How to pick a giveaway winner
- Copy the entries from wherever people entered: comments, a sign-up sheet, form responses or DMs.
- Paste them into the box, one entry per line.
- Choose how many winners you need, and how many alternates to keep in reserve.
- Press Pick winners, then use the full-screen reveal if you'd like to record the moment for your audience.
Cleaning up a pasted entry list
Comment exports are messy. Leave Count each person once ticked and repeat entries are merged, even when someone wrote "@Mia" once and "mia" later, so commenting ten times doesn't give anyone ten chances. If you've pasted whole comments, tick Use only the first word to keep just the username at the start of each line. Tidy the list rewrites the box with the cleaned entries, so you can check exactly who is in the draw before you pick.
If your rules allow extra entries, for example one per tagged friend, untick the duplicate option and every line counts as its own entry.
Why you should draw alternates
Winners sometimes don't reply, turn out to live outside the eligible area, or entered from a second account. Drawing alternates at the same moment as the winners means you never need a second draw that followers might question. Contact them in order: alternate 1 first, then alternate 2, and so on.
Show your audience the draw was fair
Start a screen recording, open the Full-screen reveal, and click through each winner. The reveal shows your giveaway name, the number of entrants and the time of the draw, then celebrates each winner with confetti. Afterwards, Copy results gives you a plain-text record with a timestamp, the entrant count and the winners and alternates in order: handy for a follow-up post or your own records.
How winners are chosen
The draw happens entirely in your browser. When you press the button, the page uses crypto.getRandomValues, a cryptographically secure source of randomness, to shuffle the entrant list without any bias, then takes winners and alternates from the top of that shuffle. Each entrant has exactly the same chance of every place, the order you pasted names in makes no difference, and nobody can be drawn twice.
Run your giveaway responsibly
Before you launch, write down who can enter, the closing date and how the winner will be chosen, and follow the promotion rules of the platform you're using. Giveaway rules also vary by country and state, so check what applies where you and your entrants live.
Frequently asked questions
Can it pull comments from Instagram, YouTube or TikTok automatically?
No. The tool never connects to your accounts. Copy the comments or export them, then paste them in. That also means your entrants' details never leave your device.
Can the same person win twice?
No. Each draw picks distinct entries, and with duplicates merged each person appears only once.
How many entrants can I paste?
Up to 100,000 lines, which covers almost any creator or small-business giveaway.
Are the results saved?
Your entrant list and settings are remembered in this browser. Results aren't stored, so copy the summary before you close the page.