Is CheckFollows safe and legit?
Yes, for your Instagram account: CheckFollows never asks for your password and never connects to your account. It reads public profiles, takes payment through Stripe, and you can cancel from your account at any time.
Short answer: CheckFollows is a paid web tool that tracks who a public Instagram account follows. You never give it your Instagram login, so it can't post, follow, message or change anything on your account, and it has nothing to lose or leak about your Instagram. Payments are handled by Stripe; CheckFollows doesn't store your card number.
What it does keep: the email you sign up with, your subscription status, and basic usage data, as described in our Privacy Policy. We don't sell data. You can ask us to delete it by emailing team@checkfollows.com.
What CheckFollows can and can't see
- Can: public profile information and the Following list of public accounts.
- Can't: private accounts, messages, likes, stories or anything behind a login.
- Doesn't: notify the account you track or show up in their viewers.
Paying and cancelling
- Payments are processed by Stripe.
- Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel from your account without emailing us; cancelling stops future charges.
- Refunds are handled under our Refund Policy, for example when the product failed to work as described.
Limits worth knowing before you pay
CheckFollows tracks who a public account follows, not who follows it. It checks about every 48 hours with the email-alerts add-on, dates each change by when it was detected, and can't recover follows from before your first paid scan. If any of that doesn't fit what you need, it isn't the right tool, and our comparison page lists alternatives.
Everything you get with CheckFollows
No Instagram password
We never ask for or store Instagram credentials.
Not notified
The tracked account isn't alerted.
Stripe payments
Card details are handled by Stripe, not stored by us.
Public data only
Private accounts can't be read.
Cancel anytime
From your account, no email needed.
Real support
team@checkfollows.com
Frequently asked questions
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