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SocialContests
Free browser-based giveaway and contest tools: comment pickers, wheel spinner, raffles, Secret Santa and a judging scorecard, with shareable draw links.
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- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist it if you are an Indian creator, D2C brand, school or office that runs the odd Instagram or YouTube giveaway, raffle or Secret Santa and wants a free, no-login way to pick a winner and show followers it was fair. The draw link and public randomness option are the useful part; they answer the usual rigging complaints better than a screen recording of a generic wheel.
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Before relying on it, test the comment copy step on your own post, since the vendor says the Instagram app cannot copy many comments and you need a computer for long threads. The trade-off against paid giveaway apps that log in through Meta is manual effort for privacy and zero cost: you get no automatic comment fetch for Instagram, no entry forms or lead capture, and no named company to hold accountable. Treat it as a free utility, not a campaign platform, and check each platform's giveaway rules and Indian law on prize promotions yourself.
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In short
SocialContests is listed under Social Media Management, reviewed for Indian buyers. FindThatSoftware rates it best for creators and small brands picking a random winner from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Facebook comments without logging in; a poor fit for brands that need hosted entry forms, lead capture or email collection from entrants.
What SocialContests costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
What actually changes for a buyer in India.
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Every tool is free and the site has no paid plan, checkout or pricing page.
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The privacy page says data is never sold but does not explain how the service is funded, so treat it as a free utility that could change or disappear. There is nothing to bill, so GST invoices and refunds do not apply.
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Audit your spendWho SocialContests fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is SocialContests?
SocialContests.com is a set of free web tools for running giveaways, raffles, group draws and judged contests; its privacy page says it is run by an individual named Alex and gives a contact email, but names no company or address and there are no terms of service. For Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook you copy the comments from your post and paste them in: the vendor says Instagram's API only serves comments to logged in Business accounts and Facebook's needs Page admin access, and its YouTube picker does not connect to YouTube at all. The Bluesky picker fetches public replies, likes and reposts from a post link. Every draw produces a draw link that, the vendor says, lets followers re-run the same draw and see the same winner, with an optional public randomness source (drand) so the host cannot pick the seed. Around the pickers sit a wheel spinner, raffle generator with printable tickets, Secret Santa, random teams, bingo cards, a bracket maker, a multi-judge scorecard and a countdown timer, plus question lists and giveaway idea guides. The vendor says entry lists stay in your browser unless you save them to an optional free account, which adds draw history, close reminders, winner claim links and a Monday email.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Every tool is free and works without an account; the vendor says entry lists are handled in your browser and only stored if you save them to an optional account
- Draw links let anyone re-run the draw and see the same winners, with an optional public random number the host cannot choose
- Handles large lists (the vendor states up to 200,000 rows or a 5 MB comment paste) with dedupe, tag and keyword rules, bonus entries and backup winners
The catch
- Run by an individual named only as Alex on the privacy page, with a contact email but no company, address or terms of service (the terms page returns not found)
- Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook pickers rely on you copying comments by hand from a computer, which is slow for long threads and easy to miss replies
- The privacy page says cookies track how the site is used and that some service providers sit outside the EU, without naming them, though the vendor says entry lists stay in your browser
- No entry forms, lead capture or campaign analytics, so it covers picking and announcing winners, not running the giveaway funnel
Best for
- Creators and small brands picking a random winner from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Facebook comments without logging in
- Hosts who want followers to verify the draw through a shareable draw link
- Schools, offices and clubs running raffles, Secret Santa, random teams or a judged photo contest for free
Who should avoid it
- Brands that need hosted entry forms, lead capture or email collection from entrants
- Teams wanting automatic comment import from Instagram or Facebook through an official login
- Buyers who need a registered company behind the tool, a contract or terms of service
India readiness
How well SocialContests fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- –GST invoice
Not verified yet.
- –Bills in INR
Not verified yet.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
Compare SocialContests
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How SocialContests compares
Against the 10 other social media management tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other social media management tools
Recorded for SocialContests and for at most a third of the 10 others we list.
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything, roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What we verified about SocialContests
Read from SocialContests’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What SocialContests does
Features we confirmed18
- Templates
- This or that template and judging templates (photo template weights)
- Social login
- Sign-in page: Continue with Google
- Excel import export
- Giveaway picker: upload .xlsx as it is
- Email notifications
- Privacy page: reminders, winner confirmed, Monday digest emails
- Duplicate detection
- Picker pages: duplicates removed count and merge into extra entries
- Data export
- Privacy page: Download my data in Settings
- Csv import
- Giveaway picker: upload CSV or Excel file
- Csv export
- Judging scorecard: download the results as a CSV
- Automated reminders
- Sign-in page: reminder an hour before your giveaway closes
- Comment picker
- Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook comment picker pages (new phrase)
- Countdown timer
- Giveaway countdown page (new phrase)
- Multi judge scoring
- Contest judging scorecard: weighted criteria, several judges, z-score normalising (new phrase)
- Printable raffle tickets
- Printable raffle tickets page, free PDF (new phrase)
- Public randomness drand
- Giveaway picker FAQ: Public randomness (drand) option (new phrase)
- Random winner picker
- Giveaway picker and random name picker pages (new phrase)
- Secret santa draw
- Secret Santa generator with exclusions and private links (new phrase)
- Verifiable draw link
- Verify page and giveaway picker FAQ: re-run draw from seed (new phrase)
- Wheel spinner
- Wheel spinner, prize wheel, raffle wheel pages (new phrase)
What people use it for2
- Sell through social media
- Closest vocab job; About names creators and small businesses running social giveaways
- Run social giveaways
- Homepage and About: giveaways on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, raffles, Secret Santa (new phrase, no vocab job fits)
Works with9
- Youtube
- YouTube comment picker, comments or live chat replay
- Tiktok
- TikTok comment picker (paste comments)
- Microsoft excel
- Giveaway picker: upload .xlsx file
- Instagram giveaway picker (paste comments, no API)
- Google sign in
- Sign-in page: Continue with Google
- Google sheets
- Giveaway picker: download responses from Google Sheets as CSV
- Google forms
- Giveaway picker: steps to export Google Forms responses to CSV
- Facebook giveaway picker (paste comments)
- Bluesky
- Bluesky picker fetches public data via its open API
Terms, compliance and how you buy7
- Self serve signup
- Sign-in page: Google or email magic link, optional
- No india entity
- No entity named anywhere; nothing indicates an Indian operator
- No card required
- No signup or payment anywhere on the site
- Free plan
- Homepage FAQ: all 17 tools are free
- Customer owns their data
- Privacy page: download or delete everything; entries stay in browser
- Creator oriented
- About: for creators, small businesses, schools, offices, clubs
- Beginner friendly
- Tool pages walk through copy and paste steps; no login
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Homepage FAQ: all 17 tools are free, no signuphttps://socialcontests.com/
- About page: free, no signup, 200,000 entrieshttps://socialcontests.com/about
- Contest judging scorecard: weighted criteria, multiple judges, normalisationhttps://socialcontests.com/contest-judging-scorecard
- Draw verification pagehttps://socialcontests.com/verify
- Giveaway picker: CSV/Excel upload, Google Forms export, drand, alternateshttps://socialcontests.com/giveaway-picker
- Instagram giveaway picker: paste parser, entry rules, reveal modeshttps://socialcontests.com/instagram-comment-picker
- Secret Santa generator: exclusions, private links, INR currency optionhttps://socialcontests.com/secret-santa-generator
- YouTube comment picker: no YouTube connectionhttps://socialcontests.com/youtube-comment-picker
- Bluesky giveaway picker: fetches public replies, likes, repostshttps://socialcontests.com/bluesky-giveaway-picker
- Sign-in page: what the optional account addshttps://socialcontests.com/sign-in
- Privacy page: data handling, subprocessors, account datahttps://socialcontests.com/privacy
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SocialContests questions
Does SocialContests give a GST invoice in India?
- Whether SocialContests issues an India GST invoice is not verified yet. Foreign-billed tools usually don't, in which case a registered business reclaims GST via reverse charge; confirm the vendor's billing before you buy.
Is SocialContests good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits creators and small brands picking a random winner from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or Facebook comments without logging in. It bills in a foreign currency, so expect the card forex markup on every charge. It is not the right pick for brands that need hosted entry forms, lead capture or email collection from entrants.
Does SocialContests have a free plan?
- SocialContests lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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