FollowSpy vs Peekd: which follow tracker is worth paying for?

The short answer

• Pick Peekd if you want to follow one or a few public accounts over time: who they follow and unfollow, with dates, an alert when it happens and anonymous public stories, on the web, iPhone and Android. It’s the cheaper of the two.
• Pick FollowSpy if you want to look up many different accounts and its Premium plan’s “unlimited” tracking matters more to you than price, and you’re comfortable with its refund rules.

Most people who search “followspy” want one thing: to know who a particular person started following. Peekd is built for exactly that.

FollowSpy vs Peekd at a glance

Prices are what followspy.ai showed on November 4, 2026. From Germany, its quarterly option showed a “Black Friday” discount in euros. Prices can differ by country and change often.

The “chronological order” question

This is the claim to think about before you pay. FollowSpy says it shows “follows and followers sorted newest to oldest” and that there is “no need to wait or track anything over time”, using “smart API integrations”. It doesn’t say which.

The problem is that Instagram doesn’t put dates on another person’s following list, and the order it returns isn’t a reliable timeline. Even DolphinRadar, a large competitor, says on its own site that you can’t reliably turn an existing list into a chronological history. We can’t prove FollowSpy wrong. We can say that you should test it on an account where you already know the answer before you rely on it.

Peekd takes the slower, checkable route. On day one it saves the account’s full following and follower lists. From then on every check is compared with the last, and each new name gets the date Peekd first saw it. You won’t see anything from before you started, and we say so on how Peekd works. What you do see is real.

What Peekd does better than FollowSpy

It costs less

FollowSpy’s cheapest weekly plan is $12 for two accounts. Peekd Pro is $6.99 a week, or $39.99 every three months, which works out to about $3 a week.

A timeline you can trust

Dates in Peekd mean “first seen by Peekd”, from the day you started. That’s less magic than “instant history”, but you know exactly what it means. Say you start tracking your ex on a Monday. On Thursday Peekd shows two new follows, dated Wednesday. That’s a fact you can act on, or calmly ignore.

Android as well as iPhone

FollowSpy’s website is the main product, and the iPhone app listed under followspy.ai launched in July 2026. We found no Android app linked to followspy.ai. Peekd runs on the web, iPhone and Android with one account.

Clear limits

Peekd publishes what it can’t do: private accounts, verified accounts, accounts above 10,000 followers, history from before tracking, likes, DMs and profile visitors. FollowSpy’s terms say it doesn’t “guarantee accuracy of any data”, which is fair, but its homepage promises a lot more than its terms do.

We tried FollowSpy

We typed a large public account into the search box on the homepage without signing up. The page said “Connecting to Instagram…”, then showed “Instagram servers are temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.” A Cloudflare human check popped up in the corner. That was one attempt from Germany without an account, so it’s not a verdict on the paid product. It does match a theme in its Trustpilot reviews, where several people say the site didn’t load.

Where FollowSpy is good

• Many accounts. Premium advertises unlimited tracked accounts and unlimited searches. If you research lots of profiles, that’s a real difference.
• More viewers. FollowSpy also has post and highlights viewers. Peekd sticks to stories and follow changes.
• Languages. The site comes in 14 languages. Peekd’s app and site are in English and German.
• No login, like Peekd. FollowSpy doesn’t ask for your Instagram account, and its privacy policy says it doesn’t store Instagram credentials.

Is FollowSpy legit? Reviews, refunds and privacy

Reviews. On November 4, 2026, Trustpilot showed no rating for followspy.ai. Its notice says the rating is unavailable because of a breach of its guidelines, and that it removed fake reviews. Of the 15 reviews left, about half were one star, mostly about charges, refunds and cancelling. The iPhone app had 3.7 stars from 6 ratings on the US App Store.

Refunds. The terms promise a 7-day guarantee on new purchases. The separate refund policy, dated the same day, says refunds only cover technical failure and that loading data even once counts as use. Read both before you pay, and screenshot your checkout.

Who runs it. The terms name no company or address, only Delaware law, an email address and a US phone number. The App Store seller is Follower Find LLC.

Your data. The privacy policy lists your IP address, device and usage data, email and billing details, plus Google Analytics. The plans page also loads Meta, Reddit and Snap ad pixels. None of that is unusual for a subscription site. It just means FollowSpy isn’t as invisible to ad networks as its “100% anonymous” headline suggests. The person you look up isn’t notified either way.

Who should use which?

• Checking one person (an ex, a partner, a friend): Peekd. Cheaper, dated, with alerts and stories.
• Bulk research across dozens of accounts: FollowSpy Premium, if its data holds up in your own test.
• Your own unfollowers: neither. Use our not-following-back checker, which needs no sign-up.
• Weighing other trackers? Our roundup of Instagram tracker apps covers IGDetective, Snoopreport, Recentfollow and more.
• A private account: neither tool can help. Nothing legitimate can.