The best iPad apps for gifts

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• Catalog of over 12,000 products
• 144 categories for easy browsing
• 12 new products added daily
• Beautiful interface for product imagery
• Exclusive deals and discounts to get you the best value

El Gifto is a personal shopper app that will help you find great gifts for anyone. Choose a friend from social media or your contacts and input details about their personality and what occasion the gift is for, how much you want to spend, and the app will offer you a bunch of ideas. The more you use the app, the more it learns what kind of gifts you like to give, and the user interface is simple and attractive. You can look at color images, ratings, reviews, and full descriptions of all items before you buy, and there are no fees for ordering it online. If you'd rather wait, save the items you're looking at for another time.

• Personal shopper app
• Intuitive technology learns what kind of gifts you're looking for
• Large range of similar items available for comparison shopping
• Get great gift suggestions
• Free iPad app for gifts

They handpick beautifully made products from the UK's best small creative businesses. From custom-made jewellery and original homeware to unforgettable experiences, discover thoughtful gifts in one glorious place.

This app makes it easier than ever to find thoughtful gifts for everyone you love.

• See something you love? You can shop directly from the app or click the heart icon to save it to your favourites for later.
• Manage and organise your favourites into customisable folders.
• Fancy being spoilt for choice? The app lets you browse 200,000+ products.
• Share your extraordinary finds by email or on Pinterest, Facebook or Twitter.
• Enable Notifications to be the first to learn about our latest offers, brand new products and more

GiftPlanner helps you keep your special events and gifts for those events neatly organized. Keep gift plan info like photos, price, purchase status, store, and more in this one app. You can use this for any holiday or event, and it's easy to send gifts to the app from your  computer or mobile browser using the “bookmarklet” tool. There is no limit to the number of people, events, and gifts you can add, and it's easy to track your contacts' wish lists and interests. You can also set events in the Notification Center so you can see countdowns.

• Keep track of events and gifts
• Put all gift plan info in one place
• Good for any event or holiday
• Scan barcodes to quickly fill in product fields
• Free with in-app purchase to upgrade

The Christmas Gift List Free is a holiday shopping list app. Add all the names of people you want to buy gifts for using your Contacts list quickly and easily so you don't forget anyone. The app offers budgeting and analytics and shows you your shopping stats with charts. It offers optional password protection in the event you have snoopy people around, and you can sort people by groups. It's easy to track gift by status so you can quickly see what gifts you still have to buy, and you can even take photos of gifts.

• Countdown until Christmas or New Year
• Sort people by groups
• Add people from your Contacts
• Different filters to easily find what you need
• Free with separate purchase for full version

Giftster is a family gift registry app so you will get gifts right, every time. Just invite your family members to join your private gift idea sharing group. You can use Fetch to auto-add items from any website, add a Secret Santa draw to your group, and mark gift ideas as purchased or reserved so other users don't buy a duplicate. List makers can't see what has been purchased from their list so it's always a surprise. You can even just use the app to create your own list and share it to your friends and family to make it easier for them to find you gifts for your special event.

• Only buy things people actually want and need
• Ask your friends and family to join your group
• Mark items as purchased or reserved so no duplicates are purchased
• Make your own list and share it
• Free iPad app for gifts

Gifted is another gift list management app for you to try. This one has more features than some of the others, so it's worth the money. You can import people and birthday/anniversary dates from Facebook or Contacts; include the likes, dislikes and clothing sizes for your recipients; and add photos of both the people and of gift ideas for each person. You can set a budget per event so you don't spend too much, and keep track of how much you've spent per person and in total. Sort gifts by person, price, event, status, and store, and you can even customize which gifts go into the budget totals. There's no limit to the number of people and gifts you can add, and you can keep a gift history for each past event and for each person. This really is the be-all, end-all gift management app.

• Easily import recipients from Contacts and Facebook
• Create shopping lists with stores, notes, prices
• Custom notifications
• Optional passcode protection
• Gift history