Comparison

Gift Lists+ vs GiftTracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gift Lists+

Plan and track all your gift-giving occasions, from initial ideas to final delivery. Organize recipients, set budgets, and get personalized suggestions to ensure you never forget a gift or go over budget.

Highlights
  • Organize gifts by recipient and event
  • Track gift status from idea to given
  • Set spending goals per person
  • Track estimated and actual gift prices
  • Personalized gift suggestions
  • Create your own wishlist
  • App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
Features
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Plan every gift, for everyone, without the stress. Gift Lists keeps track of who you're shopping for, what you're getting them, and how far along each gift is — from the first idea to wrapped and given. Perfect for the holidays, birthdays, weddings, and every occasion in between. Never Forget Anyone • Organize gifts by recipient and by event • See every gift you still need to buy in one Shopping List • Track each gift from idea to in transit, acquired, wrapped, and given Stay on Budget • Set a spending goal for each person • Track estimated or actual prices for every gift Stuck for Ideas? Apple Intelligence suggests specific, purchasable gifts tailored to each person's age, interests, and budget, and to the occasion — without repeating gifts you've already given. Your Own Wishlist Keep a list of what you'd like right alongside everyone else's. Keep It a Surprise • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID Always Close at Hand • Add gifts or recipients, or update a gift's status, with Siri and Shortcuts • Widgets for your Shopping List and wishlist, plus an Apple Watch app

About

GiftTracker

Organize, track, and manage all your gift lists for any occasion. Simplify planning, budgeting, and shopping with dedicated lists for events and recipients. Stay on budget and find the perfect gifts with smart tools.

Highlights
  • Create event-specific gift lists
  • Add unlimited recipients
  • Mark gifts as bought or wrapped
  • Set custom budgets per event
  • Track expenses by recipient
  • Search Amazon for gift ideas
  • Review past event lists
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GiftTracker is a gift list app, helping you organize Christmas, birthdays, and every event in between. Keep every list, every idea and every budget in one place, and always know who's covered and what's still to buy. A LIST FOR EVERY OCCASION Create an event for Christmas, Hanukkah, a birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's, or anything else you're buying for. Add the people you're shopping for, and each of them gets their own list. Events that come around every year can repeat, so next Christmas starts where this one left off. IDEAS, SAVED BEFORE YOU FORGET THEM Good ideas come and go. Great ideas live inside GiftTracker forever! Save an idea for later at any point in the year, with a price, a note, a photo or a link, and assign it to an event when the time comes. Anything you didn't buy comes back here when an event is archived too, so good ideas stick around. FROM IDEA TO WRAPPED Gifts move through To Buy, Bought and Wrapped, so you can see at a glance who's covered and what's still outstanding. If those statuses don't match the way you shop, add your own! Ordered, Delivered, Hidden in the closet. Whatever works for you! BUDGETS THAT TELL YOU IN TIME Set a budget for the event, then split it between the people on your list. GiftTracker keeps a running total of what you've spent and what you've still got to buy, and lets you know you're heading over while there's still something you can do about it. It'll also point out the gifts you haven't priced up yet, so your budget adds up. ALL YOUR SHOPPING IN ONE GO Quickly review what you have left to buy, across every event, grouped so you can work through it in one sitting. Choose where you shop: Amazon, Target, Walmart, Etsy, eBay, Best Buy, or any other store, and go straight there. Prefer to buy in store? Just mark your gifts as offline purchases. KEEP YOUR SURPRISES SECRET Lock GiftTracker behind a PIN, Face ID or your fingerprint, so a borrowed phone doesn't give anything away. READY WHEN YOU'RE NOT CONNECTED Once you're set up, the whole app works offline. In a store, on a plane, anywhere with no signal. Your changes sync as soon as you're back. TAKE A LOOK AT LAST YEAR Finished events move to your archive rather than disappearing. Before you buy for someone, you can see what they've had from you before. START RIGHT AWAY You can use GiftTracker immediately, no account needed. Create a free account and your lists are backed up and synced across your devices, and you can add your own gift statuses and lock the app. GiftTracker is free. No subscription, and no ads. Some shopping links are affiliate links, which earn us a small commission at no extra cost to you, and the app tells you when you're looking at one.

Screenshots

Gift Lists+4 screens
GiftTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Gift Lists+ at 4.8 against GiftTracker's 4.0. Gift Lists+ also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and device support (5 vs 1). GiftTracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gift Lists+ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Gift Lists+'s written reviews are positive against 86% of GiftTracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gift Lists+ ships an update every 2 months, GiftTracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Gift Lists+ versus GiftTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGift Lists+GiftTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer256 ArtsLee Wrigglesworth

Customer experience

Gift Lists+

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GiftTracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gift Lists+

No in-app purchases

None

GiftTracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gift Lists+ free?
Gift Lists+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GiftTracker free?
GiftTracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gift Lists+ or GiftTracker?
Gift Lists+ is rated higher. Gift Lists+ averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while GiftTracker averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Gift Lists+ or GiftTracker have ads?
Gift Lists+ shows ads; GiftTracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Gift Lists+ or GiftTracker?
Gift Lists+ ships an update every 2 months, and GiftTracker every 2 weeks. Most recently, Gift Lists+ was updated on November 5, 2026 and GiftTracker on November 4, 2026.

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