Today I’m releasing a new app: Woolly, a gift card tracker and manager. You add your cards with their numbers, PINs, and expiry dates; log purchases to keep balances up to date; and pin the cards you should spend before they expire. It tracks account balances by merchant, too — those store credits you always forget you have.
Woolly is free, and everything about it is deliberately small:
No server. Your data lives on your device and syncs privately through iCloud, with no account to sign up for. I can’t see your data, and that’s by design — card numbers and PINs are exactly the kind of thing that shouldn’t sit on someone’s server somewhere on the internet.
No subscription. Everything in the app is free, with a tip jar if you’d like to pitch in.
No sprawling feature list. It tracks gift cards and account balances, and it does that well.
A side note on why I’m building a small app like this: Woolly doubles as my playground for the new design language of iOS and iPadOS 26. Its small scope means I can try a Liquid Glass idea in the morning and ship or scrap it by the evening, without a big app’s worth of screens to retrofit. Whatever lessons I learn here will flow back into my bigger apps, where experiments are far more expensive.
If you’ve got a drawer of gift cards quietly marching toward their expiry dates, give Woolly a try on the App Store. May they never expire!