The Tools That Check "Who Unfriended Me" on WeChat Are All Dead

You post something and nobody responds for hours. Has the thought ever crossed your mind that someone quietly removed you?

So you go looking for a "friend cleanup" tool to check. I went down that road a few days ago, and the result surprised me: most of the tools you can still find have already stopped working.

The conclusion first, so you don't waste an afternoon.

WeChat has never opened any API for checking friend relationships.

The feature "who deleted me" was never given to you. Every tool that claims to check it is working around WeChat, not with capability WeChat granted.

1. The famous cleanup tools died one after another

I went through the best-known open-source projects on GitHub.

wechat-deleted-friends relied on the web protocol. It was archived back in 2021 and has been useless since.

WechatRealFriends relied on the iPad protocol and collected more than 5,200 stars, which looks impressive. But the author marked it "no longer working" in October 2025 and archived it too. The successor project switched to hooking techniques, and nobody has independently verified how reliable that is.

A tool that once went viral with thousands of stars does not mean it still works today.

These projects share one thing: they simulate or hook the WeChat client protocol. One WeChat update, one round of blocking, and they die together. What you download today is quite likely an empty shell.

2. The ones that still work cost you your account

Even if you find one that genuinely runs, do the math first.

Protocol-based and hook-based tools all violate WeChat's personal account terms. Checking who removed you once means betting your entire WeChat account.

That account holds your payments, hundreds of contacts, half of your daily life. Putting all of it on the table to identify a few people who removed you is a bad trade.

There is a dirtier category too. Many tools flying the "cleanup detection" flag are the harassment. Once you authorize them, they may use your account to blast ads, or simply steal it.

They promise to clean your contact list. What gets cleaned out is you.

3. If you really want to know, there are two dumb methods

So there is no way at all? Not quite. Two methods need no tools, carry no risk, and use nothing but WeChat itself.

First, the transfer method. Start a money transfer to the person and stop right before the payment password screen, then cancel. If it says you are not the recipient's friend, you have been removed or blocked.

Second, the group method. Start a group chat and tick the person you want to check. Anyone who has removed you will be greyed out with a "not a friend" note.

One caution here: people who are still your friends actually get pulled into the group. So dissolve the group immediately, and do not send a single message, or you have just spammed people.

These two moves are slow, clumsy, and have to be done one person at a time. But they only use WeChat's own features, touch no third party, and risk no account.

After the full circle, the safest method turns out to be the most primitive one.

In the end, WeChat not giving you an API for "who deleted me" is its own business logic, and you cannot change it. What you can control is not handing over a real asset — your account — to satisfy a moment of curiosity.

Who removed you matters less than you think. The account still sitting safely on your phone matters more.