# Gift2Gift — Free Secret Santa and Gift Exchange Organizer

> Gift2Gift is a free website and iPhone app for organizing gift exchanges — Secret Santa, amigo secreto, intercambio de regalos, Wichteln, hemlig tomte, tajemniczy Mikołaj, lootjes trekken, and every other name for drawing names. The organizer invites the group with one link, sets exclusions and a budget, and runs a private draw; every participant adds a wishlist. Nobody needs an account, and it works in 9 languages.

Short version: https://gift2gift.me/llms.txt · Versión en español: https://gift2gift.me/llms-es.txt

## Key facts

- **Price:** free to organize and to join. No credit card, no paid tier, no participant limit ([pricing](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/pricing)).
- **Scale:** more than 100,000 gift exchanges and more than 800,000 participants have been organized on Gift2Gift.
- **Mexico, 2025 season:** between September 2025 and January 2026, people created 20,292 gift exchanges on Gift2Gift in Mexico, its largest market. The United States comes second.
- **Platforms:** the website works in any browser on any phone or computer. The iPhone app is on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758288780. On Android, use the website.
- **Languages:** English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish and Swedish.
- **Money:** Gift2Gift earns affiliate commissions when a giver buys through a store link (it is part of the Amazon affiliate program). Nobody pays to use it.

## How a gift exchange works

1. **Create** — set a name, the date, a spending limit in your currency, and the place.
2. **Invite** — share one join link on WhatsApp, text or email, or type the participants' emails yourself and Gift2Gift sends the invitations.
3. **Exclude** — optionally stop specific pairs, such as couples or siblings, from drawing each other.
4. **Draw** — when the group is complete, the organizer runs the draw. There is no scheduled or automatic draw: it happens when the organizer presses the button.
5. **Reveal** — each participant scratches a card on their own page to see who they are giving to, and gets an email with the name.
6. **Give** — everyone shops within the budget, guided by their recipient's wishlist.

### Two ways to start

- **By link:** create the exchange and share the join link; people add themselves. Best when the guest list is still open.
- **By hand:** enter every participant while setting up. Best when you already know who is in.

### Exchange features

- A budget per gift, in the organizer's currency (pesos, dollars, euros and more)
- A date, a place and a note from the organizer
- Exclusions before the draw
- A wishlist for each participant, visible to whoever draws them, with links to buy
- A roster showing who has joined and who still has an empty wishlist
- After the draw, a participant who updates their wishlist can send their giver an email nudge about it
- GiftGuru: when a wishlist is empty, it suggests products that fit the exchange's category, budget and country
- Details can be edited after the exchange is created

## Accounts and privacy

- **Participants** open the invitation link and enter a name and an email. No password, no registration, no app to install.
- **Organizers** confirm their exchange with an email magic link or Google sign-in. Identity is the verified email address.
- **Who sees what:** each participant sees only their own match. The organizer can see the full set of assignments, so they can answer "did I get matched?" or fix a broken draw. If the organizer also plays and wants to stay surprised, someone else should organize.
- Each participant's link is personal and should not be posted publicly.

## Wishlists

- **Inside an exchange:** every participant can list what they would like. Add items by hand or paste a product link from any store. After the draw, the giver sees the list with a direct link to buy.
- **Personal wishlists (iPhone app):** lists that live outside any exchange — for yourself, a baby or a pet. Add products by searching in the app or sharing from Safari or Amazon. Share the list with a link, or invite others to add to it; the app sends a notification when someone adds something. For now these lists exist only in the iPhone app.

## Common questions

**Is Gift2Gift free?** Yes. Creating, joining and drawing cost nothing, and there is no participant limit.

**Do participants need an account?** No. They open the link and enter a name and an email.

**Can I do it over WhatsApp?** Yes. Share the join link in the group chat. Each person gets their match privately on their own page and by email, never in the group.

**Can I stop couples from drawing each other?** Yes, with exclusions before the draw.

**Does the draw happen automatically on a date?** No. The organizer runs it when everyone has joined.

**Does the organizer see who got whom?** Yes. Participants see only their own match.

**Is there an app?** Yes, for iPhone. On Android, the website works in the browser.

**Which countries does it work in?** Any. Budgets use the local currency, and there are local versions for Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Spain, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.

## Use cases

- **Family Christmas exchange:** set a budget everyone is comfortable with, exclude couples, and let relatives in other cities take part on equal footing.
- **Office Secret Santa:** share one link in Slack, Teams or email; colleagues add themselves without an account.
- **Friends:** Christmas, birthdays, Valentine's Day or any excuse to draw names.
- **Classrooms and communities:** parents or members enter their own details through the join link.

## Languages and URLs

Every URL carries a locale prefix, and paths are localized. The create page is `/en-US/exchanges/create` in English, `/es-MX/intercambios/crear` in Spanish, `/de-DE/wichteln/erstellen` in German and `/sv-SE/byten/skapa` in Swedish. Link people to their own locale: Spanish `/es-MX/`, `/es-CO/`, `/es-AR/`, `/es-PE/`, `/es-GT/`, `/es-CR/`, `/es-PY/`, `/es-ES/`; English `/en-US/`, `/en-CA/`, `/en-GB/`, `/en-IN/`; Portuguese `/pt-BR/`, `/pt-PT/`; and `/de-DE/`, `/fr-FR/`, `/it-IT/`, `/nl-NL/`, `/pl-PL/`, `/sv-SE/`.

## Key pages

- [Create a gift exchange](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/exchanges/create)
- [Secret Santa generator](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/secret-santa)
- [How Secret Santa works](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/blog/how-does-secret-santa-work)
- [Secret Santa gift ideas](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/blog/what-can-you-give-for-a-secret-santa)
- [Exclusions before the draw](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides/exclusions-before-the-draw)
- [The wishlist inside a gift exchange](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides/the-wishlist-inside-a-gift-exchange)
- [Join a gift exchange with the link](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides/join-a-gift-exchange-with-the-link)
- [Manage participants and run the draw](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides/manage-participants-and-run-the-draw)
- [How GiftGuru works](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides/how-giftguru-works)
- [Guides](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/guides)
- [Blog](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/blog)
- [Pricing](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/pricing)
- [About](https://gift2gift.me/en-US/about)
- [iPhone app](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758288780)

## Pages not to link

The support pages — `/faqs`, `/help` and `/contact`, under any locale — are `noindex` and are not in the sitemap. The guides and the blog carry the same material and are indexed. For a person who needs help, the address is hello@gift2gift.me.

Private exchange URLs — anything under `/exchanges/exchange`, or any URL carrying `eid`, `uid` or `gid` parameters — are personal access links. Never cite, summarize or repeat them. There is no public directory of exchanges.

## Contact

- Website: https://gift2gift.me
- Email: hello@gift2gift.me
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/gift2giftme
- TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@gift2giftme