About TheNameWheel
A free, fair, and fun random picker built for classrooms, giveaways, and everyday decisions.
Why we built it
We kept running into the same thing. You need to pick one name out of thirty, you search for a spinner wheel, and you land on a page buried in ads, asking you to make an account, quietly building a profile of you while a banner covers half the wheel. For something that should take five seconds, that is a lot to put up with.
So we built the version we actually wanted. A random picker should be instant, it should be private, and it should work for everyone — the teacher on a classroom projector, the organiser running a raffle at the front of a room, the team lead deciding who presents first. No sign-up wall, nothing collected about the names you type, and no waiting for scripts to load before the page becomes usable.
That is the whole idea. Your names go in, the wheel spins, and the winner is selected in your browser. We count page views and feature events, but those manual events omit wheel titles, entries, share codes, and results. If you choose to share a wheel, its data is encoded in the link so the recipient can open it.
Built for speed and fairness
Winner selection runs in your browser, and wheel data stays local unless you create a share link. Selection usescrypto.getRandomValues, the browser’s cryptographic randomness source, and the winner is chosen before the animation begins. Each wheel holds up to 50,000 entries, with 48 ready-made templatesand an interface in 30 languages.
What we stand for
Privacy First
Your entries stay in your browser by default. If you create a share, embed, or QR link, the title and entries are encoded into that link.
Zero Friction
No account, no download, no setup screen. Open the page, type or paste your names, and spin in a matter of seconds.
Fair by Design
The winner is picked by the browser before the animation begins, so the spin is a reveal rather than a decision. Every entry carries exactly the weight you gave it, with nothing hidden in between.
What that means in practice
Safe for classrooms
The wheel never asks a student for a name, email, or any personal detail.
No account required
Nothing to sign up for, and no login stands between you and a spin.
Ads only if you allow them
Google AdSense is our one ad partner, and it loads only after you choose Accept All. Choose Essential Only and no advertising script is added to the page at all — the same commitment set out in the privacy policy.
Analytics you control
Google Analytics measures page visits only. Until you accept, it runs cookieless — no identifier, nothing stored on your device.
Keeps working offline
Once the page has loaded, spinning needs no internet connection at all.
Ads help keep the wheel free. The privacy policy explains advertising, analytics, local storage, and share links in detail.
Use in numbers
48
ready-made wheel templates
31
languages, used in classrooms and offices worldwide
0
wheel entries stored on our servers