Lurk vs Peekd: which recent follow tracker fits you?

The short answer

• Pick Peekd if you want to know the real weekly price before you pay, use more than one device, or want a company with a published support address behind the app. Pro is $6.99 a week or $39.99 every 3 months.
• Pick Lurk if you want to test follow tracking for about a dollar this week, need to watch a long list of accounts at once, or care about hourly checks more than anything else.

Lurk vs Peekd at a glance

Lurk details are as its site and store listings showed on November 8, 2026. Prices vary by country.

What Lurk costs after the first week

Lurk’s FAQ says tracking “starts at just $1 for your first week”, and its homepage table lists “$1/week”. The pricing page tells a fuller story: new users get “a discounted introductory rate” for the first week, and “the full subscription price applies from the second billing period”. The page lists a weekly and an annual plan but no amounts. You see those at checkout, in your currency. Its FAQ also mentions a one-time “Profile Shield” add-on for $49.99.

That isn’t unusual for apps, but it makes comparison hard. If you start Lurk, read the renewal price on the checkout screen before you confirm, and set a reminder for day six if you only want the trial.

Peekd’s prices are on our pricing page: $6.99 a week or $39.99 every 3 months, the same features on both. There is no free plan and no trial, which we’d rather say up front than at checkout. The lookup tools on this site are free and need no account, so you can check that an account is trackable before you pay.

Where your follow history lives

This is the difference most people miss. Lurk’s FAQ says: “On mobile, all tracking data is saved locally on your own device, we don’t have cloud accounts.” On the web, it uses your Stripe email for billing.

Keeping data on the phone has a privacy upside: there is less about you on someone else’s server. The catch is the history itself. A follow tracker is only as good as its timeline, and the timeline starts on the day you add an account. If your history sits on one phone, it’s fair to expect that a new phone, a reset or switching to the web version means starting over. Lurk’s FAQ doesn’t say how to move it.

Peekd keeps your tracked accounts and their timeline in your Peekd account. Start tracking in the browser at app.peekdapp.com, check it later on your iPhone or Android phone, and you see the same dated list of follows and unfollows.

Where Lurk is good

Credit where it’s due. Lurk is upfront about the method: it takes an hourly snapshot of a public account’s following list and compares it with the last one. Its FAQ also says plainly that it can’t show follows from before you started tracking, and that no app can show who viewed your profile. That is honest, and it matches how Peekd works.

Lurk also lets you track as many public accounts as you like, includes a free anonymous story viewer, and puts its hourly check frequency in writing. If you mainly want to watch a dozen creators for a week, the $1 start is hard to beat.

Ratings and reviews

Lurk’s homepage shows a 4.8 average and “12K+ App Store reviews”. On November 8, 2026, its US App Store listing showed 3.4 stars from 65 ratings. The two most visible reviews were titled “Total Scam” and “DO NOT TRY THE FREE TRIAL”, and both described charges after a trial or after cancelling. Its Google Play listing showed 4.4 stars from about 1,200 reviews and 10K+ downloads.

Reviews are one person’s experience, and billing complaints show up on most subscription apps, ours included. Still, check the store listing for your country rather than the number on a website, and cancel from the store where you subscribed.

The App Store lists Lurk’s seller as an individual developer, Collins Chukwuma. The website footer names Odin Studio Inc. in St. John’s, Canada, with a phone number and a support email. Peekd is made by Reelpop; see about Peekd.

Is Lurk safe?

Lurk never asks for your Instagram password, and the person you track isn’t notified, because it only reads public profile data. That is the most important safety check, and Lurk passes it. One thing to treat with care: the homepage has a teaser promising to show who’s been looking at your profile, while its own FAQ says Instagram has no such feature. Trust the FAQ. Our profile visitors guide explains why no app can see this, Peekd included.

Who should use which?

• You want to know the price before you start: Peekd.
• You switch between phone and laptop: Peekd keeps one timeline in your account.
• You want to test follow tracking for about $1: Lurk, with a reminder to cancel.
• You want to watch many accounts at once: Lurk has no account cap.
• The account has more than 10,000 followers or is verified: Lurk. Peekd doesn’t support those.
• Still comparing? See our roundup of Instagram tracker apps and The Ick vs Peekd.