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About Free Comment Picker
Free Comment Picker is a free giveaway winner picker for Instagram, YouTube and TikTok comments. There is no login, no signup and no follower minimum. This page explains who runs it, how the draw actually works, and what you can check for yourself.
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Why this tool exists
Most comment picker tools are free until they are not. You paste a link, the tool loads a few hundred comments, and then it asks you to create an account or pay before it will show you the winner. That is a bad moment to discover a paywall, because by then you have already announced the draw to your audience.
Free Comment Picker was built to remove that moment. You paste a public post link, you see the post, you draw a winner. Nothing asks for an email address and nothing is gated behind a signup.
How the random winner is actually chosen
The draw runs in your own browser, not on our server. It uses crypto.getRandomValues, the browser's cryptographically secure random number generator, rather than Math.random, which is predictable and should never be used to pick a prize winner.
It also rejects modulo bias. Naively taking a random number modulo the number of entrants makes the first few entrants very slightly more likely to win. The draw discards any random value that would fall in the biased range and redraws instead, so every eligible entrant has a genuinely equal chance.
You can read that code. It is in components/picker/pickWinners.ts and it is the only place a winner is ever selected.
- The winner is drawn client side, in your browser, using a CSPRNG
- Modulo bias is rejected, so the odds are exactly equal for every entrant
- The full list of eligible entrants is shown after every draw, with the winner highlighted
- Nothing about the result is stored, so nobody can go back and change it
- MDN: Crypto.getRandomValues()The browser API this tool uses to draw the winner, and Mozilla's own warning that Math.random is not suitable for anything that needs to be unpredictable.
How to prove your draw was fair
A fair draw that your audience cannot verify is worth very little. The tool is built to be recorded: the entrant list stays on screen with the winner highlighted, so you can screen record the whole draw and publish the clip with your announcement.
That recording is the proof. It shows the pool, the draw and the result in one unbroken take, which is much harder to dispute than a screenshot of a name.
What this tool does not do
It does not post on your behalf, follow anyone, like anything or touch your account in any way. It never asks for your platform password and it has no permission to act as you.
It only reads comments from public posts. If a post is private or has been deleted, there is nothing for the tool to read and it will tell you so instead of guessing.
Who runs it
Free Comment Picker is an independent project, not affiliated with Instagram, YouTube, TikTok or any other platform named on this site. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
It is funded by nothing in particular, which is why it stays small and why there is no account system to maintain. If the tool ever needs to change that, this page will say so before it happens.