Raffle Winner Picker
Paste the entrants, weight anyone who earned extra chances, and draw as many winners as you have prizes — without repeats, and without the list leaving your browser.
Table of contents
Running a draw people will accept
Publish the entrant list before you draw, not after. This is the single thing that separates a draw people believe from one they do not, and it costs nothing. A list posted in advance cannot be edited to suit the result; a list posted afterwards has to be taken on trust. Screenshot the wheel with the entry count visible and the entrants readable beside it.
Fix the list before the first spin. Remove duplicates, check the count against your own total, and settle any weighted entries. Once you have drawn, changing the list means starting again — and a draw that got re-run because somebody spotted a problem afterwards is the draw everyone remembers.
Draw every prize in one sitting, in order. With the winner removed after each spin, the sequence beside the wheel is a record of the order — first prize, second, third. Copy it out when you finish. If a winner turns out to be ineligible, drawing a replacement from the reduced wheel is the defensible move; going back and re-running the whole thing is not.
What this tool deliberately does not do is collect entries or hold your entrant list on a server. That is not an oversight — an anonymous, sign-up-free service holding lists of people's names and handles is a liability with no upside. The list is yours, it stays on your machine, and the draw happens in front of you.
Frequently asked questions
Tick "take the winner off the wheel", then spin once per prize. Each winner is removed before the next spin, so nobody can win twice, and the draws build up in order beside the wheel — first spin at the bottom, most recent at the top. Copy that list when you are done; it is your record of the order things were drawn in.
Write ×5 after their name rather than pasting them five times. The maths is identical and the wheel stays readable — their slice is simply five times the size, which is also the clearest possible way to show everyone else that the extra entries are there.
Copy the column and paste it in. One name per line is exactly what a pasted spreadsheet column looks like, and blank rows are ignored. If your export is comma separated, paste it and replace the commas with line breaks — or use the API endpoint, which accepts commas directly.
They are real extra chances, so check for them. The count beside the box tells you how many entries the wheel has, which you can compare against your own total, and there is a "remove duplicates" button that keeps the first occurrence of each name. Do that before you draw, not after.
Honestly: not to a regulator. There is no certificate, no signed log and no third party attesting to anything, because that would need an account and a server, and this tool has neither. What you can do is show your working — publish the entrant list beforehand, record the screen while you draw, and keep the list of winners in order. For most giveaways that is what people expect. For a promotion with legal requirements, use a licensed service.
No. The draw happens in the page. The list is kept in this browser so you do not lose it if you close the tab, and you can erase that copy from the tool. If you are drawing for something sensitive, note that the list sitting in your browser is the only copy — nothing is backed up.
Five hundred on the wheel. Beyond about sixty the slices are too thin to fit a name so the wheel shows colour alone, with the full list readable beside it. For a draw from thousands of entrants, the API endpoint takes the list and returns the winners without needing to draw a wheel at all.
For picking the winners, yes — the draw is sound at any size. For running the giveaway, no: collecting entries, checking eligibility, and contacting winners are the hard parts, and this does none of them. It is the last five seconds of the process, done properly and in public.
The Zeal Promise
Non-negotiable, on every tool we ship.
- No sign-up — ever
- No watermarks on any output
- No ads near the download button
- Works fully on mobile
- Privacy-first: processing stays in your browser
- Open source (MIT) — audit it, contribute, self-host
- Zero runtime dependencies in tool logic