The FAQ.

A gift planner for everyone you buy for. You keep a list of people, note what they love and need, save gift ideas against them, and mark gifts as bought. Everything stays in one place, so nothing gets given twice and nothing gets forgotten.

You can look around and try a few ideas without one. A profile is what saves your lists, your people and your gift ideas, and lets you come back to them on any device.

Gift Genius is free to plan with. Some shop links are affiliate links, so if you buy through one the shop may pay us a small commission at no extra cost to you. You can read the full affiliate disclosure further down this page.

No. A list is a container for one occasion or one group of people, so you can keep Christmas, birthdays, weddings, teachers and a running list for the year, all at the same time.

Prices show in Australian, US, New Zealand, Canadian and British dollars, or in euros. You pick your currency in settings, and gift ideas are suggested from shops that deliver to your part of the world.

The list name sits in the header of every page. Tap it to see your other lists and pick one, and the whole app moves to that list. You can also open the Lists page and tap any list to work on it.

As many as you need. Each list keeps its own people, gifts, budget and deadline, so they never mix.

Yes. Open the Lists page, find the list and tap Share, then add their email address. The Lists page always shows who each list is shared with, so you can see at a glance whether it's private to you. Anyone you add gets the same people, gifts and bought markers with their own free account, and only the owner can add or remove people.

Yes, and a birthday is optional. Add one by editing a person, and it stays with them. With birthday reminders switched on in settings, every birthday in the next four weeks shows up on your People page so it never arrives as a surprise.

Tags group people so you can shop one part of the family or one group of friends at a time, for example Mum's side, school friends or teachers. You can filter the People page by tag.

You need at least one list first, because every person and gift belongs to a list. When you add someone you can also create a new list for them at the same moment.

Tell us a little about the person: relationship, age band, three things they love, three things they need, things to avoid and a rough budget. You get four specific, buyable ideas with a reason for each one and a link to a shop.

Four is enough to choose from without a wall of options. If none of them land, send a line about what was wrong and ask again: the next four take a different angle.

Yes. When you set a child age band, the ideas are limited to things actually made for that age group, so you won't be offered adult homewares or small parts for toddlers.

Turn on Secret Santa and ideas stay universal, inoffensive and under your stated limit, which is exactly what you want for someone you barely know at work.

Yes. Ideas are priced in the currency on your list and come from shops that sell to your country, so the price you see is one you can really pay.

To a shop search for that exact gift, usually Amazon, and sometimes Etsy for handmade things, Bookshop for books or The Iconic for fashion and beauty. Prices and stock are controlled by the shop.

An idea is something you are considering. Marking it bought records the real price and the date, and moves it out of the still to find pile.

Set a total for a list, switch the tracker on, and the app adds up the gifts you have marked bought. You see what is spent, what is left, and roughly what your remaining ideas would cost.

Yes. Every gift has a notes field for order numbers, sizes, or where you have hidden it, plus a tag for gifts from Santa and for anything personalised.

Yes, in settings. Prices already saved on a gift stay exactly as you entered them.

Yes. Each list's own settings, on your lists page, hold its purchase reminders: pick daily, weekly or monthly, or switch them off for that list entirely. The link at the bottom of every reminder takes you straight there. Reminders stop on their own once the list deadline has passed, and each email counts down the gifts still to buy for that list (lists with Christmas or Xmas in the name get a little festive cheer).

Yes, and it's free and takes a few seconds. On an iPhone or iPad, open Gift Genius in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen, then Add. On an Android phone, open it in Chrome, tap the three dot menu, then Install app, or Add to Home screen. You get an icon that opens the whole app full screen, no app store involved. The Lists page has an Add to home screen button that walks you through it.

Yes. In a list's settings, create your birthday calendar and you get a private subscription link. Add that link to Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, and every person with a birthday saved appears once a year with a link straight to their gift list. The calendar follows your list, so editing a birthday updates it. With birthday reminders on, each event also gives you four weeks' notice.

Anyone holding the link can read the birthdays on that list, so keep it to yourself. If it ever gets out, use Reset the link in that list's settings: the old address stops working straight away and you subscribe again with the new one.

Only you, and anyone you have shared a list with. Each account sees its own data, and gifts, people and budgets belong to the list that holds them.

Yes. Open the person or the gift and use the delete option. Removing a person asks first, because it also removes the gifts you saved for them.

No. There is nothing to pay to plan your gifts. Any purchase happens on the shop's own site, with the shop, not with us.