Free, ad-free, and built for classrooms.
Randomizd is a random name picker built for classrooms. Paste your class list, pick a mode, and let it choose who answers next or which students end up in which group. No accounts, no ads, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
There are four ways to land on a name: a spinning wheel, a roulette-style wheel, a deck of cards, and a list picker. Same roster behind all of them, so use whichever suits the moment.
The wheel is a bright, classic spinner with every name running from the hub out to the rim. Give it a spin, and a fixed pointer at the top marks whoever it lands on when it stops.
If you want more of a build-up, switch to the name roulette. It's a detailed casino-style wheel with a metal rim, alternating red and black pockets, and small deflector pins. A ball circles the rim and drops into a pocket to settle the pick.
Cards keeps things simple. You get a face-down deck with a patterned back, and clicking "Draw a card" flips the top card over to reveal a name.
The list picker shows your whole roster at once. A highlight moves down the list and gradually slows, coming to rest on one name — much like watching a raffle drum wind down to a stop.
Most name pickers make you retype your class list by hand. Randomizd can read it instead. Upload a PDF or a text file — a class register, an attendance sheet, whatever you already have — and it extracts the names straight into the same roster editor you'd use to type them. You see exactly what it found, and you can fix a misspelled name, delete a stray line, or add someone before saving anything. Nothing is trusted silently: the import is a starting point, and you always get the final look. The whole process happens in your browser, so the file itself is never sent anywhere.
A panel under the picker keeps two tabs. Live odds lists everyone still in the running with their current percentage chance, which is a quick way to show a sceptical class that the draw really is even. History logs every name picked, with the mode and a timestamp, and it's kept between visits — handy for checking who presented last lesson. You can clear the history without touching your roster.
Four themes come built in, and your choice is remembered. Standard is warm and understated, Dark is a low-light look with a gold accent, and Playful goes bright for a livelier moment. The Classroom theme restyles every mode: the wheel is drawn in chalk on chalkboard green, the deck turns bottle-green with gold line art, and the roulette becomes a playground merry-go-round.
Yes. There's no account to create, no ad to sit through, and no paid tier holding back better features. Every mode, theme, and setting is there from your first visit.
Your roster is saved only in your own browser's local storage, on your own device. It's never uploaded to a server or seen by anyone else — there's nothing for us to store, because we never receive it in the first place.
Yes. Upload a PDF or .txt file and Randomizd extracts the names into the same editor you'd use to type them, so you can check them over before saving. The file is read entirely in your browser.
Turn on no-repeat rotation, which is on by default. Once a name is picked, it's excluded from every mode until the whole class has been picked once. After that, the full list quietly comes back into play.
Yes. Names are sized to fill the space they're given rather than shrinking to fine print, so the wheel, roulette, cards, and list picker all stay readable from the back of a room.
Yes. Randomizd is responsive, so it works the same way on a phone in your hand as it does on a classroom projector, just laid out for the smaller screen.
It uses your browser's built-in random number generator, the same source most web apps rely on for everyday randomness. That's plenty fair for choosing a student. It isn't the kind of high-security randomness used for encryption, but nothing here needs that.
There's no limit built in, and a normal class of twenty to forty is comfortable. Paste the whole list in one go and duplicates are removed automatically. Past roughly a dozen names the list picker starts scrolling rather than growing, and on a very long list the names on the wheel get small — so an enormous roster still works, it's just easier to read on the list picker or the cards.
Randomizd is built around a familiar classroom moment: you need to call on someone, and you want it to feel fair rather than like you're always picking the same few hands. Spin the wheel, draw a card, or watch the list picker settle on a name, and get on with the lesson.
It's just as useful for forming groups. Run it once per project team or lab pair, or work down the list picker to set a presentation order, one name at a time.
None of this is limited to a classroom. A staff meeting can use it to choose who takes notes, a study group can use it to decide who presents first, and any small team that just needs to pick one person fairly can put it to the same use.
Everything in Randomizd — your roster, your settings, your pick history — lives in your own browser's local storage, on your own device. There's no backend and no database behind the app, so there's nowhere else for that data to go. Importing a PDF works the same way: the file is read and the names are pulled out right there in your browser, and the file itself is never uploaded anywhere. You can clear your history or your list whenever you like, and nothing is sent anywhere when you close the tab.