Elfster: The Secret Santa App 12+

I started using this app because of a company gift exchange. Then I suggested using it with my family’s Christmas exchange. And now I’ve convinced other families and friends to use it as well.

The wishlists portion is great. My wife and I will look at the wishlist throughout the year for birthday’s, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and random gifts as well. I like that you can private message someone for more details without giving away who you are.

If I had any gripe it’s that they’ve made it more difficult to add to the wishlist but I’m guessing they use referral links if you search the gift in their app. So since I didn’t pay for the app I can’t fault them for trying to push using the search in their app instead of adding custom. But I’d honestly happily pay for the app for some additional features because I like the app so much.

Thanks so much for your ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review! We're happy to see our users engaging with Elfster all year long with our Wishlist feature. We'd love to hear more about your experience with Wishlists and how you found it more difficult this year. Please contact us at help@elfster.com and let us know where you think we can make an area easier. We're always looking to help our users have the Best experience! Thanks again!

Love the app finally made this year so much easier for gifts.

HOWEVER, I’d love to see a family manager option for children who don’t have their own accounts. I just added a list for my son under my name. But can’t see if anyone purchased anything in his list because it’s under me. I could create a whole new account for him, but he is two and that seems a but dramatic. Or even this option for older kids (and spouses who won’t make an account) to make profiles for them without making whole accounts with a log in and password. Maybe a passcode to get into their list? But it’s under my account still? Would be great especially since there are things if other people do not buy for my 2year old id like to purchase. Baby list for baby registries has a feature you can even see on your own list if you insist on snooping, but that isn’t an obvious option to show you.

Thanks for your review! We have a fantastic Family Manager feature on our site where you can manage a child, populate their Wishlist, see what has been purchased, include them in Gift Exchanges and more! It does require you to give them their own account, but that's as easy as two clicks and typing their name. Find out more at www.elfster.com, or contact us at help@elfster.com with any questions!

This app is a dream to wish lists! I love the functionality that it gives gift buyers to see what’s still available to purchase versus what hasn’t been purchased yet (and how that is conveniently disguised from the gift seeker). The only things I’d like to see improved are the availability of pictures for gifts that are added with a copied link and a direct link to the product for gifts added with a copied link. It either doesn’t show a picture of the product or it doesn’t appear to be an accurate picture. It also appears that you can’t just click the link to go to the website. You have to copy and paste it into a browser, which isn’t hard, but it’s inconvenient, especially when gifts you find through the app will allow you to click the link and go directly to the product. Those improvements would boost my rating to 5 stars.

Thanks so much for your review! We'd love to see an example of the link wishes that either aren't showing pictures of the item or that you can't click the link for. Both of those should work as you've described. Please shoot us a note with the links and screenshots to help@elfster.com. Our techie elves would be happy to take a look.