Instagram unfollowers tracker

How it works

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   Request an export today

   Open Instagram → your profile → menu (☰) → Settings and privacy → Accounts Centre → Your information and permissions → Export your information → Create export. Tick only Followers and following, set the date range to All time, pick JSON, and choose Download to device.

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   Download and keep the ZIP

   Instagram emails a link when the file is ready, usually within 10–20 minutes for a followers-only export. The link works for 4 days, so download the ZIP promptly and keep it — renaming it with the date (for example instagram-2026-10-12.zip) makes later comparisons easier.

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   Request a second export later

   Come back in a week or a month and repeat step 1. If an older ZIP from a previous export is already sitting in your downloads, you can skip the wait and use that as the older file.

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   Upload both exports

   Drop the earlier ZIP into Older export and the later one into Newer export, then press Compare the two exports. Both resulting lists — who unfollowed you and who newly followed you — are shown in full, free, with CSV downloads. Nothing is uploaded; the comparison runs in your browser.

What "tracking" means here (and what it doesn't)

Be clear about what you're getting. This tracker does not sit on your account watching for changes, and it will never buzz your phone to say a name has gone. Nothing runs between visits. Tracking, in the sense this page uses the word, means owning a series of dated snapshots of your followers and being able to compare any two of them in seconds. The snapshots are Instagram's data exports; the comparison is this page.

That sounds like less than a live app, and in one way it is: you find out on your schedule rather than theirs. In every other way it is more. You keep the raw files, you can compare across any gap, nobody holds your password, and the answer is exact rather than inferred by a scraper that may have been rate-limited halfway down your list.

Setting up a monthly export routine

The routine is three minutes a month. Request the export from Accounts Centre with Followers and following, All time and JSON; download the ZIP when the email arrives; rename it with the date. A reminder on the first of the month is enough. If you want a finer picture — say you post something contentious and want to see the fallout — request an extra export a few days later and compare it against the most recent one.

A followers-only export takes 10–20 minutes to prepare and the link expires after 4 days, so download promptly. The first export is the one people most regret not taking sooner: there is no way to recover a snapshot you never made, which is the whole argument in why track your unfollowers.

Why login-based trackers are the risky kind

A tracker that reports unfollows within the hour has to poll your followers list constantly, and the only way to do that is from a server logged in with your credentials. Instagram's defences are built to catch exactly that pattern: a session from an unfamiliar location making bulk requests. The first warning is an Action Blocked screen in your own app; next comes a forced password reset; accounts that keep going get disabled. The people selling the tracker don't carry that risk — you do.

Export-based tracking never touches your login. Instagram prepares the file at your request through an official feature, you download it, and the diff runs in a browser tab that sends your data nowhere. That distinction is what makes one approach safe to repeat indefinitely and the other a gamble every time.

What each comparison shows you

Upload the earlier ZIP as Older export and the later one as Newer export, then press Compare the two exports. You get a heading with the number of accounts that unfollowed you, a subline with your follower count at each date, and two tabs: unfollowed you and new followers. Both are full lists, free, each with the date the account originally followed you, sortable by name or date, and an Export CSV button.

Under the tabs, the tool also notes how many accounts in your newer export you follow that don't follow you back. Seeing that number is free; the names are the one paid list on the site, $2.99 one-time, and you can ignore it entirely if unfollowers are all you came for. Each question has its own page: who unfollowed me for the departures and lost followers for diagnosing a sudden drop.

Keeping your history

Because every comparison is just two files, your history is a folder of ZIPs. Name them consistently — ig-2026-09-01.zip, ig-2026-10-01.zip — and you can answer any question later: who left in September, who left over the whole quarter, how many of the spring arrivals are still around. The files don't need to be consecutive; any older-and-newer pair from the same account works, and the compare two follower lists page covers edge cases such as mixing HTML and JSON exports.

Nothing is stored for you. The site keeps no copy of your uploads, which means it can't rebuild a history you deleted, but it also means your followers list is never sitting on someone else's server. For a wider review of who you follow and who follows you from a single export, the follower audit page goes through it category by category.

What this tracker can't do

It can't alert you — there are no notifications, emails or background checks. It can't show changes from before your first export. It can't tell an unfollow from a deactivated account, because the export records only presence and absence. It can't track anyone's account but your own, and it can't unfollow people back on your behalf; that part stays manual, in the app, at a sensible pace.

Frequently asked questions