Mass Delete Reddit Posts and Comments by Subreddit
Reddit isn't one place. It's ten thousand little towns, and you've left something behind in more of them than you can remember. Redact clears your posts and comments town by town. Name the subreddits to empty out, or flip it around and name the ones to spare, while everything else gets cleared.
Free to anonymize your posts & comments, any date.
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Subreddits to delete from
Only delete posts in these subreddits
Your reputation is local
A Reddit account isn't one persona. It's often a different you in each subreddit, and some of those yous have aged worse than others. Trash talk in r/hockey is not the same as the account you keep in r/AskHistorians, and a stranger scanning your profile sees all of it side by side.
Some communities you've outgrown
The meme subs, the drama subs, the fandom you left behind years ago. Your posts are still sitting there, representing you to anyone who wanders in.
Context doesn't travel
A comment that made sense inside one community reads very differently when it's found through your profile, stripped of the room it was written for.
Profiles get audited
Anyone can scan your history and see exactly where you spend your time on Reddit. Sometimes the where alone gives people the wrong idea.
Name what goes, or name what stays
The delete-from list works like a target. Type in the communities you'd rather not be on the record in and Redact confines the whole cleanup to those subreddits. Your activity everywhere else is never touched.
The preserve list is the same tool pointed backwards. Add the communities that matter, like the niche forum where you're genuinely helpful, and they become off-limits while the rest of your history gets cleared. Run either list on its own, or both together.
- Both lists cover posts and comments. Each has its own tab in Redact, and community targeting works the same way in both.
- Chat is separate. Reddit chat messages have no subreddit, so the lists apply to posts and comments only.
- Delete-from list
- Preserve list
- Posts & comments
- Any community
Subreddits to delete from
Only delete posts in these subreddits
Clear one subreddit, or all of them but a few
The two lists are the core of the page, but they stack with dates, keywords, and post types, so a precise slice like "my comments in one subreddit from 2016" is a single run. The cleanups people reach for most:
Empty out one community
Add a single subreddit to the delete-from list, leave the other filters open, and every post and comment you made there queues up.
Protect your best work
Add the subreddits worth keeping to the preserve list and clear everything else. Those communities stay untouched no matter how wide you run the sweep.
One community, one era
Pair a subreddit with a date range to clear only the years you'd rather forget and keep the recent stuff.
A single topic, wherever it lives
Combine a subreddit with a keyword so only the posts and comments about one subject inside that community get removed.
See the matches first, then choose how to run
Preview Mode
A preview pass that scans your history and lists every post and comment the lists matched, community by community, without deleting anything.
Deletion Mode
Run the full cleanup and Redact removes each matching item. Permanently deleting needs a paid plan; free accounts can anonymize the matches with the Edit action instead.
Review & Delete
Walk the matched items one by one and untick anything you want to keep before it's removed. Good for a close review of a busy subreddit.
Schedule Deletion
Hand the lists to the scheduler and Redact re-runs them on a rolling basis so the communities you've targeted stay clear. Scheduling is a Premium feature.
From subreddit to subreddit in four moves
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Download Redact for free
Download for your device →Install Redact on your device. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus iOS and Android.
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Log in to Reddit through Redact
Open Redact, choose Reddit, and link your account. Authentication happens directly between your machine and Reddit, so nothing about your login makes a stop anywhere else.
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Build your subreddit lists
Open the Posts or Comments tab and fill in the "Subreddits to delete from" box, the "Subreddits to not delete from" box, or both. Layer on a date range or keywords if the job needs finer aim.
The subreddit lists are free on every plan and reach your whole history. Free accounts pair them with the Edit action to anonymize the matches; permanently deleting them, and scheduling recurring cleanups, are on Premium.
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Preview the result, then run it
Run a Preview to see exactly which posts and comments matched, community by community, and untick anything you want to spare. When it looks right, start the deletion, or hand it to the scheduler to repeat.
No server of ours ever reads your Reddit
Redact does the scanning and the deleting right on your computer. Your posts, your login, and your list of communities are never uploaded, mirrored, or logged anywhere we could see them. Unlink Reddit whenever you're done.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, and that's the cleanest use of the delete-from list. Add the community's name, leave the other filters open, and every post and comment you've made there queues up while the rest of your account stays exactly where it is. Posts and comments have separate tabs, so run them together or one at a time.
Add the communities worth keeping to the preserve list. Anything on it is off-limits no matter how wide you run the cleanup, so you can empty the whole account except the places you actually want on the record.
No. Chat messages aren't attached to a subreddit, so the delete-from and preserve lists apply to your posts and comments only. To clear chats, use the Chat Messages tab and filter by channel, date, or keyword instead. Chat deletion is a Premium feature.
Yes. The Edit action honors the exact same delete-from and preserve lists, so it rewrites the body of matching posts and comments only in the communities you targeted and skips the ones you protected. Overwriting with Edit is free on every plan, at any age; permanently deleting is the Premium action.
No. Both the delete-from and preserve lists work on every plan, across your whole history. Free accounts can anonymize posts and comments in any community with the Edit action; permanently deleting them, or scheduling the sweep to repeat, need a plan. The lists cover posts and comments only, since chat messages have no subreddit.
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