DolphinRadar vs Peekd: which recent follow tracker fits you?

The short answer

• Pick Peekd if your question is “who did they just follow?” and you want to hear about it when it happens, not in next week’s report. Also if you live in Europe, Illinois or Texas, or want an Android or iPhone app.
• Pick DolphinRadar if you mainly want the lowest monthly price for one account, care about which posts someone likes, or want long weekly and monthly reports to read through.

DolphinRadar vs Peekd at a glance

DolphinRadar prices are as its pricing page showed on November 4, 2026, in US dollars. They may differ by country.

How DolphinRadar shows recent followers

Credit where it’s due: DolphinRadar explains its recent-follow feature honestly. When you add a username, it saves the account’s current following list as a starting point. Anything that appears after that shows up as a new follow, and the time shown is when DolphinRadar first saw it, not the exact moment of the follow. It also says outright that you can’t reliably turn an existing following list into a chronological history.

That is the same method Peekd uses, and the only honest one. So the difference isn’t what you see. It’s when. DolphinRadar’s Activity Analytics refresh once a week, and its FAQ says the first report takes about a week to collect. Email alerts are tied to those reports. Its own terms add that reports “may have latency, gaps, or omissions” and shouldn’t be used for time-critical decisions.

DolphinRadar also markets a recent-follow lookup as “Absolutely Free”. We tried it with a large public account and got a Cloudflare “verify you are human” check before any result, so we can’t tell you what it returns.

What Peekd does better than DolphinRadar

Alerts when it happens

Say your boyfriend follows someone on a Tuesday night. With a weekly report you may read about it the following Monday. Peekd re-checks on a schedule and sends a real-time alert once the change is detected, so you find out the same day. If timing matters to you, this is the main reason to pick Peekd. Our guide on seeing who someone recently followed explains what these dates mean.

Works where you live

DolphinRadar’s terms say the service isn’t offered to residents of the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Illinois or Texas, and that accounts found there can be closed without a refund for the unused time. Peekd is available in English and German, with a German site and app.

Apps on both phones

DolphinRadar runs in the browser. We found no DolphinRadar app on the US App Store or Google Play. Peekd works on the web, iPhone and Android with one account.

More than one account, and stories included

Every DolphinRadar subscription covers one Instagram account, and you can’t switch it to another while the subscription runs. Peekd Pro tracks several accounts, and anonymous public story viewing is part of the same app rather than a separate tool or plan extra.

Where DolphinRadar is better

• Price for one account. $4.49 a month, or $2.75 a month on the annual plan, is much less than Peekd Pro at $6.99 a week. If one account and weekly news is enough, DolphinRadar costs less.
• Likes. DolphinRadar reports which public posts an account liked. Peekd doesn’t do likes at all.
• Looking back. Paid “past reports” reach up to 36 weeks before you subscribed. Peekd has no history from before tracking started.
• Story downloads. Quarterly and annual plans save stories and highlights beyond 24 hours.
• Languages. The site has eight languages, including German.

About the AI insights

DolphinRadar’s quarterly and annual plans add AI modules: a guessed MBTI type, a “persona snapshot”, lifestyle indicators, location and a “visual map of visited areas”. The annual plan adds engaged accounts and locations mentioned. It also searches five other networks for “suspicious accounts” linked to the person. Its own pricing page says those accounts should be “scrutinized”, and its terms make no promise that AI insights reflect a person’s true characteristics.

Peekd doesn’t do any of this, on purpose. It shows you facts you can check yourself: this account followed that account, on this day. Whatever tool you use, read an AI personality guess as entertainment, not evidence.

Reviews, refunds and cancelling

On November 4, 2026, DolphinRadar had a TrustScore of 2.1 from 21 reviews on Trustpilot, most of them one star. The common complaints were trouble cancelling, charges after cancelling, slow support and empty reports. The company replies to most negative reviews.

Its terms say paid subscriptions are non-refundable, with exceptions for a 7-day or longer outage, a charge after a documented cancellation, or where the law requires it. You cancel from Dashboard, then Settings, then Manage Subscription. Take a screenshot when you do.

Is DolphinRadar safe?

DolphinRadar never asks for your Instagram password, and the person you track isn’t notified. It is run by a named company, SESHAT LAB PTE. LTD. in Singapore, which is more than many trackers tell you. You do give it your email, and its privacy policy describes what it keeps and for how long. The bigger question is the one above: is a weekly report the right tool for what you want to know? Our guide to Instagram stalker apps has a general safety checklist, and it applies to Peekd too.

Who should use which?

• You want to know quickly when someone follows someone new: Peekd.
• You live in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Illinois or Texas: Peekd. DolphinRadar’s terms exclude you.
• One account, lowest price, weekly reading: DolphinRadar.
• You care about likes: DolphinRadar. Peekd doesn’t track them.
• Still comparing? See our roundup of Instagram tracker apps.