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Always Bring a Gift

Always Bring a Gift (ABAG) is a simple, self‑hosted gift‑tracking app designed to help you remember events, track people, and keep ideas organized across…

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Always Bring a Gift (ABAG) is a simple, self‑hosted gift‑tracking app designed to help you remember events, track people, and keep ideas organized across holidays, birthdays, and celebrations. Manage gift histories, plan ahead, and never forget what you gave—or meant to give—again. Perfect for families, busy schedules, and year‑round planning. (Beta release; features and UI may evolve.)

    Platform availability

    Available on 1 of 6 install platforms

    • Unraid
    • TrueNAS (not listed)
    • Umbrel (not listed)
    • ZimaOS (not listed)
    • Proxmox (not listed)
    • Helm (not listed)

    Health score

    46/100 Fair

    Maintained
    77last commit 78 days ago
    Popular
    187 GitHub stars
    Easy to install
    201 install platform, Docker image
    Light to run
    No data

    Based on 3 of 4 factors.

    How is this calculated?

    A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

    Availability: platform listings confirmed today

    GitHub stars
    7
    Open issues
    14
    Last commit
    2026-07-20
    Latest release
    v0.3.0
    License
    MIT
    Activity
    stale

    Checked 7 days ago - source: GitHub (Indemnity83/always-bring-a-gift)

    Resources & Compatibility

    Requirements not published yet.

    Checked 7 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

    First-install notes

    No first-install notes yet.

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    Common questions

    How do I find the initial admin password for Always Bring a Gift?

    An admin user is created on first run with the email [email protected]. The randomly generated password is printed in the container logs.

    Which Docker port and data volume should I use for Always Bring a Gift?

    Expose container port 8000 and mount a persistent volume to /app/storage. The provided Docker examples use host port 8000 and a named volume called abag-data.

    Answers sourced from github.com

    Community

    Collected 2 days ago - public community threads