Elfster: The Secret Santa App

Elfster

About this app

Elfster is the number one Secret Santa gift exchange. This free, easy to use Secret Santa Generator is perfect for Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid Al-fitr, and all holidays. Easily make shareable wish lists, set exclusions and restrictions, and draw names.

ELFSTER FEATURES:

CREATE WISH LISTS
- Manage holiday shopping and gift registries
- Share your wish lists with friends and family, even if they don’t have Elfster
- Follow your loved ones’ wishes so you’ll always know what to get them

SECRET SANTA GIFT EXCHANGE
- Save and share wish lists for Christmas, other holidays, special occasions, or parties
- Elfster will help you generate names and decide who’s buying whom a Secret Santa gift
- The Secret Santa name generator makes sure everyone gets paired up properly – no more “from me, to me” gifts

GIFTS FOR ANY OCCASION
- Christmas gifts or birthday gifts
- Secret Santa gift exchanges
- Holiday shopping and wedding registry
- Anniversary gifts and baby shower gifts
- Or just to show you care

VIEW TRENDING GIFTS
- See what gifts are hot this holiday season
- Find out what gifts are on peoples’ wish lists
- Find the perfect gift for every occasion

GIFT IDEAS & GUIDES
- Curated gift guides
- Get suggestions to help you find the perfect gift

From Secret Santa gift exchanges to wedding registries, Elfster is your gift giving companion. Download Elfster today.

If you have any trouble at all with the app, we are here to help! Send us a help request from within the app or email us at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

I want to love this app. Bc I do love it. But lately, even after downloading updates, it takes forever to load and sometimes stays in the spinning circle of death 😮‍💨 1 year later. Using again. And it keeps deleting my links to items on my wishlist. I have had to redo my wish list a dozen times and half the time the links work and the other half it doesn't. It won't let you edit the item with the link so you have to completely remove it and add it all over again, just for it to still not work

Used it a few years ago, then came back and I hate the updated version of the app. Navigation is annoying, there's no real good way to leave notes that others can actually read, and I keep getting routed back to an in-app shopping page that really doesn't need to be there. I just want to be able to write down a readable wishlist with the option of adding links and photos, and easy navigation.

I think this app is a good start but has some UX issues: 1. I created my family 2023 gift exchange & added people during the creation process. No one could find the exchange in the app. Inviting users seemed to work better. 2. The email addresses of the people I added do not show in the app. I could not verify that I used the right email address. 3. Adding/removing wishes is not intuitive at all. I spent a lot of time helping people add their wishes once I figured out the bugginess myself.