Comparison
Hadzy vs Comment Picker
Both tools pick a random comment as a giveaway winner, but they are built for different jobs. Comment Picker is a multi-platform giveaway suite: it draws winners from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X as well as YouTube, and it has been doing that since 2015. Hadzy is a YouTube-only comment search engine that happens to include a giveaway picker, so the same page that draws your winner also lets you search, filter, sort, and export the comment section you drew from.
Pick Comment Picker if your giveaways span several social networks, or you need entry forms, draws across multiple videos, or a results page with your own branding. Pick Hadzy if your giveaway lives on YouTube and you want the whole comment thread searchable, no ads anywhere, and a public proof page for the draw.
At a glance
| Feature | Hadzy | Comment Picker |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | YouTube only | YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X |
| What it is | Comment search engine with a giveaway picker built in | Giveaway picker inside a large suite of generic tools (list randomizer, coin flip, wheel of names, thumbnail downloader) |
| Free-tier comment depth | Full comment thread indexed; free tier returns 250 results per query and exports 250 rows | Around 100 comments per YouTube draw |
| Ads and affiliate links | None, on any tier | Shown on the free tier; removed on Premium |
| Full-text comment search | Yes - keyword and author search across comments and replies | No - it is a picker, not a search tool |
| Statistics | Word cloud, top commenters, timeline stats | Not offered |
| Multi-video draws | No - one video per draw | Premium: draw across up to 5 videos |
| Winners per draw | 1 free; up to 10 in a batch draw for supporters | Up to 10 on Premium |
| Entry filters | Supporters: keyword, minimum word count, unique authors | Premium: entry forms |
| Shareable result | Public proof page at hadzy.com/g/{proofId} that anyone can open | Premium: saved results and a white-label results page (your logo, title, colour) |
| Signup | None needed; supporter features unlock through Patreon | Free tier usable in-browser; Premium is an account |
| Price | Free; optional supporter tier $5/month via Patreon | Free with ads; Premium $9.99/month or $95.91/year |
Where each tool wins
Neither tool is a superset of the other. These are the differences that actually change which one you should open.
Comment Picker is the better choice for
- Giveaways on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or X - Hadzy does none of these
- A single draw spanning up to 5 videos (Premium)
- Entry forms, when the entry is not just a comment
- A results page carrying your own logo, title, and colour (Premium)
- A longer track record: running since 2015, plus a wide suite of general tools
Hadzy is the better choice for
- Searching the comment section, not just drawing from it - keyword and author search across comments and replies
- Videos with thousands of comments, where a 100-comment free cap is the whole problem
- No ads and no affiliate links, including on the free tier
- A public proof page anyone can open to check the draw
- Statistics: word cloud, top commenters, comment timeline
The free tiers are not comparable
This is the difference that matters most in practice. Comment Picker’s free YouTube draw works from roughly the first 100 comments on a video. If your giveaway video has 4,000 comments, 97% of your entrants were never in the hat - and they have no way to tell.
Hadzy indexes the whole comment thread, including replies, through the official YouTube Data API, and the free draw runs against all of it. The free tier does have its own limits — 250 results per search query, and CSV export capped at the same 250rows — but those cap what you can read and download, not what the draw considers.
The export itself is not held back: the CSV button works without signing up, the file carries no watermark or upsell row, and it exports whatever your current search and author filter are showing rather than a random slice. What you buy by supporting is volume — up to 500,000 rows, and JSON as well as CSV — not access.
Ads, affiliate links, and what you pay
Comment Picker’s free tier carries ads and affiliate links; Premium removes them at $9.99 per month or $95.91 per year. Hadzy has no ads or affiliate links on any tier, free included, and the optional supporter tier is $5 per month through Patreon.
Supporting Hadzy raises the CSV export cap to 500,000 rows and adds JSON export, deep pagination, date filters, batch giveaway draws of up to 10 winners with keyword, minimum-word-count, and unique-author entry filters, a statistics pack, and creator insights. Everything else stays free and needs no account.
Which should you use?
Use Comment Picker if you run giveaways on more than one platform, need entry forms, want to combine several videos into one draw, or want the results page branded as yours.
Use Hadzy if the giveaway is on YouTube, the video has more than a hundred comments, you want to filter entries by your entry phrase or to one entry per person, and you want to hand entrants a link that proves the draw rather than a screenshot.
Plenty of creators end up using both: Comment Picker for their Instagram draws, Hadzy for the YouTube ones.
Frequently asked questions
Is Comment Picker free?
Yes, there is a free tier. On YouTube it draws from roughly the first 100 comments and the free pages carry ads and affiliate links. Premium costs $9.99 per month or $95.91 per year and adds draws across up to 5 videos, up to 10 winners, saved results, entry forms, a white-label results page, and removes the ads.
Can Hadzy run an Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook giveaway?
No. Hadzy is YouTube-only. If your giveaway runs on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or X, Comment Picker is the right tool - it covers all of those, and Hadzy has no plans that change that.
Which tool handles a video with thousands of comments?
Hadzy. It indexes the full comment thread - comments and replies - through the official YouTube Data API, so a draw on a video with tens of thousands of comments considers all of them. Comment Picker’s free YouTube draw works from about the first 100 comments.
How can entrants verify that a draw was fair?
Hadzy publishes a public proof page for a draw at hadzy.com/g/{proofId}. You paste that link in your announcement and entrants open it themselves - no screenshot to trust. Comment Picker offers saved results and a white-label results page on its Premium tier.
Which one has been around longer?
Comment Picker. It has been running since 2015 and has a much longer public track record, along with a broad suite of general-purpose tools beyond giveaways. Hadzy is a newer, narrower tool focused on YouTube comment search and analysis.
Try it yourself
All of Hadzy’s core tools are free and work without an account. Paste any public YouTube video URL on the Hadzy home page to load its comments, or start from one of the tools below.
- YouTube giveaway pickerDraw a random comment winner and share a public proof page.
- YouTube comment finderSearch every comment and reply on a video by keyword or author.
- Export YouTube commentsDownload a video’s comments as CSV, or JSON for supporters.
- Support Hadzy$5 a month unlocks batch draws, entry filters, and 500,000-row export.