Wask Alternative — Free Instagram Giveaway Picker

Wask is an advertising platform. Its product is built around managing and optimising paid campaigns on Google Ads and Meta Ads — AI workflows that reallocate budget, an agent you can query about account performance, ad creative generation, and reporting. Its customers are advertisers, agencies, e-commerce teams, and consultancies running spend across multiple brands.

The comment pickers sit beside that. Wask publishes free picker tools for Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok and Reddit, and they work — but they exist largely as a way to introduce people to the advertising product. That is a completely reasonable strategy. It just means the tool you are using is not the thing the company is building.

This matters when you hit an edge case. If a picker attached to an ads platform mishandles your entry rules, you are filing a support request with a company whose roadmap is about ad optimisation.

If you are already buying ads through Wask, or you are evaluating it for campaign management, use its picker. There is no reason to add another tool for a step you can complete inside a platform you already pay for.

The same is true if your giveaway is one part of a larger paid campaign. When the giveaway post is being promoted, and you want entry volume sitting next to the ad spend that drove it in one reporting view, a platform that owns both sides is genuinely more useful than a standalone picker.

• You already run Google Ads or Meta Ads through Wask
• The giveaway is promoted with paid spend you want to attribute
• You need picking across several networks, not just Instagram
• Your team is already trained on the platform

Most Instagram giveaways are not paid campaigns. They are an organic post, a caption with rules, and a comment thread that has to be turned into a defensible winner. For that, the surrounding ad platform is overhead.

igiveaway.site is built only for that job. You paste a public Instagram post URL, set the rules that match your caption, load the comments, and draw. There is no account, no ad connection, and no plan to choose.

The rules engine checks the things Instagram captions actually ask for: a minimum number of unique @mentions, required keywords, a minimum comment length, one entry per user, and exclusion of people tagging themselves. Your own handle is filtered out of mention counts automatically, so tagging the brand does not accidentally satisfy a "tag two friends" rule.

Every draw produces a public result page you can link in a Story or a follow-up comment. Your audience opens it and sees the winner, the eligible entry count, and how many comments were filtered out — without taking your word for it.

Nothing needs migrating. Instagram holds the comments, not the picker, so switching tools mid-giveaway costs nothing.

1. Copy the URL of your public Instagram giveaway post.
2. Paste it into igiveaway.site and load the comments.
3. Recreate the rules from your caption — mentions, keywords, one entry per person.
4. Review which comments were excluded and why, then draw.
5. Share the public result link when you announce.

Because the rules are applied at evaluation time rather than at entry time, you can do this after entries have closed. You are not locked into whatever configuration you set when the giveaway started.