The Wheel Overlay Your
Stream Deserves
Two minutes of setup puts a broadcast clean spinning wheel in your scene, with sound in the mix, spacebar control, and a giveaway workflow that keeps chat calm instead of typing rigged. This is the complete guide.
OBS Setup, Copy and Paste
These are the only three values you need. Everything below explains why they work.
https://namewheel.org/1000900Add a Browser source
In OBS, click the plus under Sources, choose Browser, and name it something you will recognize at 2am, like Giveaway Wheel.
Paste the wheel URL
The plain URL gives you a blank wheel. Better: build your wheel before going live, copy its share link, and paste that instead. The share link encodes your whole entry list, so the wheel loads ready the moment the source appears.
Size it at 1000 by 900
That frames the wheel and the spin button with no dead space. Then scale the source down inside your scene to wherever it lives. The wheel is drawn on a sharp canvas, so it stays crisp at any scale as long as you shrink it rather than stretch it up.
Tick Control audio via OBS
In the source properties. This gives the wheel its own channel in your audio mixer, with its own volume slider, so the tick sounds sit under your mic instead of fighting it.
Spin with the spacebar
Right click the source, choose Interact, click inside the window once, and the spacebar spins the wheel. No cursor sliding across your overlay on stream. You can type and edit names in the same Interact window between rounds.
Streamlabs, Kick, TikTok: Same Trick Everywhere
The wheel is a web page, and every piece of streaming software alive can show a web page. That is the whole integration story, and it is why there is no plugin to install or update.
Streamlabs Desktop
Identical to OBS: add a Browser source, same URL, same 1000 by 900. The audio checkbox is called the same thing. Nothing else changes.
Kick
Kick streamers broadcast through OBS anyway, so the exact setup above applies. The wheel does not care where the stream ends up.
TikTok Live Studio
Add a browser or window capture pointed at the wheel. For phone only streams, share a browser tab through your screen share and spin from there.
Discord and Zoom events
Screen share the wheel tab during community nights. Fullscreen mode makes it read clearly even through compressed video.
Make It Look Broadcast Clean
A wheel that looks pasted on kills the moment. Three small choices make it look like part of your scene design instead.
Use fullscreen mode for the big moment
The wheel has a fullscreen spin view with an ambient glow that owns the whole frame. Cut to a dedicated scene with just the wheel source when the giveaway starts. The scene switch itself becomes part of the drama.
Pick a theme that matches your overlay
Seven color themes ship free. If your brand runs warm, Sunset sits better next to your alerts than the default violet. Consistency reads as production value.
Your logo in the hub
PRO puts your own logo in the center of the wheel, so every clip a viewer cuts carries your brand instead of ours. That is the single most visible PRO feature on a stream.
Shrink, never stretch
Set the source at 1000 by 900 and scale it down in the scene. Scaling a small source up is where the blur everyone complains about comes from.
Sound That Builds the Room
The tick of a slowing wheel is half the tension. With Control audio via OBS ticked, the wheel gets its own mixer channel: ride it around 40 percent under your mic and let the final ticks breathe. There are nineteen tick sounds and eight win sounds to match your energy, from a soft wooden click to a full casino rattle.
One thing streamers always ask: every sound the wheel makes is synthesized by NameWheel itself. It is not licensed music, so there is nothing for a copyright matcher to flag, and your VODs and clips keep their audio.
The Giveaway Workflow That Keeps Chat Calm
Giveaways go wrong in the gap between entries closing and the winner appearing. The workflow below closes that gap in front of everyone.
Collect entries with a keyword
Have viewers type one word in chat. When entries close, copy the names from your chat log and paste the block straight into the wheel. It splits on commas and new lines, so a messy paste still becomes a clean list. Being honest: there is no chat bot integration yet, the workflow is paste based, and it takes about thirty seconds.
Close the list on camera
Say entries are closed, then spin. If you want the strongest version, freeze the list first: the wheel can publish a fingerprint of the final entry list with a timestamp, so nobody can claim names were slipped in after closing.
Multiple prizes, Eliminate mode
Each spin removes its winner from the wheel, so nobody doubles up and the wheel visibly shrinks toward the last prize. The shrinking is the show.
Sub perks in the open
Weighted entries on PRO give a viewer extra raffle tickets: type Ana:3 and Ana holds three tickets. Her slice grows on the wheel so the whole room can see the advantage. Announce your multipliers out loud. The difference between weighting and rigging is that weighting happens where everyone can watch it.
When Chat Says Rigged, Show Them the Proof
Every streamer who runs giveaways has met the rigged comment. Arguing with it never works, because a normal spin genuinely cannot be proven fair. A certified spin can.
Run your draw as a certified spin and the outcome is sealed cryptographically before the wheel moves. The spin records itself as a produced video with a proof code burned into every frame, and that code leads to a permanent page where any viewer can re-run the math in their own browser: the entry list, the exact time, and the winner, all checkable without trusting you or us. You also get a vertical 9:16 cut of the video, sized for TikTok, Shorts, and Reels, so the winner announcement becomes content.
Post the proof link under the winner post and the accusation thread dies before it starts. Your first hosted proof video is free; PRO makes them unlimited and removes the outro.
Try It Right Now
The Stream Activity Wheel
Eight segments loaded. Spin it and let the wheel decide what happens next on stream.
Open this wheel full sizeWhen Something Goes Sideways
Control audio via OBS is probably unticked, or the wheel's channel is muted in the mixer. If you hear it but viewers do not, set the channel's audio monitoring to Monitor and Output.
The source is being stretched above its set size. Keep the browser source at 1000 by 900 and scale down in the scene, never up.
Toggle hardware acceleration for browser sources in OBS settings under Advanced. On some GPUs it is faster on, on a few it is faster off. One toggle usually cures it.
Untick Shutdown source when not visible in the source properties. With it ticked, OBS kills the page when you switch scenes and your typed list goes with it. A share link URL also survives anything, because the list lives in the URL itself.
You are typing at OBS, not the page. Right click the source, choose Interact, and type inside that window.
Frequently Asked Questions
Add a Browser source, paste https://namewheel.org/ as the URL, set width 1000 and height 900, and tick Control audio via OBS. Right click the source and choose Interact to type names or press the spacebar to spin. The whole setup takes about two minutes and works the same in Streamlabs.
Yes, when Control audio via OBS is ticked the tick and win sounds get their own channel in your audio mixer. If viewers cannot hear it, check that the channel is not muted and that audio monitoring is set to Monitor and Output.
Yes. Every tick and win sound is synthesized by NameWheel itself, not licensed music, so there is nothing for a copyright system to match against. Your VODs and clips keep their audio.
Ask viewers to type an entry keyword, then copy the names from your chat log and paste them into the wheel, one per line or comma separated. For planned giveaways, build the wheel before going live and load it instantly with a share link. There is no automatic chat bot integration yet, so the honest workflow is paste based.
Switch to Eliminate mode. Each spin removes the winner from the wheel, so nobody can win twice, and you keep spinning until every prize is gone. The shrinking wheel builds tension better than re-rolling a full list.
Yes, with weighted entries on PRO. Type a colon and a number after a name, like Ana:3, and that viewer holds three raffle tickets instead of one. The slice grows on the wheel so the advantage is visible to everyone watching. Announce the multipliers out loud. The difference between weighting and rigging is that weighting happens in the open.
Run the draw as a certified spin. The outcome is sealed cryptographically before the wheel moves, the spin records itself as a video with a proof code on every frame, and any viewer can open the proof page and re-run the math in their own browser. Post the proof link under the winner announcement and the rigged comments answer themselves.
Yes. Anything that can show a browser or a screen can show the wheel. Kick streamers use the same OBS browser source. TikTok Live Studio accepts a browser or window capture. Even a phone stream can show the wheel in a browser tab through screen share.
Reference Summary
What This Page Is
The complete setup guide for putting NameWheel in a live stream: OBS and Streamlabs browser source values (1000 by 900), audio capture, spacebar control, and an on-air giveaway workflow.
Key Settings
Browser source URL https://namewheel.org or a share link that preloads entries. Width 1000, height 900. Tick Control audio via OBS. Untick Shutdown source when not visible. Spin via Interact plus spacebar.
Giveaway Features
Eliminate mode removes each winner so nobody wins twice. Weighted entries (PRO) show bigger slices for extra tickets, visible to viewers. Certified spins seal the outcome before the wheel moves and publish a verifiable proof page plus a 9:16 reel.
Compatibility
Works in OBS, Streamlabs Desktop, Kick via OBS, TikTok Live Studio, and any software with a browser or window capture. All wheel sounds are original synthesized audio, safe for VODs and clips.