Frequently Asked Questions

TikTok Counter is a free tool that lets you track any public TikTok account's follower count, total likes, video count, and following in real time. You can also compare two accounts side by side and calculate an account's engagement rate.

No. TikTok Counter is an independent, third-party tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to TikTok or its parent company ByteDance in any way.

Yes, completely free. No account required.

Yes. The site is fully responsive and works in any modern mobile or desktop browser.

Enter a TikTok username and click Track. The tool fetches that account's public stats from TikTok's API and then automatically refreshes them every 10 seconds, so you can watch the numbers update in real time without reloading the page.

Every 10 seconds. Just leave the tab open after clicking Track and the numbers will keep refreshing automatically.

The numbers come directly from TikTok's public API and match what TikTok shows on a creator's profile page. Note that TikTok rounds very large numbers in its own UI, so a profile showing "12.3M" may have anywhere between 12,250,000 and 12,349,999 followers. When the full unrounded number is available in the API, TikTok Counter displays it.

No. Private accounts don't expose public stats through TikTok's API, so the counter only works with public profiles.

TikTok periodically purges bot, spam, and inactive accounts, which can cause follower counts to drop noticeably, sometimes by millions for large accounts, even when the creator is posting actively. This is a TikTok platform event, not a reflection of the creator's content or performance.

Yes. Any public TikTok account (personal creator, brand, media company, or otherwise) can be tracked as long as the profile is set to public.

Go to the Compare page and enter two TikTok usernames. The tool fetches both accounts and displays their follower counts, likes, videos, and following side by side with a bar chart so you can instantly see the difference between them.

Two accounts at a time.

Engagement rate is a measure of how actively an audience interacts with a creator's content relative to the size of that audience. A high engagement rate means a large proportion of followers are actively liking or interacting with posts, generally a stronger signal of audience quality than raw follower count alone.

TikTok Counter calculates engagement rate as total likes divided by followers, expressed as a percentage. This is a simple, commonly used approximation. Because TikTok's public API does not expose per-video comment or share counts, a more granular calculation isn't possible.

Generally speaking: above 6% is excellent, 3–6% is good, 1–3% is average, and below 1% is low. Smaller accounts tend to have higher engagement rates than very large ones. A creator with 10,000 followers typically sees a higher rate than one with 10 million, simply because niche audiences are often more active.

No. Usernames are sent directly to TikTok's API to fetch stats and are not logged or stored by us.

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