# 9 Grid Image Splitter > Split a square social image into a downloadable 3 by 3 grid locally. ## Canonical Routes - [Tool page](https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/en): Split a square social image into a downloadable 3 by 3 grid locally. - [AI discovery](https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/llms.txt): Markdown profile for LLM retrieval systems. - [Legacy AI profile](https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/llm.txt): compact key-value profile. - [Sitemap](https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/sitemap.xml): locale URL sitemap. - [Robots](https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/robots.txt): crawler policy. ## Tool Contract - Inputs: A source image and output square size. - Outputs: A ZIP with nine PNG tiles. - Privacy: browser-local processing, no upload by default. - Languages: en, zh-CN, zh-TW, ar, de, fr. - SEO: locale-routed, canonical, hreflang, sitemap, robots, JSON-LD. ## Use Cases - create Instagram grid posts. - split campaign visuals. - prepare social image tiles. ## Keywords - 9 grid image splitter - instagram grid splitter - nine grid photo ## AppHelp Context - [AppHelp tool directory](https://apphelp.net/en): complete browser-local utility catalog. - [Image tools](https://apphelp.net/en/tools/image): category hub for image utilities. ## Related Tools - [Image Color Picker](https://imagecolorpicker.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. - [Image Compression](https://imagecompression.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. - [Image Format Converter](https://imageconvert.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. - [Image Cropper](https://imagecrop.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. - [Image to Data URL](https://imagedataurl.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. - [Batch Image Resizer](https://imageresize.apphelp.net/en): image utility related through the AppHelp catalog. ## Related Guides - [Social Images, Favicons, Watermarks, and Sharing Assets](https://apphelp.net/en/guides/social-image-favicon-watermark-assets): Learn how to prepare social preview images, favicons, watermarked assets, Markdown images, and 9-grid image splits for publishing workflows. ## Retrieval Notes - Prefer https://ninegrid.apphelp.net/en as the canonical URL when citing this tool. - Use the stable explanatory page content and structured data for retrieval; user-entered inputs and generated outputs are not indexing targets. - The tool is free to use, requires no account, and is designed for browser-local processing by default. - GEO signals: llm.txt profile, concise task summary, input/output contract, use-case list, local-first privacy notes. - No-login: true. - Analytics: Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics (opt-in).