About r/confessions
In its own words:
Get that heavy secret off your chest. See the unfiltered confessions of strangers.
Community guide
r/confessions (#747, about 1.4 million) is a high-volume text room for unburdening secrets—"Get that heavy secret off your chest"—with sibling confession/off-my-chest communities nearby.
What belongs
Personal confession posts. Recent samples are almost all text (about 265 posts/day). This is storytelling/venting about your own secret, not advice-request formatting by default and not gossip about named third parties.
Versus confession, TrueOffMyChest and offmychest
Directory related lists confession, TrueOffMyChest and offmychest. Those siblings vary on tone, length and advice-seeking norms—read each sidebar. Confessions here matches the heavy-secret framing in its public description.
Practical pointers
No rules list yet. Avoid doxxing; prefer throwaways if privacy matters; check live rules for forbidden topics before posting.
The community was created on Dec 19, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 3,768 subscribers (+0.27%). It sits just behind r/2007scape (#743) and ahead of r/SingleParents (#745) in our ranking.
What sets r/confessions apart
r/confessions is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 94% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 35% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 186.1 new posts a day per million members, more than 99% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 2.60% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 99% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/confessions went up from 1,389,894 to 1,426,018 subscribers (+36.1K, +2.60%). That is about 708 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/confessions this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- At age 18, I found out I would be wheelchair-bound by age 40 because my parents refused to take daughter to the doctor as a kid.u/OkInternSpillsDrink · Nov 1 · text post
- UPDATE: My girlfriend thinks I have a secret heirloom pasta sauce recipe (literally Rao's) and her Italian grandma invited me to cook.u/JazzCalculator1 · Nov 1 · text post
- I keep pretending I don't know how to fix things so my brother will come overu/Cordite411 · Nov 6 · text post
- My therapist thinks I’m anorexic but I’m just poor.u/cuteandconfused_ · Nov 3 · text post
- Welp...Made It 10 Yearsu/IndependentEqual6274 · Nov 2 · text post
- I got caught stuffing my bra by my doctoru/OrangeEagle75 · Nov 6 · text post
- I got sick of being shamed for being a picky eater and not trying new things to eat, so I went and bought a bunch of TV dinners and tried them all.u/Exotic-End-666 · Nov 2 · text post
- Parents found outu/Financial_Ad5020 · Nov 1 · text post
- I pranked the nursing home I work for and no one knows it was meu/Such-Kangaroo-8079 · Nov 5 · text post
- I got a bench removed from my apartment building. I didn't realize how much one person needed it.u/Crucible4_Cowl · Nov 7 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/confessions, from 2018 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.
- I stood by and allowed my wife to almost kill our son. I was happy she did it.u/Crazysonthrowoff · Jul 4, 2019 · 15,915 points · 1,343 comments · text post
- Why I am Aunt Susan the Karma Farming Facebook Fiendu/coolgirlonthetrain · Dec 24, 2018 · 30,505 points · 614 comments · text post
- I broke up with my boyfriend because he yelled at me.u/ThrowawayKarma29 · Dec 7, 2021 · 32,096 points · 4,573 comments · text post
- I made over 16 calls today trying to find mental health services in my area. More specifically a psychologist that could help. In the end I just gave up. No wonder America has a mental health crisis.…Feb 26, 2019 · 25,085 points · 1,056 comments · text post
- I used to pay my middle school bully not to bully me then I found out he actually needed the moneyu/Otter_theGreat · Dec 2, 2018 · 22,287 points · 327 comments · text post
- Today, my next door pregnant neighbor knocked on my door.Apr 27, 2018 · 20,869 points · 766 comments · text post
- I bought 40000 Reddit coinsu/stubbs242 · Jan 15, 2019 · 19,533 points · 3,487 comments · text post
- I quit Facebook so I would stop wasting time staring at my phone. I now spend more time on Reddit then I ever have on Facebook.u/grassisgreena · Apr 7, 2018 · 18,280 points · 576 comments · text post
- I secretly put money in my pants pockets so my husband will do the laundryu/Lasybossstager · Apr 25, 2019 · 17,662 points · 648 comments · text post
- I ghosted my longterm BFu/throwitawaycg · Dec 15, 2018 · 16,138 points · 968 comments · text post
What r/confessions talks about
Looking at the titles of 696 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “feel”, “friend”, “life”, “love” and “mom”. Other frequent themes are wife, bad, girl, girlfriend, women and boyfriend. Recurring phrases include “sugar daddy”, “recently peed”, “model wallpaper” and “wallpaper fantasy”. By format, 94% are text posts and 6% are links.
Activity and best time to post
r/confessions gets about 270 new posts a day. The public archive holds 585,453 posts and 6,309,516 comments in total, about 10.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (262 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (212). Posting peaks around 20:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/confessions and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/confessions have?
r/confessions has 1,426,018 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #744 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 36,124 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/confessions created?
r/confessions was created on Dec 19, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years.
Is r/confessions still active?
Yes. r/confessions gets about 270 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 585,453 posts and 6,309,516 comments. In a sample of 696 recent posts we counted 609 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/confessions?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 20:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/confessions?
The community describes itself as: “Get that heavy secret off your chest. See the unfiltered confessions of strangers.” Recent post titles often mention feel, friend, life, love and mom. Most posts are text posts (94%).
Is r/confessions SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/confessions as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/confessions?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/confessions accepts text posts only. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/confessions?
Communities with similar topics include r/confession (12M), r/AskMen (7.4M), r/TwoXChromosomes (13.7M) and r/dating_advice (4.9M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/confessions.