Wheelr âĸ For streamers
Add a Spin Wheel to Your Stream
A giveaway is worth watching when the audience sees the draw happen. Wheelr runs in a browser tab, hides its own interface on request, and can be captured by OBS or Streamlabs like any other window â no plugin, no account for your viewers, nothing to install.
The setup, in four steps
- 1. Build the wheel first. Add your entries â viewer names, prizes, challenges â and set the colours, the centre logo and the sounds while the interface is still visible. Everything is saved on your device, so the wheel is still there for the next stream.
- 2. Hide the interface. The eye button in the side rail hides the header, the footer and every control, leaving the wheel alone on screen. Press it again to get the controls back.
- 3. Capture the window in OBS. Add a Window Capture source and point it at the browser window. Crop to the wheel and it behaves like any other scene element â resize it, move it, put it in a scene you switch to for the draw.
- 4. Spin on camera. Click the wheel in your browser window and the spin plays out live. The countdown before it starts and the winner effect afterwards are both there to give the moment room to breathe.
Floating the wheel over your scene
To put the wheel on top of your gameplay instead of on its own scene, give it a background your software can key out: open the colour settings, set the wheel background to a flat green such as #00FF00, then add a Color Key filter to the capture source in OBS. The wheel keeps its own colours and the green disappears.
Pick a green that appears nowhere on the wheel itself â if a slice is the same green, the filter will punch a hole through it. A colour palette without green, or a magenta key instead, avoids the problem entirely.
Letting chat see the entries
Sign in and save the wheel to the cloud, and it gets a public link you can drop in chat. Anyone who opens it sees the same entries in a read-only view â which is what makes a draw believable: the list was public before the spin, and it is still there afterwards.
Adding ?nobg=true to that public link strips the background and the page furniture, leaving just the wheel on a transparent page. It is a display, not a control: the shared view turns slowly on its own and cannot be spun, so use it as a panel or a second scene, and keep the spinning in your own window.
Keeping the draw credible
Every spin uses the browser's cryptographic random source, so nothing is seeded or weighted; slices of the same size have exactly the same chance. For a multi-prize giveaway, turn on removing the winner after each spin so nobody can win twice, and let the winners list build up on screen as the record of the session. Run several draws in parallel by showing up to four wheels side by side.
Questions from streamers
Does it work with Streamlabs, Twitch and YouTube?
Yes. Wheelr is a web page, so anything that can capture a browser window can put it on stream â OBS Studio, Streamlabs Desktop, XSplit. The platform you broadcast to makes no difference.
Do my viewers need an account?
No. A shared wheel opens in any browser with no signup. An account is only needed on your side, to publish the link and to reach your wheels from another device.
Can I match the wheel to my channel branding?
Colours, background, fonts, the centre logo and every sound are replaceable, so the wheel can carry your channel's look instead of a stock one. The setup is saved, so it is a one-off job.
How do I add hundreds of viewer names quickly?
Paste the whole list in one go rather than typing entries one by one, then shuffle before the first spin. On very long lists the labels get thin, so the winner is zoomed in on when the wheel stops.