Drawnames | Secret Santa app App Reviews

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Data collection. I almost never write reviews, but this was so bad with so many positive reviews that I felt compelled to try to balance things out. I wanted to do a drawing for a group of kiddos, none of which have emails, I just want a list of who buys for whom… this is not possible. Could have been so simple, this service unnecessary complicates it in order to get user data. Would rate it 0 out of 5 if possible.

Repeat users. We’ve used this app for the past three years and the family loves how easy it is for everyone!

Secret Santa. Used this app for my families secret Santa. Very easy and simple to use, straightforward. I didn’t need to get anyone’s email. just a copy and paste of the link. From then on, we each create a wishlist and then a pinwheel draws a name for us. Love it, will use future events

Easy Christmas. This was a well planned app. We are saving money this year by drawing names. With your app, you made life so much easier! Right down to adding stores and wish lists. Perfection!

Can’t Log in to Already Created Account. I’ve been using Draw Names via browser for years. I keep losing the browser page and having to find the link in my email each time so I downloaded the app to have it all set in one spot. However, there’s no way to log in to my account an view my current already drawn name and my group’s lists. Not being able to go back and forth between the app and the browser and vice versa seems like a huge drawback to me and unfortunately it means I can’t use the app at all. Very disappointed.

Best secret Santa app. This app really saves a lot of money, especially when you have a lot of people exchanging gifts. I love it I will continue to keep using this app.

Great concept, but needs a lot of work.. We created a whole thing for Family and it wasn’t working correctly for a couple of us. We had to delete it and when we logged back in we couldn’t sign in and go from where we started. It wanted us to start a whole new drawing.

Draw Names. Draw Names has been so useful in helping my family during the holidays. It’s helped us not spend so much money as well as given us a fun time in exchanging gifts. I’m glad my daughter found this app.

No more drawing from a hat. Love this app! No drawing from a hat and then putting a name back when you choose yourself or your own kids accidentally. Love that everyone can create a wish list to choose from!

The Best!!!. My family has been using DrawNames since 2013. It gets better by the years. I love the addition of the app. I look forward to using it.

Easy to Use- Makes Secret Santa a Breeze. I LOVE this app. My family first used this app last year. It is fun, easy to use, and I like the fact that you can put in certain exclusions (that certain people are barred from drawing specific names). Also, the random “picker” makes picking fun and game-like. Now that family are spread out in different atates, this makes the exchange not only possible but simple to carry out.

Pointless. I was excited when I saw that there was an app but when I realized I couldn’t look at my account with my groups on it it seems pointless. I see people in the reviews saying the same thing and the company responding back that it would be a good idea to add that in the future but I don’t see the point of even creating at this app without the main purpose being able to log in…… Whoever designed this app needs to go back to school

2023 Secret Santa List - Yvonne. A great way to draw name's for any occasion. I also like the wish list, that way the person who selected your name will buy something you really want or need. Thank You.

Good app. I wasn’t able to be with my family physically so I decided to use this app to decide what we would get each other for Christmas 🥰😊

Seems great but has issues. Seems that the App offers a way to connect out of town family/friends to virtually pick a secret Santa or Grab bag Name. You can select the participants, set up exclusions & include your wish list. The issue - I followed the steps to delete a “celebration” but it does not work. So now, the participants are getting g different invites. Ugh

Perfect Solution!. This app takes away a lot of stress! Easy to use, keeps it simple and yet amazing shopping tool. I was surprised it allowed me to choose the exact item I wanted, size and color. It easy to search for specific items and also gave some suggestions of things that fit me well.

Love the wish list But!. Great way to draw names when everyone is spread out and won’t be together before the event. The wish list is great but you can’t click on it to get a better look or change color and size. You need to be able to type a note with the item. So the giver knows exactly what you want.

Facilitates. I love how it makes it so easy to get and buy a gift for the person knowing that it’s still a surprise but ALSO that you are sure that they will love it!

App works well…BUT inappropriate suggestions. The app is great, however, when one of my my family members was searching for wish list ideas, she came across a bizarre book on “Premature ejaculation” as well as a disturbing sex toy. Both were tucked into very benign places you would absolutely NOT expect to find such a suggestion. Nothing wrong with people wishing for these kinds of gifts, but, there should be a warning label. So: for name drawing; A+ Wish List suggestions; F-

So easy to use. Our family loves this app and how easy and fun it makes our family secret Santa. The best part is that nobody knows who has who, the app keeps track

Wishful thinking. We use this app last year for Christmas. One issue I had with the app is I wish I could have two or three different groups. Like we did a drawing for my family and I was telling people at work, we should use the same app to draw. But I was unable to look at the family list, or the work list without loosing the opposite list.

Fun and easy. This is a great app. Super easy and fun…. And I love the options for a wish list that has items under the amount we chose!

Great tool!. Perfect. Awesome features, like “exclusions” and setting the gift amount. So simple but has exactly what’s needed. Great to be able to easily draw names as adults who don’t live super close to each other! (And easier to not lose track of whose name you got.). Big thumbs up. Two thumbs up.

Family name draw for Christmas. We’ve been using this app for many years now. It’s easy and fun. I really like the wish list option!

Really great app. First time using it for our family Secret Santa and so easy to set up and the best part is that you’re able to make a wishlist. Everyone in the family is loving it too lol

Love this app!!. My family truly enjoyed everything about this app. You guys made it so easy to do Secret Santa this year. And it wasn’t filled with a lot of ads. So clean and user friendly for older members

Highly recommend. I been using this app for 3 years already it’s super easy to use just share the link after collecting all names. You or anyone participating can do a wish list and it’s just super convenient. Definitely recommend to anyone interested in doing secret Santa :)

Really like the app!. I really like the app and it’s very simple to use. I had ideas on how to improve the app and messaged the creators and they emailed me almost immediately with help and feedback. Their customer service is what people dream of! I expect this app to make some changes and really do well!

App and Website don’t work together at all. Hello, I joined a secret Santa with my friends through a website link. After I had joined I could not access the group through the app because I had “already joined” the group. This was infuriating because I had just made my wishlist on the app without it ever telling me that I had no access to my secret Santa group. Even logging in did not help because I had not logged in on the website when given the link because it had not offered. This is just really upsetting and disappointing for an app with so much potential. The developers somehow just really messed up an idea that could work well.

Really awesome specialized app. Who would think some one would create a Secret Santa App??? This is an awesome app for managing a gift exchange. Just create a name for your celebration, add participants and exclusion rules (ie people is same household cannot draw each others names) and easily send invitations by email, text or whatever. The ability for each person to create their own wish list is just brilliant. Great job!

Easy. Well this has made Christmas so much better easier! The family is loving this way of doing Christmas presents and saving money while doing it!

Awesomeriffic!!!!!. I am NOTTT an app type person. I’m partial to write a name on piece of torn paper, shake a hat pull a name. This app….easy to use understand and drumroll….FUN!!!!! Also I could easily see the screen without my glasses and DID NOT have to enlarge it…. When the “name selection” took place felt as if on a game show. The anticipation, build up of excitement. Then the confetti Awesomeness

Makes Holiday Gift Giving Better. I have multiple holiday parties that use drawing names for gift giving. This app makes it so easy and convenient.

Pretty Cool. My sister found this app for our family to exchange names for secret Santa gift exchange. I’m usually not too savvy with apps and technology. I must admit this app is super user-friendly, fun, easy and overall awesome!

My Family. For years my family was drawing names from a bowl. There were so many times that one of us would get their own name and have to put the pieces of paper back in the bowl. Once I think we had to do it four or five times to get it right. Drawnames is so easy because we are spread out in different states, and you never get your own name. Thank you to whoever created the app.

This is exciting. This is easy and fun to be able to get a large groups drawings done and without putting additional stress on the person who was organizing this.

Takes the hassle out of Christmas. Totally worth it especially with friends or family long distance! Plus the wishlist part makes picking out a good gift easy.

Cool!. So far this is a pretty cool app! I’ve yet to see how it’s working on my other participants end but I love it! It’s simple, graphics look good and it’s convenient! Thank you for creating this!

Christmas gifts. Great way to buy for people who are hard to buy for. This is the 1st time we have used this APP. Will use it again.

Great app, even greater customer service. i’ve been using this website for years and happy to see it as an app. I recently had a problem with seeing the wishlist items, but they were quick to fix the problem and let me know. I can’t wait to keep using this app for years to come :)

A+. Fantastic app! Have been using site for years so happy to see an app available and it just keeps getting easier and more efficient year by year. Keep up the good work!

Used a few years, works great. I’ve used this app for a few secret Santa-style gift drawings and it’s worked great. You can use previous lists from prior drawings, set exclusions for siblings etc and enter gift suggestions and lists, with links.

Yearly Adult Gift Exchange. We have used this app for many years to allow the adults in our family the opportunity to exchange gifts. It is much more affordable to by one or two gifts at a higher budget than buying a gift for each adult under $50.

Can’t use the app on more than one device. I downloaded the app from an invitation I received from my niece. I use my tablet for just about everything since the screen is larger. I went to the store and needed to see what the persons name I drew but can’t access the app. I needed to see their wish list to make sure I was getting something they asked for. I don’t want to have to carry my big tablet into a store. I would rather use my phone which I carry everywhere. It would be nice to be able to use the app across a phone and tablet.

Great app. My family has been using the site for a couple of years now, and it's been awesome. I only just downloaded the app, but a quick look through makes it obvious it's well-organized and easy to use. I actually look forward to name draws now!

Poor execution. This app doesn’t make much sense to me. My family has been using DrawNames for a long time. I always thought an app would be so helpful. The problem here is I can’t login and I can’t get access to the celebrations already in progress. Hopefully this will get resolved soon. I would love to be able to use it during this holiday season!

So friggin AWESOME!!!!. I tried this app on the recommendation of a cousin. I LOVE IT!!! I haven’t made my purchase yet but when I tell you that this app made my day for exchanging across the States is NOT simple!!!! Thanks.

Drawing names for secret Santa. This is my first time using this app. My brother invited me to join because we always do a secret Santa each Christmas. It was really easy to set up. I also really like that we can add a wishlist for our secret Santa to see. My only criticism is that I felt like my choices for my wishlist were limited. I’m not sure if it was because I entered my gender and age and that really shrunk my choices.

Confused. I got this app to do a gift exchange with my friends but after a few days of having the app I went to look at my friends wishlists and the app said something went wrong and I kept trying but I couldn’t get it to work. I asked my friends if they were also having this problem and they said yes. I hope this problem can be resolved because this app was much better than others I have tried.

Almost perfect!. Doing two families, you can’t exclude your other family names. You might still end up with your spouse or children.

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Best group app!. This app is a time saver! Third year in a row we are using it for our family Kk! It ensures the same people are not randomly picked as the year before and it connects straight to Amazon where you can make a wish list for your secret Santa to choose something for! Satisfaction guaranteed!! Highly recommend this app!!

Too good to be true. I have used the website of this for many years and this year my group has migrated to the app. This is amazingly convenient. I get notifications when my person updates anything, most stuff in on Amazon which is easy coz I have Amazon prime, and it gives me any ideas for what to get my person. So glad these guys have done this.

Very Disappointing.. I put 8 things on my list this year, and my gift giver could only see the word “ lights”. (Which was not a word on my list). Hence that was translated to and I was given a candle. One of the 8 items on my list said ‘no candles please I have plenty’. So disappointing when I only received 2 gifts this year.

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More annoying to install than it should be. I got sent a link by text for this app. But the link was not clickable, so copy and paste. First strike. I could only copy the entire text. So paste to notes, then select copy paste to get to the site. Strike 2. Then, once I got the app installed, instead of taking me to the group, I had to go back to the invitation link to actually get into my secret Santa group.

Makes everything easier. Straightforward function

Not working correctly. Made my event, added my members(7) , 5 of us got on and started no problem….3 hours later someone tries to accept their invite and they get an error saying they’ve already been accounted for…I as organizer go an select that name & see the wish list of another member is somehow attached to the other members name now..one wish list..2 different members with the unjoined member being denied access 🤔 SO, I delete the members name having issues, and it unselected a different members draw now, fair enough. I re-add the member who was being denied access, and bam, they get in (woohoo!) except no, no, the joy is short lived. Now I have my 7 members , only 1 hasn’t joined & dawn a name …YET only 5 of us are showing up as having drawn, and 2 are showing as having not drawn yet…only 1 of those 2 is valid…the other is NOT….the other is the group member who was made to REDRAW a name after I had to remove and re-add the first member that was having difficulty…and that member is back In the "hasn't drawn yet" portion of the list again despite having drawn and knowing who they're buying for ...and is unable to see their picks wish list....it's also showing on their end that only 2 members have drawn ...and that the 5 who HAVE drawn have not...so this app is extremely buggy and I can't figure out how to fix this without recreating the whole damn event , resending invites and creating our wish lists all over again...why would we want to do that!? So lame. What a let down. Developer , pls let me know what to do to fix this situation, or take this app off the market. It isn't working correctly, period.

Just draw names on paper.. This app ruined our Christmas exchange, it generated two people giving a present to one person. Leaving one person getting no gift. Absolutely killed the holiday spirit.

Do not use!. App doesn’t work at all- my family drew names and it turned out two of us drew the same name.. resulting in someone getting no gift… AVOID!!!!!

App is not as good as website. It's not letting me sign in to my account. Better to use with website

Easy and straightforward. Very easy to use for everyone and simplified the process immensely!!

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Not working. I have downloaded this app repeatedly and it still tells me something went wrong try again. I’ve already chosen my name. I hate to have to start over but it will not work. Others in my group can not open it either.

Repeat users. We’ve used this app for the past three years and the family loves how easy it is for everyone!

Easy app. Really enjoy this app with all my coworkers and it’s user friendly 🤩

Secret Santa. Totally enjoying the ease of use, and anonymity this app provides!!! This completely takes the guesswork out of what to purchase! Life saver, thanks!!!

Christmas Draw Name. Very excited to find this app to do our Christmas draw names. It is such a great way to make it fair, fun, and organized.

Awesome app. Pretty awesome app easy to use no complicated registration nice and easy like all things should be.

Christmas 2023. This app is user friendly! Had fun looking around the app!

Christmas. This is an awesome app to use! User friendly for those that don’t do tech

Dream Team Pickleballers. App is easy to use. I would definitely recommend it.

Great app but could not add group member. This is a really good app but I forgot to add a group member and it would not let me add them now I have to use a different app for Secret Santa.

No sign in. It doesn’t let me sign in to let me see my current secret Santa I’m signed up for on my laptop. Please include sign in option

Best secret Santa app. This app really saves a lot of money, especially when you have a lot of people exchanging gifts. I love it I will continue to keep using this app.

Pat. It was hard for me to get in to pick my gift. Something about bad address in safari. Then I had to figure out how to select a name.

Great concept, but needs a lot of work.. We created a whole thing for Family and it wasn’t working correctly for a couple of us. We had to delete it and when we logged back in we couldn’t sign in and go from where we started. It wanted us to start a whole new drawing.

Awesome and easy. Very easy to use and takes the hassle of coming up with how to do it, kudos to the developer!

Organizer Exclusion Needed. This app needs the option to exclude the organizer. As the mom of a large family, I wanted to organize the draw, but not be included. This app does not allow for that planning.

Family. I love the Pollyanna app. It’s our 3rd year and we’ve saved a lot of unnecessary spending. I recommend it to everyone

Question. Is it possible to add participants once you’ve already made a list and sent out invitations?

Fun and easy. This is a great app. Super easy and fun…. And I love the options for a wish list that has items under the amount we chose!

Love it!. I use it every year! this will be my 4th year using it for XMAS 🤍 easy to use! recommended it to my friends & fam :)

Crashing like crazy. The app keeps crashing, like, an insane amount of times. Deleted and installed several times and every time I get just a little bit further in the name drawing process, it crashes. I’m up to the where the selector is about to land on a name and, as soon it does, it immediately crashes afterward.

KISS. Keep it simple stupid, make the holidays less stressful. Works with the office, family, friends etc…

This apps the bomb!. Think this great idea. Wish I had thought of it!

Amazing app. I don’t usually write reviews, but this app is terrific. Super convenient and makes secret Santa easy and fun. 10/10 would recommend.

Constantly bugs you about rating it.. I’ve had the app for an hour and looked at it for maybe 10 min of that hour and been asked to rate it 3 times. Here’s your rating jerks. All in all the app seams ok but I hate The stupid “rate me” pop up its annoying as I haven’t had time to really use the app so one star.

Great help for holidays!. This is easy to use and communicate between friends and family!

Great potential. This app would be amazing if it let you sign in to your already created lists. I’m using it on a web browser for now but hope this will be updated soon!

Fun!. This is a fun and easy way to draw names for gifts for those across the miles! Great idea!

Christmas Made Easy!. We love this app. It allows you to get what they want.

Um.. Great idea, although execution could be worked on. All we need is for the app to be exactly like the website, just adding that you could use your one account to view multiple grab bags that you are in with that email/account. So yes please just make it like the website! Thanks

Amazing app. So we’ll thought through!!! Definitely should download

Love it! Tis the season to be jolly!. It keeps me and my family connected during the holidays no matter where we are!

Very Useful. This app takes the guess work out of wether the distribution of names are being handled fairly or not. 😃

Weird app glitch. It’s a good app and works pretty well but it deleted itself from my phone like five times and also removed all my wishlist things and secret Santa names it’s really annoying.

No bio section or extra info notes option. I want to be able to include info like sizing, shoe sizing, colors, plan B colors in case one is unavailable. Also extra notes and details for items I also want to know for my friends’ stuff because J don’t want to ask them it will ruin the surprise. Fix please.

The Best!!!. My family has been using DrawNames since 2013. It gets better by the years. I love the addition of the app. I look forward to using it.

Christmas gifts. Great way to buy for people who are hard to buy for. This is the 1st time we have used this APP. Will use it again.

Good app. I wasn’t able to be with my family physically so I decided to use this app to decide what we would get each other for Christmas 🥰😊

Happy. I love this app would definitely use in other groups

Amazing. I love this! It’s a perfect way to connect with people your not always with

Poor execution. This app doesn’t make much sense to me. My family has been using DrawNames for a long time. I always thought an app would be so helpful. The problem here is I can’t login and I can’t get access to the celebrations already in progress. Hopefully this will get resolved soon. I would love to be able to use it during this holiday season!

So friggin AWESOME!!!!. I tried this app on the recommendation of a cousin. I LOVE IT!!! I haven’t made my purchase yet but when I tell you that this app made my day for exchanging across the States is NOT simple!!!! Thanks.

So easy. So easy to set up and use! Makes getting a group together fun and easy!

Makes Holiday Gift Giving Better. I have multiple holiday parties that use drawing names for gift giving. This app makes it so easy and convenient.

Mrs. Jones. I love this app! I use it every year for my family secret Santa that consist of 20 plus people. It’s very user friendly for all ages.

Love it. Easy to use. Highly recommend it

Only works occasionally. Keep getting “oops….something went wrong “ several times before the app works

Cool!. So far this is a pretty cool app! I’ve yet to see how it’s working on my other participants end but I love it! It’s simple, graphics look good and it’s convenient! Thank you for creating this!

Suggestions. I wish I could us the same list of names when creating a new celebration. And not have to reenter names again

Family fun. It makes Christmas less stressful for the young adults and everyone gets something they want!