YouTube Comment Picker

Free YouTube Comment Picker: Pick a Random Giveaway Winner

Paste a video link and draw a winner from up to 1,000 comments in seconds. Free, with no login and filters to enforce your entry rules.

  • No login required
  • Reads up to 1,000 comments
  • Cryptographically random
Pick a winner

Works with youtube.com/watch links, youtu.be links, and Shorts links. The video has to be public with comments turned on.

Off by default, so only top-level comments are entered. YouTube returns the first replies on each comment, so very long reply chains are only partly included.

Best Practices for Running a YouTube Giveaway

A giveaway that looks rigged costs more trust than the prize is worth. Whichever YouTube giveaway picker you draw with, these are the habits that keep yours clean.

  1. 1

    State the rules in the video and the description

    Say what the prize is, how to enter, when entries close, how the winner gets picked, and where you will announce it. Put it in the description too, so people can check it after the fact.

  2. 2

    Require a qualifying action you can verify

    Asking people to comment a specific word or hashtag, such as #giveaway, gives you a rule you can actually enforce with a filter. It also keeps unrelated comments out of the draw.

  3. 3

    Do not make liking or subscribing an entry requirement

    The YouTube fake engagement policy prohibits offering anything of value in exchange for likes, subscriptions, or other engagement, so making a like or a subscription an entry requirement puts your channel at risk. Ask for a comment instead.

  4. 4

    Announce the winner publicly

    Post the result in a comment, a community post, or your next video, with a screenshot of the draw. Public results are what make the next giveaway credible.

  5. 5

    Follow YouTube's contest policies and your local law

    YouTube requires contests to comply with its policies and with the law where you and your entrants are. Read its contest policies before you post, and check whether your region treats your giveaway as a lottery or requires official rules.

YouTube Comment Picker FAQs

Yes. Winners are drawn with crypto.getRandomValues, the cryptographically secure random source built into your browser, rather than Math.random, whose output can be predicted from earlier values. On top of that, the draw uses rejection sampling instead of a plain modulo, which removes the small bias that would otherwise make lower-numbered entries slightly more likely, and a partial Fisher-Yates shuffle so no entry can be drawn twice in a multi-winner draw. Nothing about the result depends on comment order, like count, or when somebody entered.
No. There is no login, no OAuth prompt, no extension, and no permission request of any kind. The tool reads the public comments on the video link you paste, which is the same data any viewer can see, so it works on other people's videos as well as your own and it works while you are signed out.
Giveaways are allowed, with conditions. YouTube requires contests to follow its policies and the law that applies to you and your entrants, and it prohibits offering anything of value in exchange for likes, subscriptions, or other engagement, which rules out making a like or a subscription an entry requirement. Ask for a comment instead. Local law is the part people miss: some regions treat a prize draw as a lottery, or require published official rules, an eligibility statement, and a stated end date. Read the YouTube contest policies before you post, and check the rules where you are. This is not legal advice.
Most run a comment giveaway: ask viewers to comment something specific, let entries build, then draw at random from the comments with a random YouTube comment picker and post the result publicly. The alternatives are worse. Scrolling and picking a comment yourself is not random and viewers can tell. Screen recording a spinning wheel is theatre on top of whatever picked the entrant. Bigger channels also announce the draw date up front, keep everyone to one entry, and screenshot the result as proof.
Yes, up to 10 in a single draw. That covers a main prize plus runners-up, or a set of equal winners. Each entry can only be drawn once, so you will never get the same person twice in one draw. If someone turns out to be ineligible, the redraw button runs the selection again on the comments already loaded, with no new request to YouTube.
Yes. Paste a youtube.com/shorts link and it works exactly like a standard video link, because Shorts comments live in the same place as regular video comments. Mobile links, youtu.be short links, and plain watch links all work too.
A single draw reads up to 1,000 comments, newest first, and the results card tells you when a video has more than that so you are never guessing whether everyone was included. There is no smaller free tier and no upgrade that raises the number. The cap keeps large anonymous draws fast and protects the shared service from abuse.
Yes, and all the filters are free. Require a keyword or hashtag in the comment, restrict the draw to comments posted inside a date range, set a minimum like count, and keep every commenter to one entry no matter how many times they commented. Comments have to pass your rules before the one-entry-per-person step, so a person's off-topic comment can never use up the slot their qualifying comment earned.
The tool tells you comments are off rather than showing an empty draw. The same goes for the other cases that block a draw: a private or deleted video, an age restricted video whose comments YouTube will not serve, and a filter combination that nothing matches. Each one gets its own message explaining what to change.
No. Comments are fetched for the draw, held in your browser tab so you can redraw without another request, and gone when you close or reload the page. Nothing about the draw, the entrants, or the winners is stored on our side.

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