Santas Bag App Reviews

I try to go on the app and it gives me a blank white screen. Please fix. I used the app for 2 years this will be my 3rd unless it won’t work and then I am onto the next app.

Completely in love with this app I used it in 2017 and I have already started my 2018 shopping lists and purchases. The app has suggestions included but you can’t take it and add it as an idea for someone on your list or add it to your list to purchase later. I would also like to add a notes section to add a link right to the item to purchase it at a later date. Other than that this app is amazing and I can start my list all over the following year.

This is by far the best app for organizing Christmas lists and budgets. This app developer has thought of everything, options for stocking stuffers, homemade items, ordered, purchased, wrapped, ideas, etc. I absolutely don’t do Christmas without this app. For 3-4 years now I’ve been a very happy and loyal user. And the app developer replies promptly and courteously if you have an issue. And it’s FREE!!!!!

I’ve used this app for YEARS now and I can’t imagine trying to organize all my Christmas-ing without it!! It keeps the people organized, the gifts organized, even the stores organized so you never get lost among the bows and ribbons! I would HIGHLY recommend this app for anyone looking for a clearer, brighter, more jolly way to keep track of Christmas this year! :)

I’ve been using this app for years now! I love it because it keeps track of the previous years purchases (so you can remember who you bought for!) tracks gift ideas, if you bought the item online & if it was delivered, wrapped, & gifted! I’d love for them to make another app for annual friends & family birthdays!

I’ve been a user since 2012. Recently, the developer updated the app and something went wrong. I gave it one star and directly emailed the developer about my issues. All I can say is she was very prompt in her response and fixed the issues right away. She was very mindful about my experience and committed to fixing the problem. True enough, she messaged me to check if the problem was resolved, and now, I’m giving this app 5 stars for i am now able to use it and it has improved greatly! I still get issues with backing up files to the local drive (previously it only allows backup to Dropbox but it didn’t work either). Nevertheless, I’ve survived years without backup so this doesn’t hamper me from giving 2 thumbs up to this app. Seriously, if you need constant reminders of who to give gifts to or what you shouldn’t be giving them (sometimes we tend to give the same type of item over the years)... this is the ultimate perfect app for you. Wish it can also be made available on Android and to all users across the globe :)

The most recent update, I don’t like it at all. It’s supposed to look more clear and crisp, it comes across more crowded and busy. I’ve used this app for a few years, and now it’s honestly harder to navigate. The “purchased” option is now also gone, as well as room for notes. Bring back the old style please!

Love the app. Have used for many years but they got rid of the notes section for the gifts. Not too happy about that though..... I like to put the link to the gift there for my online shopping....

This will be my 3rd year using this for Christmas! It works perfect will all my shopping and planning. I love that you can personalize it with pictures. Definitely keeps me organized at Christmas!

This is one of my absolute favorite apps! I truly feel they have thought of every little aspect of Christmas shopping and included it in this app. I always recommend this app to friends and I use it year round. It’s so perfect for remembering the crap I bought year round and hid and forgot about🤣 they even have a spot for you to say where you hid the item! Freaking genius!

This app deserves 5 stars, but after the newest update, the app keeps force-quitting. I think it happens whenever you try to delete a gift from a list. Please fix that! Other than that, it’s a terrific app, perfect for the person that loves to keep their gift-giving organized (or for someone that needs some help doing so!).

Loved this app for years. Then this update comes along and deleted over 1/2 of my list of people. I had stored preferences for them and now I have to track all that info down again. Will not be continuing with this app.

I truly love this app, but do not have dropbox, I am not getting dropbox and I am so disappointed that it does not back up to iCloud. I lost all of my budgeting, lists, gifts purchased, everything on here twice because a phone problems, I wish it would back up to iCloud.

I reached out to tech support with no response, and the Dropbox system of backup does not work any longer due to Dropbox updates

I use this app every year and it is extremely helpful for organizing and relieves stress about Christmas shopping! The only feature it's missing is one that narrows down to telling you the recipients you have finished shopping for versus who you have left to buy for. Great app, extremely helpful!

I just downloaded this app, so no experience with it yet, but... Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Home Depot and Walmart apps, but it would be nice if there was a barcode scan feature for when collecting gift ideas.

Second Christmas using this app. Haven't found anything wrong with it yet! If I were to suggest any improvements, I'd say make it shareable (with customization, so you can share everything with your spouse or parent, except their gift list). But maybe that's a feature of the paid version. Also, I'd like the option to clear the whole gift list at the end of the season without going through each recipient individually and deleting every gift one by one. But really, these are VERY MINOR complaints. I really like this app and get a ton of use out of it!

I have used this app every single year and I still love it!! Easy to use and never a prob!

This is the my third year using Santa’s Bag. I archived my 2015 and 2016 Christmas purchases so I can see what I have people is the past and how much I spent on them. The developers thought of everything to keep shopping organized. There’s even a location field where you can track where you hid your gifts. You can distinguish between regular gifts and stocking stuffers. The app has been very reliable. I highly recommend.

I love this App. If you want to keep organized then this one is for you.

I’m an app junkie. Always looking for apps to do that, that or the other. Always tried to budget & track Christmas shopping before iPhones & apps and inevitably I’d fail. This is THE best app to help you organize your shopping & spending. So simple to use too. You start by adding recipients, add a gift for that person and then categorize the gift as an Idea, Purchased, Wrapped, Given. Even track if item is ordered. You can half use the app to just track purchases, but where I’ve found this helpful is using the gift categories. We’ve all done it..... forgetting to give someone a gift. This app has reminded me of something I forgot I bought. If you hide gifts, there’s even a spot to put the Location of the gift. You can also add details about the gift. Where purchased, price, even a photo of it. Amazing app!! As I’m writing this, there’s a feature I’d love (and to be honest, it may already do it), but I haven’t tried. I would love to see ability to sync the app with my wife. (We have a grocery list app that does that). This app is be far one of my favorite apps that makes my life easier!

Disappointed after paying $5.99 for pro that the last update was 3 years ago. I’ve used the app for all 3 of those years and it was my favorite app for planning and budgeting the holidays. After trying out a dozen other apps (at the time) only a couple came close to the features offered here, despite the sometimes confusing or clunky interface (surprisingly relevant as it’s an app used mostly once a year). In any case, I think it’s time to find an alternative to this app, especially with newer iOS updates eliminating availability of apps not updated to support it.

I never write reviews and this app is good enough that I couldn’t NOT write one!! This app is fantastically wonderful, it has made the Christmas season chaos a million times easier this year!! I’d love to use it for birthdays, anniversaries, and gift tracking for anything throughout the year too. Do you have another app that works the same for year round items? Or can the functionality be built into this one?? Looking forward to your answer! Merry Christmas 😊

This is seriously my favorite app on my phone. I hate to shop, much less keep up with everything for everyone in our entire family during Christmas. This is my third Christmas to use this app and it keeps getting better and better. It works flawlessly and has everything that I need to keep organized during such a crazy busy season. Thank you makers of this app!

This is, hands down, THE BEST, Christmas Gift manager out there. I’ve been using it for 3 years and thought I’d see if something better had been released this year...NOPE! Skip the others and download Santa’s Bag, you won’t be disappointed. :)

I use this app every year for Christmas to keep track of gifts and my spending. This app is great for both! It’s very organized and easy to use. I tried using a different gift tracker app and ended up coming back to this one. 5 stars all the way! 👍🏻

Not sure who all the other reviewers are related but they seem pretty proud of this app. If you plan a budget per person and then track how much you actually spend per person and want to know how your budget is doing this app is worthless. It calculates spending for gifts purchased and that’s it. The “dashboard” is a mess of irrelevant info. Keep it simple! This is what happens when the developers design their own interfaces. This looks like the back-end view of a computer server.

This was even better for me last year when one of my kids still “believed”. The fact that you can designate which items are stocking stuffers is great since I always need to make sure that Santa was fair to each kid and that we were fair to each kid. I don’t need to do that this year. But I love having one place for Christmas specific shopping list, and tracking which items I have bought, which were ordered but not in yet, and what I still need to buy. You can look at lists by store, check status for each recipient, so many great options. It has made organizing Christmas shopping so much easier! And it’s very easy to use. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

I’ve used this app for the last three years. I absolutely love it. It helps me keep track of ideas for gifts and it helps create a shopping list. The full version also lets you archive the gifts at the end of the year so you can always look back at what you purchased the next year and not repeat anything -very helpful if your shopping for a lot of kids in your family. I don’t think I’d make it through Christmas shopping without this app.

This helps with with organization. It also a great tool to keep a total on how much you are spending.

Spent a LOT of time entering all my recipients, sizes, gifts bought and gift ideas in my iPad because it's easier to use for a lot of entering. Took my iPhone shopping, but ABSOLUTELY NOTHING crosses over. Grrr.

I have used Santa’sBag for 4 years now. I’m using it again this year, even though it’s now unsupported. That’s how good it is. No other app compares. Using this app is very fluid. There are many ways to view your gifts. This app even supports Stocking Stuffers! Unfortunately, the app hasn’t been updated in over 3 years. The developers seem to have moved on. I’ve tried numerous ways of reaching them. It’s not a big deal. The only feature that doesn’t work is the backup to Dropbox. You can still archive gifts, but all data remains on your phone. If you upgrade your phone, and have to start from scratch (another story), all your data is gone. There’s no cloud data option. I would pay an annual subscription for this app. It’s that valuable to me. I’m pleading with the developer... Please consider supporting this app again!

So I started looking for a Christmas gift app. I downloaded 4 other apps before this one- all junk! Then this App- wow! Everything I could want, easy to use, expansive- even a list for stocking stuffers!! Christmas just got organized! So easy!! I love this app!!

This app is amazing, i can’t wait to use it this year!!! Only one thing that I’m worried about... I just got the new iPhone 10, and I want the app to look as gorgeous as my new phone does! Please update with support!!!

Neat for one person to organize and track expenditures. But for a husband-wife team coordinating gifts for our kids, family, and each other, the inability to share makes this app less useful than a generic list on my Alexa.

I had to replace my old gift app since it wasn’t supported anymore, and after testing several this was the clear winner! Very easy to use, well organized, hits all of the things I like to track. A few minor tweaks and this would be a full 5 stars! One is just a wee cosmetic change...more visual contrast between groups on the recipient page ;)...the pale gray on the group title background is too close to all of that white. Also, rather than just ‘in progress’ and ‘complete’, would love if a person could be taken to a ‘to be wrapped’ and ‘to ship’ status...I’ve worked around that for now by setting up groups (shop, wrap, ship), but would love to be able to click it off easily like the ‘complete’. And last request lol...within the recipient, a ‘santa’ section, to differentiate the gifts coming from Santa for the kiddos ;). Thanks for the great app!!

This helps us stay organized buying for Christmas, please add a way for multiple people to update in real time for 5 stars!!

I downloaded 3 apps to keep track of Christmas shopping and budgets. I deleted one almost immediately because it didn’t have enough features for me. Another one is great at keeping a lot of info all in one place, but it’s cumbersome, tedious to set up, and not intuitive at all. This app is just right! Pros: It’s intuitive, easy to navigate, can store a lot of information, and was simple to set up. The color scheme is bright and cheerful, and works on a subconscious level to keep me motivated, and make me happy. Love being able to switch items between Wish List and Gift Ideas. Easy to track what you’ve done and still need to do. Easy to add the same gift for multiple people. Two cons: 1- it’s a personal peeve really, but when you tying an item name, it capitalizes the first letter of every word. Drives me crazy. 2- no option for making or crafting gifts. My husband and I like to make personalized gifts. But when adding a gift, the only options are Idea and To Buy. I’d love to see an option To Craft, To Build, or To Make!! That would probably bump it to a 5-star for me! Info amendment- I’m only using the free version of the app right now, but I am tempted to upgrade for the archiving feature. I will update if I do.

This is the 3rd year in a row that I’m using this app to manage my budget and gifts for Christmas. I’ve downloaded & paid for other ones but keep coming back to this one!

I love this app and have been using it for years. Unfortunately the recent iOS updates seem to have caused some bugs. I can no longer add or edit notes for each recipient which is really annoying. Hope they fix it!

This app has made my Christmas shopping a breeze! I used to keep everything in a list on my phone, but this offers so much more. Not only can I keep track of who is getting what, it is so easy to see my shopping list if things I still need. It also helps with budgeting with a total Christmas budget as well as bidets for each recipient.

I love this app and have been using it for many many years. I really love the organizational skills and hom much you can customize it. The only one recommendation is that I would like to see all the gift pictures at once.

Unless I have done something wrong, I can’t share usage of this app with my husband. It would be a 5+ app if you could share recipients across user profiles, then my husband and I could manage purchases simultaneously and notify through the app when something was bought. It would also be amazing if when you shared usage, you could limit it to sharing specific recipients so he and I could have private recipients so we could manage purchases for each other without the other seeing. Great app but it really needs the sharing capability to meet my Christmas purchasing needs!

It's so organizing!😹I'll use it forever . Everyone should use it!!!

I truly love this app, but so disappointed that it does not back up to iCloud. Every year the update wipes out all of my budgeting, lists, gifts purchased, everything on here.

I hate writing reviews but felt the need to give this developer credit where credit is due. This app does everything but wrap the gifts for you. So here I am back again for the coming 2018 Christmas. I may need to add this is my third year using it. You set your budget and even have the option to put in already thought of gifts but not bought. Once bought you can add what store you bought it from, how much you paid and even wether it is already wrapped and where it is hidden. It has a password and adds up if you are on budget or over or under. You can’t ask a Christmas list app to do anything more than this already has. I will never do Christmas without it and if it came down to I had to, well I would just be lost, over budget and have a bunch of lost gifts. Thank you so much!

Didn't give it a 5 because every year, I have to delete the app and reinstall and re-enter all info because it won't let you delete or erase your list from year... annoying.. only way is to buy full app and I'm not doing that for once a year use... otherwise, I like it.

Christmas shopping is so much easier with this app! I can't do it without the app!