Gift Plan vs Gift Hound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gift Plan
Never forget a special occasion or struggle with gift ideas again. This app helps you track important dates, store recipient details, and manage gift lists. It provides timely reminders and a centralized place to brainstorm and organize presents for any event.
- Upcoming occasion list
- Contact and Facebook birthday import
- Customizable occasion types
- Shopping list with pricing
- Recipient profiles
- Gift idea entry
- Multiple occasion notifications
- Calendar view
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Perfect for Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day... Gift Plan is the app for every occasion! If you're like most people, there have been many occasions when you've been stuck for gift ideas at the shopping mall, you couldn't remember the right clothing size to buy for a loved-one, or even worse, you've totally forgotten about a birthday or anniversary! Gift Plan is here to help... Features include: • Chronological, filterable list of upcoming occasions • Contacts birthday importing • Facebook birthday importing • Customizable color-coded occasion types • Shopping list with support for prices, overall tally and emailing of gifts • Customizable recipient profiles • Ideas tab for quickly entering gift ideas as they come to you • Up to two notifications prior to each occasion plus one on the day • Calendar view with color-coded occasion indicators • Optional passcode protection …and a lot more. In profile view, you can flick through full screen photos of the people you love and see their personal tastes, gift ideas, sizes and upcoming occasions all at a glance! Here's what the press have to say about Gift Plan: "Every aspect is polished to perfection." - Australian Macworld “Gorgeous iPhone app simplifies gift giving" - Mashable.com 'Spark of Genius' "There isn’t a moment when Gift Plan is undesirable to use if not outright fun! 9/10" - iPhone Appstorm Connect with us: Website: www.airsource.co.uk Twitter: @airsourceltd
Gift Hound
This free, ad-free application simplifies gift management for single events. It offers a straightforward way to track presents without requiring sign-up or any hidden costs. Designed for simplicity, it focuses solely on gift tracking for one occasion at a time.
- 100% free
- No ads
- No sign up required
- Simple gift tracking
- Single event focus
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100% free. No ads. No sign up. Just simple gift tracking. Nothing more, nothing less. Please Note: This app is meant to track gifts for a single event at a time. If you're trying to track gifts across several birthdays and holidays at once, this wont be the app for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gift Plan at 75% against Gift Hound's 0%. Gift Plan also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months). Gift Hound's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Gift Hound is free to download; Gift Plan costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gift Plan holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gift Plan has 213 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Gift Plan's written reviews are positive against 0% of Gift Hound's.
Gift Plan ships an update every 2 months, Gift Hound every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gift Plan | Gift Hound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (213 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 213 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Airsource | Travis Ma |
Customer experience
Gift Plan
Gift Hound
Bugs and requests
Gift Plan
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to add/edit photos
- Inconsistencies in displaying purchased gifts
- Issues with deleting or modifying existing entries
- Problems with importing contacts and birthdays
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to categorize contacts (e.g., family, friends)
- Implement iCloud/cloud sync to access data across devices
- Introduce a budgeting tool to track spending per person/occasion
- Allow adding notes, links, and other details to gift ideas
- Provide an option to mark gifts as received
Gift Hound
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gift Plan
No in-app purchases
Gift Hound
No in-app purchases
