Paste the comments from your giveaway video, one per line as name: comment, set the number of winners, and the picker draws them at random without repeats. With 4 eligible people and 1 prize, each person has a 25% chance. Repeat commenters can be limited to a single entry.
Creators running a giveaway on a video need a draw that viewers can trust: every eligible commenter equally likely, nobody counted twice for spamming the thread. This picker takes the comment list you paste or open from a text file, optionally keeps only comments containing a required word or hashtag, collapses repeat commenters into one entry, and draws the winners you ask for without replacement. It shows how many lines were read, how many were dropped and why, and the chance each entry had. It does not connect to YouTube, so you export or copy the comments yourself; replies and hidden comments are only included if you paste them.
One comment per line, ideally as name: comment, or open a .txt or .csv file exported from your channel.
Use the − and + buttons to choose how many prizes to draw.
Keep One entry per person on to stop repeat commenters gaining extra chances, and type a required word or hashtag if the giveaway asked for one.
The first winner appears on top; the table lists every winner with the comment that qualified them.
Result Winner: cara
Lines read: 4
Eligible entries: 4
Repeat entries removed: 0
Missing the keyword: 0
Chance per entry: 25%
Each of the four people has a one-in-four chance, 25%.
Result Winner: cara
Lines read: 6
Eligible entries: 3
Repeat entries removed: 3
Missing the keyword: 0
Chance per entry: 66.67%
Anna commented three times and Ben twice, but each person gets one entry, so three people share two prizes.
Result Winner: eli
Lines read: 5
Eligible entries: 3
Repeat entries removed: 0
Missing the keyword: 2
Chance per entry: 33.33%
Two comments lack the hashtag and are dropped, leaving three entries.
chance per entry = winners ÷ eligible entries
winnerseligible entriesEach line is split at its first colon into a name and a comment. Lines missing the required keyword (case-insensitive) are dropped, then repeat names are removed if one entry per person is on, keeping the first comment. Winners are drawn one at a time from the remaining entries using the browser's random source, and each drawn entry leaves the pool, so nobody wins twice.
Copy them from the video page, or export them from YouTube Studio or a comment export tool, then paste them here or open the saved text file. Each comment should sit on its own line.
No. Each winner is removed from the pool before the next draw. With one entry per person on, repeat comments by the same name are also merged first, so a heavy commenter has the same chance as everyone else.
A line without a colon in its first 40 characters is treated as one whole entry, and the full line is shown as the winner. That works for lists of usernames only.
No. #Giveaway, #giveaway and #GIVEAWAY all match. The word can appear anywhere in the comment text, but not only in the name.
Every eligible entry wins and a warning tells you how many qualified. The chance per entry then reads 100%.
No. The draw runs in your browser and the pasted list is not uploaded or saved by the page.
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Tools Directory Editorial Team. (2026, October 10). YouTube Comment Picker. Tools Directory. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://tools.milunir.com/social-media/youtube-tools/youtube-comment-picker/
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