Free random name picker wheel. Built for teachers, streamers & event hosts. No signup, distraction free — spin in seconds.
All free. All no-signup. All built for the same reason — making random picks fast, fair, and undisputable.
NameWheel is a free online random name picker wheel. You paste a list of names, spin the wheel, and it picks a winner at random. No signup is needed to spin, and your list stays on your device unless you choose to save it to a free account. Used by teachers, Twitch streamers, and event hosts as a free alternative to Wheel of Names. Every mode, sound and effect is laid out on the features page.
Open namewheel.org, type or paste your names (one per line), and hit the spin button. The wheel spins with realistic physics and lands on a random name. You can also upload a CSV file, let AI Fill write a themed list for you, or share your wheel setup via a URL. The spin itself is computed right in your browser with cryptographic randomness.
NameWheel works as a yes or no wheel by simply typing "Yes" and "No" as your names. Spin the wheel to make any decision instantly. You can also add "Maybe" or weight the odds by typing Yes multiple times. The yes no wheel is completely free and works on any device including phones, tablets, and classroom projectors.
Teachers use NameWheel as a classroom name picker and random team generator. Eliminate Mode removes each picked student automatically so nobody gets called twice. Teams Mode splits your entire class into random equal groups in one spin. Clean screen on the projector, no student accounts needed, works on Chromebooks and Google Classroom setups.
NameWheel has grown into a full toolkit for life's randomly undecided moments. Couples who can't settle on plans can spin the Date Night Wheel, which has 85 curated ideas across 7 categories from cheap nights in to full adventures out. Teams running a gift exchange can use the Secret Santa Generator, which handles exclusion rules (no spouses gifting each other) and generates shareable reveal links so nobody has to awkwardly hand out slips of paper. Game night hosts get the Bingo Caller with full 75-ball and 90-ball support, voice announcements, and an auto-call timer so no one has to stand at the front the whole night.
ESL teachers and Pictionary hosts can pull from the Word Generator's eight built-in lists covering common words, advanced vocabulary, picture prompts, charades phrases, and story starters. Movie nights that always end in a 40-minute negotiation now end in seconds with the Movie Picker, which has 160 curated films across 8 genres plus a "spin the genre" mini wheel to cut the decision in half. Every single tool is free, no account required, no data stored.
Most wheel spinner websites are covered in ads, require an account, or charge for basic features like removing names after each spin. NameWheel is different. It was built by Abd Shanti as a tool whose core stays genuinely free. Eliminate Mode, Teams Mode, CSV import, and fullscreen spin with sound effects are all included at no cost, and an optional PRO plan for power users is what keeps the free wheel free for everyone. If you are looking for the best Wheel of Names alternative, NameWheel is the fastest, cleanest option available in 2026.
Type them, paste a whole list, upload a CSV, or let a Google Sheet fill the wheel for you. Up to a thousand entries fit.
Normal draws one winner. Eliminate removes each winner until a survivor remains. Teams splits the group fairly. Tally keeps score. PRO adds knockout Brackets and Prize Match.
Hit the button, press the spacebar, or grab the wheel and throw it. Every result comes from your browser's cryptographic random generator, and you can test that claim yourself.
A classroom name wheel keeps cold calling fair and visibly so. Load the class list once, save it to a free account, and Eliminate mode makes sure nobody answers twice before everyone answers once. The spin screen stays clean on the projector, and student names stay on your device unless you choose to save them.
The classroom wheel →A giveaway wheel that looks good on camera and never leaks banner ads into a clip. Prefill entries by link, spin with the spacebar while the game keeps focus, and run a knockout Bracket so one giveaway becomes seven spins of content. PRO puts your own logo in the hub of the wheel.
The OBS setup guide →Raffles, office parties, wedding games, market stalls. Prize Match pairs every winner with a random prize in a single spin, the Tally board keeps a running score across rounds, and the wheel runs itself with Auto-Spin while you host instead of clicking.
The prize wheel →A verified wheel spin is a certified random draw: the outcome is sealed by NameWheel’s TrueSpin engine before the wheel moves, the spin records itself as a produced video with live sound and the proof link on every frame, and a permanent proof page lets anyone re-run the math in their own browser. It is how giveaway hosts on Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and X prove the draw was real, and it is a NameWheel world first.
The honest version, because you can verify every row in two clicks.
Full breakdown in the side by side comparison.
These counters are real and update continuously. Only spin counts are recorded, never the names on anyone's wheel, and the Fairness Lab lets you audit the randomness behind every one of them.
Yes, and you do not have to take that on faith. Every spin is decided by your browser's cryptographic random generator, the same source used for security keys. The Fairness Lab runs that exact code up to fifty thousand times in front of you, with your own names if you like, and shows the distribution settle.
The wheel is free forever: unlimited spins, four modes, sixty plus template wheels, CSV import, and three saved wheels with a free account. PRO adds your logo on the wheel, photos inside the slices, weighted entries, knockout Brackets, Prize Match, Google Sheets live sync, and the full sound and effect library, from $4.08 a month. PRO is what keeps the core wheel free.
Yes. A free account holds three wheels in the cloud, and opening a saved wheel's link restores the names, mode, and any PRO branding exactly as you left them. You can also save any wheel as a local file that opens on any device without an account.
Weighted entries. Type Alice:3 and Alice holds three raffle tickets while everyone else holds one, so she is three times as likely to win. Her slice grows bigger on the wheel, so the advantage is visible to everyone watching. Weights are a PRO feature, and that visibility is the difference between weighting and rigging.
Bracket mode seeds your names into a knockout tournament and the wheel decides every matchup down to a champion. Prize Match pairs each winner with a random prize from a second list in the same spin. Both are PRO modes, and both exist on no other wheel site we know of.
A verified wheel spin is a certified random draw where the outcome is sealed by NameWheel's TrueSpin engine before the wheel moves, the spin is recorded as a video with the proof link on every frame, and a permanent proof page lets anyone re-run the math to confirm the winner, the entries and the exact draw time. It is how giveaway hosts prove a draw was real without asking anyone to trust them.
Run the draw as a certified spin on NameWheel. You get a produced video for Instagram, TikTok or X, plus a proof link showing the full entry list, the exact time and the winner, with a button that recomputes the draw live in any viewer's browser. Post the link under the winner announcement and the rigged comments answer themselves.
An ordinary screen recording can be faked easily: hosts can re-spin until a friend wins or edit the winner name afterward. A NameWheel certified spin cannot, because the outcome is sealed before the wheel moves, the hosted original is hashed byte for byte, and the proof page shows how many draws the host ran that day.
Up to a thousand entries. Labels stay readable into the dozens, and for very large raffles the draw stays exactly fair regardless of how crowded the wheel looks. For giant lists, the CSV import or a synced Google Sheet beats typing.
Want someone to have a better chance of winning? Give them extra tickets. Type a colon and a number after any name, like Alice:3. Now Alice is holding three raffle tickets while everyone else holds one, so she is three times as likely to win. Her slice of the wheel grows bigger too, so everyone watching can see exactly who has the advantage. Nothing is hidden. Give your top subscriber :5, the birthday kid :2, a quiet student a gentle boost.