shorts-to-Reels tool set up step by step

FAQ

Can I schedule YouTube Shorts as Instagram Reels for free?

Yes. Reels Studio is free and open source. You select a Short, choose a day and schedule it, and it is published as a Reel with the title, description, hashtags and thumbnail cover. The full video and the free setup guide on proofofdata.io/reels walk through every step.