🎄 Free • No account needed

Your Secret Santa, sorted in 3 steps

Organize a gift exchange with friends, family or colleagues. Add everyone's names, set a budget, keep couples apart if you want, and send each person their own private link to discover who they're buying for. You need at least 3 people.

See how it works

🔒 The draw happens on your device. We never see or store your group's names.

How it works

Set up the exchange in minutes and share it with your group. No sign-ups, no apps to install.

👥

Add participants

Enter the names of everyone taking part, with an email address and a few wishlist hints if you like. You need at least 3 people.

🎁

Set up your party

Give your party a name, choose a budget and an exchange date, and add any pairs who shouldn't draw each other.

✉️

Share the links

Everyone gets a private link that reveals only their own match. Send it by email, chat or text, however your group talks.

Our advantages

Everything a Secret Santa group needs, and nothing it doesn't.

🔐

Private reveal links

Each participant opens their own link and sees only the person they're buying for. Nobody else's match is shown.

📝

Wishlist hints

Add a few gift hints for each person. Their Secret Santa sees them right next to the name they drew.

🚫

Exclusions

Keep partners, housemates or last year's pairs apart. Exclusions work both ways, so neither person can draw the other.

💶

Budget & date

Set a spending limit and an exchange day, and everyone sees them on their reveal page. No more “how much were we spending again?”

🙅

No account, no tracking

No sign-up, no passwords, no marketing emails and no cookies. Your group's details stay in your browser and in the links you share.

📱

Works everywhere

Phone, tablet or laptop, the organizer and every participant just need a web browser.

Why Secret Santa?

Buying a present for everyone gets expensive fast, and it turns December into a shopping marathon. With Secret Santa, each person buys one thoughtful gift for one randomly drawn person. Everyone still gets a present, the budget stays fair, and the guessing game on exchange day is half the fun.

Drawing names out of a hat works until someone picks themselves, half the group is on a video call, or two partners end up with each other again. An online draw takes care of all of that.

Popular with

Families: one great gift each instead of a pile of small ones.
Offices & teams: a low-key way to celebrate together with a fair budget. Read the office guide →
Friends & housemates: perfect for a festive dinner or party.
Remote groups: everyone ships their gift and you unwrap together on a call. Virtual tips →
Clubs, classes & teams: works just as well for 5 people as for 50.

Tips & guides

Everything you need to run a smooth, fun gift exchange.

📋

How to organize

A step-by-step plan from invite to unwrapping.

🏆

Top 10 gift ideas

Crowd-pleasers that work for almost anyone.

💡

Gift ideas by budget

Ideas for €10, €20, €30 and up.

🌱

Eco-friendly tips

Lower-waste gifts and wrapping.

🐘

White Elephant

The game where gifts get stolen.

🎄

Kris Kringle

The same tradition, with a different name.

💼

Office Secret Santa

Keep it fun, fair and inclusive at work.

💻

Virtual Secret Santa

Exchange gifts with people far away.

Gift cards

Perfect for Secret Santa when you don't know your person well, or when they'd rather choose for themselves. Read our guide on when a gift card is the right call and how to make it feel personal.

Explore gift cards

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Add your participants, optionally with wishlist hints, and set any pairs who shouldn't draw each other. We'll draw the names and give you a private link for each person. You can email the links straight from the results screen or paste them into any chat app.

Yes, completely. There are no paid tiers, no hidden fees and no account to create. The whole tool runs in your browser.

After the draw, you get one link per participant. Each link opens a page that greets that person by name and reveals only their own match, along with the budget, date and any wishlist hints. Send each person only their own link.

Yes. The results screen lists who each link belongs to, not who they drew, so you can share the links without seeing anyone's match. Just don't open the other participants' links yourself. If you want to be extra sure, ask someone who isn't taking part to run the draw.

No. The draw happens on your own device and nothing is sent to us. Each person's match is packed into their link itself, so there's no database to leak. See our privacy policy for details.

Secret Santa is a gift exchange where each participant is randomly assigned another participant to buy a gift for. The giver stays anonymous until the exchange, if they're revealed at all. It's also known as Kris Kringle, and has playful cousins like White Elephant.

See all questions