Using GiftTracker without an account
You can use GiftTracker straight away, without signing up. When you first start using the app it quietly creates an anonymous session for you: your events, recipients and gifts are saved to the cloud so the app works offline and syncs between screens, but that data is attached only to a random ID generated on your device.
While you’re using the app as a guest:
- We don’t have your name, email address or any other contact details.
- Nothing you save is linked to your identity, and we can’t get in touch with you.
- The anonymous ID lives on your device only. If you lose your phone, reinstall the app, or switch to a new device, that data can’t be recovered. There’s no account to sign back in to.
The content you type in is still stored, of course: recipient names, gift ideas, notes, prices and any photos you add. So while we hold no personal information about you, you should assume anything you enter is saved in the cloud.
Creating an account
Creating an account is free and takes a few seconds. It gives you a proper backup, lets you sign in on another device, and unlocks custom gift statuses and the app lock.
- Open the More tab.
- Tap Create account (the button at the top, or the green Create an account row under “Why create an account?”).
- Choose Continue with Google / Continue with Apple, or tap Create account with email and enter your name, email address and a password.
- Optionally tick the box to receive occasional emails from us — it’s off by default and you can create an account without it.
Everything you added as a guest is carried straight over. Your existing events, recipients and gifts stay exactly as they are. Creating an account upgrades your anonymous session rather than starting a new one, so nothing is lost.
Once you have an account we store your name, your email address and your email preference alongside your gift data and app settings (language, default store, custom statuses).
Deleting your account and all of your data
You can delete your account, and everything stored with it, from inside the app:
- Open the More tab.
- Tap Account details under “Your account”.
- Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete account.
- Read the warnings and tap I understand.
- Confirm who you are: enter your password, or confirm with Google or Apple if that’s how you signed in. (This is a security step required before an account can be deleted.)
- Tap Delete account to finish.
Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone. It removes:
- your sign-in account,
- your profile (name, email address, email preference and app settings),
- all events, past and upcoming,
- all recipients,
- all gifts and gift ideas,
- any photos you uploaded.
The cleanup runs automatically on our servers as soon as the account is deleted — there’s nothing else you need to do, and no separate request to send.
Deleting your data if you never created an account
If you’re using GiftTracker as a guest, and haven’t yet created an account, we don’t have any personal information about you. But you may wish to delete your events, recipients, gifts, or any other information that you’ve entered into the app. You can do this by creating an account using the steps above, and then deleting the account using the steps above.
We cannot delete anonymous accounts for you. The data is not tied to an email address, so we cannot identify who the information belongs to.