Peekd review

What Peekd does

Peekd watches public Instagram accounts that you add by username or profile link. Once an account is tracked, Peekd records who it starts following, who it unfollows, and who follows or leaves it, each with a timestamp in an activity feed. You can switch on push alerts separately for each account. The App Store listing says a subscription covers up to 5 public accounts.

Peekd also shows stories from tracked accounts, a gender breakdown of their followers and following, and a “who’s not following back” view. Like every tracker, it can only date changes it saw happen, so follows from before you started tracking come without a date. Its pricing page says it can’t track private accounts, verified accounts or accounts with more than 10,000 followers.

Peekd runs on iPhone, Android and the web under one subscription. Its standout feature is below.

X-Ray Deep Search

X-Ray is the reason to pick Peekd over the rest, and nothing else here comes close. It’s a Pro feature that takes two Instagram accounts and reports how they actually interact. You enter two usernames, or quick-pick one you already track, and about a minute later you get a report on both directions, A to B and B to A.

• Follows: who follows whom, with dates wherever either account is already tracked.
• Likes: how many of the other person’s recent posts each has liked, scanning about 12 posts by default.
• Comments: the comment text itself, replies between them included.
• Tags and mentions: tagged photos, collabs, caption, story and bio mentions.
• Mutual circle: accounts they both follow, and shared fans who engage with both.

The signals add up to a connection score from 0 to 100, with a plain label on top: Strangers, Acquaintances, Friends, Close, or “Something’s going on” at 75 and above. Each side gets a separate effort score showing who’s trying harder, and a short written summary explains the result. It’s the most direct answer you can get to what two accounts mean to each other.

It’s also rate-limited: 5 X-Rays a week, results cached for 6 hours, and a report that’s still running after 15 minutes times out. It needs at least one public account, so two private accounts fail, and it lives on the paid tier only.

Do you have to log in?

No. To track another account, you add a public profile by username and never sign in to Instagram, so the logouts and locks some users report with login-based trackers don’t come into it. We found no reports of account trouble linked to Peekd.

The same goes for Self Insights, which shows your own recent unfollowers and non-followers: you add your account in Peekd, but the App Store listing says Peekd “never requires your login” and doesn’t access your DMs, feed or password. Our safety guide explains why that matters.

Price and cancelling

On the website, Peekd Pro costs $6.99 a week or $39.99 every 3 months, which works out to about $3.08 a week. In the iPhone app, US prices are $8.99 a week, $17.99 a month or $44.99 every 3 months. Both plans include the same features. Plans renew automatically, and you can cancel anytime in your subscription settings.

There’s no free trial, and Peekd’s pricing page and terms don’t state a refund policy. The website does offer free one-off lookup tools, such as a follower viewer and a not-following-back checker, that don’t need an account, but ongoing tracking and alerts are paid only.

Ratings and privacy

Both apps were last updated in July 2026, tracking runs off snapshots rather than your own account, and we found no reports of it falling over. The X-Ray scoring code is unit tested on its own, separately from the network and the database, so a change there is caught before it ships.

Peekd’s privacy policy says it doesn’t sell personal information, may share data with service providers such as hosting and analytics, and handles access and deletion requests by email. No feature touches your password, your DMs or your feed.

Who should use it

Peekd fits if you want push alerts for a handful of public accounts and want a native app on iPhone or Android, which many login-free trackers don’t offer. If you want to try it free first, need to watch large or verified accounts, or want to watch large or verified accounts, look at the alternatives in our ranking or read more reviews.