Sometimes all it takes to convince someone is the right word, and the hard part isn't finding it, it's saying it at the right moment. Between strategy, content planning and analytics, you're lucky to have a few minutes left to keep an eye on every comment or every DM.

But your business shouldn't stop growing just because you put your phone down for two seconds when the battery died, because you were in an important meeting, or simply because you don't want to eat with your phone in one hand and a fork in the other.

That's why we built Flows, a feature that turns every comment and every DM into a chance to turn every social media interaction into a sale, without you having to scroll through your inbox to answer in the moment.

It all runs on its own across Instagram and TikTok, right inside Metricool.

How Flows works

Every Flow is triggered by a keyword. You choose what sets it off and what happens next:

  • Someone comments on your post they get your link by DM

  • Someone messages you by DM they get your reply instantly

  • Someone replies to your story they get a DM

  • Someone comments on your video you reply in public, for everyone to see

  • An unwanted comment shows up it hides itself

Four steps and every interaction starts flowing on its own:

Choose your Flow for Instagram or TikTok.

  1. Select the post it'll work on, using one you already published or one you scheduled in Metricool.

  2. Write the reply for that keyword, whether it comes in as a comment or a DM.

  3. Turn the Flow on and let it take it from there.

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3 ways to use Flows in your strategy

"Comment LINK to get my PDF" is the most common way people automate their Instagram and TikTok interactions.

But there are more ways to use it, depending on your goal and the kind of business or brand you run, and all of them let Metricool handle this work quietly in the background while you spend your time on strategy.

1. A busy DM inbox

A store has its big moment when one of its Reels reaches way more people than usual, and its DM inbox fills up with the same questions over and over: the price, how long shipping takes, whether an item is still in stock.

How Flows helps: any message with the words PRICE, STOCK, or SHIPPING gets the reply already prepared for it.

💛 The store answers exactly what each customer is asking, and the team spends its time selling instead of repeating the same answer all day.

Story replies are up 88% compared to last year (Metricool 2026 Instagram Study).

That means 88% more conversations that can turn a simple reply to your Story into a customer, and Flows makes sure none of them slip past you.

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2. Big launch day

An education business posts a Story announcing that registration is open for its social media management course, and the replies start pouring in asking about dates, price, and course content.

How Flows helps: anyone who replies to the Story with COURSE gets all the details back right away, dates, price, and course content included.

💛 Everyone gets the information they asked for, and the team can focus on the questions that actually need a personal reply.

Flows is also:

  • A reply exactly when it matters, landing instantly instead of sitting there until the comment gets forgotten.

  • A message that sounds like you, not a bot, since you can set up to 3 different replies for the same Flow.

  • A link exactly when it's needed, to your website, a download or this week's promotion, while you keep working on your strategy and Flows turns interactions into sales.

3. Give me that recipe

A content creator posts recipe videos on TikTok, and since the video shows the process but the caption doesn't spell it out, the comments fill up with things like "what's the recipe," "how much oil goes in the cake" or "how long does it bake."

How Flows helps: someone comments RECIPE, and Metricool replies right there in public, in that same comment thread, with the steps, the ingredients, and the quantities.

💛 Whenever someone finds the video, today or months from now, they'll still get the recipe, and you don't have to type out the same answer a thousand times in the comments.

See what's happening in every Flow

Now you can tell exactly which message or keyword is working best, because every Flow comes with detailed analytics, so every decision you make is based on real data.

Track:

  • Total sends

  • Total interactions

  • CTR (click-through rate)

And you can look back through the full history of each Flow: date and time, social network, and whether it's still running or already finished.

THIS WEEK’S STORIES

Instagram will penalize and reduce the reach of profiles with unlabeled AI-generated people: "People don't want to be tricked"

TikTok generates up to 42% more views than Instagram Reels, and more than 6 times as many as YouTube Shorts (Metricool 2026 Short Video Report)

YouTube adds Amazon affiliate links and the ability to tag products in its videos

VIDEO

How to Automate Instagram DMs from Comments with Metricool

If you've ever asked people to comment a word to get something by DM, you know what comes next, bringing in a whole other platform just to handle that workflow.

This video shows how to automate your Instagram DMs with Metricool step by step.

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We're celebrating this week because Anthropic just added the Metricool connector to its marketplace.

That means if you search "social media" or "Instagram" inside Claude, Metricool shows up 😎

If you want to try it, here's the link right here.

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