About this app

Get gifts right, every time! Make and share wish lists in a family group you create - for birthdays, Christmas holiday, baby, and weddings.

Unlike other wish list apps here on Google Play, Giftster makes your whole family's gift giving experiences more fun and less stressful.

Only with Giftster can you invite family members to join a private group you create.

Everyone can view and shop each other's wish lists all in one place, and mark things purchased to avoid duplicate gifts. Gift status is hidden from the list maker, keeping the surprise.

This Google Play store version of Giftster has a companion website that runs in your phone’s browser or a full size computer desktop with all the same data and features. You and your family can use Giftster from any phone (Android or IOS), tablet or computer to view and shop lists.

Giftster is the original lifetime gift registry, connecting family and close friends around gift giving occasions. Set it up once and use it year after year.

"If your family uses wish lists for holiday shopping, you're going to love Giftster, which works as a gift registry that connects family and close friends. By using Fetch, you can auto-add items from any website in the world." - Business Insider

Features and Benefits

* Invite your family members to join your own private gift idea sharing group

* Use Fetch to auto-add items from any website in the world

* Join an existing group created from the app or the giftster.com website.

* Add a Secret Santa draw to your group at giftster.com and discover your secret pick on your Android device. Supports exclusions and reusing last year's draw, too.

* Choice of privacy settings - make your lists private, shared only with groups, or public - for everyone to see in search or only those you share the list link with

* Mark gift ideas reserved or purchased so others don’t buy a duplicate gift

* The list maker cannot see the status of items on their own lists

* Spend money only on things or experiences really wanted or needed

* Avoid duplicate gifts, poor gift choices, or having to rely only on gift cards

* Adding an item to your list is as simple as jotting an idea on a piece of paper

* Rank gift ideas with a 5 star system

* Suggest items on other member's lists, everyone else can see but not the list maker.

* Special features for public lists to make shopping your wedding or baby registry fun

* Simple to invite other to join using your device’s contacts list

* Already a member at the giftster.com website? Log in the same way and all your lists, groups, and events are instantly visible on your device.


How Giftster works

With Giftster you become part of a small social network connecting family and close friends around gift giving occasions.

If this is your first time using Giftster, you won't have any family or friends connected yet.

Once you connect one or more of your family into a group, each family member logs in to update their own wish lists, and to view and reserve gifts on each other’s lists.

- Everyone in your family can connect to you and your Android device with this App - we built versions of Giftster for iPhone, iPad, and m.giftster.com for any other small screen browser.

- Giftster instantly synchronizes changes to all devices, including your account at giftster.com.

-- Requires a network data connection or wifi to operate.

This is release 5.3.1 of the app, our latest as of August 2023. A major update is in the works for 2024 release; got feedback? Please send to mobilesupport@giftster.com.

New features

Updated for recent Android versions.

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.