Shreddit Alternatives Compared, Feature by Feature
Dan Saltman8 min read
Shreddit has been the go-to free tool for wiping a Reddit account for about a decade. You run it from a command line, it overwrites your comments before it deletes them, and it doesn't cost anything. The original stopped being updated in 2017, and the one that works today is a rewrite.
People mostly go looking for a Shreddit alternative because of the setup, which asks you to create Reddit API credentials before anything happens, or because a run finished and their old comments were still there. So I took what Shreddit does and checked it against four of the best-known tools for the same job, which are Block Party, Bulk Delete Reddit Posts & Comments History, PowerDeleteSuite and the app we make, Redact.
We make Redact, so weigh what I say about it with that in mind. Each column is one plan as that tool's own pages describe it, and how I checked is at the end.
Shreddit and four alternatives, side by side
A tick means the plan named in the Plan and price row has it and an X means it doesn't. Where a mark isn't the whole answer, the cell adds a few words. If a tool's own pages don't mention a feature at all, that feature gets an X.
Scroll the table sideways to see every tool.
| Plans comparedPrices in US dollars |  Shreddit |  Redact |  Block Party |  Bulk Delete | PowerDeleteSuite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The plan in each column | |||||
| Free trialWhat you can do before paying | Always free | Overwriting, no time limit | 7 days, one platform | 50 deletions a day | Always free |
| Plan and price | Free | Premium, $7.99 a month, billed yearly | Personal, $8.33 a month, billed yearly | Paid, $10 once | Free |
| Store ratingWhere each one is listed | No reviews found | 4.3 from 1,608, App Store | 4.9 from 101, Chrome Web Store | 3.9 from 176, Chrome Web Store | No reviews found |
| What it removes | |||||
| Deletes comments | |||||
| Deletes posts | |||||
| Overwrites comments before deleting | As a separate run | With [deleted] | |||
| Overwrites text posts before deleting | As a separate run | With [deleted] | |||
| Your own replacement text | Usually under a Redact note | ||||
| Chat messages | The ones you sent | Posts and comments only | A separate extension | ||
| Saved posts and comments | |||||
| Choosing what goes | |||||
| By date | Everything at once | Everything at once | |||
| By subreddit | |||||
| By score | |||||
| By keyword | |||||
| Shows what will go first | Dry run | Preview mode | Scans, then asks | Confirms first | Can export the matches |
| Old contentReddit only lists about your newest 1,000 | |||||
| Finds old comments from your Reddit data export | Desktop app | Searches and re-sorts instead | |||
| Finds old posts from your Reddit data export | Comments only | ||||
| Setup and upkeep | |||||
| How you connect your account | Reddit API credentials and your password | Sign in to Reddit inside the app | Browser extension, signed in to Reddit | Browser extension, signed in to Reddit | A bookmark, signed in to old Reddit |
| Open source | On GitHub, no license | ||||
| Updated in the last year | Last change November 2024 | ||||
| Cleanups on a timer | With a cron job you set up | Monthly scans only | |||
| Cleans up other sites | Over 35 others, across the app | 11 other platforms | |||
| Where it runs | |||||
| Windows, Mac and Linux | Command line | An app | In a browser | In a browser | In a browser |
| iPhone and Android | |||||
| Free | Pricing | Pricing | Pricing | Free | |
What each one is like to use
Shreddit
Shreddit is the pick if you're comfortable in a terminal. It's free and open source, it has a dry run, and it's the only one here that also clears your saved posts, saved comments and friends list. Point it at your Reddit data export and it works through your old posts and comments too.
To set it up, its README has you create a "script" app in Reddit's preferences and pass its client ID and secret along with your password, and Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy now says API access needs approval first. I haven't tested whether a brand new account can still create those credentials on its own. It also only overwrites comments. A text post is deleted without being edited first, and the request to change that has been open since 2023.
Block Party
Block Party is a paid browser extension that tidies up privacy settings across 12 platforms, and Reddit deletion is one part of it. Its Reddit tools are about as simple as this gets, with one for comments and one for posts. It overwrites each item with "[deleted]" before deleting it.
Each tool deletes everything in its category at once, so you can't pick by date, subreddit or anything else. The Personal plan is $8.33 a month, billed yearly, and the free tier is checklists plus a 7-day trial of the automations on one social platform.
Bulk Delete Reddit Posts & Comments History
This extension has about 10,000 users in the Chrome Web Store, more than any other Reddit deletion extension I found there, and it's on Firefox and Edge as well. It gives you three buttons, for comments, for posts and for both, then you leave the tab open while it works.
It's free for 50 deletions a day, and a one-time payment lifts the limit. The listing doesn't give the price, but its reviewers put it at $10. There aren't any filters, and its listing doesn't mention overwriting anything before it deletes. Its changelog lists what Reddit's changes have broken, including a message deletion button it had to remove.
PowerDeleteSuite
PowerDeleteSuite is the other free tool that comes up most often. It's a bookmark you click on your old Reddit profile page, so there's nothing to install and no password to hand over. It edits comments and text posts before deleting them, with whatever text you choose, and you can narrow down exactly what it deletes by subreddit, by score and by date.
Its last code change was in November 2024, and its issue tracker has a run of open reports that it stopped working or left comments behind, next to other people saying it still worked for them. I'd try it on a few items before trusting it with a whole history.
Redact
Redact is ours. It's an app for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android that you sign in to Reddit with, so there are no API credentials to create. It has the most ways to choose what goes, including keywords, and it's the only one here that deletes the chat messages you've sent.
Deleting is on Premium, at $7.99 a month billed yearly, or $245 once. The free plan overwrites your text posts and comments, however old. Most overwrites, on any plan, start with a short note saying the author removed it with Redact, except in subreddits that don't allow the note, and Premium lets you choose the text under it. Overwriting and deleting are two separate runs, where Shreddit and PowerDeleteSuite do both in one. It doesn't touch saved items, and its data export import covers comments but not posts. If all you want is your Reddit history deleted without paying anything, Shreddit will do that and Redact won't.
Why old comments get left behind
This is what goes wrong most often with every tool here, and it's Reddit's doing. Your profile only lists about your newest 1,000 posts and comments in any one view. A Shreddit contributor measured it at 888 comments before the list ran dry, the tool reported it had finished, and every older comment was still sitting up there on the profile.
There are two ways round it. One is reading your profile in more than one sort order, which PowerDeleteSuite, the Bulk Delete extension and Redact all do. The other is your Reddit data export, which lists everything. Request it from Reddit, then give it to Shreddit (posts and comments) or Redact (comments). In that same issue thread, Shreddit's own maintainer calls the Reddit data export "the only sure way to delete everything".
Neither overwriting nor deleting removes a copy another site has already saved. Overwriting first only changes what's there to be copied from then on, which is the replacement text and not what you wrote. Reddit says it makes deleted content unavailable promptly and then deletes it, unless it has a legal reason or a business need to keep it longer.
How I checked
Every cell describes one plan per tool, the one named in the table's Plan and price row, as that tool's own pages described it on October 9, 2026. Redact's column comes from our own pricing page and plan table. Store ratings are each store's own figures from October 13, 2026. These are the pages I read for each column of the table above, tool by tool.
- Shreddit: README, releases and its issue tracker, including early stops and text posts
- Block Party Personal: pricing, its Chrome Web Store listing and its Reddit deletion post
- Bulk Delete: its Chrome Web Store listing and Firefox listing, with its changelog
- PowerDeleteSuite: README and issue tracker
- Redact Premium: pricing and Reddit features by plan
- Reddit: Responsible Builder Policy, requesting your data and what happens when you delete
If any of these tools has changed, tell us and we'll update the table.
