--- title: "Special Gift Cards - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in Australia | Apple App Store" description: "Find the perfect Gift Card with Special Gift Cards. Give someone you care about a gift from our huge range of Gift Cards. Special Gift Cards can be spent at thousands of places, both large and small" --- # Special Gift Cards — Australia > The Gift Card For Every•Thing ![Special Gift Cards App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/49/0f/d2/490fd227-bdab-4647-0924-8b32393ba6e1/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [SPECIAL.COM.AU PTY](https://apptail.io/developer/specialcomau-pty-PRJc) **Category:** Shopping **Rating:** 2.6/5 (141 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** au.com.special.ios **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** Australia **Version:** 1.7.5 (released 2026-02-26) **Original Release:** 2022-02-22 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/app/id1585917288) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/special-gift-cards-dPKb/australia](https://apptail.io/app/special-gift-cards-dPKb/australia) ## Special Gift Cards Description Find the perfect Gift Card with Special Gift Cards. Give someone you care about a gift from our huge range of Gift Cards. Special Gift Cards can be spent at thousands of places, both large and small, in-store and online, across Australia. You aren’t locked in to a handful of specific major retailers. GIVING A SPECIAL GIFT CARD Find the perfect gift From big brands to local heroes, Special Gift Cards can be used at retailers of all kinds across Australia – online and in-store. Turn up the fun Choose a Gift Cards design and celebration animation that plays when the gift is opened. Say something Special with a personal message. Schedule for a Special occasion Buy a gift today, then schedule delivery for the day and time that means the most. Show someone they’re Special Surprise and delight with a virtually wrapped Gift Card, they can unwrap and spend on something they like from a place they love. RECEIVING A SPECIAL GIFT CARD Signed, sealed, delivered All Gift Cards are sent digitally via email or SMS, complete with a personalised message. Something exciting is inside Gifts are sent virtually wrapped with customisable unwrapping animations and graphics. Spend in-store or online Gift Cards can be spent in participating stores using a smartphone wallet, or by entering card details to shop online. Gifts designed to be loved From big brands to local heroes, Special Gift Cards can be used at businesses of all kinds. They're made to make people feel Special. ## Special Gift Cards Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/23/eb/51/23eb511e-07c4-0692-e026-4af47104f597/21cdb470-f815-4891-bca8-8e8ff0440c24_1242x2688_1.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/91/8c/aa/918caa0e-ab04-121b-f3b7-952e1a9efa0a/7474885c-0dae-4d5d-a1bd-0640f89e1647_1242x2688_2.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/6f/21/04/6f2104fb-9ad9-4fb1-2879-064de91ed72f/5781d3c4-825d-4feb-a034-c406dd5c7e01_1242x2688_3.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/de/dd/6e/dedd6e66-9214-c2fb-28b9-207832120276/a359e1d4-7f50-4c8b-8e34-0a2da1300a82_1242x2688_4.jpg/1242x2688.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple116/v4/ee/36/ba/ee36ba08-5908-9c95-165e-dbc0a2139358/a161d3ac-4012-442d-8e10-7d36969f796d_1242x2688_5.jpg/1242x2688.png) ## Special Gift Cards Rating Breakdown in Australia - 5 stars: 49 (35%) - 4 stars: 3 (2%) - 3 stars: 4 (3%) - 2 stars: 7 (5%) - 1 stars: 78 (55%) ## Special Gift Cards Reviews in Australia ### *---- "Data harvesting" First of all, as other reviews have pointed out, these aren’t gift cards, they’re prepaid debit cards limited to specific retailers. Secondly, to use the cards both the sender and the recipient have to make accounts. Not just that, but to use the card you have to download their app. Never again. -- cricketfan786, 2024-12-30 ### **--- "Logged out everytime" Every time after I close the app, next time it asks me to login again, this is supposed to be a basic and essential function, please ask your dev team to fix. -- Peter Ye, 2024-12-02 ### *---- "Trash buggy app" If you switch apps partway through to check on something, then switch back, the app says you are offline and deletes your entire checkout journey, you have to start again. 90% of checkouts failed because the card was declined, the other 10% because of the above issue. The website’s hardly any better. About 8 attempts with declined card, but trying the same card the next day worked. Compared to Coles’ gift cards site giftcards.com.au, this Woolworths version is absolute trash -- dabaobaozi, 2024-11-29 ### *---- "DO NOT USE IT!" Avoid at all cost, waste of time -- ReviewerKkkk, 2024-11-29 ### *---- "Do not buy their giftcard" Bought $200 giftcard, downloaded Special app to be able to activate it. But once i added it to my apple wallet, it asked me to verify the card which i did but nothing happens. I am unable to use this card now. stay away from Special. -- TheInsurgent13, 2024-10-14 ### *---- "Do not buy their gift cards" This company does not sell gift cards, they sell third party pre-paid credit cards that are locked to one vendor. This makes it impossible to use online unless you know the exact price before purchasing. Avoid at all costs. -- fatallyours, 2024-07-29 ### *---- "Don’t bother" Spent money on a card that did not arrive and now have to wait a week for them to put the money back in my account. Complete inconvenience and short of money now for a week. Stay away from this company a refund should not take this long anymore! I hope someone from NAB see this and the bank distances themselves from this company as well! -- jtg81, 2024-07-18 ### *---- "Identity hogs" What rubbish. I buy discounted gift cards for myself all the time. This process doesn’t allow for this and assumes that it’s a present. The gift cards from this mob aren’t traditional gift cards. The recipient must create a Special account to activate it. I always buy discounted Woolworths cards and bought one from here due to a partner offer. The ‘card’ that I received wasn’t a typical card that I can add to my Woolworths app, it came with two methods of spending; a credit card number/expiry/CCV for online or Apple/Google wallet WHICH CAN ONLY BE ADDED VIA THEIR APP!! They don’t need to do it this way they just want to so the recipient has to hand over their personal information and install their app. App will be uninstalled soon and account deleted. AVOID! -- Lexdon hdihdudrifdvib, 2024-06-30 ### ***-- "Need to sign in every time" Good app but constantly need to sign in. Also the error message you get when resetting your password is wrong. My password wasn’t strong enough but it says my SMS authentication code was wrong instead. Very confusing. -- Nicholas_Nara, 2024-04-30 ### ***-- "I want a feature to remove the card from app" Currently the app can’t do it -- tianhao_tt, 2024-04-02 ### *---- "App instantly crashes" Logged me out, trying to login to verify the balance of my gift card, now the app crashes straight away after opening, I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app. -- CheersVB, 2024-03-30 ### *---- "Sign in" Needing always to sign in. Biometrics / Face ID never work so not sure why there is even an option to enable this -- Shaky101, 2024-03-28 ### *---- "Difficult to use" The gift cards aren’t proper gift cards: they are like credit cards locked to a store. You also need to download app and jump through a lot of hoops to get your card. Wouldn’t recommend -- Aspara2, 2024-02-24 ### *---- "Absurd." The gift cards issued are not standard, they’re only meant to be used by someone with a smartphone, this app and active Apple or Google pay. Plus, the amount of steps needed (including having to download this app) to just buy and claim a gift card are insane and seem unnecessary when I can complete the same process with other retailers in a 1/4 of the time. Might be worth to check out Prezzee to see if they have the card you’re looking for. -- JavierM1, 2024-02-18 ### *---- "Bad experience" Had a really bad experience with this app and company. My partner bought us a Woolworths gift card with a special promotion and it has been the worst experience to use it. (I've had many WW gift cards before but this one through Special Gift Cards was horrible) It comes as a credit card which is almost impossible to use at Woolworths online (vs a gift voucher) - you need to use the EXACT amount or LESS - then you have a balance you need to use EXACTLY or you'll always have a balance - WW online you can't choose the value to charge to a card The App is shocking - it keeps logging out. You are looking at the screen to get the details then your phone auto locks and you need to login again. Why do this? And to make matters worse, when you think you've used all but a few cents on the card (do an order online with WW then add to it the same value as the card has left / to use the remaining few dollars) - then when something is out of stock WW will refund to the Special Credit Card and the horrible cycle will begin again! -- Little Miss Iphone, 2024-02-10 ### *---- "Scam?" Got Amex offer to get cash back if used this company to buy gift cards. Had to sign up with data including email, phone etc. multiple tries at buying with Amex card ( to get cash back offer) declined regardless of whether used Apple Pay or typed details in. No way to close account and request data is deleted which is very concerning. Wish I’d read some of the previous reviews here first and never signed up. Have advised Amex to withdraw their association with this company, as this does their own brand no favours. Do not appear to have been billed for the failed attempts to buy gift cards but will monitor carefully. My advice - avoid ! -- 4101geralt, 2023-12-30 ### *---- "App" Don’t make me download an app to use the gift card Thanks Also fix your two step button -- Toasta3000, 2023-12-22 ### *---- "They keep declining my card for no good reason" I’ve submitted the complaint to American Express not to list the offer from this scam company again, they declined/canceled orders for no reasons. Very poor customer support!!! Beware!!! They may cancel your card and take your money. -- TT-Au, 2023-12-14 ### ****- "A great app, but…" This app is great but it never keeps me signed in, I always have to go through to sign in process every time I want to use the app. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. -- indomitable91, 2023-09-30 ### *---- "WORST USER EXPERIENCE EVER" I bought a gift card for my husband. He couldn’t even get the sms code verification done. At the end I had to add the card to my phone and pay for him. I don’t know if you guys do any testing. Why the first step doesn’t even work! The app itself has too much unnecessary animations and fancy colours but functionalities were hard to locate and absolutely not user friendly. Stop being so fancy on visual. When we buying a gift card to our loved ones, we just need it to work!! It was a total failure, I will not purchase anything from this app anymore! -- Wenli1120, 2023-09-09 [View all Special Gift Cards reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://apptail.io/account/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Special Gift Cards Store Rankings | Chart | Country | Category | Rank | |-------|---------|----------|------| | Top Free | Australia | Shopping | #162 | ## Special Gift Cards Discovered Keywords - special gift cards - gift card - shouta - special ## Apps Similar to Special Gift Cards - [Cashrewards: Cashback Rewards](https://apptail.io/app/cashrewards-cashback-rewards-yfR/australia) - [eBest - Your Best Asia Grocer](https://apptail.io/app/ebest-your-best-asia-grocer-Zryb/australia) - [UWAI Plus](https://apptail.io/app/uwai-plus-KCyb/australia) - [Shping Australia Rewards App](https://apptail.io/app/shping-australia-rewards-app-NqKb/australia) - [MemberBuy: Daily Local Deals](https://apptail.io/app/memberbuy-daily-local-deals-OqKb/australia) - [MILKRUN](https://apptail.io/app/milkrun-krKb/australia) - [Wrapd: Shop & Save](https://apptail.io/app/wrapd-shop-save-mrKb/australia) - [My QV Rewards](https://apptail.io/app/my-qv-rewards-gHcc/australia) - [Pet Circle: Shop pet supplies](https://apptail.io/app/pet-circle-shop-pet-supplies-Fppj/australia) - [OnePass: Get more value](https://apptail.io/app/onepass-get-more-value-LUBm/australia) --- ## About AppTail [AppTail](https://apptail.io) is a mobile app intelligence platform providing app analytics, ASO (App Store Optimization) tools, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, revenue estimates, and review monitoring for iOS App Store apps. 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