--- title: "How to Find Your Comment on YouTube (and Search Any Video's Comments)" description: "Three ways to find a comment on YouTube: your own comment history, YouTube's sort menu, and a free finder that searches a video's comments by word or username." canonical: https://tryadlicio.com/blog/how-to-find-your-comment-on-youtube --- # How to Find Your Comment on YouTube (and Search Any Video's Comments) Published 2026-09-18. https://tryadlicio.com/blog/how-to-find-your-comment-on-youtube You left a comment last week and now you want to see whether anyone replied. Or you remember a comment that explained the whole video better than the video did, and it is buried under 8,000 others. YouTube gives you no search box for comments, so here are the three ways that work. ## 1. Your own comments: use your history If the comment is yours and you are logged in, YouTube already keeps the list. **On desktop:** open [youtube.com/feed/history](https://www.youtube.com/feed/history). The panel on the right has a Comments entry. Click it and every comment you have written appears, newest first, each linking to the video. Click one and YouTube opens the video with your comment pinned at the top of the section. **On mobile:** the YouTube app does not show comment history directly. Use Google's activity page instead: [myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_comments](https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_comments) lists your comments and replies with links. It works in the phone browser while you are signed in to the same Google account. **Notifications:** if someone replied to your comment, the bell icon in YouTube shows it and links straight to the reply, as long as comment notifications are on under Settings, Notifications. This route only works for comments you wrote while logged in to that account. It does not help with someone else's comment, and it does not help if the video has since removed it. ## 2. Someone else's comment: sort and scroll Under a video, the sort menu next to the comment count switches between Top comments and Newest first. Two things follow from that: - If the comment was popular, Top comments puts it near the start. - If you know roughly when it was posted, Newest first and a lot of scrolling gets you there, because YouTube loads about 20 comments per scroll. On desktop, Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) searches the comments that have loaded so far, not the whole section. Scroll to load more, then search again. On a video with a few hundred comments this is fine. On a video with tens of thousands it is not. There is no way on YouTube itself to search a comment section by word or by name. ## 3. Any comment: search the section with a finder The [YouTube comment finder](/tools/youtube-comment-finder) loads a video's comments and gives you the search box YouTube does not. Paste the video link, then type a word, a phrase, a channel name or a handle. The list keeps only the comments and replies that match, and the count above the list tells you how many. - **Find your own comment:** type your channel name. Your comments and replies stay, everything else drops out. This works without logging in, so it also works for comments you wrote on another account. - **Find who said something:** type the phrase. Every comment that contains it stays, with the author, the likes and the date. - **Find the first comment:** choose Oldest in the sort menu. The first loaded comment is the oldest one YouTube returned, which is the first comment on most videos. It reads up to 300 top comments per run, plus the replies YouTube shows with them, and it works on regular videos, Shorts, live replays and youtu.be links. The CSV download is free and contains the comments that match your search, so you can keep a record of a thread before it changes. You do not need a YouTube account. Nothing is sent to the channel owner. Each visitor gets five free searches a week, and a free Adlicio account raises that to 30 a day. On a very busy day the tool can pause until midnight UTC while its daily budget resets. ## Why a comment is not there If none of the three routes finds it, one of these is usually the reason: - **The channel owner held it for review.** Channels can hold all comments, or comments with links, until they approve them. Held comments are visible only to the writer. - **YouTube filtered it as spam.** Links, repeated text and some keywords send a comment to the channel's Held for review or Likely spam tab. The writer sees it, nobody else does. - **It was deleted.** Once YouTube, the channel owner or the writer removes a comment, it is gone from the public video and from every tool that reads the public video. - **The account is blocked.** A channel that hid a user from its channel makes that user's comments invisible to everyone but the user. - **It is far down a huge thread.** A very old comment on a video with 100,000 comments may sit beyond the first 300 the finder loads. The [free Chrome extension](/scrapers/youtube-comment-scraper) collects the whole thread with every reply while you scroll, and the Adlicio app does the same from a link. ## Other comment sections The finder is one of a family. The [YouTube comment viewer](/tools/youtube-comment-viewer) reads a whole section in order, and the [comment viewer hub](/tools/comment-viewer) has viewers for Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Threads and LinkedIn.