People arrive at this kind of tool from a specific feeling: something changed, and the explanations on offer are guesses. A public following list is real information rather than a guess, which is why it is worth reading properly.
It is also worth saying plainly what it is not. A following list is not evidence of anything a person has done. It shows accounts they chose to see, and people follow accounts for reasons that have nothing to do with their relationships.
What is actually readable
If the account is public, anyone can open the following list. LikePatrol reads it and describes what those accounts publish, grouped into themes, with the accounts behind each one.
The weekly digest adds the part the app itself will not give you: which accounts were followed and unfollowed since the last check, each analysed, so a change reads as a change in kind rather than a change in number.
What is not readable, by anyone
Likes. Instagram removed public like activity in 2019 and no service has it.
Direct messages, story views, and who looked at a profile. None of it is exposed, and any site claiming to show it is either fabricating the answer or asking for a password it should not have.
If you have been offered any of these, the offer is the warning.
Where a tool stops being the answer
A list of follows can tell you what someone is exposed to. It cannot tell you what they want, what they have done, or what they feel.
The cases where people regret using something like this are the ones where a report became a substitute for a conversation. If what you actually need is to ask a question, the report will not answer it, and it may make asking harder.
Use it within the rules
LikePatrol is an awareness tool. It is not a background check, it is not a consumer report, and it must not be used for decisions about employment, housing, credit or insurance.
It also should not be used to monitor someone who has asked not to be monitored. That is a line a tool cannot enforce and a person has to.
Questions people ask
Can I see who my partner recently followed?
On a public account, yes, by comparing the following list over time. Instagram itself removed the activity feed that used to show this in 2019, so snapshots are the only method that works.
Can I see what they liked?
No. Public like activity was removed in 2019 and is not available to any tool. Anything promising it is not telling the truth.
Will they know?
No. Only public data is read, and the account is never followed, viewed or messaged through LikePatrol.
Does following an account mean anything on its own?
Very little. One account is noise. A concentration of accounts around one theme is a pattern, which is why the report groups them rather than listing them.