Free AI toolHashtag generator.For Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and YouTube.
Describe your post and pick the network: Claude suggests broad, niche and specific hashtags, and shows them in a real post. Pick the few that fit: Instagram now allows 5 per post, and YouTube shows up to 3 by your title.
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northbeam.coffee
northbeam.coffee Latte art tutorial for beginners: the rosetta #coffee #latteart #barista #coffeeart #tutorial
Example for “Latte art tutorial for beginners: the rosetta”
How many hashtags to use on each network in 2026
| Network | How many | What the network says |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 | Up to 5 hashtags per post, per Instagram's help center. Meta's API reference still says 30. | |
| YouTube | 3 to a few | Up to 3 of your description's hashtags appear by the title; with more than 60, YouTube ignores them all (YouTube Help). |
| TikTok | 3 to 5 | No official number. A few relevant ones, in the caption. |
| 1 to 3 | No official number. Hashtags are rarely how people find posts there. | |
| X | 1 or 2 | No official number. Every character counts against 280. |
Instagram's 5-hashtag limit
For years the answer was 30. Instagram's help center now says you can use up to 5 hashtags on a post, and more than that won't go through. Meta's developer reference still lists 30, which is why so many guides and tools still suggest long lists. The generator gives you three groups to choose from; on Instagram, keep 5.
How to pick hashtags
- BroadBig, general tags like #coffee. Huge audiences, and your post is one of millions. Use one, at most two.
- NicheTags your community follows, like #homebarista. Smaller, more engaged. Most of your picks should come from here.
- SpecificTags close to this exact post, like #latteartforbeginners. Few posts compete there, and the people who search them want exactly that.
- BrandedYour own tag, like #MorningLight, to gather your posts and your customers'. Add it yourself: the generator doesn't know your brand tags.
BreakreachHashtags picked, now schedule the post. Breakreach publishes to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and seven more networks at the time you pick, from the calendar or from ChatGPT and Claude.
Schedule the postHashtag rules on every network
- No spaces, no symbolsLetters and numbers only. #LatteArt works; #latte art and #50%off don't.
- Capitalise each word for screen readers#LatteArtForBeginners is read word by word; #latteartforbeginners is read as one long word.
- Relevant beats popularA tag that describes the post brings people who care about it. A trending tag that doesn't fit brings nobody who stays.
Do hashtags still work?
They still do one job everywhere: say what a post is about, in a way the network can index. What changed is the number that makes sense. Instagram caps them at 5, YouTube shows at most 3, and on LinkedIn and X a single relevant tag does more than a list. On TikTok they sit in the caption, a few at a time.
Questions, answered.
About the hashtag generator and what it writes.
Up to 5 per post, according to Instagram's help center. Meta's API reference still says 30.
TikTok gives no number. Three to five relevant ones in the caption is common practice.
They still tag a post by topic, but few people browse them. One to three relevant hashtags is plenty.
Yes, a few. YouTube shows up to 3 of them by your title, the ones it considers most engaging, and ignores all of them if there are more than 60.
Pick a short, unique phrase with no spaces or symbols, check it isn't already used for something else, and use it on every related post.
Instagram now limits posts to 5 hashtags. Pick the ones that describe the post, mostly niche and specific.
No. It suggests hashtags that fit your post; we don't have reliable volume data, so we don't invent any.
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