You stay logged in, in your own browser
The extension attaches to the Instagram tab you already have open. It borrows the session your browser already holds — the same one that's authenticating you when you scroll the feed.
Open source · runs entirely on your machine
Instagram lets you remove followers one at a time, buried three taps deep. This does it in bulk — with a real selection UI, filters, and a throttle slow enough that Instagram doesn't action-block you.
Never asks for your password. Never sends your data anywhere.
The part that matters is what it doesn't do: it never handles your credentials.
The extension attaches to the Instagram tab you already have open. It borrows the session your browser already holds — the same one that's authenticating you when you scroll the feed.
Tapping "Remove" on a follower fires one request. The extension fires that exact request, one follower at a time, from inside the page. Nothing is faked or scraped from pixels.
Randomised delays, hourly and daily caps, periodic long breaks, and automatic backoff when Instagram pushes back. Close the panel and the job keeps going.
You cannot re-add a follower. They'd have to follow you again themselves — and if your account is private, request and be approved. There is no undo button, on our side or Instagram's. The CSV export is the closest thing to a record.
Instagram's terms prohibit automated interaction with the service. Using this — or any tool like it — puts your account at risk of an action block or, at the extreme, disablement. The throttling here reduces that risk. It does not remove it. That's your call to make.
Instagram's spam heuristics key on rate. The Safe preset does ~35/hour with long breaks; that's roughly 120 a day. If you have 10,000 followers to clear, that's twelve weeks. Turning the speed up is exactly how people get blocked.
No password field, anywhere. No account created. No server — there is no backend to leak. Your follower list is stored in your browser's local extension storage and nowhere else. Uninstalling deletes it.
If a site asks you to type your Instagram username and password to clean your followers, close it. That is credential harvesting, and it is the single most common way Instagram accounts are stolen. A legitimate tool of this kind runs in your browser, never on someone else's server.
About thirty seconds. No store listing, no sign-up, no account.
Download follower-cleaner-extension.zip
chrome://extensions in Chrome or Edge.manifest.json).No. Instagram sends no notification. They will only notice if they go looking for your profile or your posts stop appearing in their feed.
Yes — search the username in step 2, tick it, and run. The confirmation still applies. This is also the fastest way to clear a handful of specific accounts without touching anyone else.
Remove is the normal path and is what you want. Block+unblock forcibly severs the follow and also wipes their likes and comments from your posts; it's a harder eject, it's slower, and the target may notice they were briefly blocked. Use it only if remove is failing.
Instagram flagged the pace. The tool waits 45 minutes and retries, and gives up after three consecutive flags. If you see it, stop for 24 hours and switch to the Safe preset. Pushing through is how a temporary block becomes a lasting one.
Yes. The engine runs inside the Instagram tab so the job survives — browser extensions get suspended when idle, the page doesn't. You can switch tabs and use the computer normally; just don't close or reload that tab.
Likely. These are Instagram's private web endpoints and they change without warning. Every
URL lives in one block at the top of extension/content.js — that's almost
always the only thing that needs fixing.
No. There is no server component in this project at all. Everything lives in
chrome.storage.local on your machine.