Cascabel
Secret Santa with no sign-ups: everyone gets a private link they open anywhere
Nobody has to sign up. Or give you their email.
Cascabel draws names for your Secret Santa and gives each person a private link. They open it in any browser and see who they're buying for. Only the organizer needs the app.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Type or paste the names. Say eight people: Ana, Luis, Marta, Pedro, Sofía, Diego, Carmen and Javi.
2. Add the rules. Ana and Luis are a couple, and so are Marta and Pedro, so they won't draw each other. Put a household together and nobody in it buys for someone under the same roof. Set the budget, the date and a message.
3. Tap Draw names, then Send next to each name: WhatsApp, Messages or email, whatever your group uses. The bar fills up: 5 of 8 have their link.
You can play too: Cascabel doesn't show you anyone else's match.
IF SOMEONE DROPS OUT
Pedro can't make it? Remove him and Cascabel fixes the draw by changing as few links as possible, usually just one. Someone joins late? Same thing. Nobody else has to start over.
Also included, free
- Couples, households, no mutual pairs, or one single circle so the gifts go round
- Budget, date, place and message you can change any time, even after the draw
- Gift hints for each person, sent with their giver's link
- Your own wish list to share with the group
- See it on this phone: pass the phone around at a party, each person sees only their own
- The big reveal on exchange day, one pair at a time
- Reminders on the day and for links you haven't sent yet
- As many participants as you like
WHAT CASCABEL DOESN'T DO
It doesn't ask anyone for an account or an email. It doesn't keep your group on a server: each result travels inside its own private link. It doesn't show you the pairs.
Premium: no ads, several exchanges at once, 6 more card designs and no repeats from past years.