Secret Santa generator – free, no sign-up
Draw names for Secret Santa in under a minute. Add everyone, set a budget and a date, keep couples apart, and send each person a private link. No accounts, no app, and the organizer never sees who drew whom.
1. Your group
2. Participants
0 participants · At least 3 names. You can add yourself too.
3. Who should not draw each other (optional)
For couples, siblings, or people who always end up with each other.
4. How to share the links
I will share the links myself
You get one private link per person to send on WhatsApp, Messenger or anywhere else. No email addresses needed.
Email everyone — Add an email after a name (Nora, nora@mail.com) and we send that person their link automatically.
How the Secret Santa generator works
Type a group name, an optional budget and date, and a short message everyone will see. Paste your participants one name per line — a list copied from a spreadsheet or a chat works as-is. Add exclusions for the pairs who should not draw each other, then press Draw names. Fluky builds a random circle where nobody draws themselves and no excluded pair is matched, and takes you to a private organizer page with one link per person.
Three ways to run it. By WhatsApp or chat: use the Copy all links button and paste the message into your group, then send each person their own line — no email addresses required. Person to person: copy the links one at a time from the organizer page. In the office: open each link on the person's screen, or print the page and hand out the slips.
Rules and ideas that work. Agree on a budget before the draw so nobody overspends, and set a date for the wishlists as well as the gifts. Dirty Santa or White Elephant, where gifts can be stolen, is a different game — for that everyone brings one wrapped gift and no draw is needed. Wishlists take the guesswork out: each person can write theirs on their own link, and only the person who drew them can read it.
The organizer page is the only way back to your group, so bookmark it. It shows who has opened their link, lets you add someone after the draw and lets you delete everything at once. It never shows the assignments — not even yours if you take part.
Popular use cases
- Office Secret Santa: paste the team list, set a 20 budget and hand out one link per desk without collecting a single email address.
- Family gift exchange: keep couples and siblings from drawing each other, and let everyone add a wishlist their giver can read.
- Friends on WhatsApp: copy all the links as one ready-made message and paste it into the group chat, then send each person their own line.
- Classroom or club draw: run the draw on the board, print the links or send them out, and add a latecomer afterwards without redoing the draw.
- Remote teams: everybody opens their own link wherever they are, and you can see who has looked and who still needs a nudge.