Wheel Spinner — Spin to Decide
Free wheel spinner — type your entries, spin the wheel, get a random winner. Custom names, giveaways, classroom picker. No signup, no ads, runs in your browser.
One entry per line. Empty lines are ignored. Your list is saved in this browser.
About this wheel spinner
A wheel spinner is a visual random picker: you type a list of entries — student names, prize winners, team members, restaurants, chores, video game characters — hit Spin, and the wheel lands on one slice. That slice is the winner. Teachers use it to pick who answers next, marketers use it to draw a giveaway winner on a livestream, families use it to settle who picks the movie, gamers use it to choose a random map or character. Custom wheels stay in your browser so a class roster or a list of team members doesn't have to be re-entered every session.
Compared with a plain random number generator, the wheel of fortune adds suspense and visible fairness. The animation runs long enough that nobody can claim the result was rigged, the colored slices show weights at a glance, and viewers on a livestream see the spin in real time. Add the same entry several times and it occupies that many slices, raising its odds proportionally — useful for weighted draws or boosting one team's chance.
Everything runs in your browser. Entries never get uploaded — that matters when the list contains employee names for a bonus draw, student names, or private email handles. There are no ads, no signup, no subscription, no watermark. The page loads once and keeps working offline; you can disconnect and spin all you like. Randomness comes from the browser's cryptographic RNG (the same one used by banking tokens), so the result is statistically fair, not the predictable Math.random pseudo-shuffle.
When to use the wheel
Giveaways and raffles
Paste a list of entrants — Instagram handles, email leads, ticket numbers — spin the wheel on your screen recording or livestream. Viewers see the random pick happen live, no need to trust a server-side draw. Toggle Remove winner after spin to draw 2nd and 3rd place without duplicates.
Classroom random student picker
Teachers load a class roster once, then spin the wheel to pick who reads next, who answers, who goes to the board. The visible animation removes the awkward feeling of being singled out — the wheel decided, not the teacher.
Team picker for meetings and standups
Spin to choose the next presenter, the demo driver, the meeting note-taker, or who buys coffee. Add each engineer's name once for fair rotation, or twice for double-weight on volunteers.
Decide what to eat, watch, or play
Five movies, three restaurants, four board games — the wheel ends the discussion in ten seconds. Save your favorite shortlists in the browser and reuse them next Friday night.
Frequently asked questions
How does the wheel spinner pick a winner?
When you hit Spin, the browser draws a single random angle using crypto.getRandomValues — a cryptographically secure random source seeded by hardware entropy. The wheel animates to that angle over a few seconds with an ease-out curve so the slowdown looks natural. Whatever slice the pointer lands on is the winner. The math is the same as the angle draw; the spin animation is just visual.
Can I save my wheel for next time?
Yes. The list of entries is auto-saved to your browser's localStorage as you type, so when you close the tab and come back, the same wheel is waiting. Nothing is uploaded — the storage is local to your device and browser profile. To wipe a saved wheel, hit Clear list or clear your browser's site data for convertilo.io.
How many entries can I add to the wheel?
There is no hard limit — the tool will render whatever you paste in. In practice, slices get hard to read past 30 entries. For lists of 50+ (a full classroom, a giveaway with hundreds of tickets), the wheel still works, but the slice labels become unreadable. For very long lists, use our random number generator or random name picker instead — they handle thousands of entries without visual clutter.
Is the wheel truly random, or weighted?
By default the wheel is truly random — every entry gets one slice, every slice gets equal probability. If you want to weight one entry higher, add it to the list multiple times. An entry that appears 3 times gets 3 slices and triple the chance of being picked. This is how the wheel handles weighted raffles (more tickets = more slices).
Can I use this for a giveaway or raffle?
Yes — that is the most common use case. Paste your entrants (one per line), share your screen or screen-record the spin, hit the button. For multi-winner draws, enable Remove winner after spin so each pick removes that entry from the wheel before the next spin. The video of the live spin is your proof of fair draw — viewers see it happen, the animation is too fast to manipulate by eye.
Does this work offline?
Yes. Once the page has loaded in your browser, the wheel runs entirely in JavaScript on your device — no further network requests are made. You can disconnect from Wi-Fi, turn on airplane mode, and keep spinning. Useful in classrooms without reliable internet, on planes, or for any setting where you'd rather not depend on a server.
Why does this wheel spinner have no ads when other wheel sites do?
Convertilo is a privacy-first utility suite. The wheel costs us almost nothing to serve — there is no backend processing, no per-spin compute — so we don't need to monetize each visit with ads. We make our money from other paid features on the wider site, which lets the wheel stay free, fast, and ad-free. No popups, no autoplay video, no cookie wall blocking the wheel.
Can I share my custom wheel with a friend?
Right now, the wheel is saved locally to your browser only — there is no share link that loads someone else's saved wheel. The simplest workaround: copy your list of entries into a chat or email, the other person pastes them in. Shareable wheel URLs are on the roadmap; for now the privacy trade-off (nothing stored on our servers) outweighs the convenience.