GIFTbase: Gift Ideas, Wishlist

Fifteen birthdays a year. You remember four and know what to gift for one.

GIFTbase is a gift finder, a birthday reminder and a wishlist app in one. It keeps every date and finds gift ideas for each person: ideas that fit who they actually are, with links to buy where you live.

Tell the app who the gift is for: what they're into, what you want to spend, what the occasion is. You get a feed of specific gift ideas, each with a short reason it suits that person, and a link to buy it in your city.


WHAT YOU CAN DO

Find gift ideas for one specific person:
Set the occasion, the budget and the recipient. Swipe through the ideas: right to keep, left to skip. Every idea comes with a line explaining why it fits them. Tap through to buy in your city.

Keep a profile for everyone you buy for:
Interests, tastes, what they already own, the thing they mentioned in passing in March. The more a profile knows, the closer the gift ideas land. One profile works all year: birthday gift ideas in June, Christmas gift ideas in December, an anniversary gift in between.

Never miss a date again:
A birthday calendar with anniversaries, work milestones and public holidays. Birthday reminders arrive early enough that you can still do something about it.

Build a wishlist people can actually use:
Add anything from any store with a link. One tap, no retyping. Share the wish list, or edit it together with family and friends: a wedding wishlist, a kids' gift list, a shared Christmas list.

Stop getting the same present twice:
Friends reserve items from your wishlist anonymously and see what is already taken. You keep the surprise.

Run a Secret Santa for any group:
Create a game in a few steps: budget, dates, how you'll swap gifts and one of 10 room themes. Invite friends by link, code or QR. Couples won't draw each other, and you can add players without a phone, like grandma or the kids, and play for them. Everyone opens their match in an envelope, adds wishes or links a GIFTbase wishlist, and can ask their match questions anonymously. When you're stuck, get gift ideas for your match: instant picks from the catalog based on their interests, plus a full personal gift search, free once a season. If you swap by mail, only your Santa sees your address.

Make the handover worth remembering:
Generate a personal scenario for giving the gift. In "Apartment Detective" the app writes a chain of riddle notes based on real hiding places in your home, a scavenger hunt that leads the person to what is waiting for them.


GIFT IDEAS FOR EVERY OCCASION

Birthday gift ideas for him and for her. Christmas gift ideas and Secret Santa picks for the office gift exchange. Gifts for men, gifts for women, kids gift ideas, presents for teens. Unique gifts for the person who has everything. Small presents when the budget is tight. Wedding and housewarming presents, anniversaries, graduations, new parents, Mother's Day and Father's Day.

Works the same whether you're buying for a partner, a parent, a coworker you barely know, or a friend you've known for twenty years. One gift finder and one gift tracker for everyone on your list.


WHAT IT COSTS

Free, always:
• Birthday calendar and reminders
• Creating, sharing and editing wishlists
• Booking gifts from your friends' lists
• Following what the people around you want
• One hand-picked Gift of the Week
• Secret Santa games
• Three gift searches to start: one right away, two more for easy first steps, 30 gift ideas free
• One more free search every month if you run out, and extra searches for inviting friends

Paid, if you want it:
• Extra searches, bought as you need them
• Subscription: 10 gift searches every month that roll over, personal giving scenarios, an AI questionnaire about your recipient, two more Gifts of the Week, and priority processing

The calendar, the reminders and the wishlists stay free whether you pay or not.


Download GIFTbase and stop panic-googling "gift ideas for mom" three days before her birthday.