Every Reddit Deleted-Content Tool, Tested (July 2026)

As of 29 July 2026: Reveddit works, for moderator-removed content only. The unddit.com domain no longer resolves at all. Removeddit.com now serves an online casino affiliate site. PullPush's API returned 502 on three consecutive requests. Author-deleted posts can only come back from a pre-deletion archive.

Last tested: 29 July 2026.

Most "top 5 tools to see deleted Reddit posts" articles fail for one reason: they treat moderator removal and author deletion as the same problem. They are not. They are technically different events inside Reddit's systems, and no single free tool solves both. Google's AI Overview currently makes the same mistake, recommending Unddit and PullPush side by side without mentioning that Unddit was a front end over PullPush's own data. That is one recommendation dressed up as two, and as of this morning neither half of it responds.

We checked all ten tools on 29 July 2026 by requesting each service directly and recording the HTTP response, with DNS resolution checks on the dead domains. Here is the state of each.

Status table: every tool, July 2026

Moderator removal and author deletion are two different problems

This distinction is the whole subject, so get it right before picking a tool.

When a moderator removes a post or comment, Reddit hides it from the thread, but the body often remains retrievable through Reddit's own live API for a period. A tool that queries the live API cleverly can show you what was removed. No archive needed.

When the author deletes their own content, Reddit overwrites the body in its API. The text becomes [deleted] at the source. No live query, however clever, can bring it back. The only way to read it is to find a copy captured while it was still public: an archive, a crawl, a snapshot.

Every tool below falls on one side of that line or the other. The ones that claim to do both are reading an archive, and the honest question becomes: how complete is the archive? For the full walkthrough of both scenarios, see our guide to viewing deleted Reddit posts step by step.

Does Reveddit still work?

Yes. Reveddit is the one tool from the old generation that still works, because it never depended on Pushshift. It reads Reddit's live API and diffs what a user sees against what actually exists, which is why it survived the 2023 API restrictions that killed its peers.

Its limits follow directly from its design. Reveddit shows moderator-removed content only. It cannot show anything the author deleted, because Reddit has already overwritten that body. It is also not historical: it tells you about a user's or subreddit's recent removals, not about a comment from 2019. Search demand tells the story of a tool in slow decline anyway: "reveddit" fell from 14,800 US searches a month in July 2025 to 6,600 in June 2026.

Verdict: working, for exactly one of the two problems. If you landed here because Reveddit could not show you an author-deleted post, that case and what covers it are broken down on our Reveddit status and alternatives page.

What happened to Unddit and Removeddit?

Both are gone, and they went further than most articles admit. Removeddit and Unddit were front ends over Pushshift's data. When Reddit restricted Pushshift's API access in 2023, Pushshift as a public service ended, and both front ends broke.

Three years later the domains themselves have moved on. When we checked on 29 July 2026, unddit.com did not resolve: no DNS record, nothing to connect to. Neither did camas.unddit.com. Removeddit.com does resolve, and it returns a page, which is the trap. That page is an online casino affiliate site headlined "Best Ontario Online Casinos", last updated 22 July 2026. The domain has been repurposed and now monetises the traffic that still arrives looking for a deleted-comment viewer.

That matters because people still type the names: 6,600 US searches a month for "unddit", 2,900 for "removeddit", with the removeddit click selling to advertisers at a $9.41 CPC. Roughly nine thousand people a month are being routed either to nothing or to gambling ads, and any 2026 listicle still recommending removeddit.com is sending readers there. If you are looking for what actually replaced them, we keep a maintained answer on the Removeddit and Unddit replacement page.

Verdict: gone. Do not follow a link to removeddit.com expecting a Reddit tool.

Is PullPush down?

At the time of testing, yes. On 29 July 2026 the search endpoint at api.pullpush.io returned HTTP 502, a bad gateway error, on three consecutive requests several minutes apart. Cloudflare was reachable; the origin behind it was not. The main pullpush.io site sat behind a Cloudflare challenge page rather than serving content.

This is worth stating carefully. A 502 is an outage, not a shutdown, and PullPush has recovered from these before. It may well be answering again by the time you read this. But it illustrates the structural point about free community infrastructure: it is one volunteer-run origin server, and when it goes, everything built on top of it goes with it. Unddit died exactly this way, one layer down.

When it is up, PullPush is the closest thing to a live public Pushshift-style API: community run, free, rate limited, and able to return both moderator-removed and author-deleted content where the content was captured before it disappeared. The standing caveat is coverage. Its data after 2023 is partial. For casual lookups it is genuinely useful. For an investigation that has to stand up in a report, "the free community archive may have missed it, and may not answer today" is a caveat you carry into every finding.

Verdict: down at time of test, useful when up, incomplete either way. Search interest reflects the frustration: "pullpush alternative" peaked at 880 monthly US searches and still runs at several hundred.

Arctic Shift: the researcher's option

Arctic Shift is the strongest engineering effort in the post-Pushshift ecosystem. It publishes bulk Reddit data dumps and an API, aimed at researchers who want the corpus, not a lookup box. If your work involves loading months of subreddit data into your own tooling, start here.

It is not a convenience tool. There is no "paste a URL, see the deleted comment" flow, and coverage depends on the same fundamental constraint as every archive: the content had to be captured while public. Alongside PullPush it is one of the two serious free options on our Pushshift replacement rundown, and we compared the whole field in more depth in our earlier review of Pushshift alternatives.

Verdict: working, best in class for bulk research, wrong shape for quick recovery.

Camas, Wayback Machine, Google cache, Reddit search

Four names that keep appearing in roundups, so here is the honest status of each.

Camas was a well-liked Pushshift search front end, hosted on the unddit.com domain. It died with Pushshift in 2023, and camas.unddit.com no longer resolves at all. Gone.

The Wayback Machine works, sometimes. If someone triggered a snapshot of the exact thread before deletion, you win. Most Reddit threads were never snapshotted, and the odds got worse on 30 June 2026 when Reddit put a login wall on Old Reddit, which was the version crawlers archived most cleanly. Worth thirty seconds of checking, never worth relying on.

Google cache is gone entirely. Google retired cache links in 2024. Any article still listing it as a method is recycled from years ago.

Reddit's own search only sees live content. Author-deleted bodies are overwritten and moderator-removed content is hidden. It is the right tool for finding existing posts and useless for recovering anything.

Where THINKPOL fits

THINKPOL is our own product, so judge this section accordingly, but the facts are checkable. It is a private archive of Reddit: 30 billion posts and comments going back to 2005, including content later deleted by authors or removed by moderators, captured while it was public. Queries return in under 300ms, hosting is in France, and the legal basis is GDPR Article 6(1)(f) legitimate interest, public data only, with a published Article 14 notice and deletion request mechanism.

Because it is an archive rather than a live-API reader, it covers both problems in this article: moderator removals and author deletions, wherever the content was captured before it vanished. The API is paid and built for law enforcement, threat intelligence, and fraud teams. There is also a free tier: you can check a thread right now with the deleted post lookup tool, and the mechanics of querying an archive at this scale are explained in our piece on searching the Reddit archive.

Verdict: working, paid, with free tools. The honest trade: completeness and speed in exchange for money, versus free community archives with gaps.

Which tool should you actually use?

Match the tool to the problem, not the listicle.

• Content removed by moderators, recently: Reveddit. Free, live, reliable for this one case.

• Content deleted by the author, or anything old: an archive. PullPush free with gaps when it is answering, Arctic Shift for bulk research, THINKPOL for complete professional coverage, including deleted comment threads.

• Long-shot fallback: Wayback Machine.

• Skip entirely: Unddit, Camas and Google cache, which no longer exist, and removeddit.com, which is now a gambling affiliate site.

One rule regardless of tool: never hand your Reddit credentials to a third-party recovery tool. Everything these services read was public. None of them needs your account, and any that asks is a red flag.

Related reading

• Reddit is closing: the Old Reddit login wall and what it means: the June 2026 change that weakened Wayback coverage.

• How to search deleted Reddit comments: the comment-specific workflow.

• Best Reddit OSINT tools: the wider toolkit beyond deletion recovery.

• Reddit user lookup: free profile and history check for a specific account.

FAQ

Does Reveddit still work in 2026?

Yes. Reveddit reads Reddit's live API rather than the dead Pushshift service, so it survived the 2023 API restrictions and still works as of 29 July 2026. It shows moderator-removed content only. It cannot recover posts or comments the author deleted, and it does not provide historical coverage.

Is PullPush down?

It was on 29 July 2026. The api.pullpush.io search endpoint returned HTTP 502 on three consecutive attempts, and the main site sat behind a Cloudflare challenge. A 502 is an outage rather than a shutdown, so it may be back. PullPush is a single volunteer-run origin, which is the risk you accept with free community infrastructure.

What replaced Removeddit and Unddit?

Nothing replaced them directly. Both were front ends over Pushshift data and died with it in 2023. Since then unddit.com has stopped resolving entirely and removeddit.com has become an online casino affiliate site. The closest working successors are Reveddit for moderator-removed content, PullPush and Arctic Shift as free archives with gaps, and THINKPOL as a complete paid archive with free lookup tools.

Can you recover a Reddit post the author deleted?

Only from an archive that captured it before deletion. Reddit overwrites author-deleted bodies in its own API, so no live tool, including Reveddit, can retrieve them. PullPush, Arctic Shift, the Wayback Machine and THINKPOL can all return author-deleted content, but only where a pre-deletion capture exists.

Why can't Reveddit show author-deleted posts?

Because there is nothing left to read. Reveddit works by querying Reddit's live API, and when an author deletes content, Reddit overwrites the body at the source. Moderator-removed content is different: it is hidden from view but often still present in the API, which is the gap Reveddit exploits.

Is it safe to give a Reddit recovery tool my account login?

No, and you never need to. Every legitimate tool in this space reads content that was public when captured, which requires no authentication. A recovery site that asks for your Reddit credentials gains nothing legitimate from them and should be treated as a phishing risk.

Does the Wayback Machine show deleted Reddit posts?

Sometimes. It only holds threads that were snapshotted before deletion, which excludes most Reddit content. Coverage worsened after 30 June 2026, when Reddit put a login wall on Old Reddit, the version that archived most cleanly. Check it as a free long shot, not a method.

Sources and method

This article is measured, not opinion. Every status verdict comes from a request made to the service itself on 29 July 2026.

*Tool status.* We sent direct HTTP requests to Reveddit, unddit.com, removeddit.com, pullpush.io, api.pullpush.io, camas.unddit.com, Arctic Shift and undelete.pullpush.io on 29 July 2026 and recorded the response codes, with DNS resolution checks on the domains that failed to connect. PullPush was retried three times at intervals to rule out a transient error. Results: Reveddit HTTP 200. Arctic Shift HTTP 200. unddit.com and camas.unddit.com, no DNS record. removeddit.com HTTP 200, serving casino affiliate content dated 22 July 2026. api.pullpush.io HTTP 502 on all three attempts.

*Search volume.* Monthly search figures ("reveddit" 9,900 and falling from 14,800 a year earlier, "unddit" 6,600, "removeddit" 2,900, "pullpush alternative" peaking at 880) are Google Ads keyword data for the United States, July 2026.

*Search results.* The AI Overview described above was the one Google returned for "reveddit alternative" in the United States on 29 July 2026. Search results change, and that one may well have changed by the time you read this.

*Platform history.* Reddit's 2023 API restrictions and the Old Reddit login wall of 30 June 2026 are matters of public record.