Have you been thinking about the perfect gift for your best friend? But her birthday isn’t for another eight months, and you don’t care much for paperwork? Gift Idea is the best solution for you— but beware of updates!
In the settings (via Home -> Settings), you can specify some details; unfortunately, this is entirely in English. Among other things, you can specify whether you want to display photos of the “birthday children” or whether you only see those whose birthdays are within the next 14 days. This can be useful if you have a lot of contacts.
Then we get to the actual function: entering gifts.
To do this, you have to click the “+” in the top right of the program’s home screen and then you can first upload a picture, if you want. Either one from the memory or take a photo of the gift on the spot for later remembrance. Then you name the gift, and as a final step, you add the eventual “recipient” of the gift. Unfortunately, this only works with contacts from the address book. If the date of birth is also uploaded here, you will be shown when the person’s birthday is (and in how many days).
Weaknesses of the program: While you can edit existing entries, if you want to change even a single letter in the gift description, Gift Idea deletes the entire text. Therefore, it’s not possible to add text later; you have to rewrite it completely.
Then Gift Idea had already been updated – and what happened? All my entries were gone! It’s not possible to back them up or synchronize them.
-Advantages and disadvantages-
+ Displays the days until birth date if stored, otherwise only the name from the address book
+ Use your own photos for gifts (so you can quickly take a photo in the store)
+ Very practical!
+ Fair price
– Person must be in the address book, no free (new) entries possible
– no backup of data / synchronization possible
– after update all data was lost
-CONCLUSION-
Gift Idea is pretty cool, but synchronization or a backup would be great.