Rafflecopter shut down on 1 October 2025. Its site now carries a closing notice in place of the product. If you are here, you have a giveaway to run and a tool that no longer exists.
Do this first
Export your data. Rafflecopter's notice says they may still be able to help former paying customers, by email to their support address. Entry lists, winner records and campaign history will not migrate themselves, and offers like that do not stay open indefinitely. Do it before you spend a week choosing a replacement.
Then pick on the mechanic, not on the resemblance
This is where most replacements go wrong. People look for the tool that looks most like Rafflecopter, rather than for the one that does what their giveaway needed. Rafflecopter was an entry widget: entrants completed actions on a hosted or embedded page and earned entries. That is one of two very different jobs.
If you ran a form-and-widget sweepstakes — collecting emails, bonus entries for sharing, entries on your own site — your replacements are the campaign platforms. SweepWidget is closest in shape, Woobox adds official rules and fulfilment emails, KingSumo costs $49 once instead of a subscription, and Gleam covers the most networks.
If what you actually wanted was a winner drawn from the comments on a social post, none of those do it, and neither did Rafflecopter. That is what Lukky does: official Meta sign-in, comments read through the official APIs, duplicates removed, random draw, timestamped certificate anyone can open. €9.99 a month or €39.99 a year, with one free draw a week; the pricing page has the detail.
What Lukky does not replace
No email capture, no entry form, no referral entries, no page to embed on your own site, and only Instagram and Facebook. If those were the reasons you used Rafflecopter, a campaign platform is your answer and Lukky is not.
One habit is worth carrying over whichever way you go. Rafflecopter's widget worked partly because the rules and the entry count sat in the same place, where entrants could see both. Whatever you move to, publish the rules where the entry happens and publish the result where the entry happened. A giveaway that ends with a name in a caption and nothing else is the format audiences have learned to distrust, and no tool repairs that on your behalf.
Migrating without missing a giveaway
There is nothing to import: none of these products reads another's export. Practically, run your next giveaway on the replacement while your Rafflecopter data export is still in progress, rather than waiting for one to finish before starting the other.
Lukky and Rafflecopter, point by point
Every value is quoted as published, with the page it was read on and the day it was read. A criterion Rafflecopter does not publish is marked as such rather than dropped from the table.
| Criterion | Lukky | Rafflecopter |
|---|---|---|
| How it reads the comments | Native app, official Meta authorisation, no password Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Networks covered | Instagram, Facebook Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Published entry price | 9,99 €/month or 39,99 €/year Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| What the free tier allows | 1 draw a week, 1 winner, unlimited entries, no card Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Proof of the draw | Public timestamped certificate Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Filters | Duplicates, excluded accounts, required mentions Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Comment limit | Unlimited entries Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
| Platforms | iOS, Android Checked on Aug 28, 2026 | Does not do this Checked on Aug 28, 2026 |
What Rafflecopter does better
- check Fifteen years of giveaways, from bloggers to Fortune 500 brands.
- check The embeddable entry widget it popularised is still the pattern the category follows.
- check Former paying customers can still ask support to recover their data.
FAQ
- When did Rafflecopter shut down?
- 1 October 2025, per the notice on their own site, checked 28 August 2026.
- Can I still recover my Rafflecopter data?
- Their notice says former paying customers may be able to, by emailing support. No deadline is given, which is a reason to do it now.
- What is the closest replacement for Rafflecopter?
- For the widget-and-form model, SweepWidget, Woobox, KingSumo or Gleam. For a draw from social comments, Lukky — a different job, not a like-for-like swap.
- Is there a free Rafflecopter alternative?
- KingSumo's free plan covers unlimited giveaways with bonus entries and multiple winners; Lukky's free plan runs one draw a week.
Updated on August 28, 2026