Over time, your social media follower count tends to balloon beyond a manageable point especially if you go crazy and just follow everyone you can.
So, it makes sense to do a little Spring cleaning every now and then to clear out inactive, spam, and unwanted followers.
This is exacerbated on Instagram where everyone you follow has the opportunity to share content in the network’s primary feed — meaning you’ll see everything they share in your feed.
Sorting through and unfollowing users, account by account is ridiculously tedious. Luckily, there’s a way to speed it up.
Safe Unfollow Apps For Instagram?
There are safe unfollow apps for Instagram that’ll let you unfollow people who have unfollowed you, however, because these apps require you to give them permission to access their Instagram, some of them are unsafe. A lot of the apps store your username and password into their system and that’s where things can go wrong. Hand your credentials to a cruddy app, and it could then carry out actions that weren’t completed by you.
And the problem doesn’t lie with giving these apps your username and password, it lies with you using the same username and passwords for other accounts like Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Snapchat etc.
Although all unfollow apps can’t be verified to see whether they’re safe or not if you been noticing some weird activity on your account. Or you just don’t want these apps to have an account to your Instagram account anymore, simply change your username and password and you’re good to go.
There Are Unfollow Limits
There is something you should know, however. Everyone on Instagram has a daily unfollow limit. This means that you can only purge a certain number of followers per day.
It’s not a big deal if your follower count is low, but if you have 10K followers or more it’s going to take some time to clean out the mess.
The limit is different depending on whether or not your account is new. For accounts older than 6 months, the limit is 2,000 unfollows per day with a gap of 12 to 22 seconds between each action.
For accounts younger than 6 months, the unfollow limit is 500 per day with a gap of 36 to 48 seconds per action.
Furthermore, all accounts have a limit of 60 to 200 unfollows per hour.
You can immediately see why this restriction slows down the process considerably if you’re doing a bulk purge. Many unfollow apps do include support for dealing with these limitations. You still need to know what they are for obvious reasons.
Best Unfollow App for Instagram
Here are the best unfollower apps for Instagram that will help you clean up or purge unwanted followers on Instagram:
1. Reports+ for Instagram
2. iOS Only: Mass Unfollow for Instagram
3. Followers Insight for Instagram
4. Android Only: Unfollow Gram
5. iOS Only: Unfollowers for Instagram
6. FollowMeter for Instagram
7. Android Only: Turbo Unfollow for Instagram
8. Unfollowers & Ghost Followers for Instagram
9. iOS Only: Unfollow for Instagram Tracker
10. Android Only: Unfollow Users
11. Followers Track for Instagram
12. Followers Assistant Insights+
13. InsTrack
1. Reports+ for Instagram
Reports+ for Instagram positions itself as the most advanced, secure, and fastest unfollowers app out there. This app is on the list of safe unfollower apps because users haven’t reported any problems with the way it affects their Instagram account. They have stated that they don’t store your Instagram username and password – this may be the case, but who knows.
2. iOS Only: Mass Unfollow for Instagram
Want to mass unfollow a bunch of users? Mass Unfollow for Instagram is your app. You can also use it to bulk delete your posts, and bulk, unlike posts you’ve interacted with in the past. It’s an incredibly useful account cleaning tool.
It complies with Instagram restrictions, allowing you to purge only 200 unfollowers per hour. This ensures the process is done according to the rules, which helps prevent you and your account from being punished.
Additionally, ghost followers are listed separately so you can unfollow them, in bulk, with a single tap.
While the app is free, it does contain ads. You’re also limited to a certain number of unfollows. Both restrictions can be removed with in-app purchases — $1.99 for unlimited follows and $1.99 for ad removal.
3. Followers Insight for Instagram
Followers Insight for Instagram is another trusted unfollowers app on the market and it allows you to do various things like check who follows you, unfollowed you, your fans, who likes your pictures most frequently etc.
4. Android Only: Unfollow Gram
Rated 4.5 stars, Unfollow Gram is certainly one of the best tools on Android. You can easily remove a variety of inactive and ghost accounts using the app, with a restriction of 50 unfollows at a time — keeping up with Instagram policies.
You can use it to track mutual followers, find fans who’ve followed you but you haven’t followed previously, and to whitelist favorite users.
In the basic or free version, you can add up to three different Instagram accounts. In fact, Unfollow Gram is one of the few that allows you to manage multiple accounts from a single interface, for free.
Because it’s free there are ads, but you can remove them by purchasing an ad-free subscription.
5. iOS Only: Unfollowers for Instagram
Another high-rated app — 4.4 stars — Unfollowers for Instagram allows you to track a variety of user accounts on the social network. You can easily identify ghost accounts, non-followers, and fans. But it also allows you to either follow or unfollow back with a quick tap.
You can bulk unfollow, or unfollow multiple accounts at once but official limit requirements are honored so you don’t get yourself into trouble.
It’s free and as far as I can tell there are no ads to deal with.
Unfollowers for Instagram on iTunes
6. FollowMeter for Instagram
FollowMeter for Instagram has a great analytics tool that allows you to access multiple pieces of data for your Instagram account. It lets you monitor your follower growth, see unfollowers, so who you don’t follow back, and a myriad of other analytics tools. In terms of safety, this app has over 1 million installs so it’s likely that it doesn’t tamper with your Instagram account since it’s trusted by so many people. It’s also free and available for your iOS and Android.
7. Android Only: Turbo Unfollow for Instagram
Expressly designed to bulk unfollow Instagram accounts, this tool is exactly what you need. Your followers are sorted based on four categories, including unfollowers, fans, mutual followers, and verified accounts.
You can sort through and bulk delete any accounts you don’t want to deal with. Spam and bot accounts are also filtered and removed during the process.
Additional features allow you to compare usage data with other Instagram accounts, review past removal stats, see profile pictures in HD, and get account-related notifications.
8. Unfollowers & Ghost Followers for Instagram
Unfollowers & Ghost Followers for Instagram positions itself as an Instagram management tool. It’s a top unfollow app for Instagram however it’s only available on the Play Store.
9. iOS Only: Unfollow for Instagram Tracker
Unfollow for Instagram Tracker is one of those apps that includes a ton of bells and whistles. What you’ll really care about is the fact that you can bulk remove followers from your account.
If you’re into the in-depth reports the app provides about your account you’ll need to pay to keep receiving them. There are monthly and annual subscription plans available.
As for removing users, you can unfollow up to 60 accounts at a time, a limit set by Instagram, not the app developers.
There are ads in the free version too.
Unfollow for Instagram Tracker on iTunes
10. Android Only: Unfollow Users
Another highly-rated app, Unfollow Users is simple and easy to use. You can bulk unfollow other accounts, ten at a time.
This keeps you in-line with the official rules but also helps you clean up your messy account quickly.
It’s completely free, but it does have ads.
11. Followers Track for Instagram
Followers Track on Instagram is another amazing app that’s ideal for anyone who wants to unfollow people, as well as anyone who wants to grow their Instagram following. The app allows users to gain a lot of essential information about their followers, such as ones who are newer, who has unfollowed them, who have blocked them, or who they’re not following back. Along with all of that data, you can see any likes that were deleted, who your frequent likes are etc.
12. Followers Assistant Insights+
Another top unfollow app on the market is Followers Assistant. It lets you check for users who aren’t following you back, and users you didn’t follow back. It also lets you check for those who follow you but don’t engage with your posts; also known as ghost followers.
13. InsTrack
Another app that has a spot among the best apps to unfollow on Instagram, but is only exclusive to the App Store is InsTrack. It allows you to manage your Instagram account with features Instagram don’t have themselves.
With InsTrack, you can check who has unfollowed you, who you aren’t following back, ghost followers, new follers etc. It also lets you schedule posts out for the future if you don’t want to post them manually.
Bottom Line
As long as you follow the official Instagram rules — which many of these apps adhere to — you can quickly remove accounts in your followed list.
This is especially great if you want to identify or purge some of those ghost, bot, and spam accounts that seem to plague the platform.
When your follower account is large they can get in the way by leaving nonsense comments.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to leave a comment below and I’ll do my best to get back to you in a timely manner.