SpinKitPicker wheel: make a free spinning picker in seconds
Options on a wheel, one spin, no arguments — the friendliest form a random choice can take.
A picker wheel is exactly what it sounds like: you put options on a spinning wheel, give it a whirl, and let the pointer pick one. It's the friendliest form a random choice can take — no dice to lose, no arguments about whether the coin was caught fairly, just a wheel everyone watched land.
What people actually use picker wheels for
- Names — who answers next in class, who wins the giveaway, whose turn it is to present.
- Food — takeaway roulette, dinner rotation, "where are we eating" with friends who won't choose.
- Prizes — raffles and prize draws where the wheel is the ceremony.
- Games — truth or dare, forfeit wheels, challenge pickers for streams and parties.
- Work — stand-up order, code-review assignments, who runs the retro.
- Decisions — any small choice you've been circling for ten minutes; see the decision wheel guide.
Make one in about thirty seconds
- Open the SpinKit picker wheel — no account needed.
- Paste or type your options, one per line.
- Spin — flick it with your finger or tap the centre.
The wheel saves on your device automatically, works offline, and you can keep as many separate wheels as you like — one for dinner, one for the class register, one for the forfeit list.
The settings worth knowing
- Weighted slices. Give an entry a bigger slice and it gets proportionally better odds — visible to everyone, so it stays fair. Ideal for raffle tickets bought in multiples.
- Remove winner on spin. Drawn entries leave the wheel so nobody is picked twice — the setting that turns a picker wheel into a proper raffle.
- Raffle mode. Draw several winners from one spin session instead of re-spinning by hand.
- Colours and themes. Palettes, per-entry colours and a dark mode, so the wheel looks right on a projector or a stream overlay.
Sharing the spin
A picker wheel is a group tool, so SpinKit is built for showing it: one tap makes it fullscreen for classrooms and projectors, short links share a wheel with anyone, embeds drop a live wheel into your own website, and live rooms let a remote group watch the same spin at the same moment — with chat, and even hand-the-wheel-over control.
When a wheel isn't the right picker
The wheel picks one thing at a time. If you need a random combination (one starter + one main + one dessert), use slot reels. If you need random rows out of a spreadsheet, use a Spin Sheet. And to split a list into fair groups, the team generator does it in one tap. Same app, same lists — just the right shape of random for the job.