Giveaway Wheel
Paste your entrant list, hit spin, and draw a winner your audience can watch happen. Screen-record it and the draw documents itself — no spreadsheet, no “trust me, I picked randomly.”
A giveaway wheel is a free tool that picks a random winner from your list of entrants. Paste the names, spin the wheel live, and it lands on one fair, unbiased winner.
What is a giveaway wheel?
A giveaway wheel is a spinning wheel loaded with entrant names that randomly selects a winner. Spinning it live on camera makes a contest transparent and engaging, which is why creators use it for Instagram, YouTube, and event giveaways.
What is on the Giveaway Wheel by default?
The giveaway wheel loads with these 8 options, so you can spin it straight away without setting anything up. Every one of them can be edited, removed, or replaced with your own list — the wheel redraws itself as you type, and nothing you enter is saved or sent anywhere.
- @alex
- @jordan
- @sam
- @taylor
- @riley
- @casey
- @morgan
- @jamie
When should you use a giveaway wheel?
- Drawing a social media giveaway winner. Paste the handles you collected from the comment thread and spin once on camera. The clip is the proof, and it goes up in the same post as the announcement.
- Running a live draw on stream. Share your screen and let the audience watch it land. A draw people saw happen generates far fewer complaints than a name announced after the fact.
- Raffles at an event. Works from a laptop at a stand or on a projector in a hall, with no tickets to shuffle and no hat to pass around.
- Drawing multiple winners. Spin, remove the winner, spin again. That gives you first, second, and third without anyone being drawn twice.
- Newsletter or customer prize draws. Paste an export of eligible subscribers and draw in front of your team, so the process is documented internally as well as publicly.
- Choosing a runner-up in advance. Draw two names in one session and hold the second in reserve for the fairly common case where the winner never replies.
How the draw stays fair — and how to prove it
Every entrant gets an equal slice and each spin draws a fresh pseudorandom result in your browser. Entry order does not matter, and neither does how hard or long you spin — the animation is played out after the winner has already been decided.
The practical problem with online giveaways is rarely the randomness, it is the proof. Record the spin with the full entrant list visible at the start, and let it run to a stop without cutting. That single unbroken clip answers almost every accusation before it is made.
More detail in how the randomness works.
How to use the giveaway wheel
- Add your entrants. Paste the list of names entered into your giveaway.
- Spin live. Press SPIN on camera so everyone sees the draw is fair.
- Announce the winner. The name under the pointer is your randomly selected winner.
- Share it if you need it again. Press Share to copy a link that reopens this exact wheel, options and all. Useful for a class roster you spin every week, or for letting a group spin the same wheel from their own phones.
Giveaway wheel vs prize wheel vs Instagram picker
Same underlying draw, three different jobs.
| Tool | Best for |
|---|---|
| Giveaway wheel | the entrants go on the wheel and you draw one winner — for contests and raffles |
| Prize wheel | the prizes go on the wheel and the participant spins for what they win — for stands and events |
| Instagram giveaway winner picker | the same entrant draw, set up for a list of handles pulled from a comment thread |
The distinction that matters: are you picking a person, or picking what a person gets?
Frequently asked questions
How do I pick more than one winner?
Spin, note the winner, remove that name, and spin again. Removing drawn names keeps each pick fair.
Is the giveaway wheel free?
Yes, it is free with no account needed to run a draw.
Can I import a long list of entrants?
Yes. Paste a comma or line-separated list. Large lists switch to a raffle view so the draw stays readable.
How do I pick more than one winner?
Draw the first winner, delete that name from the list, and spin again. Repeating that gives you as many distinct winners as you need, in a defensible order.
Can I give some entrants more chances than others?
Yes — add the same name more than once and it occupies that many segments, which raises its odds proportionally. This is how people handle bonus entries for shares or referrals.
Do I need to prove the draw was random?
Legally that depends on where you are and how big the prize is. Practically, a single unedited screen recording that shows the full entrant list and the spin landing is what people accept.
Does the entrant list get uploaded anywhere?
No. The list stays in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, which also means nothing is retained after you close the tab.
Can I share a wheel with someone else?
Yes. Press Share and the link is copied to your clipboard. Anyone who opens it gets the wheel with your exact options already loaded, so a teacher can bookmark one link per class and a group can spin the same wheel from different phones. The options travel in the link itself — nothing is saved to an account, because there are no accounts.
Do I need an account to save a wheel?
No, and there is no account to make. A wheel is saved by keeping its share link — bookmark it, paste it into a lesson plan, or send it to whoever needs it. Because the options live in the URL rather than on a server, the link keeps working without anyone logging in.
Can I use this for a lucky draw or raffle drawing?
Yes — a lucky draw, a raffle drawing and a giveaway are the same mechanic. Paste your ticket numbers or entrant names, spin once on camera, and turn on Elimination if you are drawing several winners so nobody is drawn twice.
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