Comparison

Gift List Manager vs Planmore

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

Head to head
About

Gift List Manager

Organize your holiday shopping with this app. Create gift lists for everyone, track your budget, and manage gift ideas. Features include contact integration, status tracking, and data visualization.

Highlights
  • Add people from Contacts
  • Track budgeting and analytics
  • Sort people by groups
  • Track gifts by status
  • Collect gift ideas
  • Sync data across iOS devices via iCloud
  • Export list to PDF
Features
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Your all-in-one solution for planning and organizing gifts. Create gift lists for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, weddings, baby showers, and other special days. Add people from Contacts, track gift ideas and purchases, manage budgets, and see what you've given each person before. Share gift lists with family members and keep everything in sync across devices, even when everyone has their own Apple Account. PLAN GIFTS FOR EVERY OCCASION • Plan and manage gifts for each person and each occasion • Automatically repeat birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays every year • Get reminders in time to buy, wrap, and send gifts • Save gift ideas and use them later • Keep a list of souvenirs to bring back from your travels MANAGE RECIPIENTS • Add people from Contacts or previous events • Organize people into groups like Family, Friends, and Co-workers • See gift history and planned gifts for each person in one place TRACK EVERY GIFT • Follow each gift from Idea to Given with statuses like Need to Buy, Bought, Shipping, and Wrapped • Keep the store, price, product link, photo, and notes for each gift in one place • Assign a gift to one or more recipients, with a separate status for each • Sort and filter gifts by status, store, and recipient • Quickly see which gifts are ready and what still needs to be done ONE SHOPPING LIST FOR ALL EVENTS • See every gift that still needs attention across all upcoming events • Group gifts by store for easier shopping • Quickly check what to buy, what’s on the way, what to wrap, and what to give BUDGET AND PROGRESS • Set a budget for each event and each recipient • See what you’ve spent, what planned gifts will cost, and how much of your budget remains • Know right away when planned gifts go over budget • Monitor overall gift and recipient progress with clear charts • Count down to a selected event or the next upcoming one SYNC ACROSS DEVICES • Sync gift lists across your devices with iCloud • Sync even between different Apple Accounts, so you can plan gifts together with your family and friends EXPORT AS PDF • Export gift lists as PDFs to print or share • Organize lists by people or by gifts, customize columns, and apply filters WIDGETS AND REMINDERS • Add countdown widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Get timely reminders to prepare gifts and never miss a special day KEEP YOUR DATA SAFE • Your data stays only on your devices and in your iCloud • Automatic local backups let you restore your lists if something goes wrong • Protect your gift lists with a passcode, Face ID, or Touch ID MOVING FROM THE CHRISTMAS GIFT LIST • Already using The Christmas Gift List? Import all your lists at first launch or later from Settings Gift List Manager is free to download and use. You can upgrade to Premium with a monthly or yearly subscription, or choose a one-time Lifetime purchase. Family Sharing is supported, so family members do not need to purchase Premium separately. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://xwavesoft.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://xwavesoft.com/terms-of-use.html

About

Planmore

This app consolidates your calendars, events, tasks, reminders, and notes into a single, organized interface. It offers multiple views and customization options to help you stay focused and never miss an important appointment or deadline.

Highlights
  • Integrated calendar, tasks, reminders, and notes
  • Multiple schedule views (day, week, month, year)
  • Customizable event creation
  • Smart task management with recurring tasks
  • Rich text notes with custom labels
  • Automatic iCloud syncing
  • Widgets for at-a-glance viewing
Features
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Planmore is a professional planning app that helps you plan more schedules. It integrates all in one place, including calendars, events, tasks, reminders, and notes, so you can keep track of them anytime, anywhere. You're always focused on what's important and nothing can distract you. If you want to never be worried about forgetting an appointment, missing a deadline task, or forgetting the long lists of your to-dos or shopping items, and want to keep everything organized, Planmore is the must-have app for you. It also has a very easy-to-read appearance and you can flip the pages like your real paper planner to view all your schedules quickly. Basic Features - Integrate calendars, tasks, reminders, and notes into one place at a glance. - Multiple views to manage your schedule together, including day view, week view, month view and year view. - Easily create and modify events. Supports setting custom colors, setting recurring rules, adding reminders, inviting people to your events, and more. - Smart Task Manager helps you easily keep track of all overdue and pending tasks. - Multi-functional tasks with due date, recurring rule, priority and reminder. - Integration of iOS reminders within our planner. - Take notes of everything anytime and anywhere. - Rich Text Format. - Custom labels to categorize all your notes. - Provide more customized options for people with different needs. - The data will be synced automatically between devices signed into the same iCloud. - Beautiful widgets for you to see at a glance. Advanced Features - No Ads. No Distractions. - Stickers and Emojis. - More views to manage your schedule more easily, including all agenda views. - Create unlimited task lists to better categorize tasks. - Create recurring tasks. When a recurring task is completed, a new task is automatically created according to the repeating rules. No need to create the same task over and over again every time. - Support adding subtasks to a task. - Share your task lists with others to manage together, making your life and work more efficient. - Add more photos and canvases for notes. - Export your schedule by daily, weekly and monthly. - More fonts and theme colors, you will be sure to find your favorite. If you want to purchase an upgrade, you can choose to one-time payment for lifetime access all advanced features. You can also upgrade to the premium version with a monthly or yearly subscription. And it is carried over to other devices associated with your Apple ID. So it's time to say goodbye to other planner apps and use Planmore instead. If you enjoy using Planmore and it really helps you plan more, it would be great to leave us a nice review and we’ll be very appreciate to all of your reviews. And if you have any problems or suggestions when using our app or want to leave negative reviews, please contact us at planmorefeedback@outlook.com anytime, as we will respond in a short time to help you solve problems and make better use of our app. Privacy Policy https://planmore-luck.blogspot.com/2022/03/privacy-policy-planmore.html Terms of Use https://planmore-luck.blogspot.com/2023/09/terms-of-use-planmore.html

Screenshots

Gift List Manager4 screens
Planmore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Planmore at none against Gift List Manager's shown. Planmore also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Gift List Manager sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Planmore sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Gift List Manager against 4.8 for Planmore. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.2K and 5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Gift List Manager's written reviews are positive against 92% of Planmore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gift List Manager ships an update every 11 months, Planmore every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gift List Manager versus Planmore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGift List ManagerPlanmore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.2K ratings)4.8 (5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.6% of reviews — better92.2% of reviews
Number of ratings2.2K5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDenys IevenkoDaily Calendar & Planner Apps

Customer experience

Gift List Manager

All ratings2,161 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews797 reviews
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative0.9%

Planmore

All ratings4,938 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews1,006 reviews
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.2%

User reviews

Gift List Manager

From 2.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Helps stay organized
  • 💡 Tracks gift ideas, purchases, and status
  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 💡 Ability to import/roll over previous years' data
  • 💡 Budgeting and spending tracking features

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with syncing/data loss
  • 🔍 Lack of intuitive navigation/UI
  • 💡 Difficulty deleting/moving gifts between people
  • 💡 Inability to easily see completed people/gifts

Planmore

From 5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great product
  • 👍 Fantastic app
  • 👍 Excellent planner
  • 👍 Helps organize for uni and work
  • 👍 Better than paper planners

Room to improve

  • 🔧 Wish it could sync with Microsoft Teams
  • 🔧 Wish it had more customization options

Bugs and requests

Gift List Manager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Password function not working consistently
  • App freezing/crashing issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when adding/editing gifts

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add birthday/other holiday gift lists
  • Ability to mark people as 'complete'
  • Easier gift/person management (copy, move, delete)
  • More customization options (layouts, colors, etc.)
  • Integrate with online shopping sites

Planmore

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Completed tasks not disappearing
  • Syncing issues between iPhone and iPad

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add ability to draw on days
  • Add more text formatting options in notes
  • Add ability to attach files to tasks
  • Add ability to use different sounds for alerts
  • Add ability to manually sort tasks in Day view
Show 2 more
  • Add ability to group notes into folders
  • Add habit tracking and experience tracking features

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Gift List Manager

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$29.99
4 purchases

Planmore

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Version$19.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$29.99

Questions

Is Gift List Manager free?
Gift List Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planmore free?
Planmore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gift List Manager or Planmore?
Planmore is rated higher. Gift List Manager averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.2K ratings, while Planmore averages 4.8 from 5K ratings.
Do Gift List Manager or Planmore have ads?
Gift List Manager shows ads; Planmore does not.
Which is updated more often, Gift List Manager or Planmore?
Gift List Manager ships an update every 11 months, and Planmore every 3 weeks. Most recently, Gift List Manager was updated on November 6, 2026 and Planmore on November 6, 2026.

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