Spin the Wheel – Random Name Picker

Looking for a fast, beautiful, and completely free wheel of names right inside your browser? Spin the Wheel is a feature-rich random name picker Chrome extension that lets you add names, spin a colorful wheel, and instantly pick a winner — no website needed, no ads, no sign-up. Just click the extension icon, spin the wheel, and let chance decide. Whether you're a teacher picking students, a team lead choosing who presents next, or a content creator running a live giveaway, this random picker wheel makes every selection fair, fun, and effortless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WHY CHOOSE SPIN THE WHEEL? Unlike web-based wheel of names tools that require opening a new tab and loading a full webpage, this extension lives in your browser toolbar. One click opens a beautiful, smooth-spinning wheel — ready to go in under a second. It works offline, respects your privacy (zero data collection), and saves your entries across sessions with Chrome Storage sync. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 KEY FEATURES ★ Realistic Spin Physics — A premium, physics-based spinning animation with natural cubic ease-out deceleration. Every spin feels like a real game-show wheel. ★ 10 Stunning Color Themes — Choose from Casino, Neon, Pastel, Earth, Ocean, Mono, Candy, Forest, Sunset, and Arctic palettes. Every theme transforms the entire wheel instantly. ★ Sound Effects & Fanfare — Realistic tick sounds as the wheel spins past each segment, followed by a celebratory fanfare when the winner is revealed. Toggle on or off in Settings. ★ Confetti Celebration — A vibrant, full-screen confetti burst erupts when the winner is picked. Because every winner deserves a party. 🎉 ★ Winner History — Automatically logs every spin result with a timestamp. Review past winners anytime. Perfect for tracking selections across multiple rounds. ★ Auto-Remove Winner — Enable this setting to automatically remove the winner from the wheel after each spin. Ideal for elimination-style draws and raffle picks. ★ Adjustable Spin Duration — Customize how long the wheel spins (2–10 seconds) to match your pacing preference. ★ Bulk Import — Paste an entire class roster, team list, or name list (one per line) and import them all instantly. No tedious one-by-one entry. ★ Export & Import (JSON) — Save your wheel configuration as a JSON file and reload it anytime. Share your wheel setup with colleagues or between devices. ★ Shuffle Entries — Randomize the order of names on the wheel with a single tap. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏫 PERFECT FOR TEACHERS & CLASSROOMS Spin the Wheel is the ultimate classroom spinner and name picker for teachers. Use it to randomly call on students, assign group roles, pick who goes first, or create fair seating arrangements. With bulk import, you can paste your entire class roster in seconds. The auto-remove feature ensures no student is picked twice. ★ Randomly call on students without bias ★ Assign reading order, presentation slots, or team captains ★ Run classroom rewards and incentive drawings ★ Works offline — no internet needed during class ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💼 IDEAL FOR TEAMS & MEETINGS Need a fair way to decide who takes meeting notes, who demos first, or who picks the lunch spot? This random name generator extension makes workplace decisions transparent and fun. Import your team roster once and spin whenever you need a fair pick. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 BUILT FOR GIVEAWAYS & LIVE STREAMS Running a social media giveaway or YouTube live stream raffle? Spin the Wheel is the perfect giveaway picker. Import participant names, spin on camera, and let the confetti celebration announce the winner. The winner history logs every result so you have a transparent, auditable record. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎲 QUICK DECISIONS MADE FUN Can't decide where to eat? What movie to watch? Which task to tackle first? Use this decision maker wheel to add your options and let the wheel choose. Turn everyday indecision into an exciting moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 AVAILABLE IN 48 LANGUAGES Spin the Wheel is fully localized in 48 languages — including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and many more. The entire interface adapts to your browser's language automatically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST ✓ Zero data collection — no analytics, no tracking, no ads ✓ All data stored locally in Chrome Storage ✓ No external network requests ✓ No account or sign-up required ✓ Open and transparent — minimal permissions (storage only) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ LIGHTWEIGHT & FAST Under 65 KB total. No bloat, no frameworks, no external dependencies. Pure vanilla JavaScript with Canvas rendering. Loads instantly and never slows down your browser. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 WHAT'S INCLUDED → Colorful spinning wheel with smooth animation → One-click random name picking → 10 beautiful color themes → Sound effects with Web Audio API → Full-screen confetti celebration → Winner history with timestamps → Bulk import (paste a list) → JSON export / import → Shuffle, auto-remove, and adjustable spin duration → 48-language localization → Works completely offline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Is Spin the Wheel really free? A: Yes, 100% free. No premium tier, no ads, no in-app purchases. Ever. Q: Does it work offline? A: Yes. Once installed, the extension works without an internet connection. Q: How many names can I add? A: There is no hard limit. The wheel performs smoothly with hundreds of entries. Q: Is my data private? A: Absolutely. All data stays on your device in Chrome's local storage. Nothing is sent to any server. Q: Can I use it for giveaways? A: Yes. The winner history log provides an auditable record of every spin result. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spin the Wheel …