GiftCircles
Group gifting, without spoiling the surprise.
A collaborative gift-list app for families, friend circles, and Secret Santas — everyone shares wish lists, claims gifts privately, and no one accidentally buys the same thing twice.
About
GiftCircles is built around one problem: gift-giving in a group is either a spreadsheet nobody updates, or a group chat where someone spoils the surprise. GiftCircles gives each event — a birthday, a wedding, Christmas, a baby shower — its own space where everyone can see and add to shared wish lists together.
The trick is that claiming is private. You can see what's on a list, but not who's already claimed an item for someone else's gift — so the person receiving the gift never finds out early, while everyone buying stays coordinated and nobody doubles up.
Key Features
Events
- Create events with a name, date, and optional recurrence (weekly, monthly, or yearly)
- Join events via a short invite code
- Admin/member roles per event, with an option to restrict invites to admins only
- Automatic "rollover" prompt for recurring events, to start a fresh year's version
- Event countdown display
- Themed icons and photos auto-matched to the event type — Christmas, Birthday, Baby Shower, Wedding, Secret Santa, Engagement, Graduation, Housewarming, and general Party
Lists & Items
- Multiple gift lists per event, each with its own recipient(s)
- Lists can target a specific member, a custom (non-member) recipient name, or be visible to everyone
- Add items with name, URL, price, and notes
- Edit and delete items and lists
- Item and claim counts, with claimed-vs-total progress shown per list
Claiming & Coordination
- Claim items privately — recipients can't see their own list's claims
- Mark claimed items as purchased
- Request to split a claim with another member for shared gifts
- Share an item or an entire list to a different list, for example to move a duplicate
- Pending share and split request cards to accept or decline incoming requests
- "My Claimed Items" view grouped by event in collapsible sections, sorted by recent activity
Random Assignment (Secret Santa)
- Auto-assign givers to recipients, either one recipient per member or distributed across everyone
- Optional random receiver assignment mode
Notifications & Reminders
- Push notifications for invites, claims, and shared/split requests
- Gift reminders before an event date
- Daily or weekly activity digest emails, with configurable time, frequency, and day of week (timezone-aware)
- Instant notifications toggle
Personalization
- Light/dark theme, automatic or manual
- 6 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish
- Per-user currency preference, auto-detected or manually overridable, for price display
- Guided onboarding walkthrough, replayable from Profile
- Invite favourites for quickly re-inviting frequent collaborators
Account & Access
- Email-based sign-in
- Free tier: up to 3 events
- Restore purchases
- Account deletion
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Pricing
Free: up to 3 active events.
GiftCircles Pro — a one-time lifetime purchase, no subscription. Unlocks unlimited events, random assignment (Secret Santa), gift reminders, activity digests, and private/instant notifications.
Privacy
GiftCircles does not run ad tracking and does not sell participant data. Contribution and event data is used only for gift coordination and account functionality.
Account Deletion
You can delete your account directly in the app: go to Profile, scroll down to Delete Account, and confirm. This permanently deletes your account and all associated data — there's no recovery period, so make sure it's what you want before confirming.