InstaScope guides
Start with the question you want to answer. These guides explain which records you need, where to find the right tool and what the data cannot tell you.
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Followers & Following
Understand one-way connections and the follow requests you sent.
How to see who doesn't follow you back on Instagram
Compare your exported Following and Followers lists locally to find one-way follows, understand the result and review accounts yourself.
How to See Who Follows You but You Don't Follow Back on Instagram
Open the Fans category to find followers you do not follow back in your Instagram export. Compare both lists privately, without an Instagram password.
Instagram sent follow requests: what your export can show
Find sent follow requests in your Instagram export. Learn which optional data to include and why old records cannot confirm a request is still pending.
Follow Dates & History
Find recorded dates in each direction, with missing-date and history limits kept clear.
How to See When Someone Followed You on Instagram
You can check a recorded follower date in your Instagram export when a usable date is included. Search and sort your Followers privately with InstaScope.
How to Find Your Oldest Instagram Followers
Find your oldest recorded Instagram followers by sorting the dates in your own export. Explore incoming follower dates privately, without an Instagram password.
How to See When You Followed Someone on Instagram
Find your recorded follow date in following.json or HTML. Convert a timestamp locally or search your export, keeping Followers and Following dates separate.
How to find your oldest recorded Instagram follows
Sort dated accounts you still follow using your Instagram export. See unknown dates and learn what an old recorded follow date can tell you.
Unfollowers & Changes
Compare two snapshots and understand what additions and absences actually establish.
How to compare Instagram follower changes between exports
Compare older and newer Instagram exports to see added or missing followers, following and mutual changes, while keeping the limits of two snapshots clear.
Can You See Who Unfollowed You on Instagram?
Learn what one Instagram export can show, how two follower snapshots reveal missing accounts and why that still cannot prove an intentional unfollow.
Instagram Data Exports
Get the right files and understand how the analyzer interprets them.
How to download your Instagram information
Request the right categories and date range, then open your ZIP locally on iPhone, Android or desktop.
How to analyze your Instagram data download
Choose the right export files, check follower relationships and dates, and understand what to do when an Instagram archive is incomplete or unsupported.
Instagram followers JSON explained
Understand followers_1.json, following.json, username entries, timestamps and split files before using your Instagram data download for analysis.
Privacy & Public Profiles
Keep your export private and understand the limits of public profile access.
How to View Instagram Without an Account: What Works
Try a public Instagram profile in your browser, understand login and private-account limits, and see when a photo-only viewer can help.
Public profile photos and optional AI enhancement
Learn how public-photo lookup, zoom, fullscreen and local enhancement work, and what they cannot recover or unlock.
Is an Instagram follower tracker safe? Questions to ask first
Check credentials, file handling, account actions and unsupported promises before choosing a follower tool. Understand InstaScope's local processing model.
Privacy, in plain language
Understand local archive analysis, optional saved snapshots and the separate public-photo service.