Everything people ask before their first draw

No. Paste a link and go. An account (free) keeps your draws forever, lets you save a blocklist, and is required for Pro. Draws you made as a guest are claimed automatically when you sign up on the same device.

Public posts, carousels and Reels: instagram.com/p/…, /reel/…, /tv/…. Copy the link with Share → Copy link. Stories, private accounts, and posts with comments turned off won’t work — for private accounts, use manual paste.

Yes — any public post. Set the required-follow accounts to whichever hosts your rules name.

Small posts finish in seconds. Roughly a minute per 1,000–1,500 comments beyond that. You can leave the page; the draw keeps working and is waiting when you come back (log in and it will be in your dashboard).

We count different @mentions per person, across all their comments. Duplicate tags count once. An “@” glued to a word (like “tod@s”) doesn’t count. Set the minimum to 0 to ignore tags.

By default they get exactly one entry. Turn on “every comment counts” only if your rules promised extra chances for extra comments.

Yes — add usernames to the exclusion list. The post author is excluded automatically. Pro accounts can save a blocklist that applies to every draw.

Yes. Add the host account(s) and turn on verification. Drawn winners are checked against the public data; anyone who provably doesn’t follow is skipped and listed. Private accounts return “unknown” and are never rejected on a guess.

No — Instagram doesn’t expose likers reliably at scale or Story shares at all. We won’t pretend to verify things we can’t.

A fresh 256-bit seed from the OS CSPRNG, an HMAC-SHA256 stream, and a Fisher–Yates shuffle with rejection sampling (no modulo bias). The seed and entry-list hash are published, and /d/{code}/verify.json recomputes the draw for anyone.

Free draws include one redraw; Pro is unlimited. Redraws use a brand-new seed and the proof page states it was a redraw and lists previous winners — transparency beats quietly re-rolling.

Instagram’s number includes deleted, hidden, restricted and spam-filtered comments, and comments made from Facebook cross-posts, none of which are publicly readable. We show both numbers.

Free covers up to 500 comments. Draw Passes cover up to 10,000 and 100,000. Contact us for larger posts.

Replies are fetched and included by default. Toggle “ignore replies” if your rules only count top-level comments.

Yes, to run the draw, show the audit table, and back the proof page. Guest draws are deleted after 30 days; account draws stay until you delete them. We never contact commenters, never profile them across giveaways, and never sell data.

Pickfetti reads publicly visible data on public posts and never accesses your account. You are still responsible for following Instagram’s Promotion Guidelines for your giveaway (disclaimer, no mis-tagging) — see our guide.

Yes by default (that is the point), but you can hide it or delete the draw at any time.

Free up to 500 comments. Draw Pass $4.99 (≤10,000 comments), Big Draw Pass $14.99 (≤100,000). Pro $9/month or $79/year for unlimited draws with a pooled 100,000 comments per month.

Non-refundable once fetching starts, except for technical failure on our side, double charges, or draws that never ran. Rule changes and redraws are free, so “no eligible entrants” never needs a refund.