About

About My Decision Wheel

My Decision Wheel is a free set of tools for settling choices you have stopped being able to make: a spin wheel, a coin flip, a random name picker, and a library of ready-made wheels for the decisions people get stuck on most.

Why it exists

Most of the choices in a day are small, and a fair number of them are genuinely tied. Which of four acceptable restaurants. Who presents first. Which of two evenings out. These do not need more analysis, because there is no additional information left to find — they need something to end them.

Doing that in your head is oddly hard. Doing it in a group is harder, because whoever decides also carries the blame if it goes badly. A visible random draw solves both problems at once: it ends the deliberation, and it takes the choice out of anyone's hands in a way everyone watching can verify.

What you can use it for

People use the wheel to pick meals, films, activities and weekend plans; teachers use it to call on students and set presentation order without accusations of favouritism; teams use it for standup rotas, chore splits and who takes the unpopular task; streamers and small accounts use it to draw giveaway winners on camera where the audience can see the spin. The template library has 41 of these already built, and every one is editable the moment it loads.

How the tools work

You type in options, press spin, and the wheel lands on one of them. Under that: every outcome is drawn using crypto.getRandomValues, the browser's cryptographically secure random number generator, with rejection sampling so there is no bias toward any segment. The winner is decided before the animation starts — the spin you watch is a picture of a result that already exists, not a physics simulation that produces one. Full detail is on the fairness page.

Everything on a wheel is yours to change: add, rename or remove entries, give an option more weight so it takes a larger slice and a proportionally larger chance, turn on no-repeat so a winner steps aside until you reset, or use elimination mode to spin down to a single survivor. The coin does the same job for two options and can run a best-of-three or best-of-five series when one toss feels too abrupt.

Nothing leaves your browser

There is no account, no sign-up and no server-side database of wheels. Your entries, saved wheels and spin history live in your own browser's local storage. Share links encode the wheel into the URL itself rather than storing it anywhere, which is why a link you have not shared cannot be found by anyone else. Clearing your browser data deletes your wheels, and we cannot restore them — because we never had a copy. The privacy policy is short for the same reason.

What it is not for

A random wheel is the wrong tool for medical, legal, financial, safety or employment decisions, and for anything where one outcome is meaningfully worse than another for you or for someone else. Those need information, thought, or advice from someone qualified to give it. Randomness is useful precisely because the stakes are low; the moment they are not, it stops being useful and starts being an excuse.

There is also no claim here that a spin knows something you do not. If anything, the most valuable thing a wheel does is show you your own reaction to the result — disappointment or relief will usually tell you which option you actually wanted.

How it is paid for

The site is free and is funded by advertising. Ads are kept away from the tool itself so they cannot interfere with a spin, and advertisers never receive the entries, names or any other text you type into a wheel. You can review or change your cookie choices on the cookie policy page at any time.

Languages

The interface and the main tool pages are available in 19 languages. Switching language never translates what you have typed — your entries stay exactly as you wrote them, because a list of names or dishes is yours, not ours to reinterpret.

Get in touch

Bug reports, template requests and feedback are all welcome — the contact page has the details. If you want to get more out of the tools, the guides cover how to build a wheel that gives you an answer you will actually use, and what to try before you leave a decision to chance at all.