Free Instagram Comment Picker
Paste your comments, set your rules, draw a winner. Every other picker asks for your post link and pulls the comments onto their server. This one never sees them, because nothing you paste ever leaves your browser.
The draw
Paste your comments on the left, then draw 👇
Free. No signup, no email. Nothing you paste here leaves your browser.
Automated comment moderation for Facebook and Instagram
We monitor your Facebook and Instagram pages 24/7 and automatically hide bad comments and spam in your ads and organic posts.
7 days free. No credit card required. Setup in 2 minutes.
What this tool does
It picks a random winner from comments you paste in. There is no post URL box, and that is deliberate: the moment a tool asks for your link, your giveaway entries are on somebody else's server, and you have no idea what happens to them. Pasting is more work. It is also the only version that can promise the entries never left your machine and mean it.
The draw uses your browser's cryptographic random number generator rather than the ordinary one, shuffles the whole eligible pool, and takes the winners off the top. That means no winner can be drawn twice, and the draw is genuinely uniform rather than approximately uniform.
There is no reroll button, on purpose. A picker that lets you spin again until you like the winner is not a picker. The one thing this tool is for is being able to tell your audience the draw was fair, and a reroll quietly takes that away.
It also shows you exactly who got excluded and why, before you announce anything. It is free, there is no signup, and the whole thing runs in your browser.
How to pick a giveaway winner
The drawing is the easy part. Being able to defend the result is the part that matters when somebody asks.
- 1Copy your commentsOpen the post, expand all the comments (Instagram loads them lazily, so scroll to the bottom first), select, and copy. Handles first if you can, because that is what lets the tool catch duplicate entries.
- 2Set your rules before you drawThis matters more than it sounds. Decide the rules first, not after seeing who is in the pool. One entry per person, must tag two friends, whatever you announced. Changing rules after seeing the names is how a fair draw stops being one.
- 3Read the excluded panelBefore you announce anything, look at who got removed and why. If 400 of 500 entries were disqualified, you want to know that now rather than when somebody asks why they did not win.
- 4Draw onceThere is no reroll here and that is the feature. If you draw ten times and pick your favourite, you did not run a giveaway, you picked a winner and did some theatre.
- 5Screen record it if it mattersFor anything with real value, record your screen while you paste and draw. It costs nothing and it is the difference between saying it was random and showing it.
Why this one does not ask for your post link
Every other comment picker has a URL box. It is worth understanding what that box does.
- 1The link means their server reads your commentsTo pull comments from a URL, a tool has to fetch them, which means the entries, the handles, and everything anyone wrote goes to a company you have never met and stays as long as they like.
- 2Which is why they want itIt is more convenient for you and it is a data collection step for them. Convenience is the trade, and it is rarely spelled out on the page.
- 3Pasting keeps it on your machineSlower, more clicking, and the only version where this page can honestly say your entries never left your browser. That promise is worth an extra thirty seconds.
- 4It also cannot breakA picker that fetches comments stops working every time Meta changes something. A text box does not.
What this picker does, and what it does not
It draws a fair winner from what you paste. Everything about the giveaway around that is still yours.
What this picker does
- A genuinely random drawYour browser's cryptographic random number generator, a full shuffle, no winner drawn twice. Not approximately fair, actually fair.
- Your rules, applied consistentlyOne entry per person, must contain a word, must tag two friends. Applied to everybody the same way, which is hard to do by eye at 400 entries.
- A record of who was excludedShown before you announce, with the reason. The number that surprises people is how many entries fail their own rules.
- Total privacyNo post link, no upload, nothing stored. Your entrants' handles stay on your machine, which is not true of any picker with a URL box.
What it cannot do
- Fetching your commentsYou paste them. That is the trade for the privacy, and it is the honest one. Instagram gives no export, so scroll to the bottom before you copy or you will only draw from the first thirty.
- Telling a bot from a personThis is the big one. A giveaway is a scam magnet, and the crypto accounts entering yours look like entries to a text parser. If a bot wins, you announced a bot.
- Checking anyone followed youThat would need access to your account. Follow requirements are on you to check by hand, on the winner, before you announce.
- Comments it never sawInstagram loads comments as you scroll. If you copied without expanding, most of your entrants were never in the draw and will never know.
- Running your promotion legallyPrize rules, eligibility, and Meta's promotion guidelines are yours. The tool draws a name.
- The comment section afterwardsA giveaway post attracts more scam accounts than anything else you will ever post, and they stay long after the draw.
Running the giveaway vs Sweep Inbox
The draw is one minute. The comment section a giveaway creates lasts for weeks. Here is the split.
| This picker | Sweep Inbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no signup | Paid, with a 7 day free trial |
| What it sees | The comments you paste | Every comment as it lands |
| The crypto bots entering | Counted as entries. One could win | Hidden within seconds of arriving |
| After the draw | Nothing. It is done | Still watching the post the scammers found |
| Your entrants' data | Never leaves your browser | Stays in your own account |
Questions people actually ask
- Expand all the comments on your post (Instagram only loads them as you scroll, so go to the bottom first), copy them, and paste them in above. Set your rules, then draw. This tool uses your browser's cryptographic random number generator and shuffles the whole pool, so the draw is genuinely uniform and nobody can win twice.
More free tools
Every tool here is free, runs in your browser, and never asks for an email.
Hidden Words Generator
Build a blocked words list for Instagram and Facebook in one click, then paste it into your Meta settings. No signup, no email.
Open toolComment Spam Checker
Paste the comments from under your posts and ads, and see which ones are spam and why. No signup, no email.
Open toolNegative Comment Reply Generator
Ready to post replies for complaints, scam accusations, trolls, and late deliveries. Pick the situation and the tone, then make it yours.
Open toolComment Moderation ROI Calculator
See what moderating your comments by hand costs every month, in hours and in money. Your numbers, our arithmetic, shown in full.
Open toolComment Section Health Score
Ten questions, one grade, and the specific fix for every weak spot in how you handle your comments. Most of the fixes are free.
Open toolProfanity Block List Generator
Build a swear word block list in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, or German, and choose how strict it is. Paste it straight into Meta.
Open toolEmoji Spam Blocked List
Emoji spam has no words, so word filters never see it. Meta's blocked list takes emojis too. Build one and paste it in.
Open toolArabic Hidden Words List
An Arabic blocked words list written as Arabic, not translated. Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Maghrebi dialects included.
Open toolComment Policy Generator
The post you point at when someone asks why their comment was hidden. Pick your industry and strictness, then pin it.
Open toolFacebook Review Response Templates
Replies for angry one star reviews, fake ones, mixed, and glowing. Written for the next customer reading, not the reviewer.
Open toolModeration Cost Savings Calculator
Covering every hour is 4.2 full time people. See the gap between the coverage you promised and the team you have.
Open toolFacebook Ad Policy Checker
Paste your ad copy and see which phrases look risky, and which Meta policy each one belongs to. It cannot approve anything, and it says so.
Open toolAd Comment Cost Calculator
You paid for the impression and a scam reply was underneath it. See what that is worth, with the guesswork clearly labelled.
Open toolAd Character Limits Counter
Facebook and Instagram do not have the same limits, whatever the blogs say. Live counter with a truncation preview.
Open toolCPM, CPC and CPA Calculator
Fill in whatever you have from Ads Manager and it works out the rest. Anything it cannot compute says so instead of showing zero.
Open toolBreakeven ROAS Calculator
The 1 divided by margin shortcut is wrong and it flatters you. This one counts fees, shipping, and fulfilment.
Open toolAd Frequency Calculator
Frequency on its own tells you nothing. See how much of your audience you have actually burned through.
Open toolUTM Builder
Tagged campaign links with the Meta presets already right, plus the dynamic parameters almost nobody uses.
Open toolA/B Test Significance Calculator
Is variant B really winning, or is it a coin landing heads? A proper two-tailed test, explained in plain words.
Open toolAd Budget Calculator
Work backwards from a revenue goal to the spend it needs, with the ROAS your plan quietly assumes shown next to it.
Open toolEngagement Bait Checker
Tag a friend, like if you agree, share to win. Meta demotes all of it. Paste your caption and get a rewrite.
Open toolInstagram Engagement Rate Calculator
The rate everyone quotes divides your likes by people who never saw the post. This gives you that one and the honest one.
Open toolBanned Hashtag Checker
The ones that catch you out are words like desk and adulting. Honest about the fact that no list is official or current.
Open toolInstagram Fonts Generator
Every style at once, ready to copy. Also the only one that tells you which styles your blind followers cannot read.
Open toolInstagram Character Counter
Captions can be 2,200 characters and get cut off at 125. See exactly which words disappear behind the more link.
Open toolFollower Growth Rate Calculator
8 percent in a week and 8 percent in a quarter are not the same. This normalises properly so you can compare them.
Open toolInstagram Reach Rate Calculator
A 500 percent reach rate can mean your own followers never saw the post. Split it and find out which it is.
Open toolFacebook Engagement Rate Calculator
Dividing by page likes is close to meaningless when barely any of them see your posts. Add reach and get the real number.
Open toolFacebook Comment Picker
Draw a giveaway winner from your Facebook comments. No post link, nothing uploaded, and deliberately no reroll.
Open toolFacebook Character Counter
63,206 characters is trivia. Your post gets cut at 125 on a phone, and you cannot see that from your desktop.
Open toolThe giveaway ends. The scam accounts it attracted do not.
A giveaway post is the single best advert you will ever run for crypto bots. Connect your pages and let Sweep Inbox hide them as they arrive.
7 days free. No credit card. Cancel anytime.
