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UNF is an Instagram follower tracker for iPhone. It records what Instagram publishes about a profile roughly once a day, and builds connection lists — mutuals, accounts that do not follow you back, who unfollowed you between two moments — from the Instagram data export you download yourself. It never asks for your Instagram password. These answers say how each part works, and are equally direct about the things no app can do.
The short version of what the app does, and what it is not.
UNF is an Instagram follower tracker for iPhone. It records what Instagram publishes about a profile roughly once a day and builds a dated report from those checks. It also reads the Instagram data export you download yourself, which is what makes connection lists possible — mutuals, people who do not follow you back, who unfollowed you — along with your own stats and UNF Wrapped 2026. UNF never asks for your Instagram password.
It uses two sources, neither of which needs a login. The first is what Instagram already publishes about a username: display name, profile photo, biography, follower, following and post counts, and whether the account is public or private. The second is the data export Instagram gives you about your own account, which you download from Instagram and hand to UNF. UNF never signs in to Instagram as you and cannot act on your account.
Your public counts, each with the time it was read. Connection sections built from your export: mutuals, accounts you follow that do not follow you back, and who unfollowed you once two exports exist to compare, with Cleanup to go through them one at a time. Your stats, Top chats and UNF Wrapped 2026, worked out on your phone from the same export. Top fans, from your latest public posts. Daily change history for public profiles you choose to track. And Profile Check and Roast my bio, which give grounded feedback on your own biography and the posts you select.
Who viewed your profile, who viewed your story, who unfollowed you from a single snapshot, anything from a private account you do not own, and anything in real time. None of these can be produced from public information or a standard data export. UNF leaves those sections empty and says why rather than filling them with a guess.
No. UNF is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.
Unfollowers — the question most people arrive with. The app answers it the only honest way, by comparing two sets of your own Instagram data rather than claiming to watch your account.
Who left, who never followed back, and what can honestly be known.
Request a download of your information from Instagram and add the file to UNF. That records who followed you at that moment. Later, request a second download and add that one too. UNF compares the two and lists the accounts present in the first and absent from the second. That comparison is the only method that names an actual account, and it works without giving any app your Instagram login.
No, and no app can. Instagram does not send a notification or publish an event when someone unfollows you. What is possible is comparing two lists taken at different times, which tells you that somebody left between those two moments — not when, and not why. UNF reports it that way.
Usually by asking for your Instagram username and password, signing in as you, and pulling your follower list on a schedule. That gives them a comparison basis, and it also gives them your credentials and a login on your account. UNF gets the same comparison from an export you download yourself, which is slower and needs a deliberate action from you — and asks for nothing that could compromise your account.
Not from the count. A number going down establishes that the total changed, and nothing about identity. Naming the account requires two lists of followers taken at different times. If you have added only one export, or none, UNF will say the section is not ready rather than guessing.
Accounts you follow that do not follow you back. UNF works them out by comparing your following list against your followers list, both taken from your own Instagram data export. This one needs only a single export, so it works as soon as you add your first file.
Accounts that appear in both your followers list and your following list — the people you follow who also follow you. Like non-followers, this comes from a single export.
A way to go through the accounts that do not follow you back one at a time, with when each one stopped following you and when you followed them. Keep them, skip them, or open them and unfollow on Instagram yourself. UNF never signs in to your account, so it cannot unfollow anyone for you.
No. Deciding that a follower is inactive requires knowing how they behave — whether they open, like or comment — and a standard Instagram data export contains none of that. UNF will not label an account a ghost follower on the strength of data it cannot read.
No. Instagram publishes counts, not lists. Any app showing you a list of accounts either got it from your own export or signed in as you to fetch it. UNF takes the first route.
Every time you add a newer export. Instagram controls how quickly it will prepare a download, and there is no benefit to requesting one more often than you actually want a comparison.
Your own stats, UNF Wrapped 2026, the daily report, and following other public profiles.
Your year on Instagram as a story: your top post, your busiest chats, the stories you liked most, your busiest hour, a roast of your bio and more. It is made from your own Instagram data export, worked out on your phone, and every slide is a card you can share to your Story. The full story is included with Pro.
Counts from your own Instagram data export: messages sent and received, likes and comments, story answers, what you watch and when you post. Top chats shows who you message most, and Your stats also shows the stories you like most, your ride-or-dies, your OGs (your earliest followers who still follow you) and Instagram’s own numbers. All of it is worked out on your phone, and it is included with Pro.
It counts them and never reads them. Top chats counts the messages in each chat, who sent them and when, on your iPhone. It skips the text, photos, videos and voice notes, and nothing from your messages is uploaded, logged in analytics or sent to an AI provider.
The people who like and comment on your latest public posts most, ranked, with how many likes and comments each left. It reads what Instagram publishes about those posts, and it is included with Pro.
Your follower, following and post counts, each recorded with the exact moment it was read, plus the change between one check and the next and the history those checks build up over time. Your stats, Top chats and Top fans add what your own export and your public posts show.
Not as an engagement rate. Top fans counts who liked and commented on your latest public posts, and Your stats counts the likes and comments you gave, from your own export. UNF does not compute an engagement rate, and it does not read per-post likes and comments for other people’s accounts.
Yes, if they are public. Add a profile to Track and UNF notes what changed between daily checks: biography, profile photo, username, follower, following and post counts, and new public posts, with a before-and-after for each change and a daily alert. Track is included with Pro.
No. Public profiles are checked about once a day, in an afternoon window in your own time zone, and the result is a single digest rather than a stream. UNF says when something was checked, never that it just happened.
Only the parts of it that are public — typically the display name, profile photo and, where Instagram shows them, the counts. Private posts and private follower lists stay unavailable, and UNF neither reads them nor pretends to.
Yes. Every check is stored with its timestamp, so the report can show change over time rather than only today. History starts the day you start, because a check that never happened cannot be recovered afterwards.
UNF reads public information the same way any visitor to a public profile does, and does not interact with the account: it does not follow, view stories, like or message. Instagram does not notify anyone that a public profile was read.
Yes. Your own profile drives the Today report and connection sections. Track is for other public profiles and is separate from it.
Yes. Settings has an option to add another profile, and each gets its own report and its own imported data.
The file that makes connection lists possible, and how to get it.
In Instagram, open Accounts Center, then "Your information and permissions", then "Export your information". Tap "Create export", pick your Instagram profile and choose "Export to device". Keep all of your information included, set Date range to All time and tap "Start export". When Instagram tells you it is ready, download the file under "Available downloads" and add it in UNF. The guide on this site walks through each screen.
Either. UNF reads Instagram’s HTML export and its JSON export alike, and Instagram picks HTML unless you change it. If UNF ever says it could not read the dates in an HTML export, create the export again with Format set to JSON.
Instagram decides that, not UNF. It is often ready within a few hours and can take longer. Instagram tells you when it is ready, and the file stays under Available downloads for 4 days.
For your reports, the follower and following lists: mutuals, non-followers and follower comparisons are built from them. If the file holds more, UNF also counts your own activity in it on your phone for Your stats and UNF Wrapped 2026 — messages per chat, likes, story likes, Reels watched, when you posted — and none of that is uploaded. It never reads what your messages say, and it never opens a photo or video in the export.
No. An export is a snapshot of one moment. It never updates itself, and no subscription, timer or AI feature turns it into a live feed. Adding a newer export is what refreshes the comparison.
Mutuals and non-followers describe a single moment, so one file answers them. New followers and accounts no longer in your followers describe a change between two moments, so they need two files taken at different times. Until the second one exists, UNF marks those sections as not ready.
No. Only your own. The terms of use require it, and an export belonging to another person is their data, not yours to upload.
What is collected, what is not, and what UNF can never do to your account.
UNF never asks for your Instagram password, has no Instagram login screen, and cannot sign in as you. That removes the single largest risk in this category of app. What it does collect — a generated account identifier, the username you select, dated public values, and any export you choose to add — is listed in full in the privacy policy.
No. UNF has no write access to your Instagram account of any kind. It cannot post, comment, follow, unfollow, message, view a story, or change a privacy setting.
UNF does not log in to your account or automate any action on it, which is the behaviour that puts accounts at risk. Only Instagram can speak to its own enforcement, so UNF will not promise you an outcome it does not control — but there is no credential and no automation for it to act on.
Only if you turn it on. Crash reporting and screen-level usage events are off by default and stay off until you enable "Share anonymous usage data" in Settings. They never include your username, biography, follower identities or the contents of your export.
No. Your data is not sold and is not shared with advertisers or data brokers. The service providers listed in the privacy policy each receive only what their job requires.
The follower and following lists are stored so your connection sections keep working across launches, and adding a newer file replaces the basis for comparison. Your activity for Your stats and UNF Wrapped 2026 stays on your phone, out of backups. Deleting your account removes all of it.
Open Settings in the app and choose to delete your account. It removes your profile selections, dated observations, imported files, generated reports and stored identifiers. It cannot be undone, and it does not cancel an Apple subscription — cancel that separately in the App Store.
Not one you create. An identifier is generated on first launch so your reports belong to you across launches. You can optionally use Sign in with Apple, which keeps the same reports if you change device.
What is free, what Pro adds, and how Apple handles the money.
UNF is free to download, and the free tier includes a daily check of your public counts, a preview of UNF Wrapped 2026 and Fancy Text. UNF Pro adds the rest, as a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase; the App Store shows the price in your currency before you buy.
The full daily report and its history. The connection sections built from your export — mutuals, non-followers and unfollowers — and Cleanup. Your stats, Top chats, Top fans and all of UNF Wrapped 2026. Daily checks with before-and-after history for as many tracked profiles as you like. Unlimited Profile Checks, Roast my bio, and Captions & Hashtags.
No trial at the moment. The free tier is the way to see whether the report is worth paying for, and it does not expire.
In the App Store: open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription, and UNF cannot cancel it for you.
Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple under their terms, through reportaproblem.apple.com. UNF cannot issue one.
Your subscription is tied to the Apple ID that bought it, so it restores on any device signed in to that Apple ID. Choose "Restore purchases" on the plans screen. It is not currently set up for Family Sharing.
No, and this matters more than it sounds. A subscription grants access to features. It never creates data that Instagram does not publish and that you have not provided. If a section is empty because there is no source for it, Pro leaves it empty too.
What UNF runs on, and where to get help.
iPhone, running iOS 17 or later.
Not today. UNF is an iPhone app, and there is no Android release to promise a date for.
Reports and public checks need a network connection. Fancy Text works entirely offline, with no account and no request leaving your phone.
A Pro feature that reads your own biography and the posts you select and gives grounded feedback on what reads clearly and what to change. Roast my bio is its playful version, for your bio alone. Both work on content you choose to submit, and neither invents engagement figures or predicts how a post will perform.
Email support@unfollowers.io. A report that says what you tapped, what you expected and what happened instead gets fixed fastest.
Email support@unfollowers.io, or read the privacy policy and terms of use — both describe the product as it actually behaves rather than as it would be easiest to describe.
