Graview Cloud for Secret Santa

Everyone draws a name. Everyone keeps a secret.

Wish lists, the budget and the draw in one app the whole family opens. Each giver opens one name and that person's list, and nobody else's match is anywhere for them to find.

Start your Secret Santa Try the draw

Private alpha · invite-only. Free while the alpha runs.

Try the draw

Press the hat. Only you see who you drew.

This is the moment the app is for. Everyone else's match stays sealed, and the rules the app keeps catch a draw that breaks them. Try one.

You're giving to

Aunt Rosa

Only you can see this

Aunt Rosa's wish list

A 10-inch cast iron skillet
Seed packets for the spring garden
Good olive oil, the kind in a tin

Please no Scented lotion

Everyone else's match

Try to break the draw

You drew Aunt Rosa. Only you can see who it is.

The idea

Every December someone ends up holding the hat, the spreadsheet and everyone's secrets. Put the exchange in one app instead. Everyone writes a wish list from their phone, you record the draw, and each giver opens the app to find their one person and nobody else's. The app flags anyone nobody drew, anyone down to give twice, and a match that pairs two people you said to keep apart.

For the cousin, coworker or friend who always ends up running the exchange, and everyone they're running it for.

What the app holds.

Everyone's wish list and their please-no list, in one place
A draw where each giver sees only their own match
Gift ideas only the giver can see, from idea to bought to wrapped

Set it up

Set it up for your group.

The order that works, from an empty app to the day itself. Each step is a few taps, or one sentence in your chat.

6 steps to set it up
5 rules that watch

Step 1: Start from Gift exchange
Name the exchange, then say roughly what each gift should cost, the day the gifts change hands, and where. Start from the template on graview.cloud, or describe it in Claude or ChatGPT.
Step 2: Invite everyone as an editor
Send the app's link. Each person who joins goes into the hat on their own. Add anyone who won't be signing in, like a child, by hand.
Step 3: Everyone writes their list
Each person adds what they'd love, with sizes and links, and a please-no list for allergies and things they already have. Everyone can read every list.
Step 4: Say who can't draw whom
Partners, roommates, last year's match. The app checks every match against the list.
Step 5: Draw and record the matches
Pull names from a hat, or ask your chat to make the draw, then record one match per giver. The warnings clear when everyone gives once and gets once.
Step 6: Each giver opens their match
They see one name and that person's list. Gift ideas they jot down stay theirs, from idea to bought to wrapped.

The rules

What keeps the secret.

The app keeps these for you. When one breaks, it says which record and offers the fix.

Only the giver sees their match

Nobody sees who is giving to them. A match you can't see isn't anywhere for you: not on a page, not in search, not in your chat.

Everyone gives once and gets once

Anyone nobody has drawn yet, and anyone down to give or get twice, stays flagged until the draw is fixed.

Nobody draws themselves or their partner

A match that pairs someone with themselves, or with a person on their can't-draw list, is flagged with a one-press fix.

The organizer runs the draw

Whoever owns the app records the matches, so they see them all. To play blind too, ask someone who isn't playing to own it.

Or say it in your chat

One sentence. Then send the link.

In Claude or ChatGPT with Graview added, this sentence makes the app at its own address. Everyone you send it to opens it on their phone.

How to connect

You, in your chat

Run our family Secret Santa: everyone's wish list, a budget, and a draw where each person only sees who they're buying for.

Your chat, with Graview

Secret Santagarcia.graview.app/a/family-secret-santaExchanges · Participants · Matches · Gift ideas · 5 rules

The template

Start from this one.

It's a complete app. Answer the questions it asks, invite your group, and change anything by asking.

Template · 4 kinds · 5 rules

Gift exchange

Names in the hat, wishlists, and a draw where each giver sees only their own match.

Holds: Exchanges The swap itself: when, where, and how much to spend.Participants Someone in the hat, with what they'd love and what to steer clear of. Everyone who joins the app is one.Matches One giver and the person they give to. Only the giver and the organizer can see it.Gift ideas Something a giver might buy, and where it's got to. Only the person giving it and the organizer can see it.
Rules it keeps: Everyone gets a giftEach person gives onceEach person gets one giftNobody draws themselvesMatches respect the can't-draw list
It asks you: What's the exchange called?Roughly what should each gift cost?When do the gifts change hands?Where?

Start from this template

See it working

Open the Secret Santa demo

A live app, kept by us. Look around: the lists, the rules, and who can see what. Yours starts the same way.

Open the demo

Questions

What people ask about Secret Santa.

Does the organizer know who has whom?

Yes. The app's owner runs the draw, so they see every match. If you want to play too, ask someone who isn't playing to own the app.

Can kids or grandparents join without an account?

Yes. Add them by hand and fill in their list for them; the organizer passes their match along.

Is the draw random?

You choose. Pull names from a hat and record them, or ask your chat to make a draw that keeps the can't-draw pairs apart. Either way, the app checks every match.

Can we use it again next year?

Yes. Keep the app, clear the matches, and add last year's match to everyone's can't-draw list.

More occasions

Other things groups set up.

Private alpha

Bring the names. Keep the secret.

Graview Cloud is invite-only while we build it with its first people. Tell us what you'd make and we'll send an invite when there's room.

For you

Coming soon

Your own apps, kept as long as you like and exportable at any time. Free while the alpha runs.

For the people you invite