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Gift List Tracker helps you plan gifts for Christmas, birthdays, Secret Santa and any other occasion. Add the people you shop for, jot down ideas, and move each gift through Idea → Planned → Bought → Shipped → Wrapped → Given while keeping an eye on your budget.

The first time you open the app, set a total holiday budget, pick who you’re shopping for (or import them from Contacts) and choose whether you’d like reminders. A Christmas occasion for the current season is created automatically. You can change everything later in Settings.

Yes. Use the occasion menu at the top of the Home, Gifts, People and Shopping tabs to switch occasions or create a new one: Christmas (one per year), Birthday, Secret Santa or a custom occasion. Birthdays and Secret Santa are part of Pro.

Yes. Tap the Share button on any product page and choose Add to Gift List. The app reads the page’s title, image and price (when the store publishes them), lets you pick who it’s for, and saves it to your current list. You can also ask Siri to “Add a gift in Gift List”.

Select more than one person in the gift editor. Choose Split evenly or enter Custom amounts to share the cost, or turn on One gift for each person to create a separate copy for everyone (handy for stocking stuffers).

Archive an occasion from Manage Occasions. Archived years become read-only but stay available for gift history. When you archive a Christmas list you can keep unpurchased ideas and move them to next year automatically.

The app includes typical holiday cut-off dates for common US carriers (USPS, UPS and FedEx) for standard and express services. Carriers publish exact dates every autumn and they can change, so the dates are editable for each year. Always confirm with your carrier.

Gifts marked Planned count as planned spending, and gifts that are Bought or further along count as spent. Ideas don’t count until you plan them. The budget turns amber at 80% and cranberry when you go over.

Yes. Every person has their own budget, and when a gift is shared the app counts each person’s share. You can also set a default budget for new people in Settings.

On the Budget screen, choose people who should receive about the same (for example, your kids). The meter compares what each of them is getting and shows the gap so you can even things out.

The currency follows your device’s region automatically. You can choose a different one in Settings > General > Currency.

In the gift editor, tap Scan Receipt. The camera captures the receipt and Apple’s on-device text recognition reads the total and store name. Images are processed on your iPhone and are not uploaded.

With Pro, your lists are stored in your own private iCloud database using Apple’s CloudKit and sync between your devices signed in to the same Apple Account. We don’t run any servers that store your lists. You can switch sync off in Settings > iCloud & Sharing.

Go to Settings > iCloud & Sharing and tap Invite your partner. Apple’s sharing sheet lets you send an invitation and choose whether each person can view or edit. They need Gift List Tracker with iCloud sync turned on to join.

Yes. Turn on Private gift in the gift editor. Private gifts are stored only in your own iCloud data and are never included in a shared list, so your partner can’t see them.

Open Settings > iCloud & Sharing > Manage sharing. The owner can remove people or stop sharing; participants can remove themselves. If you’ve joined someone else’s list, you can switch back to your own list with Show my own list.

Make sure both devices are signed in to the same Apple Account, iCloud is allowed for Gift List in iOS Settings, the device has a network connection and iCloud sync is on in the app. Syncing can take a few moments, especially on the first launch.

You can turn each type on or off in Settings > Notifications:

• Buy-by reminders before a gift’s buy-by date (3 days before by default).
• “Did you buy it?” follow-ups 2 days after you plan a gift, with quick actions: Mark as Bought, Remind me tomorrow or Not yet. They stop as soon as the gift is bought.
• Shipping deadline alerts before the standard and express cut-offs.
• Wrapping reminders a week before the occasion for gifts that aren’t wrapped yet.
• Birthday reminders a week and a day before (Pro).
• Christmas countdown 30, 7 and 1 day before Christmas.

Yes. Pick a time of day, turn on Quiet on Sundays, and decide how often follow-ups repeat. Reminders are scheduled on your device.

Open the iOS Settings app > Notifications > Gift List and make sure notifications are allowed. Also check Focus modes and that the specific reminder type is on in the app.

Occasionally we may send seasonal tips or announcements as push notifications or in-app messages using our messaging provider, OneSignal. You can turn off all notifications in iOS Settings at any time.

On the Home Screen: Countdown, Budget, Overview, Next to Buy, Shopping List and People. On the Lock Screen: budget gauge, days to Christmas, a summary and an inline summary. Long-press a widget and choose Edit Widget to pick which occasion it shows.

Yes. The Next to Buy and Shopping List widgets have checkboxes that mark a gift as bought without opening the app.

Turn on Settings > Privacy > Hide prices on widgets. Amounts are replaced with dots so nobody peeks at your budget.

Try “Add a gift in Gift List”, “How much budget do I have left in Gift List” or “What’s left to buy in Gift List”. These shortcuts are also available in the Shortcuts app.

The free version includes up to 5 people and 25 gifts (outside archived years), budgets, the shopping list, reminders, widgets and Siri shortcuts, and shows ads. Pro unlocks unlimited people and gifts, iCloud sync and partner sharing, Birthdays and Secret Santa, gift history and duplicate alerts, Insights, Face ID lock, export and AirPrint, receipt scanning, alternate app icons, widget privacy mode and removes all ads.

Pro is available as a yearly subscription (US$9.99 per year) or a one-time lifetime purchase (US$19.99). Prices in other countries are set by the App Store in your local currency and the exact price is always shown in the app before you buy.

Eligible new subscribers get a 3-day free trial of the yearly plan. If you don’t cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, your Apple Account is charged for the first year and the subscription renews every year until you cancel. Each Apple Account can use the trial once.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple. Open the iOS Settings app, tap your name > Subscriptions > Gift List Tracker, and choose Cancel Subscription. You can also go to Settings > Manage subscription in the app. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date to avoid being charged; you keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.

Make sure you’re signed in with the same Apple Account you used to buy, then tap Restore Purchases in Settings or on the upgrade screen.

A single payment unlocks all current Pro features for as long as the app is offered, with no renewals. It’s tied to your Apple Account and can be restored on your other devices.

Payments are processed by Apple, so refunds are handled by Apple. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

On your device and, if you use iCloud sync, in your own private iCloud account. We don’t operate servers that store your gifts, people or budgets, and we can’t see them. Read the full Privacy Policy.

Yes. Turn on the Face ID lock in Settings > Privacy. The app locks whenever it goes to the background and hides its contents in the app switcher. Face ID is handled entirely by iOS; the app never receives your biometric data.

Ads keep the free version free and are provided by Google AdMob. Depending on your region, you’ll be asked for consent, and iOS asks whether the app may track you for personalized ads. You can change your ad choices anytime in Settings > Privacy > Ad privacy choices (when available in your region) and in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. Pro removes all ads.

Delete individual gifts, people or occasions in the app, or delete the app to remove everything stored on the device. To remove iCloud data, open iOS Settings > your name > iCloud > Manage Account Storage (or Manage Storage) > Gift List and delete the data. For data held by our service providers, contact us.