Remember what they’d love — and the gifts that meant something to you.
The Gift Journal is a private journal for thoughtful gifting: a calm place to keep ideas, hints, preferences, occasions and the details that make a gift feel considered.
Built around people, not products, it helps you remember what someone mentioned months ago, save inspiration while browsing, prepare for important occasions, and build a meaningful history of the gifts you give, receive and remember for others.
THINK FROM WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW
• Help me think brings together hints, preferences, interests, practical details and gift history already in your journal.
• Suggestions explain why they surfaced, with cautions for possible repeats and known traditions.
• Dislikes and Avoid gifting steer suggestions away from the wrong direction.
• Protected items never participate in Thoughtful Inspiration.
REMEMBER THE LITTLE THINGS
• Keep a lasting profile for each person, including birthdays, relationships, preferences, practical details and notes.
• Practical details can keep previous values when something genuinely changes, while corrections avoid creating false history.
• Capture Gift Ideas and Hints with photos, links, prices and context.
• Keep a history of gifts you’ve given, received, and meaningful gifts another person received.
• Remember who gave a received gift, when and why.
• Keep a private Wishlist for yourself.
CAPTURE FIRST, FILL IN LATER
• Create an Idea or Hint from a photo without needing a product link.
• Capture while offline and add the rest later.
• Turn a Hint into an Idea while keeping its original “Inspired by…” connection.
SAVE IDEAS WHILE YOU BROWSE
• Save products and pages from Safari on Mac with Save to The Gift Journal.
• Review Browser Saves later and turn them into a Gift Idea or Wishlist item.
PLAN WITHOUT THE PRESSURE
• See upcoming occasions and gentle readiness cues in Today.
• Plan birthdays, Christmas, weddings, anniversaries and custom occasions.
• Track optional budgets, planned gifts, actual spend and remaining amounts.
• Remember arrival dates, tracking, return dates and where a gift is stored.
• Set discreet, privacy-safe reminders.
FIND THINGS FASTER
• Filter People by My circle, Gift givers, All people, With ideas or With hints.
• Optional Spotlight integration can open supported people and saved records from system search.
• App Shortcuts provide quick access to Quick Capture, Wishlist and people.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Local-first and useful offline.
• Optional private iCloud sync across your Apple devices.
• Protect Gift Ideas, Hints and Wishlist items with device authentication.
• Preview exactly what you share, with sensitive details off by default.
• “Stored at” stays private and is excluded from notifications, system search, widgets and ordinary sharing.
• Create full backups and export a portable copy of your journal.
• No ads, behavioural-data monetisation or proprietary account required for core use.
MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES
• iPhone, iPad and Mac for capture, planning, organisation and remembering.
• Apple Watch for quick voice capture and reminder continuity.
• Choose from four visual themes.
• Available in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese (Portugal).
ONE PURCHASE. NO RECURRING SUBSCRIPTION.
Download free and explore the complete app for 14 days. Full Unlock is a one-time in-app purchase across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Private iCloud sync is included.
The Gift Journal becomes more valuable over time: a quiet record of what people love, what changed, what worked before, what you’ve received, what others received, and what might delight someone next.
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