The Best YouTube Comment Pickers
Learn about the best tools to pick a winner in a comment-to-win giveaway on YouTube.
• Automated tools ensure fair, transparent YouTube comment-to-win draws
• Most tools let you filter entries, remove duplicates, and select multiple winners
• Pickawinner, SEOStudio, and TubeBuddy support advanced filters and higher volumes
• Use filters like hashtags or specific phrases to refine your entries
• Avoid manual picks — automated tools protect trust and boost credibility
When running a comment-to-win competition on YouTube, it’s essential to have a reliable, user-friendly comment picker to draw the winner.
Below, we've listed our favourite comment picker tools tailored specifically for YouTube giveaways.
Using an automated tool is crucial to show your contestants that the competition is fair and unbiased.
If you pick the winner manually, you won’t be able to prove that the selection wasn’t influenced or random, which could make your competition look untrustworthy.
In this post we will cover:
Comment Picker has a YouTube random comment picker tool that is completely free to use selecting random winners from your comments. It supports regular YouTube videos as well as YouTube shorts.
The free version allows you to import and pick a winner from up to 250 comments from one YouTube video and one winner, while the Premium version allows for unlimited comments, up to 5 videos, and up to 10 winners.
Pickawinner is also a great comment picker option because it offers some extra advanced features and filters for selecting winners in YouTube contests and giveaways.
The free version supports up to 100,000 YouTube comments.
If you want to go premium, you just have to pay a one-time fee of $1.99 per YouTube video and offers unlimited comments and extra features like no ads and custom filters.
AppSorteos is a great tool for picking YouTube winners from the comment sections.
You can select winners from the comment sections of regular YouTube videos, shorts, and even live streams.
You can pick from up to 600 comments with the free version.
TubeBuddy integrates with YouTube and allows you to pick a random winner from the comments on your videos.
It also offers options to filter comments based on specific text or phrases by selecting keywords or hashtags so you a pick winners based on certain criteria.
SEOStudio is a free online tool which you can use to randomly select winners or highlight comments from the comment section of their YouTube videos.
It lets you input the URL of the YouTube video, choose the number of winners, and pick a winner randomly.
Views4You is an AI-powered tool that helps you choose winners of your YouTube contests from comments.
You can scan, filter, and customise the number of winners and it is completely free.
They have some other YouTube tools too:
RandomTools is another completely free tool to choose a random winner from the comments of any YouTube video for giveaways, contests, or promotions.
You can filter comments by duplicate entries, specific text, or hashtag.
NimTools' services are all completely free and allow you to randomly select a user comment from all the comments on your video.
Again, you just input the URL of your YouTube video, and the tool will filter through all the comments, ensuring quality by selecting only unique user comments.
We also have a blog post here on the best comment to win ideas and tools on other social media platforms.
Use a comment picker tool like Gleam to randomly select a winner from eligible YouTube comments, while ensuring that all entry conditions are met.
Comment giveaways work by asking users to leave a comment on a post to enter a contest, with a winner chosen randomly or based on set criteria.
You can run a YouTube giveaway by asking viewers to comment, answer questions, or enter through a Gleam campaign that verifies actions.
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