Now your Instagram photos can be shared over the Web. The smartphone photo-sharing app, owned by Facebook, announced on its blog Nov. 5 the launch of Instagram Web profiles. In the next few days, user’s mobile profiles will be expanded to include a Web site complete with profile photo, user bio and a collage of photos recently shared on Instagram. The layout is similar to the Facebook timeline, minus the ads and with less text.

“We are launching Web profiles to give you a simple way to share your photos with more people and to make it easier to discover new users on the Web,” the company said on its blog.

When Facebook bought Instagram for $1 million in April it said it would run the program as a separate service. Even though the new launch is somewhat reminiscent of the social network giant’s own pages, the Instagram pages still avoid linking to Facebook and users will not be asked to log on using their Facebook accounts—a departure from just about every other site out there it seems.

Instagram users will be able to set privacy controls on their photos much as they might on their Twitter accounts. Profiles can either be entirely public—where anyone on the Web can see and comment on photos—or entirely private—where only approved followers can access photos. Unlike Facebook’s complex web of multi-layered privacy settings, there is no in between.

From the Instagram Web site, users can comment and like photos, follow other users and edit their profiles. They cannot, however, upload photos to Instagram from the Web site at this time.

Profiles will be rolled out throughout the week. Users who want to check if theirs are ready can access instagram.com/ followed by their Instagram user name. For example, Facebook’s instagram profile could be found at instagram.com/facebook.