mGifts - Gift List Manager app for iPhone and iPad
mGifts is the perfect little helper for those looking for the perfect gifts for the special people in their life.
mGifts organizes your gift giving by keeping you on budget and managing your gift list to make sure your friends and family get a great gift from you. mGifts for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch makes it easy and convenient to see how many gifts you’ve still need to get, how many gifts you have purchased and how much money youve spent on each person or group. mGifts also allows you to view your gift list by store, event, group or person helping you stay on budget while giving you the assurance that youre not missing anyone when it comes to celebrating those special days of the year.
"It’s like having a hundred little elves helping to organize your holiday shopping in the palm of your hand. You can actually use this handy app to organize gift giving all year round for birthdays, anniversaries and more. My favorite features include tracking your holiday gift spending and adding a security pin code to keep out snooping loved ones." - Kate Currin, Appolicious.com
mGifts is great for Christmas, Hanukkah, birthdays, anniversaries and any other event or date.
Organize your Gift List
• Organize, view and edit lists by gift, person, store, and groups
• View gift list by store to better plan your shopping trips
• Create groups like family and co-worker to better budget and prioritize your gift list
• Uses status flags like "needed", "purchased", "wrapped" or "shipped", to help track the entire gifting process
• Snaps a photo of a gift to make sure you get the right item.
• Saves photos and notes of your family and friend profiles to remind you of important details.
• View by Store makes your shopping trips more efficient
Share your Gift List between your Devices and People
• Auto-Sync via iCloud so that all gift lists can be kept current on all your devices at all times.
• Share your list via email and via the clipboard
• Optional 4-digit PIN to keep out the curious.
Powerful Budget Management
• Budget manager keeps a running tally of how much has been spent to date, by gift receiver or event.
• View your budget and money spent by groups like Family or co-workers to make sure your money is allocated properly.
• Allows summary views to see how much youve spent, how many gifts youve bought and how many you still need
• Support for custom events/dates to manage events like weddings and bridal showers
The new 3.2 version of mGifts has added support for iPhone 5 taller screen, Retina display graphics and iOS 6 improved rotation feature.
mGifts is a universal app, meaning that if you buy it for your iPhone, it will operate on your iPad and sync your data automatically for no-extra charge (both devices must be connected to the same iTunes account).
"mGifts, created by the wonderful people who brought you mSecure – Password Manager, makes it super easy to keep track of your holiday gift list." - Tyler Tschida, AppAdvice.com
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Pros and cons of mGifts - Gift List Manager app for iPhone and iPad
mGifts - Gift List Manager app good for
Just found this and have now entered all the extra gifts that I didnt give this Christmas, it was easy and simple and great - thank you. I did come up with one wish, that this app would have a Notes section or an area that would remind me where I have stored that gift item...so when I need to get it to wrap it I can remember where I put it...thats all...food for thought!
Works great. When ever I get gift ideas I can now put them in an organized app.
Bug: if the description is to long it goes over top if the items cost.
It would be nice to be able to input how much i want to spend on someone.
This is a great way to keep track of gifts. The extra thing I would like would be able to put a checkmatk by a persons name when I finished shopping for them for quicker use. I have a lot of people to shop fir so it would come in handy. Great ap!
I had many gifts to buy in just a few hours. I dont think I could have done it without an app like mGifts. However, there are a few features I wished it had had.
I chose mGifts because it had a clean interface and was designed for use at times other than Christmas.
First, I entered peoples names. Then I entered the few gifts I already had followed by those I needed to get for each person. I could have added their pictures, but the notes section for each gift was more important to me. I havent tracked dollars before, but mGifts made it easy allowing me to ensure I was fair to each of the kids while tracking my total spending. I was also able to enter a store for each gift either generally like "electronics store" or specifically like "Best Buy". This was extremely useful as I could see what I needed in each location -- not missing anything and planning my route.
As I purchased items, I just checked them off the list. Being able to see a list of only those items remaining became quite valuable as I got through the list. I had some items under Unassigned Store which I was able to keep an eye on as I progressed. Seeing the number and value of gifts purchased and needed was nice. Adding last second ideas and purchases while I was shopping was easy even with my time constraints. I didnt use the email function, but it looked handy for coordinating your shopping with someone else.
Other likes include:
- Easy to figure out how to use
- Clean interface
- Designed for shopping other than Christmas
- Gives you a record for next year
Features I wish mGifts had include the following:
- A notes field for stores to enter info like address
- Ability to enter info on my desktop computer and sync to iPhone before I started shopping
- Ability to use the map function on the iPhone for store location (imagine route optimization - wow)
- An option for possible gifts that didnt track in the totals
- An option to organize people by groups like Friends, Family, Brothers Family, Work
- An option to assign items to be purchased as To Dos with dates/time alerts (if I had had more time)
- The ability to filter people, gift and store views as well as totals by event so a January birthday list wouldnt mix with Christmas.
Here are a couple of tips, if you buy mGifts:
- Add yourself as a person if you have chores to do while shopping - just enter the info as a reminder
- Consider using types of stores rather than store names where appropriate in case one place doesnt have what you want
- If you have heavy shopping to do, add mGifts as one of your 4 main bottom buttons on your iPhone home screen until you are done
I really like this app. It is keeping me on track with all my Christmas gift buying. Even added Christmas eve supper and Christmas Dinner as people and the list required for that!! I agree with one of the other reviews that it would be nice to be able to add people from your contact list. All in all great app!!
This gift app is exactly what I was looking for. You can enter as many people as you need, a gift list for each of those people and the event eg. Christmas and/or birthday. This makes it more useful than just for one holiday and can plan gifts year round when you get a gift idea. You can also enter and edit which store the gift is to be purchased from. This is huge to me as I can pull up the list for a store when I am shopping in it rather than having to go through each person. I bought another popular Christmas list just prior to this one for a dollar less but it didnt have the flexibility of this app. Very easy to use right away. Highly recommend.
Some bad moments
Love the iCloud option (had the old version and just upgraded). The other categorization options are nice too, but why does it keep crashing? I selected my Christmas event no less than 10 times in a row this morning and it just dumps me out and back to my desktop. Help?
Let the update go through and it wiped out all stored data. Not great at Xmas. Bah!!
After latest update it is super buggy and crashes a lot. Also I lost all saved info after upgrade. Not impressed.
You need to go through a lot of screens to even get this to sort of work. Cant imagine taking this shopping and trying to keep track of everything on the go. Doesnt let you tie the same gifts to multiple people - at least not easily.
I purchased this app yesterday only to find that it was crashing on my iPhone, iPad and iPod. I contacted support and was told that they are aware that this app is not compatible with the current iOS. So in other words, they’re selling this with complete knowledge it doesn’t work. My opinion is that it should’t be for sale if it’s not going to work straight out of the gate. I’ve requested a full refund. I guess we’ll see what type of unprofessional response I get this time.
Support is horrible. No link to reset passcode, no web site with any help of my kind. I would like my money back
