Comparison

Santa's Secret vs Swap Night

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

Head to head
About

Santa's Secret

Organize a Secret Santa gift exchange with friends and family. Easily set up a game, invite participants via a link, or add them manually. Receive an email with your assigned recipient's name to ensure a surprise.

Highlights
  • Secret Santa organization
  • Participant invitation via link
  • Manual participant addition
  • Recipient name revealed via email
  • Surprise gift exchange
Features
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With this app, every player can know who he or she gives a gift to. And, to you, the name of your Secret Santa will be a pleasant surprise! Fill the information about the game, and then send your friends a link so that they could enter their details to join in the game. If your friends have got caught in the garlands and cannot register using the link, you can add participants manually. An email containing the name of your recipient will be sent to the given emaill address. On the appointed day, Santas and their recipients get together in a particular place and give each other gifts. The world gets a bit kinder.

About

Swap Night

Features
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Swap Night runs your White Elephant gift exchange on one phone. Add the players, pick the house rules, and let the app keep track of whose turn it is, which gifts can still be stolen and who is holding what. You get to laugh along instead of refereeing. Whether your family calls it White Elephant or Yankee Swap, the steal-a-gift game gets confusing fast once a few presents have changed hands. Swap Night keeps it fair and keeps it moving. Set up the party - Add players with a name and a color. - Choose how many times a gift can be stolen: 1, 2, 3 or unlimited. - Freeze a gift after a set number of steals. - No immediate steal-backs: the gift just taken from you is off limits on your next move. - Player 1 gets a final swap at the end of the game. - Add an optional turn timer of 30, 60 or 90 seconds, plus a note about the gift budget. Reveal the turn order An animated shuffle draws the order in front of everyone, so nobody can say the list was rigged. Play the game On each turn, the current player opens a new gift or steals one. When a gift is opened, log its name, the giver if you like, and a photo from the camera or your library. Stealable gifts are listed for you, frozen gifts are locked, and a player who was just robbed goes next right away. Steal counters and frozen badges update as you play, and Undo is there for a mistaken tap. Gift board See every opened gift in a grid with its current holder, its steal dots and whether it is frozen. Secret Santa draw, without emails Planning a name draw instead? Add participants, set exclusions for couples or households, and note the budget and the exchange date. Swap Night draws names so nobody gets themselves or an excluded person, and it tells you plainly if your exclusions make a draw impossible. Then pass the phone around: each person taps their name and holds to see their match, which hides again when they let go. The app shows who has already looked, and a redraw always asks for confirmation first. No accounts, no email addresses and no server. Recap card When the game ends, a recap card shows who went home with what and which gift was stolen the most. Share it with the group as an image. Party history Look back at past parties and where every gift ended up. Free and Premium Swap Night is free to download, and the free version runs a complete party: up to 8 players with classic White Elephant rules, a Secret Santa draw for up to 8 people with exclusions, the recap card, and your last party saved. Swap Night Premium adds unlimited players, the Dice Swap game and custom rule presets, full party history, gift photos on the recap card, and extra themes. Premium is an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, and you can cancel anytime in Settings. Dice Swap A Premium variant with our own rules: each round, a virtual die decides whether you open, steal, swap left, swap right or skip. Private by design Your players, gifts and photos stay on your device. Swap Night has no accounts, no ads and no tracking, and it works without an internet connection. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dijitalpilot.com/uygulama-gizlilik/

Screenshots

Santa's Secret4 screens
Swap Night4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Santa's Secret at none against Swap Night's 2. Santa's Secret also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Swap Night's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Swap Night sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Santa's Secret asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Santa's Secret ships an update every 3 months, Swap Night every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Santa's Secret versus Swap Night: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSanta's SecretSwap Night
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInostudio SolutionsDIJITAL PILOT REKLAM SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

In-app purchases

None

Santa's Secret

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Swap Night

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Santa's Secret free?
Santa's Secret is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swap Night free?
Swap Night is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Santa's Secret or Swap Night have ads?
Neither Santa's Secret nor Swap Night shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Santa's Secret or Swap Night?
Santa's Secret ships an update every 3 months, and Swap Night every 3 weeks. Most recently, Santa's Secret was updated on November 6, 2026 and Swap Night on November 6, 2026.

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