About Elfster

We help people give better gifts.

Elfster is the free way for friends, families, and coworkers to organize a Secret Santa, run any gift exchange, and build wishlists everyone can actually shop from — so the gift-giving part of the holidays stays fun instead of stressful.

We're the free way groups organize gift exchanges

It started as a way to keep one family's Secret Santa fair — no more repeat names pulled from a hat. Today, Elfster is where friends, families, coworkers, and clubs go to run every kind of group gift exchange and make sure everyone actually gets something they want.

Draw names fairly with the Secret Santa Generator, set up White Elephant, Yankee Swap, or dozens of other formats with the Gift Exchange Generator, and build a Wish List so nobody has to guess. For the parts of gifting that still happen on paper, there's a full set of Free Printables too.

🎅 Secret Santa🎁 Gift Exchanges📝 Wish Lists🖨️ Free Printables

It's all still free, the same way it was for that first family exchange back in 2000 — because the point was never to complicate gift-giving, just to make the group part of it easier.

47M+

Gift givers

50+

Countries

2000

Founded

100%

Free, always

Peter Imburg

Founder & CEO · LinkedIn

Meet The Team Responsible For The Elf Magic!

A small, dedicated team working year-round on gift exchanges, wishlists, and everything else that makes group gifting easier — so you don't have to think about it.