Giftful Reviews

by GuySwann

I kept trying to give this time to sort out the issues when i first downloaded it, but its been half a year and still every single time i try to add an item, it crashes. I've literally never been able to use it on desktop to bridge what I save from mobile.

If they ever fix it, that'll be nice I guess. But at this point I've given up. I suspect that don't care or even use the desktop version for it to behave the way it does. They should just remove it and go iOS only.

This was a pointless waste of an install. If you want Giftful (which is actually useful) go mobile only.

by J-Gitz

Most of the links are blocked by the default, built-in, Apple iOS safari content blocker. And Giftful hides URLs, so the user can’t copy and paste them into a browser to get around the broken links. The only workarounds I’ve been able to find are (1) to manually paste the URL into the item description of everything I add to a list, or (2) to disable contact blocking altogether for all purposes on my device. I’m not going to do #2, obviously, so it’s #1 until the developer fixes this or I get sick of it and find another app.

by Kcleveland04

Giftful is a great way to share a wish list with family and friends. Only problem I keep coming across is shared lists often disappear off the receivers end and you keep having to re-share and unfollow and refollow the person to be able to find the list again. As being a college student it’s a great way to share with family what you need, but the whole process of your list disappearing is very annoying, and makes the whole use of Giftful overly complicated and pointless. If this wasn’t such an issue Giftful would be a lot more convenient.

by Winipoodesigns

Giftful is easy to use. It is easy to add items from all different websites. I spent a lot of time curating a holiday wishlist. But when I sent it to my family, they have to register to claim an item. I HATE THAT!!! Wasted my time and am deleting Giftful.

Regarding the Developer’s response, please read what I wrote. They can view the list without registering, but they can’t mark anything Claimed. If this is ever “fixed” I would for sure use Giftful . But I’m not forcing anyone to register for anything. That is tacky.

by D2mo

First time I tried to use Giftful, it didn’t grab the product image. So if I wanted the photo instead of a generic gift icon, I had to manually add the pic. This is not a good user experience. The whole point of a wishlist is to be quick and easy. I shouldn’t have to manually add a photo. Giftful also grabbed THE WRONG PRICE. I shouldn’t have to manually fix the price. Overall, Giftful is pointless. Does not do what it should.

by Em Oliver

Great app, my family uses it every christmas. I just wish I could rearrange the order of products on my list. This way I could have all products from one site together rather than spread all across the wishlist. Making it easier to identify which products are from the same site so all or multiple could be purchased at once. I have manually re-list things from the same place as wishes to ensure they're all in the same place.

by AddUpdateProfileFeature

I really do like Giftful but unfortunately the one thing preventing me and (I’m sure a lot of other people) from using it as their main gift list app is that for someone to claim an item, they have to sign up and log in first. This the main issue for me. This doesn’t make it convenient for the guests viewing the list or helpful for the person who will most likely end up with all repeat gifts because nobody wants to sign up to claim an item. Sadly, I believe it’s the primary downfall of an almost perfect app.

by Jordanrae_

My husband and I have been using Giftful for a few years now and we got our families to join as well. We love it overall, but I think it needs an update. Things I wish it had was a bio area for myself so those who look at my page can see. Maybe with little boxes under the bio featuring our most “needed” gifts, or favorites…. I also wish I could see who other people were following. This might be too advanced for Giftful but it would be neat if it showed current deals somehow. When I see that there’s a deal, I’m more likely to purchase. I think more people would use Giftful if it was more updated all around. I find there to be a lot of glitches when trying to add things. This interface I like better than “like to know it”, and it would be cool if they offered influencers to share their pages similar to the other app in a way. I’ll continue to use it, I just wish it was improved, it would make it a lot more fun, and unfortunately, I don’t see Giftful going far if it’s not changed.

by Misskiaya

Update: you can mark claimed and can view what’s claimed if the list is set to “for someone else”, but this setting is not intuitive at all. I still had to use the FAQ to find it even after their response to this review. If the list is for me I want to see what was purchased. This setting has nothing to do with who the list is for. I recommend updating the language so it’s general. “Show Claimed Gifts” or something. Added another star for the feature being available, but it still needs some tweaking.

- When viewing your own list, you can’t see who’s claimed an item or even view what item has been claimed
- For friends and family to claim an item, they have to log in
- You can’t mark an item as claimed on behalf of a family member/friend

Looks nice, but we won’t be using this again likely unless these features are added.

by Yay Good Job!

I love Giftful and all the features, but sometimes when I am in the middle of looking at things, it just closes Giftful . Right now, whenever I try to open Giftful , it immediately shuts off. Please fix this because if it worked it would be a 5 star app. (My friends phones also do this, so it's not just me)

Also, everybody this is happening to uses an iphone, I don't know if this is happening to people with androids too.

by Shadow Dow

Giftful is mostly great so far! Using it for personal use to take inventory of wants and needs for our new house! Love that you can mark items as complete as they are purchase/received as gifts. I wish there was a way to sort items so that items you have completed go to the bottom of the list and items you still need jump to the top. Otherwise I love how you can save from ANY website!

Excited to try the registry/birthday feature and share with friends !

by T.tonyo

this app is the perfect app for putting all the things I want from my cart from literally anywhere, I even had my grandma to make a wishlist and she did it with ease ! One thing that could be improved when making the list is allowing me to put multiple links under one product in case if I want to give my family more options of place to buy my wish item in case if it sells out or the price changes. Another thing is, I love using this app sooo much but the part I don’t like is sharing my list. I wish my family didn’t have to do a full signup to see my list. Overall, this app is easy, all age friendly, and after going through many and many apps, this is the best one ! save yourself some time bc yuhh this the ONE. - tony <3

by Marioalvan

this app has been a great app and I love its ease of use. However, I do have one issue which appears to only be present on the iPad version. For whatever reason, whenever I create a gift, be it on safari or inside Giftful , I can’t fully scroll all the way when choosing which wishlist to add my gift to. It stops about half way and it wont scroll go further. This issue is very annoying as I then have to manually go into the wishlist I want to add the gift to. This issue has been present ever since I got Giftful on IPad. The iPhone version works fine and does not have this issue. As an avid IPad user, I would like to see this minor inconvenience fixed. Other than that, Giftful is stellar!

by Dr4680402

I personally love Giftful. It's great, does most things for me, and usually works.

One thing I did notice it was missing was a price update. I mostly use it for the personal wishlist maker instead of the group one for weddings, and I've noticed that the price doesn't change from what you input. A few other apps I've tried did in fact change the price if the price was changed on the website. But that just me.

Also, the last update was a whole 10 months ago? 😭

by Syydy Can Flyy!

Seriously Giftful has changed the game. I have a wishlist for myself and my daughter, I share the lists with my friends and family when birthdays and holidays come around. Claiming gifts makes it easier for her grandparents to buy her things without worrying they’ll accidentally buy the same thing. I love that gift givers can click a button and go straight to a link. In the notes, I can add sizes or even promo codes for the website! The only thing that would make this PERFECT, is if I could make mini lists inside a main wishlist. I’d love to be able to organize the items beyond having my most wanted items show at the top. If I could have sections like Pinterest does with their boards, I’d be even more thrilled!

by Ggshshhdgvfbbf

The only reason why this amazing app isn’t five stars is because when you are trying to get an item of a website sometimes it doesn’t fill in the picture, and that bugs me because I look at the rest of my list and there is all those pictures except for the few that are a picture of a present, not a picture of the gift you want. But that only happens sometimes, or on the rare occasion. But other than that this is a great app.

by Remohe

Easiest app I’ve tried so far for creating a list. I love the way this app auto fills most of the information just by pasting a link. I just wish there was a way that my family could see my list without creating an account. Creating an account shouldn’t be that hard, but it seems to be a major problem for my older relatives.

by 333_sinon

Not sure why this is happening but whenever i try to delete something from my wish list it won’t let me- the Are You Sure menu pops up and i press continue but it simply doesn’t go through online or on Giftful and i’ve reloaded the page plenty of times and made a new list but nothing will let me delete items

by Stillman_

i wish i could give 4.5/5 instead of 4/5, because Giftful is so close to perfect. i just downloaded it and i enjoy the experience—it runs very smooth and allows me to add items to various wishlists that i create! the process to add items is very quick. i love Giftful !!
however, there are a few little things i wish would be fixed, like how the item photos are fetched from the links i copy. sometimes they’re the right pictures, but most of the time, the photo that Giftful gives me is completely different from the product i linked.
it would be cool if we could have in-app themes, like changing the mint colour to different colours!
overall, amazing app !! love it!

by LbrookeK

I personally enjoy using Giftful for all to most of my grifts. However, I do have a inconvenience….I Would prefer that there was a way to categorize your items after they are put on the list instead of defaulting be recent. With this being said I think Giftful is great when it works! People who I’ve shared the list with, agree!

by Ainsley!!!

I really like Giftful! It is so fun to make a list a see what others are too, but recently it has been really slow, not just for me but many others too. I hope this gets fixed because I think Giftful is great.

by Kitten Lost Meh Mittens

I really enjoy Giftful. It seems to be the best out there so far, however, I have a suggestion.

Could you pleaseeee add a way to organize the wishlists? For example, we can put the wishes into categories like Body Care or Clothes. It would be even better if we could make our own custom categories that our friends can search through.

I plan on using this for Christmas this year nonetheless but I hope you can add that!

by EmmaClaireG

1. You could combine two wishlists. I would love this because I think some of my wishlists may be similar so if I could combine them it would be much less time consuming. As of now, I have to individually edit every thing into a different wishlist!

2. If on a wishlist, adding in to the first one, you could also select the items on your wishlist that you want to move to a different one. This would be like Pinterest in a way.

3. Also, you could press a button to select items, such as is mentioned in the second one, where when u select it you could also select the ones you want to delete. This would be very helpful.

Overall i love this app, just things could be time consuming. If y’all could consider some of these that would be amazingggggg!

by Toneconsultant

This concept is super cool! I was so excited to find Giftful. Everything worked smooth and fast, and the auto fill feature is fantastic. Everything is user friendly.
When I first left my review, I was under the impression that when you send a list, the recipient needed to create an account to view it. However, the developers kindly reached out to me to inform me that there is a setting to let anyone view the lists!! This is great for the older members of my family who are less computer savvy! Thank you!!

by Emojiqueen141

I love Giftful! It is so easy to use and easy to share. I love how you don’t have to fill out everything manually and that’s one of the reasons I love Giftful! It’s quick and easy to add to and make wishlists! I wish that there was an option to shown the total cost of all the wishes in a wishlist. For example if I had a Christmas list with 15 items it would show the cost of all 15 items at the top or bottom of the list. Otherwise it’s a amazing app.

by Skinny Legends

I’m actually so impressed with Giftful!! I’m a very visual person when it comes to the things I want to buy for myself or for those in my life (birthdays, holidays, etc). I wanted something I could put into different categories BUT what I love so much about Giftful is that it has a very pleasing design, it links everything SO EASILY and I loveeee that it has the function to add comments to your items for sizing, color, quantity preferences. Highly recommend:)

by Bfcfcghfcghfcfyjfcjtc

Giftful has been such a great way for me to organize and list down wishlists for every occasion. However, I do wish that there was a way to further organize products within the wishlists. Additionally, when I go to share to add a product to the list, it usually takes two tries to get the details to pop up. Otherwise, this is an incredible app and I HIGHLY recommend Giftful to anyone with wishlists especially during the holiday season!

by PiECRUSH

I just downloaded Giftful and the simplicity of it is what attracted me to it to begin with. However I do see a few bugs already; it’s hard to set your profile as private even though it is an option—I had to tap, open, reopen Giftful several times before I could “activate” the private profile option. Now that it is on, it won’t turn off. You can’t change your email or name if you wish to do so. Besides this, it seems promising and I’m going to give it a try :) I’ll update as I continue using it.

by Art League Student

I had the same problem as another reviewer when I tried using it on my laptop (it crashed), so I called the support line. They said that I needed to use Chrome as my browser. I did that and I also added the extension to Google (there's a link on Giftful itself for this) to use when tagging items on a website. It hasn't crashed since.

by Bobobryant

You get to see your friends items and what they want for the holidays! Also very great for secret santas. Giftful has a great portal and overall has a great moral to it. It has things in mind that this app shared that you might like for the holidays. It has everything you need on there, ideas and anything to get your interest. The latest technology and everything. Would definitely recommend

by Ast3r79

Giftful is perfect for buying gifts and making lists to send to your family. They thought everything through, and it’s so helpful to have the claiming function, where you can claim a wish on one of your family or friend’s wishlist, but they can’t see which ones people have claimed. It’s so easy to paste a link from anywhere, and I love the “most desired” function, where you can prioritize items that you’re most excited about.

I know this sounds a lot like someone paid to write a good review, but I just really love Giftful 😅

by Winningmomma

Our family is now spread out in different cities and states and this app has been amazing when those special moments come. When it’s time to purchase a gift that is meaningful or a special occasion, sometimes gift cards just don’t seem personal enough. this app helps us know some of the secret wishes that others may have and not buy for themselves; that makes the gift even more special to give.

this app is so easy to use as it sets up links for you, so you just click on the picture and “there you are”! You place your order and done! This has been a great tool during CoVid and when someone is long distance. If there is ever an issue with Giftful it gets corrected quickly and your back to shopping for that special person. The creators of Giftful came up with a brilliant idea!

by Unicorndjsinnger

It’s such an amazing app. And gives you the chance to make a wishlist of stores and add them to it. It’s much better then wasting up your phone storage and sending screenshots of what you want to your family or friends. You get to friend your family/friends, and they can see your wishlist and, maybe even buy them for you!

by Hdvehdbd Dhdu

Giftful is a very good concept and the execution was perfect. I do have a couple small bugs, however. Notifications stay unread even if you’ve read them. And if you go to safari through Giftful and accidentally halfway back out of the tab and then go back to safari in Giftful , the whole app crashes. That’s it though.

by Real_Reviews*

Giftful is awesome, I love the design, easy to use, overall it’s great. I just wish that recipients could see the wishlist and mark certain gifts without having to create an account. I get that it’s important in order to promote Giftful and everything but it’s truly inconvenient for the recipient that just wants to see what I want. But besides that Giftful works amazing.

by Oddburrrito

It would be a good idea to be able to include an item on multiple lists.

At the moment, you can only move an item by selecting another list to move it to.

It makes sense to be able to keep an item for personal lists or wishlists so items that were not purchased can easily sync to a new lists (ie Christmas 2022 —> birthday 2023 —-> Christmas 2023)

by Awosborn

I loved putting my list together and still enjoying the surprise of not knowing who or what was bought for me!

I found it especially helpful with the a ability to include the link and sizing information. It was so intuitive that even my 60 year old mother found no issues navigating Giftful .

Thank you so much!

by Awesome App For A X Mas List

This is a great app I would definitely recommend this to Anyone who has family that lives in multiple states most of my fam lives in West Virginia and we are all putting are X mas lists on this and its really easy to use and simple

by Gggiygbbvcgfcft

The only thing I would change is I wish we could arrange thing. Like I want this because it goes with this but or maybe I want to arrange it by color or by price. I just think that would be cool.

by Tonyg323

I originally posted a 1 star rating as I thought Giftful now required visitors to have an account, however the developer responded with instructions on how to turn this requirement off. I have updated my review and rating!

by Elletherobot

Giftful is perfect for sharing and buying gift lists with friends and family. It’s pretty to look at, easy to navigate, and has all the functions you need to organize and manage gifts for yourself and for loved ones. The gift guides are also really inspiring for the holiday season!

by 28monty28

Update. Got help with error. Everything is back. Great

Thanks a bunch. Suddenly, I had to login or something and when I did, everything was gone. My lists, my friends, everything. I am absolutely disappointed with what had been a useful app. Don’t know if I want to start over.

by Ellebelle718

I tried a few other universal gift wish tools that didn’t work nearly as well or supported a limited of stores. this app is very easy to use and creates a beautiful list. It has the features I really need, like the ability to make something as being “most desired”, and remains straightforward and relatively seamless.

by Laura429870361

Giftful helped me organize my Christmas list. I made a PowerPoint but that’s hard because I didn’t know where to buy the stuff from. I can also see All of my friends and family’s lists so I didn’t have to ask them. The only issue is it sometimes gets the price wrong but you can change it to the correct price. 100% would recommend

by Havealittlefaith

My family drew names for Christmas, so we all got Giftful, and at each other as friends. It worked really good and you’re also able to wish list for any occasion. I will definitely be using this year round so I can constantly add to it because it’s a universal wish list.

I feel like it was buggy maybe like once, but I’m messaged the help section of Giftful and they immediately fix the problem. it just kept showing me a notification of my friends that added me over and over but they fixed it. It wasn’t really that big of a problem.

Also, sometimes I’ve noticed the photo choices for the items that you get to select aren’t maybe the ones you want but you can always go back and add another so that’s good. I think it depends on how peoples websites are built how easily it grabs photos.