Comment Picker vs Heyo

Comment Picker is a web service with more than 100 tools for giveaways, contests, social media tasks, and exports. Its giveaway tools draw winners from comments on social posts and videos, with listed support for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, X, Reddit, Threads, and Bluesky. Organizers can remove duplicate participants, require mentions, filter by text, date, or like count, and exclude users or past winners. Depending on the platform, winner selection can be random or use first comment, last comment, most-liked comment, or most comments. Results can carry customized branding and be shared as a public page, certificate image, announcement video, or screen recording. The service also includes entry forms, exports, and moderation tools. The free plan includes over 100 tools, but individual limits vary; examples allow up to 100 comments for Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube giveaways. Premium costs $9.99 per month, or $95.91 per year, and includes unlimited comments for those three platforms, up to 10 winners, unlimited monthly exports, and entry forms with up to 50,000 entries. Founded in 2015 by Koen Knol, the service is based in Nieuwveen, The Netherlands.

Heyo's new product is social messaging automation for creators on Instagram and TikTok. It turns comments on those platforms into direct message conversations. Its AI builder can translate a described automation idea into a flow that users can shape and launch. Ready-to-customize templates cover sending a link, running a giveaway, and sharing a reward; the product also describes instant wins and coupons as engagement options. The new free offering is marked “Coming soon,” and its final features, limits, and pricing are to be confirmed at launch. Heyo's pricing page also describes legacy contest-campaign plans, with drag-and-drop design, turnkey contest apps, and mobile support. Listed campaign formats include sweepstakes, photo and video contests, quizzes, hashtag campaigns, and refer-a-friend campaigns. Legacy tools include voting, moderation, winner selection, and analytics, while listed email integrations include Mailchimp, GetResponse, Infusionsoft, and Mad Mimi. The Basic legacy plan costs $25 a month when billed annually; it includes three campaigns, unlimited leads, 20,000 page views, up to 50,000 Facebook fans, and three Facebook brand pages. Heyo is identified as a Votigo, Inc. company.