Gift plans stay hidden from the person they're for
A gift idea is seen only by the person giving it and the app's organizer. It isn't on anyone else's page, in their search, or in their chat.
Graview Cloud for wish lists
Ask for what you love. Be surprised anyway.
Everyone keeps their own wish list, with sizes, links and a please-no list. Plan a gift from someone's list and it never shows on theirs, so the morning still has a surprise in it.
Private alpha · invite-only. Free while the alpha runs.
Try it
Plan a gift. Watch it vanish from her list.
Press “I'll get this” as Ben, then look at the same list as Cleo and as Mom. A plan is seen by the person giving it and the person running the app, and by nobody else.
See Cleo's list as
Ben is getting Cleo the trail shoes. It's on his plans, and nowhere on her list.
Cleo's wish list
Birthday, March 14 · kept by Cleo
Trail running shoes
Women's 7½, wide. The teal ones.
Link on her list
Your plan · bought
A watercolor travel set
The 24-color tin, with a water brush.
Link on her list
Concert tickets
Anything at the Fox in April. Two, please.
Dates in her note
Linen sheets
Queen. Sage or oatmeal.
Size on her list
Please no
Scented candles, anything with glitter, and more mugs. She means it about the mugs.
The idea
Birthdays, the holidays, a graduation: somebody always asks what someone wants, and the answer is in a text from last year. Keep everyone's wish list in one app the family shares. Each person writes their own, with sizes, links and a please-no list, and keeps it current from their phone. When you plan a gift, only you and the person running the app can see it, so the surprise holds.
For families and friends who give gifts on birthdays and holidays and are tired of asking what everyone wants.
What the app holds.
- A wish list and a please-no list for each person
- Gift plans only the giver and the organizer can see
- Where every gift has got to: idea, bought, 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.
- 5 steps to set it up
- 5 rules that watch
Step 1: Start from Gift exchange
It keeps each person's wish list and please-no list. Call it something like Family wish lists; the budget and the date are optional.
Step 2: Invite the family as editors
Each person who joins gets their own entry and writes their own list. Add a child, or anyone who won't be signing in, by hand.
Step 3: Write lists people can buy from
Sizes, colors, a link, a rough price. The please-no list is for allergies, things they already have, and things to steer clear of.
Step 4: Plan gifts quietly
Add a gift idea for someone and move it from idea to bought to wrapped. The person it's for never sees it.
Step 5: Draw names when it's a swap
For a holiday exchange, record who gives to whom. Each person gets one giver, and the app flags anyone left out or down for two.
The rules
What keeps the surprise.
The app keeps these for you. When one breaks, it says which record and offers the fix.
Every list is easy to keep current
Each person updates their own list from their phone, and everyone sees the change as it lands.
Every change has a name on it
The app's history says who changed which list and when, and any one change can be undone.
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 connectYou, in your chat
Make a wish list app for our family: everyone's list with sizes and links, and gift plans the person they're for can't see.
Your chat, with Graview
Wish listsokafor.graview.app/a/family-wish-listsExchanges · 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.
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?
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 demoQuestions
What people ask about wish lists.
Can the person see what I'm getting them?
No. A gift idea is seen only by you and whoever owns the app. Everyone can read everyone's wish list.
Will two people buy the same thing?
For a holiday swap, draw names: each person gets one giver, and the app flags anyone down to get two. Gift plans stay private, so for a birthday with many givers, a word in the family chat still helps.
Do kids need an account?
No. Add them by hand and a parent keeps their list.
Can we keep it from year to year?
Yes. The lists stay where they are; update them when sizes and tastes change.
More occasions
Other things groups set up.
Private alpha
Bring the lists. Skip the guessing.
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
Coming soon
Everyone you share an app with, each in the role you give them.
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