An Order You Chose
Newest first or most-liked first, applied to the whole set at once. Because the sequence is fixed, you can stop halfway and know exactly what is above and below you.
The comment order in the app is neither newest nor most-liked, so scrolling never converges — you cannot tell what you have already read.
A comment section you can scroll is not a comment section you can read. Below: the order it arrives in, what gets opened out, and who was pulled in.
Newest first or most-liked first, applied to the whole set at once. Because the sequence is fixed, you can stop halfway and know exactly what is above and below you.
The threads sitting behind "View replies" come out flat alongside their parent, so a twelve-reply argument under one comment is readable in place instead of one tap at a time.
Every @ mention in the section is pulled out separately — the people being summoned into the conversation, and by whom, which is how a post travels on Instagram.
A post link becomes a comment section you can actually get through, in three steps.
Any public post or Reel. Name the order you want them in, or take the default.
It fetches the section, opens the collapsed reply threads, puts everything in the order you asked for, and separates out the tags.
Replying, hiding, and reporting all still happen in Instagram. Store the run as a Playbook and the next post opens the same way unasked.
Scrolling is not reading. The difference is whether you know where you are.
Load a busy comment section twice and the order is different both times. A comment from an hour ago can sit above one from last week, and the same one can appear somewhere else on the second pass. There is no point at which you have finished.
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Instagram collapses replies behind a tap and moves some comments out of the default view. A brand checking whether anyone complained is looking at a version of the section, not the section — and nothing on screen says which one. Opening the threads out is how that stops being invisible.
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This shows you the section and stops there. Replying, hiding a comment, restricting an account, reporting — all of that happens in Instagram, with your own hands, and nothing here touches your account to do it. Worth knowing before you expect a moderation queue.
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The order you want, whether replies come opened, whether tags get pulled out — those are preferences, not per-post decisions. Set once and every post after this opens that way. Your AllyHub never starts from scratch again, so checking a week of posts gets faster every time.
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Posts that took off, anyone reading another account's audience, people following a tag chain, and sections the app cannot handle.
Forty comments is a conversation and four thousand is a wall. The moment a post travels is exactly the moment its comment section becomes unreadable in the place it lives, and also the moment you most need to know what is in it.
A competitor's comment section says more about who buys from them than the post above it ever will. It is also the part nobody can study properly, because studying it in the app means scrolling somebody else's feed for twenty minutes.
On Instagram a post spreads by people tagging other people underneath it. Which accounts got pulled in, and by whom, is a map of how the thing travelled — and it is invisible unless you pull the mentions out of the text.
Long comment sections get slower the further down you go, and eventually the app simply stops loading more. That point arrives well before the end on any post that did well.
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Ordering, hidden comments, when to export instead, and doing it every week.
A way to read a post's comment section outside the app. Reading and extracting are two different errands: this one is for going through what people said and then getting on with your day, not for turning the comments into data.
Yes, one post at a time. Busier sections, several posts opened together, and keeping your ordering preference so it applies automatically are on the paid plans.
Collapsed replies, yes — those are present and simply tucked behind a tap. Anything Instagram has actively filtered out of public view is a different matter, and nothing outside the account can retrieve it. What you get is the public section, laid out fully rather than partially.
When the comments have to leave as data — a spreadsheet, a filter you will run repeatedly, rows you intend to quote in a report. Instagram Comments Scraper is built for that, and the two are not competing: one ends in a file, this one ends when you have read enough.
Most reproduce the app's behaviour in a browser window, which keeps the problem rather than solving it. Here the order is fixed before you start reading, the collapsed threads are already open, the tags are separated out, and the way you like it set up carries to the next post.