A small fix: the red number on the GIFTIT icon now clears as soon as you open the app.

Paste a link from John Lewis, Argos, M&S, IKEA, LEGO and more, and GIFTIT fills in the gift's name, photo and price. Sharing straight from a shop's app works too.

Your star map can now come in a black frame, ready to hang. Gift ideas are now shared across all of someone's celebrations instead of piling up on the next one. Plus smoother iPad behaviour and small fixes.

iPad, properly. The app no longer sits in a narrow strip down the middle of a big screen. The tabs become a sidebar, Upcoming puts the next birthday beside the year ahead, and Secret Santa, Couples, Autopilot, wishlists and the print shop each open into two panes. Also here: • The guided tour can be skipped, and no longer stops halfway. • Secret Santa groups stay private to the people you invited. • Ordering a printed star map works again.

Sharing now reaches everyone. A link you send opens properly whatever phone your friend has, so an invitation, a group pot or a Secret Santa lands with the person you sent it to, instead of stopping at a message saying they can't join. Underneath, reminders behave the same way on every phone, and autopilot is more careful about confirming your subscription has renewed, rather than assuming one way or the other. Nothing has moved and nothing you've saved has changed.

Sharing reaches everyone now. A link you send opens properly whichever phone your friend has, so an invite, a chip-in or a Secret Santa lands with the person you sent it to instead of stopping at a message telling them they can't join. Underneath, reminders now behave the same way on every phone, and Autopilot is more careful about confirming your subscription has renewed rather than assuming either way. Nothing has moved, and nothing you have saved has changed.

GIFTIT does a great deal more than remember birthdays now. Wishlists. Write down what you would actually like and hand out one link. Anyone who opens it can quietly claim something, so nobody buys the same present twice. Group chip-ins. Put a bigger present in the middle and let everyone put something towards it. You can see who is in and how close you are. Secret Santa. Names are drawn properly and nobody can peek. You can reach into the hat yourself rather than wait for the draw, and there is a version for workplaces with no limit on how many people join. For couples. Drop each other hints about what you would like, and neither of you can tell what the other has already sorted. Cards. GIFTIT will write the card for you in your own voice, in one of ten handwritings, and you can change every word before it goes. Star map posters. Pick a place and a night and we will print the sky that was over it and post it to you. Anniversaries now sit beside birthdays, and the app counts the years for you. Left it late? One tap and you are only shown things that can still arrive in time. Give someone a spark and you both get one. Every December, GIFTIT shows you the year you just gave.

Invite links open properly. Sharing a list sometimes ended in “check your connection” even when the connection was fine — the app was holding on to a sign-in that had quietly expired. It now refreshes and tries again, so the link lands on the list it was meant to. Sharing reads more clearly. The share screen now explains how planning together works, and nothing else.

Little polish, big difference: - Pasting a shop link now fills in the gift's name, photo and price far more reliably. - Gift photos now show the whole item instead of a zoomed-in crop. - Collapsed idea lists on a person's page now stay collapsed when you come back. - The name you set on your profile now shows up properly when friends find you.

Deleted gifts stay deleted. Removing a gift or a person now clears it from your backup too, so it can no longer come back the next time your phone syncs. Invite by link. Share a link to plan gifts together — it opens GIFTIT if your friend already has it, and points them to the App Store if they don’t. Fold occasions away. Tap an occasion on someone’s page to collapse it, so a long list of birthdays and Christmases stays easy to read. A way out of reminders. The reminders screen now has a close button at the top, instead of one hidden at the very bottom.