Instagram Analytics

How to Track Instagram Follower Growth

David Everett
2 min read

Understanding your Instagram follower growth is motivating for any creator. It's not just about the numbers; it's about refining your content strategy and achieving sustainable growth.

This post will show you how to track your Instagram follower growth using two key tools: the native Instagram Edits app and Creatorlytics, a powerful analytics platform & AI assistant for Instagram creators.


Tracking Growth with the Edits App

The Instagram Edits app, primarily a video editing tool, offers basic insights into your Reels' performance. While its main function is video creation, it provides some fundamental metrics related to new followers gained through your video content.

How to find it: Open the Edits app, navigate to the 'Insights' tab. You'll see data like views, reach, and new followers specifically for your Reels. It also will give you a basic chart that shows the number of growth by day (the last two days will not be shown).

Edits App Insights Tab


Tracking Growth with Creatorlytics

Creatorlytics offers more detail when tracking Instagram follower growth. It's easy to see not only your daily follower growth, but also your weekly and monthly follower growth. You can easily group by day or week as well as see how many followers you've gained since a certain day.

This is designed to help Instagram creators stay motivated and appreciate the growth they've achieved.

Creatorlytics Follower Growth Dashboard

Creatorlytics not only allows you to track follower growth, but is a holistic tool to help Instagram creators grow. From using AI to write captions in their voice to analyzing post performance by category, it’s built specifically for Instagram creators. Creatorlytics is currently in Beta. If you’d like to test it out, sign up for the waitlist below.

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Topics:instagram follower growthtrack instagram followersedits appcreatorlyticsinstagram analyticsfollower trackinginstagram insightscreator toolssocial media analytics