About Spin the Wheel

Why we built this

Choosing a random winner, picking a student to answer a question, or deciding where to eat for lunch sounds trivial — until you try to do it fairly. Most people default to "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" or write names on scraps of paper. Those methods are slow, biased, and hard to verify.

We built Spin the Wheel to be the fastest, fairest, most transparent random picker on the web. No sign-up. No ads. No data collection. Just open the page and spin.

What makes it different

• 🔒 100% private — Your names never leave your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
• ⚡ Instant load — No login, no onboarding. The wheel is ready in under a second.
• 🎨 Beautiful & 3D — A polished canvas-drawn wheel with segment colours, 3D depth, and smooth animation.
• 🖥️ Multi-wheel — Run up to 4 wheels side-by-side for simultaneous draws — perfect for brackets and group picks.
• 💾 Custom presets — Save your own wheel configurations and reload them instantly with one click.
• 🌙 Dark mode — Full dark mode support — automatically follows your system preference.

Who uses it

Spin the Wheel is used by teachers picking students, streamers running live giveaways, HR teams choosing raffle winners, friends deciding where to eat, coaches randomly assigning teams, and anyone who needs a quick, unbiased decision. Over 50,000 spins have been recorded since launch.

The technology

The wheel is drawn entirely on an HTML5 Canvas using the Web API — no images, no SVGs, no third-party charting libraries. The spin animation uses a custom easeOutQuint easing function driven by requestAnimationFrame for buttery-smooth deceleration. Randomness comes from Math.random() seeded by the browser, which passes standard randomness tests for this use case.