How do I keep track of my competitors on Instagram?
One table with followers, post count and average likes on recent posts for each brand, ready to sort.
Question How do I keep track of my competitors on Instagram?
Social media tool
Instagram Tracker
Your brand and its competitors in one table.
Use this Instagram tracker to check followers, posts and recent engagement for public brand accounts.
Part of social media monitoring
Check a public Instagram account
Write one or more public brand or creator handles for the Instagram tracker.
Check accountThe Instagram tracker opens SpringBrand with your request. Each lookup spends credits from your balance.
What the lookup returnsRuns in SpringBrandAfter you sign in or create an account, the Instagram tracker reads each public profile and its latest posts and returns followers, following, post count and likes and comments on recent posts, as of the moment it ran.
- Followers and following
- Post count
- Likes and comments on recent posts
- The moment the snapshot was taken
Several accounts side by sideInstagram and TikTok in one tableAlso over MCP in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
START WITH A REQUEST
A few handles. Three ways to compare them.
Each card is a real question people ask. Add the handles you care about and the Instagram tracker opens it in SpringBrand.
Competitor check Cross-platform Is there a TikTok follower tracker?
Followers, following and post count on Instagram, plus followers, following, total likes and video count on TikTok, side by side.
Question
Is there a TikTok follower tracker?
Growth How do I track a competitor's Instagram follower growth over time?
The account's current followers, posts and recent likes and comments as a dated snapshot, to compare with the next one.
Question
How do I track a competitor's Instagram follower growth over time?
WHAT YOU GET
Whose accounts can you track, and what stays hidden?
Instagram tracking tools answer different questions. This one reads public brand and creator accounts on demand, several at a time, and leaves the history in your hands.
01 / SIDE BY SIDE
Compare several Instagram accounts side by side
Most Instagram trackers look up one account at a time. If you are watching a market, you want the same numbers for several brands in one table. Ask for a list of public handles and you get, for each one, followers, following, post count and likes and comments on the latest posts, ready to sort.
A restaurant owner's friend described the usual problem on r/restaurant: "Manually checking competitor accounts is also time-consuming."
PER ACCOUNT
One row per brand
Followers and following
Post count
Likes and comments on the latest posts
02 / HISTORY
Snapshot vs history: what an Instagram tracker can and can't show
A lookup tells you the numbers today. It does not include a history: when we read a public profile on 2026-11-13, the data contained followers, following, post count and an account ID, but no past follower counts. Trackers that show growth charts build them by checking the same account on a schedule and saving each result. With the SpringBrand Instagram tracker you build that history yourself: run the same check from time to time and keep the results.
Snapshots also have limits. One brand marketer on r/influencermarketing wrote: "We can compare our follower count before and after the campaign, but that feels quite broad and doesn’t account for other activity happening at the same time." Look at post-level likes and comments alongside the follower count, not the follower count alone.
READ ON 2026-11-13
What a public profile contains
Followers, following and post count
An account ID
No past follower counts
03 / TIKTOK AND MCP
Track TikTok followers the same way
The same request can cover TikTok. For a public TikTok account, SpringBrand returns followers, following, total likes and video count, so you can put a brand's Instagram and TikTok numbers in one table.
To check Instagram accounts from Claude Code or Cursor, connect SpringBrand over MCP and ask Claude Code, Codex or Cursor for the same lookups; the results can feed straight into a competitor report your agent writes.
TIKTOK
Per public account
Followers and following
Total likes
Video count
Same lookups over MCP
04 / THE LIMITS
What this Instagram tracker does not do
The Instagram tracker reads public business and creator accounts for brand and competitor research. It does not work on private accounts, does not show who someone follows or who unfollowed you, does not export another account's follower list and never asks for your Instagram password.
Each result is a snapshot from the moment it ran; it may come from a cache up to a few days old, and the result says when.
NOT IN THE LOOKUP
Outside brand research
Private accounts
Who someone follows or who unfollowed you
Another account's follower list
Your Instagram password
Your own account or a competitor's: which tool fits?
Instagram tracking tools answer different questions. Instagram Insights covers only your own account, some trackers save daily history of public accounts, and some follow individual people, which this page does not do. The table shows what each tool's own page says.
| Tool | Whose accounts | Instagram login needed | History | Works in Claude Code or Cursor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpringBrand | Any public business or creator account, several at once | No; SpringBrand account only | Snapshot each time you run it; you keep the history | Yes, over MCP |
| Instagram Insights | Your own professional account only | Yes | Recent period inside the app | No |
| OwlStat | Public accounts | No | Daily history saved by the tool | Not stated on the page |
| Socialinsider (no-cost checker) | Business accounts | No; email required | Last 30 days | Not stated on the page |
Checked 2026-11-13 from each tool's own page. "Not stated" means the page did not say, not that the feature is missing. Written by SpringBrand, which is one of the tools listed.
How to track a competitor's Instagram growth
Instagram Insights only shows your own account. To follow a competitor's growth, take a snapshot of their public numbers, keep it, and take another one later. The difference between snapshots is the growth. Here is how to do that with the SpringBrand Instagram tracker.
1
Check the public accounts you care about
Ask for your brand and a few competitors in one request. The agent reads each public profile and its latest posts and returns followers, following, post count and likes and comments on recent posts.
2
Keep the snapshot
Export the table or paste it into your own sheet with the date. Each result is a snapshot from the moment it ran; it may come from a cache up to a few days old, and the result says when.
3
Check again and compare
Run the same request next week or after a campaign, and compare the two snapshots. Keep the account ID alongside the handle, so the history still lines up if an account changes its username.
A FEW THINGS TO KNOW
Can you see a competitor's follower history?
Growth, history, safety and which tool fits the job.
How do I track a competitor's Instagram follower growth over time?
Take a snapshot of the competitor's public numbers now, keep it with the date, and take another later. SpringBrand returns the current followers, posts and recent engagement for any public account; the difference between your snapshots is the growth.
How do I keep track of my competitors on Instagram?
List the public handles of the brands you compete with and check them in one Instagram tracker request. You get followers, post count and likes and comments on recent posts side by side, and can ask which posts did best.
Can I see an Instagram account’s follower count history?
Not from Instagram itself for another account. A lookup returns the current numbers only. Trackers that show history saved earlier snapshots; with SpringBrand you keep your own snapshots and compare them.
Are Instagram tracker apps safe?
Be careful with any tool that asks for your Instagram password or logs in as you, because that can put your account at risk. SpringBrand reads only public profile data and never asks for your Instagram login.
What are the best Instagram tracking tools?
It depends on the job. Instagram Insights is best for your own account. For public competitor accounts, use a tool that reads public data; pick one that saves daily history if you need charts, or SpringBrand if you want several accounts side by side, on demand, inside your AI assistant.