Giveaway Wheel
Paste your entrants, spin, and watch the names tick past the pointer as the wheel slows and locks onto a random winner — shown big and clear. Built to keep every entry visible, whether you have ten names or ten thousand. Cryptographically fair, screen-record ready, and free.
- Creators & streamers
- Brands & marketers
- Small businesses
Giveaway Wheel
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What Is a Giveaway Wheel?
A giveaway wheel is a spinning random picker built for contests: you load every entrant onto the wheel, spin it in full view, and it lands on one winner chosen by cryptographically secure randomness — no hidden favouritism, no "just trust us".
Running an online giveaway has one make-or-break challenge: proving the winner was chosen fairly. When followers see a name announced with no explanation, doubt creeps in. A giveaway wheel fixes that by making the whole draw visible — entrants see their names counted, watch the spin happen live, and know no human hand tipped the result.
This wheel is built to keep every entry visible, even with huge lists. Because a circle can't fit thousands of readable name-slices, a large readout above the wheel shows the name currently under the pointer: as the wheel slows, you watch names tick past and lock onto the winner. It works for creators, brands and businesses running draws on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Facebook, Twitch and in person.
Why Creators Pick Winners on the Wheel
Provably fair
Cryptographically secure randomness gives every entrant exactly equal odds.
Names stay visible
The pointer readout shows each name as it passes — readable at 10 entries or 10,000.
Watch it happen
Screen-record the live spin so your audience sees the draw with their own eyes.
Multiple winners
Remove-on-win draws second place, third place and beyond — each kept in a Winners list.
Any platform
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Facebook, Twitch or a room full of raffle slips.
Free & unlimited
No signup, no entry cap — paste names and spin as often as you like.
How to Run a Giveaway With the Wheel
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Collect your entries — comment usernames, email sign-ups, DM entries or a list of names.
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Paste the names into the Participants box in Settings, one per line. The wheel, count and list update instantly.
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Start a screen recording — optional, but it is the simplest way to prove the draw was random.
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Press Spin. Names tick past the pointer as the wheel slows and locks onto one random winner.
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Announce and repeat — the winner is shown in full and saved to the Winners list. Spin again for the next prize.
Keeping Names Visible in a Big Giveaway (100 to 1,000+)
Large giveaways are where fairness matters most — and where most wheels fail, shrinking names into an unreadable ring. Any spinning wheel can only fit around 40–50 legible name-slices; that is the geometry of a circle. Instead of hiding your entrants, this tool keeps them visible three ways:
- The pointer readout above the wheel shows the name currently under the pointer in large text. As the wheel decelerates you read names ticking past and settling on the winner — so even a 1,000-name draw is something you can watch, not just a blur of colour.
- The Participants panel lists every entrant in a clean, scrollable grid with a live count, so you and your viewers can confirm everyone is included.
- The Winners list records each name you draw, and remove-on-win keeps the wheel fair across multiple prizes.
Pulling entries from a social post? The Comment Picker can collect commenters for you, and the Classic Wheel is great for smaller, custom prize wheels.
Giveaway Playbook by Platform
Where entries come from changes how you collect them — and how you prove the draw was fair:
| Platform | Where entries come from | Fairness tip |
|---|---|---|
| Comment usernames & tags | Record the spin; screenshot the entry count | |
| YouTube | Comment authors or subscribers | Spin live during a premiere or stream |
| TikTok | Commenters on the giveaway video | Post the draw clip as a reply video |
| X (Twitter) | Repliers, reposters, followers | Show the full Participants list on screen |
| Group members or post commenters | Draw live in the group for members to see | |
| Twitch | Chat entries or channel-point users | Spin on stream so chat watches in real time |
However you collect them, the golden rule is the same: let people see the draw. A visible spin beats any private DM.
Prove It Was Fair — A Quick Checklist
- Show the full Participants list and count before you spin.
- Screen-record the entire draw, start to finish, in one take.
- Announce the winner exactly as it appears on the pointer readout.
- Post the recording alongside your winner announcement.
- Keep the same rules and entry window you promised at the start.
Why a Transparent Giveaway Builds Trust
Audiences have seen enough "rigged" giveaways to be sceptical by default. When a draw ends with a bare "DM us to claim", the comments fill with how was this chosen?. A visible spin removes that doubt in seconds: everyone watched the same wheel land on the same name.
That transparency pays off. Giveaways with an open, watchable selection method tend to earn more shares, more comments and more repeat entrants than opaque ones — because trust is what turns a one-off promo into an audience that comes back for the next one. The giveaway wheel is the simplest way to earn it.