DropRandom

The spinner wheel is a decision tool. You type a list of names, you press the spin button, the wheel rotates for about five seconds with the names ticking past a fixed pointer, and one of the names ends up at the top. That is the whole tool. It exists because some decisions feel fairer when the result arrives slowly and visibly in front of everyone, instead of being announced after the fact by whoever happens to be looking at the screen.

A primary school teacher in Daegu uses it during reading time. She pastes in her class roster at the start of each week and lets the wheel decide who reads aloud next. The whole class watches it slow down, the pointer settles, the chosen student reads. She told us that one quiet student who had spent half a year avoiding eye contact during reading time started actually volunteering after a month of the wheel, because the wheel was clearly choosing her, not the teacher singling her out. The wheel makes the call publicly, and that takes the weight off the adult in the room.

A Twitch streamer running a giveaway pastes the usernames of everyone who entered the chat command. With a list of two hundred names the segments get tiny, but the spin still works. A small office in Berlin uses it on Friday afternoons to decide who buys the next round of coffee. A group of friends uses it for restaurant decisions when nobody can agree.

Two practical notes. The wheel supports between two and fifty entries. Above that the labels get too small to read at a glance, so the input is capped. The result is decided by your browser's standard random number generator the moment you press spin. The animation that runs for the next five seconds is for the watching experience. Nothing about the spin is fixed or skewed. Every name has exactly the same chance of being picked, regardless of where it sits in your list.

Frequently asked questions

Is the result really random?

Yes. Every entry on your list has the same chance of ending up under the pointer. The result is chosen the moment you press the spin button. The animation is purely for the watching experience.

How many names can I add?

Between two and fifty. Beyond fifty the labels get too small to read at a glance, so the input is capped at fifty.

Can two spins land on the same name?

Of course. Across separate spins every name has an equal chance, so the same name can come up several times in a row. That is what fair randomness looks like over time, not a bug.

Do you save my list or the winners?

No. Everything stays in your browser and is gone when you close the tab.

Is it free?

Yes, and it will stay free. The site is funded by display ads.