Reddit Search

What this Reddit search tool searches

It searches public Reddit posts and comments from the last 14 days, across every subreddit, and shows the newest matches first with your keywords highlighted. No account or signup.

• Posts and comments together, or either one on its own
• Up to 5 subreddits and 3 usernames per search, to see what one person said about a topic
• AND, OR, NOT, "exact phrases" and brackets, plus whole-word matching
• Up to 50 posts and 50 comments per search, newest first
• 3 free searches a day; NSFW subreddits are not included

How to search Reddit

Reddit's own search box sits at the top of every page. Type your words, then pick a results type: Posts, Communities, Comments, Media or People. The Comments type searches what people said inside threads, not just post titles, which is where most recommendations and complaints live. To stay inside one community, open the subreddit and search from there, or add subreddit:name to your search.

Posts can be sorted by Relevance, Hot, Top, New or Comment Count, and filtered to the past hour, day, week, month, year or all time. Comments sort by Relevance, Top or New. One quirk worth knowing: post results only need some of your words, but comment results must contain every word you typed. For a multi-word filter, wrap it in quotes, like title:"kitten gif". Reddit also has an Ask button next to the search box, which writes an AI answer from posts and comments instead of listing them.

How to search Reddit comments

To search comments across Reddit, run a search and switch the results type to Comments. Every word you type must appear in the comment, so start with two or three words and add more only if you get too many results.

To search the comments of one thread, open the post: in the Reddit app, tap the search icon at the top of the post; on desktop, use the search bar by the comments section, below the comment box. Your browser's find shortcut (Ctrl+F, or Cmd+F on a Mac) also works, but only on comments that are already loaded on the page.

The tool above searches comments and posts together, so a word that appears only deep in a thread still shows up, with the matching part of the comment shown and highlighted.

How to search Reddit by user

Add author:username to a Reddit search to find posts that user submitted, for example author:reddit search. Reddit's author: filter matches posts, not comments. To find a user's comments, open their profile (reddit.com/user/name) and choose the Comments tab. Users can hide some or all of their activity from their profile with Reddit's Curate your profile setting, so a profile isn't always a complete list.

In the tool above, type one to three names in the Usernames box along with your keywords. It returns that person's public posts and comments from the last 14 days that match, across every subreddit. Names must match Reddit's capitals exactly.

How to search Reddit with Google

Many people skip Reddit's search and use Google instead. Add site:reddit.com to any Google search to keep results on Reddit, or site:reddit.com/r/SaaS for one subreddit. Google ranks older, popular threads well, but it can take days to index new posts and it rarely surfaces individual comments. Check the URLs in your results: when nothing matches, Google may show pages from other sites instead.

Other free Reddit search tools

This tool covers the last 14 days. For older threads, these free tools search Reddit archives that go back years:

• PullPush: searches archived Reddit posts and comments by keyword, username, subreddit, date and score.
• Arctic Shift: searches archived posts and comments by subreddit, author, date and text.
• Google with site:reddit.com: best for popular threads from any year.

Get alerts instead of searching every day

If you run the same search often, save it once in SnitchFeed's Reddit monitoring and get new matching posts and comments in Slack, Discord or email as they're posted, each scored for relevance. For other tools, see the best Reddit monitoring tools, and for what to look for, see buyer intent signals on Reddit.