Good questions welcome

Questions, answered.

The straightforward version of how Meant handles your information, helps with gifting, and keeps relationships at the center.

Private by design

Your address is never shown to gifters.

Friends first

Mutual connections, not an attention contest.

Useful context

Wishlists first, then preferences and interests.

The basics

What Meant does and how to get value from it.

What is Meant?

Meant is a friends-first gifting and moment-tracking app. It brings the people you care about, the moments that matter to them, and the things they actually like into one thoughtful place.

You can build a taste profile, curate a wishlist, keep up with important dates, get more relevant gift ideas, and send a Memeanto when a plain text does not feel like enough.

Do I have to fill out everything before I can use Meant?

No. You can start with the basics and add more later. Permissions such as contacts, location, notifications, microphone, and camera are requested only when they unlock something relevant, and you can skip them without losing access to the core app.

What is the difference between interests, preferences, and a wishlist?

Interests are broad things you enjoy, such as travel, watches, books, fitness, or food. Preferences explain how you like to receive gifts, including favorite brands, styles, services, and whether you prefer experiences or physical items. A wishlist is the specific things you want right now.

Meant keeps those signals separate so recommendations can start with the most useful information instead of treating every like as the same thing.

What if the person I want to celebrate is not on Meant yet?

You can still invite them. Meant is designed so people can join intentionally, create their own profile, and decide what they want to share rather than having someone else build a public profile for them.

Privacy & data

What we ask for, why we ask, and who can see it.

What information does Meant ask me for?

Meant asks for account details and the information you choose to add: your name, username, profile photo, birthday or important dates, interests, preferences, wishlist items, posts, messages, and optional delivery preferences.

Each piece has a purpose. Taste information improves gifting, moments power reminders, and delivery information makes private fulfillment possible. You can leave optional fields for later.

Can my friends or a gift sender see my address?

No. Your exact address, phone number, and delivery notes are never shown to friends, followers, or gift senders. A sender can see useful order progress without receiving your private delivery details.

For physical orders, access is limited to the systems, fulfillment partners, and staff who need the minimum information required to complete that order. An authorized customer-support agent may access relevant account or order information only when you specifically ask for help and consent to that review. Meant's fulfillment architecture is designed around restricted access and an audit trail for sensitive-data reads.

What is the difference between location and my delivery address?

Location permission gives Meant only a general area, such as your city, so it can suggest nearby gifts and experiences. Your delivery address is separate, optional information used privately to coordinate fulfillment. Neither reveals your live location to another user.

Does Meant upload my contacts or add people automatically?

No. Contact access is optional and is used to help you find people you already know. It does not create automatic friendships. You still choose whom to add, and the other person must accept the request before friend-only information is shared.

Does Meant sell my personal information or use it to target ads?

No. Meant does not sell personal information, and the product is not built around turning your relationships or preferences into an advertising feed. Limited information may be processed by trusted infrastructure, payment, messaging, storage, or fulfillment providers when that is necessary to operate the service.

Gifting & Memeantos

What you can send and how Meant helps you choose.

What kinds of gifts can be sent or received?

Meant is built for gift cards, subscriptions, products, services, local experiences, flowers, food and catering, wellness, tickets, and other thoughtful options across different budgets. A recipient's wishlist is the strongest signal, but Meant can also work from their preferences and interests when the list is short.

During early access, parts of purchasing and physical fulfillment remain preview experiences while payment, merchant, and delivery integrations are completed.

What is Gift Assist?

Gift Assist turns what someone has shared into concrete, budget-aware ideas. It checks a recipient's wishlist first, then their preferences and interests, and points to specific products or services rather than dropping you on a generic search page.

What is a Memeanto?

A Memeanto is a meaningful-message package. It can bring a voice message, video, personal note, and optional gift together so what you send feels as thoughtful as you meant it to.

Regular Chat stays simple and separate. Memeantos are for the moments when you want to send something with more feeling and intention.

Will the recipient know about a gift right away?

The gifting flow is designed to let the sender choose the reveal: notify the recipient, include the gift in a Memeanto, or time it around an important moment. Available timing options may vary while fulfillment features are rolling out.

Friends, feed & moments

How Meant stays relational without becoming noisy.

Is Meant social media?

Sort of, but not really. Meant has profiles, friends, posts, stories, and a lightweight feed, but attention and publicization are not the point. The social layer exists to help people understand their circle, remember what matters, and show up with more intention.

Meant is built to strengthen relationships, not to maximize how long you scroll or how publicly you perform them.

Who can see my profile, posts, stories, and taste information?

Friend-only posts and stories are for accepted friends. Broad interests can help people understand you, while detailed brand, service, preference, and wishlist information follows your privacy choices and friend relationship.

Meant also has a separate Following experience for approved public-support profiles. Following someone never unlocks their private profile, address, phone number, Chat, or ordinary Memeantos.

How do friendships work?

Friendships are mutual and intentional. One person sends a request, the other accepts, and then both become friends. Following a public-support profile is separate and does not create a friendship or unlock private access.

Does the Meant Calendar only track birthdays?

No. It can support birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, achievements, launches, graduations, custom dates, and the smaller personal moments people want their circle to remember. Reminders and Gift Assist use the same moment context so every kind of moment can lead to thoughtful action.

The short answer

Meant helps you know your people—and show up like you do.

Build your profile now. Add only what feels useful, and keep shaping it as your tastes and relationships grow.

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