What makes this spin the wheel app different
Most built-in spinners — like the one Google surfaces when you search "spin the wheel" — give you a fixed set of numbered slices and very little control. This tool lets you name every slice, weight individual entries so some options win more often than others, hide entries temporarily without deleting them, and pick from sixteen colour palettes. You're customising a real wheel, not just watching a number generator with a spin animation.
There's no file to install and no account to create. Everything runs locally in your browser, which means it works on desktop, tablet, and phone without any setup. If you want a blank canvas to build a wheel from scratch, the wheel generator is the place to start.
Editing your entries
The entry panel sits beside the wheel. Type a new option into the text field and press Enter — it appears as a slice immediately. To remove one, click the X next to it. Need to load a long list fast? Paste a newline-separated list into the bulk-import area and every line becomes an entry at once. You can also upload a CSV file and the tool reads the first column as your entry list.
Each entry has a few extra controls worth knowing about:
- Weight — enter a higher number to give that option a proportionally larger slice. Useful when some choices should come up more often than others.
- Eye toggle — hide an entry so it's skipped during spins but stays in your list for later.
- Duplicate — copies the entry right below the original, a quick way to double its effective weight without changing the number.
- Drag handle — reorder entries manually, or use the A–Z / Z–A / weight sort buttons.
- Emoji and colour — add an optional emoji to a label and set a per-entry hex colour if you don't want it to follow the active palette.
Not sure what to add? Hit the Ideas button and the tool suggests additional entries based on what's already on the wheel.
Spin settings worth adjusting
The Customize panel gives you control over how the spin feels, not just how it looks.
- Spin duration — choose 3, 5, or 10 seconds depending on how much suspense you want.
- Pointer style — Pin, Arrow, or Classic.
- Sounds — pick a spin sound, a win sound, and an optional 3-beat countdown. Set any of them to Silent. The master volume slider adjusts everything at once.
- Remove Winner toggle — when on, the winning entry is deleted after each spin. Useful for drawing prizes where each person can only win once.
- Shuffle on Spin — randomises entry order at the start of every spin. Doesn't affect the outcome, but keeps the visual unpredictable.
Who uses this wheel spinner
Teachers and educators
Load the wheel with student names for cold-calling without apparent bias, or fill it with vocabulary words, discussion topics, or quiz categories. The eye toggle lets you hide students who've already been picked without removing them from the class list, so you can work through everyone systematically then reset for the next round.
Streamers and content creators
Spin on stream to let an audience-submitted list decide the next game, challenge, or punishment. The winner dialog shows the result clearly, and share buttons make it easy to post the outcome directly to X or WhatsApp. The countdown sound adds a beat of tension before the wheel lands.
Giveaway hosts
Paste a list of entrant names using bulk import, turn on Remove Winner so the same name can't come up twice, and spin once per prize. The session history underneath the wheel keeps a running record of every winner in the current session so you don't lose track. For more structured prize draws, see the random picker.
Families and friend groups
The pre-loaded wheel — Hiking, Movie night, Board games, Beach day, and the rest — is ready to use exactly as-is when you can't agree on weekend plans. Swap in your own local spots, restaurants, or traditions to make it yours. No one can argue with the wheel.
Teams and workplaces
Spin to assign who runs the next retrospective, who picks the team lunch spot, or which agenda item gets the limited extra time in a meeting. Weights let you adjust the odds if some tasks are more time-sensitive than others — give a high-priority item a weight of 3 and it takes up three times the slice of a weight-1 entry.
Party and event organisers
Use the wheel for game show-style segments: spin to pick a dare, a trivia category, a forfeit, or the next performer. The Carnival, Neon, or Bubblegum palettes are ready for exactly this kind of moment. Browse the full miscellaneous wheel collection for other ready-made party options, or check all wheels to find something closer to your specific event.
Spin history and results
Every result is logged in the session history below the wheel — most recent at the top. If you want a clean slate mid-session, the Clear button wipes the list. The site header also keeps a cross-wheel history of every spin you've done across different wheels during your visit, accessible from the History dropdown.
When a winner lands, the dialog gives you share options: native share on mobile, copy to clipboard, or post directly to X, WhatsApp, or Facebook. What gets shared is the winner text and the page URL — nothing more.