Does Reelyze need access to my Instagram account?

Yes. To read your real retention, skip rate, and completion data, Reelyze connects to your Instagram account. That private data is what makes the feedback specific to your reels instead of generic benchmarks built from public view counts.

Can I use it to analyze competitors too?

Reelyze can analyze any reel frame by frame for hook, pacing, and structure. The deeper retention and skip-rate diagnostics require your own account data, since those numbers are private to each account and not publicly available.

How is this different from Instagram Insights?

Insights reports numbers and stops there. Reelyze reads those same numbers, watches the video frame by frame, and ties each metric to a specific moment so you get a fix list, not just a chart you have to interpret yourself.

What metrics does Reelyze prioritize?

Skip rate and the first 3 seconds first, since the hook controls reach. Then shares, likes, saves, reposts, and comments. Each metric is tied back to a moment in the video so you know exactly what to change.

Will it work for TikToks and Shorts, not just Reels?

Yes. Reelyze analyzes short-form video frame by frame across Reels, TikToks, and Shorts. The account-data layer is deepest for Instagram, where it reads your retention and skip-rate numbers directly.

How long does an analysis take?

A single reel analysis runs in minutes. You connect your account once, pick a reel, and get a prioritized breakdown of the hook, drop-off points, and what to fix first.

A Reel Analyzer That Uses Your Own Instagram Data

Most reel analyzers only see public numbers. Reelyze reads your own Instagram account data and watches the video itself.

Search "reel analyzer" and you get tools that scrape public view counts and follower numbers. Useful for spying on competitors, but useless for fixing your own reels. The data that actually tells you why a reel flopped, your skip rate in the first 3 seconds, where viewers dropped off, your real completion rate, lives inside your own Instagram account. A reel analyzer that uses your own Instagram data is the only kind that can give you feedback you can act on.

What does it mean for a reel analyzer to use my own Instagram data?

It means the tool connects directly to your Instagram account and reads your private analytics, not just the public view count anyone can see. That includes your skip rate, average watch time, retention curve, shares, saves, and follower behavior per reel.

Public-only analyzers can tell you a reel got 1,200 views. They cannot tell you that 68% of viewers swiped away in the first 3 seconds, or that retention fell off a cliff at second 7. Your own account data carries those numbers. Reelyze pulls them in and reads them so you are diagnosing the real problem instead of guessing from a view total.

Why isn't competitor scraping enough to fix my reels?

Competitor scraping shows you what others posted, not why your specific reel underperformed. It is reconnaissance, not diagnosis. Tools like Shortimize, TikAlyzer, and ReelsAnylizer are built to track public output across many accounts.

That has its place. But it cannot answer the question you actually have at 11pm staring at a flopped reel: what do I change? To answer that, a tool needs two things at once:

Your private retention data, so it knows exactly where attention broke (your skip rate, drop-off second, completion rate).
An understanding of the video itself, so it knows what was on screen when attention broke (the hook, the pacing, the cut that lost people).

Scrapers have neither. They see the outside of a reel. They never watch it, and they never see your account.

How does frame-by-frame analysis combine with my account data?

Reelyze watches your reel frame by frame using AI video understanding, then overlays your real retention numbers on top of the timeline. The result is a second-by-second map of what happened on screen and what viewers did in response.

Here is the difference in practice. Your account data says retention dropped 40% at second 4. On its own that is a number. Reelyze looks at second 4 and sees the moment: your hook payoff landed late, the visual went static, or you buried the point behind a slow intro. Now you have a cause, not just a symptom. You fix the second-4 problem and re-test.

Rule of thumb: a view count tells you a reel failed. Your retention curve tells you when it failed. Frame-by-frame analysis tells you why. You need all three in one place to know what to change.

What does Reelyze actually check, in priority order?

Reelyze grades your reel against the metrics that move reach, in the order Instagram weighs them. The single biggest lever is the hook and skip rate in the first 3 seconds, so that is where analysis starts.

1Skip rate and the first 3 seconds. The hook is checked first because it controls whether the reel gets distributed at all. A high skip rate caps everything downstream.
2Shares. The strongest signal that your content is worth pushing beyond your followers.
3Likes. Broad approval that reinforces reach.
4Saves. Signals lasting value and intent to return.
5Reposts. Extended reach through other people's audiences.
6Comments. Engagement depth that keeps the reel alive longer.

For each, Reelyze ties the number back to a moment in the video. If shares are low, it points to the part of the reel that should have earned a share and did not. Generic analytics dashboards stop at the number. Reelyze tells you which frame to fix.

Is this just analytics, or does it tell me what to do?

It tells you what to do. Generic Instagram Insights and most third-party dashboards report metrics and leave the interpretation to you. Reelyze is built to close that gap with specific, video-aware fixes.

A typical Reelyze readout is not "your retention is 31%." It is closer to: "68% skipped in the first 3 seconds because your hook text appears at second 2 instead of frame one. Open on the payoff. Retention then stabilizes until second 9, where the second idea starts before the first one resolves." That is the difference between a chart and a coach.

How is this different from the analyzers I already know?

The differentiator is the combination. Most analyzers do one of two things; Reelyze is built to do both at once, on your own reels.

Public scrapers (Shortimize, TikAlyzer, ReelsAnylizer style): track competitors' public output. Strong for benchmarking, blind to your private data and to the video content itself.
Native Insights: shows your real numbers but never watches your video and never tells you why a number is what it is.
Reelyze: reads your own Instagram account data and analyzes the video frame by frame, then translates both into a fix list specific to your reel.

If your goal is to copy what is trending, a scraper is fine. If your goal is to understand why your reel stalled at 200 views and ship a better next one, you need your own data plus eyes on the video.

You can connect your account and run your first analysis free. Reelyze reads your retention data, watches the reel, and returns a prioritized list of what to fix, starting with the first 3 seconds.