Delete All Your YouTube Comments
A comment takes ten seconds to write and then outlives the video, the argument, and whoever you were replying to. It stays under the video with your channel name on it, and anyone who reads one can click your name and read the rest. YouTube's answer is a three-dot menu, one comment at a time. Redact clears the whole history instead, or the exact slice of it you point at.
Free for your last 30 days of comments & history.
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Plan
Comments
Delete the comments you have left on videos
Your last 30 days are free
A month of your own commenting is free to wipe. Going deeper than that needs Premium.
Why clear your comments?
YouTube comments are the longest trail you leave on your account
Nothing within YouTube reminds you to go back and reread what you wrote under a video in 2007, so it just sits there, indexed and attached to your name, growing by a few entries a week. Who even knows what type of comments you left years ago or how they'll be received now. Redact finds and removes them with ease and speed.
They all lead back to one profile
Every comment carries your channel name and picture. Somebody who finds one can open your profile and page through fifteen years of the rest without ever asking you anything.
The thread is gone, the reply isn't
A comment written into an argument reads very differently once the argument has scrolled away. What's left is you, on the record, saying something with no visible reason for it.
The videos give you away
What you commented under says more than what you wrote. The list maps your politics, your health worries, your job and roughly where you live, in date order, all of it published.
There's no bulk option
Your comment history loads a few dozen at a time and each removal is a menu, a click and a confirmation. Thousands of comments is a weekend you are never going to spend on it.
What this feature does
Everything, or only the ones you name
Redact reads your comment history from the Google account you connect. Leave the filters empty and it works through all of it until nothing is left.
Narrow it and the run gets precise. Comments are the one category with two keyword boxes, one matching the words inside what you wrote and one matching the title of the video it sits under, so a single phrase you regret and a whole phase of your viewing are both one run away.
Dates behave the way you'd expect here, unlike Watch Later and likes. A comment carries the day you posted it, so a date range brackets your own writing, and so does the free 30-day window.
- Whole history
- Comment text
- Video title
- Real posted dates
- Preview first
Try Redact for YouTube. Free for your last 30 days of comments & history.
Date range
Only delete comments you posted in this window
Video title contains
Only delete items whose video title matches these words
Comment text contains
Only delete comments whose body matches these words
Narrow the batch
Three ways to say which comments go and which comments stay
Each one shrinks the same queue, so stacking them gets you somewhere precise. Whatever you set, a preview shows the matched comments before any of them are removed.
Comment text contains
Whole words from the body of the comment. Only comments that use them are queued, which is how one phrase gets cleared out of a very long history.
Video title contains
Match the video instead of the comment. Everything you said under videos with a given word in the title goes in one run.
Date range
Bound it at either end, or just one. A comment remembers the day you wrote it, so the window falls exactly where you place it.
Run it your way
Preview, pick & choose, or clear it all
Preview Mode
Redact shows the comments your filters caught and deletes nothing. This is where you find out that a common word matched half your history.
Select and Delete
Work down the matched comments ticking off the ones that should go, and whatever you leave unticked stays up.
Scheduled cleanups
Repeat the same run on an interval so comments you leave from here on clear themselves once they age past your window. Recurring runs need a paid plan.
Step-by-step guide
How to delete all your YouTube comments with Redact
A few minutes of setup, and a preview in the middle so you never have to guess what the run is about to catch.
- 1
Download Redact for free
Download for your device →Install Redact on your computer and create a free account. YouTube cleanups run in the desktop app on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- 2
Connect your Google account
Open Redact, choose YouTube, and sign in. The login goes straight to Google in a browser window Redact opens for you, and your password never touches a Redact server.
- 3
Select Comments and set your filters
Tick Comments under Content Types, then leave the filters empty for a full wipe or narrow the run.
- Comment text contains: only comments using your words are queued.
- Video title contains: only comments under videos whose titles match.
- Date range: measured from the day you posted, which is the true date here.
Good to know: the last 30 days of comments are free to delete. Everything older needs Premium, and on a long history that's the bulk of it.
- 4
Preview the batch
Preview it and check the haul. Matching works on whole words, so something short and common will drag in far more than you intended. Adjust, preview again, repeat until the list is right.
- 5
Delete, then stay on top of it
Let it loose. Matched comments come down one after another and the counter ticks along beside them. If you are a frequent commenter, set the same filters to repeat so the pile never rebuilds.
What you wrote is never sent to us
Redact runs on your own computer and speaks to Google directly, so the text of your comments, the videos they were under, and the record of what you deleted stay on your machine. Nothing is copied to a Redact server, and the account link comes off the moment you say so. Redact has no partnership with YouTube or with Google.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Select Comments, leave both keyword boxes and the date range empty, and Redact queues your entire comment history. Run a preview first to see the size of it, then start the deletion.
One matches what you wrote and the other matches what you wrote it under. Comment text contains looks inside the comment body, and video title contains looks at the title of the video hosting it. They're separate fields, so a run can use either, or both at once to find comments using a word under videos about a subject.
No. Removing a comment through Redact is the same removal you'd do yourself from the three-dot menu, so it's gone from the video and from your history for good. There's no undo, which is why the preview is worth using.
No. Deleting your own comment sends no notification to the channel. The comment count drops and the comment disappears from the thread, and that's the whole of it.
Thirty days. Comments you posted inside that window are free to delete, and reaching past it needs a premium plan. The date is the real one here, so the free window covers exactly the last month of your own commenting.
No, only your own. Redact acts as you, so it can remove anything you posted, and a reply somebody else wrote belongs to them. If a reply is on a video you uploaded you can moderate it on YouTube itself, which is a different tool entirely.
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Delete Your YouTube Playlists
Tick the playlists you're done with and Redact deletes the ones you made and unsaves the ones you'd only added to your library.
Clear Out Your Watch Later Queue
Empty a queue that's hundreds deep in one run, or clear only part of it by matching words in the video titles.
Delete Your Liked Videos
Un-like your whole liked videos list in one run, or aim it at a topic with a title keyword.
Delete Your YouTube Watch History
Clear the record of everything you've played, all of it, a date window, or every video whose title matches a word.
Delete Your YouTube Search History
Wipe every phrase you've typed into the YouTube search box, or just the ones from a period you name.
Mass Unsubscribe From Channels
Reset a subscription list built over years in one run, instead of unsubscribing channel by channel.
Delete Your Uploaded Videos
Pick old uploads out of your channel's own list and delete them in bulk. Permanent, so preview it first.