Gift Exchange Generator: No Email, Secret or Not
Type the names, keep each household apart, then choose: show the whole list here to copy or print, or give each person a private link. No email addresses, no account.
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1 People Example
Use new lines or commas, or paste from a spreadsheet or chat. Review names before importing. Optional couples: Alice + Bob or Alice & Bob.
Nothing is added until you press Add. Change a name, remove anyone who shouldn't be here, and look under Left out for anything that should be a name.
No one yet.
Six made-up names and one couple. Nothing is saved.
Four steps
- Add namesType or paste them.
- Rules optionalKeep couples apart.
- Details optionalBudget, date and a note.
- Draw and sendEach person gets a private link.
First time? How to do Secret Santa online shows each step with screenshots.
2 Couples & exclusion rules Optional
Set rules for couples/exclusions below. If everyone can draw anyone else, continue to draw. You can add a budget and date first.
For couples, housemates, or last year's pairs.
Add at least two people in step 1 first. Then choose here who shouldn't draw whom.
Couples on one line with a plus sign, like Anna + Ben, are kept apart automatically.
Import last year's pairs
Paste one giver and recipient per line, like Anna -> Ben, or two columns copied from a spreadsheet. Review first, then import one-way exclusions. Pairs involving people outside this draw are left out.
3 Details Optional
Budget, date and the shared note appear on everyone's card.
Gift wishes for each person Optional
Collect wishes before drawing. Each person's wishes appear on their gift buyer's private card. Anyone holding that whole link, including the organizer, can read them. Keep addresses and private contact details out.
Saved on this organizer's device as you type. Changes after drawing need a new draw and new links; wishes on already-sent links do not update. A public draw shows pairs only, so share wishes separately.
This date won't be on the cards. Enter the whole date, with a year from 2000 on.
0 of 200 characters
Their cards will never show ads or shopping links.
4 Draw and send
Links for draw
Your rules allow only one possible draw, so anyone who knows the rules can work out every match. To keep it a surprise, remove a rule or add someone, then draw again.
Send each person only their own link. The pairs aren't shown anywhere on this page, but each link opens that person's match, so if you're taking part, open only your own. Don't show this page to anyone else, even in a screenshot or a screen share: a photo of a link is enough to open it.
Links are left off this printout. Send each person their link from this page.
All links in one message
For your notes, or to forward one at a time. If you post this in a group chat, anyone could open anyone's link.
Who gives to whom
| Giver | Gives to |
|---|
This list isn't saved anywhere. Copy it or print it before you leave the page.
After sending
This browser keeps the links, so anyone who uses it could open them here. Once everyone has theirs, remove them. You won't see them again; if someone loses theirs, you'll need to draw again.
Links removed from this device
The links for draw (code ) are no longer kept here. They still work for the people you sent them to. If someone lost theirs, draw again and send everyone a new link.
If you copied any of them, they can still be on this device's clipboard, or in its clipboard history if it keeps one. Copy something else to replace them, and delete them from the history.
Can You Use a Gift Exchange Generator With No Email?
Yes. Neither the organizer nor participants need an email address or an account here. Use Secret for individual result links you deliver by private chat or text, or Not secret for the whole giver-and-recipient list to copy or print. Both modes keep people from drawing themselves and follow your household exclusion rules.
For a list from a spreadsheet or chat, paste it into Paste Name List, review the names, and confirm the import. Then check the couple or exclusion rules before drawing. The optional Email button opens your own email app; the generator sends nothing automatically. To prepare the event as well as the draw, follow the remote gift exchange guide.
Gift Exchange Generator, Not Secret: Show the Whole List
Choose Not secret at the top of the draw, add the names and press Draw names. The list appears as a table, Giver and Gives to, with the budget, date and note above it. Copy list gives you plain lines such as "Anna gives to Cara", ready to paste into a family chat or an email. Print list prints the table and nothing else.
An open list suits a family where parents shop for the younger children, a grandparent who needs to know where to mail a parcel, or a small group that plans gifts together. It is also the honest choice for groups of 3: three people have only two possible draws, so each of them can work out the whole list from their own match. And if your family would rather each bring one gift and trade, that is a White Elephant swap, which needs a turn order, not a name draw.
The list isn't saved and isn't put in any link. Change a name or leave the page and it is gone, so copy or print it first. To keep the matches secret instead, choose Secret: each person gets a private link, as with our Secret Santa name generator, and their card says Gift exchange. You can send each link on WhatsApp, by text or by email.
Gift Exchange Generator With Exclusions for Households
Type each household on one line with plus signs, like Anna + Ben + Leo, and nobody draws someone from their own line. Everyone else gets a line of their own. For a rule between two people who don't live together, such as last year's pairs, add it in step 2, one way or both ways. Who buys for the children, and whether they draw at all, is covered in family Secret Santa rules. Settle how much to spend before the draw, so the figure is on the list or on every card.
A household can be too big for the group, so check whether your household rules can work before you collect the names. A draw works only when no household holds more than half the people: a household of four in a group of seven needs four people outside it to give to, and there are only three. We checked that rule against every way of splitting 2 to 10 people into households. If your list breaks it, the page says who is stuck before anyone gets a link.
Pollyanna Gift Exchange Generator
Some families call their draw a Pollyanna. It runs the same way here: households on one line, then Secret or Not secret. The cards say Gift exchange.
How Do People Receive Their Gift Exchange Results?
With Not secret, copy or print the list and share it with the group; everyone who sees it knows all the matches. With Secret, send each person only the link beside their own name. WhatsApp and Text open your own apps with the message written, or copy the link into a private chat. Relatives who never check email can take part. If the group includes children under 13, tick the box in step 3, and their cards will never show ads or shopping links.
How to Create a Gift Exchange
Four decisions cover most family exchanges. Make them in this order:
| Decide | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Who is in, and who lives together | Step 1: one line per household |
| The budget and the day you swap | Step 3: shown above the list and on every card |
| Secret or not | The switch at the top |
| How people find out | Print or copy the list, or send each link |
In Secret mode, add each person's gift wishes before drawing; their gift buyer sees them on the private card. Not secret mode prints the pairs only, so share wishes separately or use the note to say where they are, such as "Wish lists in the family chat by December 1." If someone drops out after the draw, draw again and share the new list or the new links.
Is There a Name Randomizer I Can Use for a Gift Exchange?
A plain name randomizer shuffles a list or picks one name at a time. For a gift exchange that goes wrong twice over: it can hand someone their own name, and it knows nothing about households. This page is a name randomizer built for a Christmas gift exchange. Nobody gets themselves, household rules always hold, and every draw your rules allow is equally likely, using your browser's cryptographic random numbers. The one exception, very tight rules in a group of more than 16, gets close to equal instead; the about page explains how the draw stays fair.
It doesn't force one big circle where each person gives to the next. Two people can draw each other, just as they can when names come out of a hat. If your family wants a single circle, this page can't make one.