Add everyone in your circle, keep couples and households apart, then send each person a private link that shows only who they are buying for. No sign-up, no emails collected.
Your name has been drawn. Check that nobody is looking over your shoulder, then reveal who you are giving a present to.
You are giving a present to
Your draw appears here: one private link per person, ready to copy and send. Nobody's match is shown on this screen unless you ask for it.
The list has changed since this draw. Press Draw names to draw again.
Organiser's view. If you are taking part, look away now.
Drawing again makes new matches. Links sent from an earlier draw keep showing the earlier match, so resend every link after a redraw.
Each draw uses your browser's cryptographic random number generator. The tool shuffles the whole group and keeps the result only if nobody has themselves and every household and exclusion holds. Repeating until one fits makes every allowed arrangement equally likely. If the rules are very tight, it switches to a step-by-step search, and if no arrangement can exist, it names the people who are stuck, for example three housemates who could only give to one other person.
There is no server and no account. Each match is stored in the link itself, after the # sign, which browsers do not send to websites. It is scrambled so a name does not show up in a chat preview, but this is not encryption: anyone holding a link, the organiser included, could decode it. Your list and last draw stay in this browser so you can resend a lost link.
Each tool has its own page and works offline once loaded.
Two free tools from elsewhere that come in handy when you organise presents online.
Signing up to a wishlist site or a one-off shop account for this year's exchange? CleanTempMail gives you a temporary address with no sign-up. Its inbox deletes itself after three days, so the follow-up newsletters never reach you.
Open a temporary inboxFound the perfect present on a site nobody has heard of? WebTraceCheck's free domain lookup shows when the shop's domain was registered, and its disposable cloud browser lets you open a doubtful link on a remote machine instead of yours.
Look up a shop's domainYes. Add yourself like anyone else and do not press Show all matches. The list of links shows names only, not who drew whom.
Come back on the same device: your last draw is kept, so you can copy their link again. Drawing again would change everyone's match.
Some combinations of households and exclusions leave someone with nobody to buy for. The message names the people involved, so you can remove one exclusion and try again.