Download Reddit videos, images, and GIFs. Download full RedGifs profiles. Recover deleted Reddit posts. If it was ever posted publicly, RedReap finds it and brings it back.
Windows + macOS. No API key needed. No coding required.
The lead developer disappeared. The project is archived. It requires OAuth2 credentials that Reddit no longer hands out freely. If you manage to get it running, it crashes on rate limits.
See "[deleted]" in a post? gallery-dl moves on. Gone. No recovery attempt, no fallback, no second chance. If the account is gone, so is everything they ever posted.
Pushshift was the backbone of every recovery tool. Then Reddit revoked their access overnight and every tool built on top of it died the same week. People are still searching for alternatives. Nobody has one.
When a Reddit account is deleted, most tools give up. RedReap doesn't. It searches multiple archival sources and reconstructs what was posted, piece by piece. Images, videos, GIFs, recovered from the void.
RedReap doesn't just grab RedGifs links from Reddit posts. It discovers the linked RedGifs profile and catalogs every video they've ever uploaded, including content never posted to Reddit. Preview, select, and download in HD.
Download media from any subreddit with filters that actually make sense. Sort by top/hot/new, set a minimum upvote threshold, filter by media type, set date ranges. Come back later and only grab what's new.
Same image reposted to three subreddits? Cross-posted under different titles? Uploaded at different quality levels? RedReap detects duplicates visually, not just by filename, and keeps only the best version.
Track the users you care about. RedReap monitors them automatically and grabs new content as it appears. No cron jobs, no scripts, no babysitting. Set it and check back when you feel like it.
No command line. No Reddit API keys. No Python installation. No config files. Download RedReap, open it, and start. Everything happens through a clean web dashboard running on your machine.
Add usernames, see their status at a glance, and manage everything from one screen.
When an account is deleted, RedReap goes to work. Multiple archival sources are checked automatically. Files are recovered, deduplicated, and organized.
Don't download 50GB of content you don't want. Filter first, download second.
RedReap discovers the RedGifs profile automatically from Reddit posts. Then catalogs every video on that profile, even ones never shared on Reddit.
| Feature | RedReap | gallery-dl | BDFR | YARS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deleted account recovery | Yes | No | No | No |
| RedGifs profile scanning | Full profile | Links only | Yes | No |
| Web dashboard | Yes | CLI only | CLI only | CLI only |
| Visual deduplication | Yes | No | No | No |
| Auto-monitoring | Yes | No | No | No |
| Subreddit downloading | Filtered | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| No API key needed | Yes | Needs OAuth | Needs OAuth | Yes |
| Multi-source fallback | 4 sources | No | No | No |
| Profile merging | Yes | No | No | No |
| Incremental sync | Yes | Manual | No | No |
| Still maintained | 2026 | 2026 | Dead (2023) | 2025 |
| Price | $39/yr | Free | Free | Free |
BDFR was the gold standard. Then the developer disappeared and the project got archived. gallery-dl works today, but when Reddit changes their API again (and they will), you're waiting on a volunteer maintainer to care enough to fix it. Pushshift was the backbone of every recovery tool on the internet. Then Reddit revoked their access overnight and every tool built on top of it died the same week.
Free tools don't owe you anything. When the maintainer gets a new job, loses interest, or gets a cease and desist, the project goes dark and you start the search all over again.
RedReap is different because I use it every day. I've been archiving Reddit content for over 12 years. This started as my personal tool, built to solve my own problems, long before it became a product. Every feature exists because I needed it. The recovery pipeline exists because I lost content I cared about. The deduplication exists because I got tired of cleaning up duplicates manually.
I'm not a developer who built a scraper as a side project. I'm someone who has been doing this for over a decade and built the tool I always wished existed. As long as Reddit exists, I'm using this tool. And as long as I'm using it, it's being maintained and improved.
One download. Every feature. 3-day refund if it doesn't work on your system.
Get RedReap - $39/year