To pick a giveaway winner from YouTube comments, paste the video URL below and open the random picker. Hadzy draws a comment at random from the video’s entire comment thread and links you straight to it on YouTube.
Drawing one winner is free and needs no account. Core Supporters can draw up to ten winners at once with entry filters, and every batch draw produces a public proof page their audience can check.
Free to draw a winner. No account, no ads.
Paste the video link
Any public video with comments enabled - a normal watch URL, a youtu.be link, a Shorts link, or a livestream replay.
Let the comments load
Hadzy fetches the whole comment thread from the official YouTube Data API first. That matters for a giveaway: the draw pool is every entry on the video, not the first page YouTube happened to render.
Pick a random comment
Open the random picker and draw. You get the winner’s name, their comment, and a link to it on YouTube so you can reply and start the claim. Shuffle as many times as you like before you announce anything.
Announce with something they can check
Link entrants to the winning comment on YouTube, or - on a supporter batch draw - share the proof page, which records the winners, the size of the entry pool, and the exact filters used.
The awkward part of a comment giveaway is not picking a name - it is convincing several thousand people who did not win that the draw was straight. A screenshot proves nothing; anyone can shuffle until a friend’s name appears and screenshot that one.
hadzy.com/g/{proofId} listing the winners, the number of entries drawn from, the filters used, and the moment the draw ran. Paste that link into your announcement.Paste the video URL into Hadzy, wait for the comments to load, and open the random picker. It draws one comment at random from the video’s full comment thread and links you to that comment on YouTube so you can contact the winner. It is free and needs no account.
The pick is made on the server across every comment stored for that video, with no weighting by likes, recency, or reply count. A comment posted at 3am on day one has exactly the same chance as the pinned top comment. What the picker cannot do is verify that entrants followed your rules - that part is on you, though keyword and word-count filters take most of it off your hands.
Yes, with a Core Supporter membership ($5/month on Patreon). Giveaway mode draws up to 10 winners in a single pass, so you never accidentally pick the same person twice for first, second, and third place. The free picker draws one winner per shuffle, which is enough for most giveaways.
A supporter batch draw generates a public proof page at hadzy.com/g/{proofId}. It records the winners, how many comments were in the entry pool, the exact filters applied, and when the draw ran. You share that link in your announcement or pinned comment, and entrants verify it themselves instead of trusting a screenshot that could have been retaken until the right name came up.
Both, in supporter giveaway mode. You can require a keyword or hashtag so only comments containing it are eligible, set a minimum word count to filter out one-word entries like “first”, and limit the draw to one entry per author so nobody improves their odds by posting forty comments.
Yes. Any public video with comments enabled works, including Shorts and finished live stream replays. Private and unlisted videos, and videos with comments switched off, cannot be drawn from because their comments are not publicly available.