Hashtag Generator
Turn a description into a ready-to-paste hashtag set.
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Hashtag Generator turns a sentence describing your post into a list of hashtags you can copy straight into a caption. It picks out the meaningful words from your description, tags each one, and adds a few two-word combinations, giving you a starting set to trim for Instagram, X, LinkedIn or YouTube.
How the tags are built
- Your text is lowercased and punctuation is removed.
- Words of one or two letters, such as "my", "in" and "ka", are dropped.
- Repeated words are removed, keeping the order in which they first appear.
- The first 18 remaining words each become a hashtag.
- Up to four combination tags are made by joining neighbouring words from the start of the list, such as
#mangopickle.
That gives at most 22 hashtags, separated by spaces, ready to paste.
Example: a recipe post
The description Homemade mango pickle recipe from my grandmother in Andhra Pradesh produces:
#homemade #mango #pickle #recipe #from #grandmother #andhra #pradesh #homemademango #mangopickle #picklerecipe #recipefrom
Most of these are useful, but two should go. #from is a filler word, because only one- and two-letter words are dropped automatically, and #recipefrom is a meaningless join. Combinations are only made from the first few words, so #andhrapradesh isn't created; add it yourself, along with any well-known tag such as #indianfood that describes the post but wasn't in your sentence.
Writing a description that gives better tags
- Lead with the most important words. Combination tags come only from the opening words, so start with the key phrase: "mango pickle homemade Andhra recipe" gives more useful pairs than a sentence starting with "Sharing".
- Leave out filler. Words like "with", "from", "the" and "and" become hashtags if they have three or more letters.
- Write Indian-language words in Roman script. Only English letters and digits are kept, so Devanagari or Tamil text disappears. "ghar ka khana" gives
#ghar #khana #gharkhana; note that "ka" is dropped from the combined tag as well. - Keep numbers deliberate. Numbers of three or more digits, like 2026, become tags too, which suits events but not much else.
Choosing the final set
The generator doesn't know how popular a hashtag is, whether it's used by spam accounts, or whether a platform has restricted it. Before posting, search a few of the tags on the platform and look at the recent posts under them. A tag full of unrelated or low-quality posts won't help, and a very broad tag like #food buries your post among huge numbers of others. A small set of specific, relevant tags usually beats a long block of generic ones, and each platform sets its own limits, so check the current rules.
Hashtags aren't case-sensitive, so writing multi-word tags in capitalised form, like #MangoPickle, makes them easier to read and helps screen readers pronounce them correctly, without changing which posts they link to. On X, one or two tags is usually plenty given the character limit; check the total with the Tweet Character Counter. For the caption itself, try the Instagram Caption Generator.