WheelOfNames.io

What's new

The latest features and improvements, newest first.

  1. Secret Santa Generator, wheel rims and a new country picker

    • New Secret Santa Generator: draw names on a wheel where nobody can draw themselves and couples can be kept apart. Spin together on one phone with a private reveal, or send everyone a private link so the organizer can play too.
    • Give your wheel a rim: 20 styles, from a mahogany roulette bowl and marquee lights to neon, LED dots and a Christmas garland with twinkling lights. Pick one in Tool Settings, or with the new Wheel style button on any tool page, which also changes the pointer and the spin button.
    • Search the tools page to find a wheel fast, and start from the new Top picks row of the most popular tools.
    • The Random Country Generator now covers all 195 countries with a flag on every slice. Filter by continent, untick any country, and switch to flags only for a guess-the-flag quiz.
    • Bottle sounds are cleaner: the plastic bottle now sounds like plastic, and every bottle plays its winner sound once it stops instead of a second slowdown.
    • The spin button now grows and shrinks with the wheel on every screen, so it never looks too big on a small wheel or too small on a big one. The SPIN label sits exactly in the middle too.
    • Pictures you add on a tool page, like slice images, a custom bottle or a button image, now stay put when you come back later.
    • New Beacon pointer: a white pin whose dot lights up in the color of the slice under it as the wheel turns.
    • Winner images now show your pointer above the winning slice, just like on the wheel.
  2. Birthday sounds

    • The sound library has a new Birthday group: balloon taps, party poppers and a toy xylophone for the ticks, plus a birthday fanfare, a party cheer and candles being blown out for the winner.
  3. Smoother recovery

    • Choose your own tick and winner sounds from a new sound library, opened with the music-note button above your entries or from Confetti & Sound settings, with festival sounds from Diwali to Christmas and an optional Bottle sounds switch in Spin the Bottle that plays the real roll and landing of each bottle.
    • The input font size control has moved into the More options menu.
    • If the wheel data saved in your browser ever gets damaged, the app now repairs it on its own instead of failing to load.
    • A new error screen lets you try again or reset the saved data if a page still cannot load.
  4. Embeds that keep going

    • Embedded wheels now stay live for as long as people keep viewing them, with no one-year limit.
    • Privacy and reliability improvements across sharing and sign-in.
    • Dark mode no longer flashes light for a moment when a page loads.
  5. Easier reading

    • Long explanations across the tool pages, guides, and FAQs are now broken into shorter paragraphs.
    • Keyboard shortcuts on the features page now show as real keys.
  6. Watch how it works

    • A short walkthrough video now sits on the home page, and only loads once you press play.
    • Find us on YouTube from the footer.
  7. Two wheels for Spin the Bottle

    • Players first mode now shows two wheels at once: one picks who goes next, the other picks truth or dare.
    • Spin all runs a whole round, and each wheel can still be spun on its own.
    • The player the wheel landed on stays named until the next round starts.
    • Pick your bottle straight from the panel: all eleven, plus your own photo, are now one tap away.
    • Recent results name the player each truth or dare went to.
  8. Picture wheels and two new tools

    • The what to eat, workout, and chore wheels now have a picture on every slice.
    • New What to Watch wheel: spin for tonight's genre when nobody can pick a film.
    • New Classroom Jobs wheel: hand out line leader, librarian, and the rest of the week's roles at random.
  9. A much bigger template library

    • 65 ready-made wheels, up from 24, across ten sections including Work & Meetings, Food & Drink, Holidays & Seasons, Creators & Streamers, and Kids & Family.
    • Search templates by name and filter them by section, so the right starting wheel is a few keystrokes away.
    • Each template card now shows what it demonstrates, such as weighted odds, hidden winners, or no repeat winners.
    • Templates arrive set up: weighted prize tiers, mystery slices, bottle mode, tinted pages, and quiet wheels with the sound already off.
  10. Weights on, CSV made easy

    • The weight column is ready on every new wheel, so you can set the odds without hunting for a switch.
    • A CSV button in the entries panel imports a spreadsheet, with two sample files to start from and drag and drop.
    • Write your own truths and dares in Spin the Bottle, and save them to a file to share or move between devices.
    • Hide the side panel on a big screen to give the wheel the whole width. It stays hidden until you bring it back.
    • The wheel now stops drifting the moment the page opens under your cursor.
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