Tools

Tools for your own Instagram account

Who unfollowed you, who does not follow back, and how much of a follower count is real. These read your own account, not someone else's.

  • No login
  • No app
  • Public accounts only
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Instagram app versus follower tools: unfollowers named, non-followers listed, lists searchable, bot followers marked
What the Instagram app shows about your own followers, next to what the follower tools read from the same lists. Free to share with a link to this page.
Your account, not theirs

Viewers look outward. Tools look at your own account.

Everything under Viewers is about looking at someone else's public account without being seen. The tools on this page turn the other way: they read your own account's public lists and tell you what Instagram leaves out.

What Instagram does not tell you

It announces every new follower and says nothing when one leaves. It shows a following list and a follower list but never compares them. It gives a count and never says how much of it is real.

What a list can tell you

Both lists are public on a public account. Read properly, they answer who left, who never followed back, and which followers are people at all.

What stays in your hands

The tools read and report. Following, unfollowing and removing stay inside the app, done by you, one account at a time.

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Tool 1 of 5

Who unfollowed me

Instagram tells you when someone follows you and says nothing when they leave. The count drops and the name is gone. Keeping a copy of your follower list and comparing it with the next reading lists the names that left instead of guessing them.

  • What it tells you: Which accounts stopped following you between two readings, and which followed you in the same period.
  • What it needs: Your own public username. The first reading is the baseline; every reading after it shows the difference.
  • The full who unfollowed me guide
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Tool 2 of 5

Followers check

The follower list in the app is a long scroll with no sorting and no search worth the name. A followers check reads the same public list and lays it out so it can be read: newest first, by name, by whether the account follows you back.

  • What it tells you: How to read your full follower list properly: each account's own follower count, post count and whether it is public or private.
  • What it needs: Your own public username. Private accounts can use it for the parts of their list that Instagram shows publicly, which is the count.
  • The full followers check guide
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Tool 3 of 5

Who doesn't follow me back

Two lists, compared. The accounts you follow are checked against the accounts that follow you, and the ones that appear only on the first list are the ones that do not follow back.

  • What it tells you: Every account you follow that does not follow you back, and how to tell a large account you follow for its posts from a person who left.
  • What it needs: Your own public username. Both lists are public on a public account, so nothing else is asked for.
  • The full who doesn't follow me back guide
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Tool 4 of 5

Bot followers

Bought followers, abandoned accounts and automated ones have a shape: no profile picture, a handle made of letters and numbers, no posts, hundreds of followings and a handful of followers. The tool reads each follower's public profile and marks the ones that fit that shape.

  • What it tells you: How to sort a follower list into likely people, likely inactive accounts and likely bots, and the reason behind each mark, so you can decide what to remove.
  • What it needs: Your own public username. Nothing is removed by the tool; it reads and reports, and the removing stays in your hands inside the app.
  • The full bot followers guide
How a follower list splitsExample
Likely people78%
Likely inactive accounts15%
Likely bots7%

Example data for an example account.

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Tool 5 of 5

Fake follower check

A follower count is a claim. A fake follower check tests it: it samples the follower list, scores each account on the same signals the bot check uses, and turns the result into a share of the count that looks real.

  • What it tells you: An estimate of how much of a count looks real, how much looks bought or inactive, and what that means for the engagement a brand or a client should expect.
  • What it needs: A public username. This one works on your own account and on any public account you are about to pay, hire or partner with.
  • The full fake follower check guide
Share of a count that looks realExample
Followers that look real82%
Look bought11%
Look inactive7%

Example data for an example account.

Reading the numbers

What a follower list says once it is sorted.

The app gives you a count and a scroll. Sorted and compared, the same list answers questions the app never asks.

In the Instagram appReading the public lists
Who unfollowed youNot shown; the count dropsNames that left between two readings
Who does not follow backChecked one profile at a timeAccounts on one list and not the other
Followers sorted by name or dateNewest first only, no search by nameAny order, once the list is read out
Bot and inactive followersNot markedSigns to check, profile by profile
Share of a count that looks realNever shownAn estimate from a sample of the list
Your passwordNeeded for the appNever asked for

A count over time

One reading is a number. Two readings a week apart are a direction. Keep each reading and the direction is visible without a spreadsheet.

Ratios that matter

Followers divided by following, posts against followers, and how many followers have a face and a bio of their own. These three tell most of the story about any account.

When a number lies

A count that jumped by thousands in a day, followers with no posts, comments that say the same three words: a fake follower check puts those signals side by side.

Who uses them

Creators, shops and the people who pay them.

Creators

Who left after a change in posting, who never followed back, and whether a sponsor will see the count as real.

Shops and brands

Whether the account being pitched for a paid post has real followers, before money changes hands.

Agencies and recruiters

A quick read on an influencer's or a candidate's audience, from public lists, with no login and nothing to install.

Anyone curious

Most people who search for who unfollowed them want the name. The tool gives it without an app that asks for a password.

How they work

Three steps, the same for every tool here.

  1. 1

    Type your username

    Your own public Instagram username. No password, no login and nothing installed.

  2. 2

    The lists are read

    The follower list, the following list and each account's public profile are read as Instagram shows them to anyone.

  3. 3

    Read the result

    A sorted list, a comparison or a score, with the reasons shown. What you do with it happens in the app.

Stay safe

Three rules for any follower tool.

Never type your Instagram password

A follower tool needs a public username and nothing else. Tools that log in as you are the ones that get accounts restricted.

Nothing automatic

A tool that unfollows, follows or likes on your behalf breaks Instagram's rules and gets caught. These tools read and report; the actions stay yours.

Private accounts stay private

A private account's lists are closed to everyone the owner has not approved, and a tool cannot read what it cannot see.

Questions

Asked about follower tools.

Short answers. Each tool page goes deeper.

Do these tools need my Instagram password?
No. Every tool here reads what Instagram shows publicly about your account: the follower list, the following list and each account's public profile. A page that asks for your password is not one of these tools.
Can I see who unfollowed me without an app?
Instagram itself does not show it. A tool keeps a copy of your follower list and compares readings over time, which is the only honest way to name the accounts that left.
Will the people I check know?
No. Reading a public list is not recorded for anyone, and the tools do not follow, unfollow, like or message on your behalf.
Do they work on a private account?
Partly. Instagram shows a private account's follower and following counts publicly but not the lists, so the count-based checks work and the name-based ones do not.
Can I check an account that is not mine?
The fake follower check and the bot check work on any public account, which is what they are for when you are about to pay, hire or partner with one.
Ready when you are

Look first. Stay unseen.

Type a public username and open the viewer. No Instagram login on your side, no name on theirs.

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Open the viewer