Introduction

Managing an Instagram following list can become messy over time.

You follow people, some follow you back, some do not, and eventually it becomes difficult to know who is actually mutual. I wanted to build a simple desktop tool that makes this easier without sending user data to an external server.

That is why I built InstaClean, a macOS GUI application that helps users find Instagram accounts that do not follow them back and unfollow selected accounts from a local interface.

The goal was simple: