When you're picking a giveaway winner live, "trust me, it's random" isn't good enough — viewers want to see the actual selection happen. A wheel that spins on screen, in front of everyone watching, is one of the simplest ways to make a random pick that nobody can accuse you of rigging.
Why on-screen randomness matters for giveaways
A raffle bot that posts a winner's name in chat asks viewers to take the result on faith. A wheel that visibly spins and slows down in real time doesn't — the audience watches the same process you do. Paste in the list of eligible chat names or entry codes, spin during the stream, and the outcome is something your whole audience witnessed together.
Setting it up as a browser source
Since SpinPick runs in any browser with no login, you can add it as a browser source in OBS or Streamlabs like any other web page, or simply switch your capture to the browser window when it's time to spin. There's nothing to install and no account that could get flagged or banned mid-stream.
Chat games beyond giveaways
- Topic or dare wheels: Load prompts submitted by chat and spin to decide what happens next in a "just chatting" segment.
- Mini-game selection: If you rotate between several quick games, put them on a wheel and let chat watch you spin for what's up next.
- Yes/no chat votes: For a quick "should I / shouldn't I" moment, the Yes or No wheel is a fast, visual way to let the moment decide instead of you.
Keeping the process fair (and provably so)
If you run recurring giveaways, turn on "Remove winner after each spin" when picking multiple prizes in one stream, so the same viewer can't win twice in a row by chance. And because nothing about the wheel is tied to an account or stored on a server, there's no backend for a viewer to worry has been tampered with — what they see spin is what decided the result.
Practical streaming tips
- Prep your entry list before you go live and save it, so you're not typing names on stream.
- Keep the browser window large enough that the wheel's text is readable at stream resolution.
- Turn sound on for the spin effect if it fits your stream's audio mix, or off if you're running your own sound cues.