Who doesn't follow you back on TikTok

How it works

1. 1

   Request your TikTok data

   Open TikTok → Profile → menu (☰) → Settings and privacy → Account → Download your data. Under file format choose JSON (not TXT). Request all data, or at least the Profile and Activity sections.

2. 2

   Wait for the file and download it

   TikTok prepares the file in the background — often within a few hours, sometimes up to three days. Come back to Download your data → Download data tab and download the ZIP. It stays available for four days.

3. 3

   Upload it here

   Drop the ZIP (or just user_data_tiktok.json) on this page. The lists are read in your browser and compared instantly.

Where the lists are in TikTok's export

TikTok puts everything in one file. Inside user_data_tiktok.json there is an Activity section containing a Follower List (an array called FansList) and a Following List (an array called Following). Each entry is a username and the date and time the follow happened. TikTok has moved and renamed those sections more than once — newer exports put them under Your Activity or Profile And Settings as Follower and Following, sometimes with lowercase field names — so UnfollowChecker searches the whole file for the two arrays rather than one fixed path, and compares them.

If you chose TXT instead of JSON, the lists are there too but as plain text, and the checker can't read them reliably. Re-request in JSON; the second request is as quick as the first.

The 10,000 cap

TikTok limits each list in the export to roughly 10,000 entries, most recent first. For nearly every account that's the whole list. For a large account it means the export holds your 10,000 most recent followers and your 10,000 most recent follows, and the comparison is accurate within those. There is no way around the cap from TikTok's side; the checker tells you when a list hits it so you know the result is partial.

Why the export beats TikTok unfollow apps

The TikTok apps that promise unfollower tracking work by logging in as you and reading your lists through TikTok's internal API. TikTok's terms prohibit that, and the practical result is the same as on Instagram: a login from an unrecognised device can lock your account or trigger a verification loop, and some apps keep your session token long after you've deleted them. Download your data is TikTok's sanctioned route to your own lists, which is why it's the only input this tool takes.

Manually, you can open your Following list and look for the Friends label TikTok shows on mutual follows — anyone without it doesn't follow you back. That works for a short list; it doesn't scale and there's no way to export it.

Three results from one file

Beyond the non-followers list, the same two arrays give you your fans (followers you don't follow back) and your mutuals — TikTok calls these Friends — plus free CSV downloads of both raw lists with follow dates. For who unfollowed you over time, request a second export later and compare the two in the unfollowers tool; it accepts TikTok files.

What this tool can't do

It can't look at another person's TikTok account. It can't see past the 10,000-entry cap in the export. It can't unfollow for you. And it reflects the moment TikTok generated the file, not right now — the file can be a day or two old by the time it arrives, so a very recent follow may be missing.

Frequently asked questions