The 29+ best service gifts of 2026: ClassPass, Pimsleur, HelloFresh and more

The best gifts don’t necessarily come wrapped in a box — sometimes, they’re the ones that make mundane tasks a little easier. That’s why I compiled a list of the best service gifts to help your loved ones this holiday season. Have a cousin that hates cleaning, or a friend who refuses to cook? These gifts will help take those chores off their plate and make the holidays the easygoing season that they deserve. Things like meal delivery services, language learning apps and smart home appliances are great places to find just the right thing.

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These gifts remove some of the most annoying yet necessary daily duties from your giftee’s to-do list, or add a bit of fun and excitement to their life through a service.

HelloFresh is a popular meal delivery service that helps take cooking and grocery time off your giftee’s plate. The service has a weekly rotating menu, and you can choose six preferences to help customize your meal settings, including Quick & Easy, Pescatarian, Family-Friendly, Fit & Wholesome, Veggie and Chef’s Choice/Meat & Veggie. NBC Selected reporter Zoe Malin, who’s gluten-free and a pescatarian, was “pleasantly surprised” by how many HelloFresh meals fit her dietary restrictions.

“Overall, cooking the meals was straightforward and the portion sizes were filling,” she says. The meals start at $10 per serving, and come in serving sizes of two or four. Your giftee can also choose how frequently they want the meals delivered (anywhere between two to six times a week).

A Taskrabbit gift card is the ultimate “blank check” (aside from an actual blank check, of course). Your giftee can hire a Tasker for just about any service or chore — house cleaning, lawn mowing, simple fixes, you name it. NBC Selected editorial operations associate, Jem Alabi, hired a Taskrabbit to help her organize her apartment, and after the first session, immediately booked another.

NBC Selected senior editor Nikki Brown is also a huge Taskrabbit fan, and loves using it to have her home deep cleaned. “During a particularly challenging time in my life, I started gifting myself the occasional cleaning service from TaskRabbit, and now it’s my favorite service to gift to others, too,” she says. “They can cover a range of things — I’ve also hired a Tasker to install a fancy ceiling light that I couldn’t figure out on my own — and it’s easy to tailor to someone’s needs and availability. ”

While Robot vacuums are not a service per se, they’re like a house cleaning cheat code (and might as well be considered a service of sorts), and this model from Shark is just what your giftee needs to crack it for themselves. The vacuum’s features include 360-degree mapping, so it can avoid bumping into furniture around the house, and a self-cleaning brush roll and filtration system to help trap pet hair, dust and other allergens, according to the brand.

It also includes a self-emptying and charging base that can hold up to 30 days’ worth of dirt, so you don’t have to remove the debris inside that often. It pairs with the Shark Clean app to help your giftee set up restricted zones, cleaning schedules and more.

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Classpass is a great way to try and keep up with a range of activities, and this gift card can give your giftee access to more than 88,000 classes across 643 cities and 31 countries. Each class costs a certain amount of credits, which are distributed each month depending on your membership level — 26 credits costs $55 per month, 48 credits costs $99 per month and 80 credits costs $159 per month, and unused credits roll over from month to month. Gift cards are available in amounts ranging from $25 to $300.

I tested Pimsleur alongside a few other language learning apps a while back, and it’s by the far the best for learning a new language. Your giftee can access over 50 languages, including French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. You can also choose how long you’d like the membership to last — $49.95 gets three months, $99.95 gets six and $199.95 gets a full year of language learning right from their phone.

This innovative digital nail kit is a great gift for beauty enthusiasts who may be looking to save time or money (or just may like something very, very cool). It includes a set of “smart” press-on nails that you apply with the included glue, as you would any other press-ons. Then you choose a shade in the app and place each nail into the iPolish Magic Wand, which gives the nail a short charge to change the color.

The kit includes 24 press-on acrylic nails in varying sizes, along with glue, a top coat, a charger, nail tools and an iPolish Magic Wand, plus there are more than 440 colors to choose from via the app. You can also order additional refill nails in packs of two, just in case you run out. You can pre-order the system now, orders ship out by the end of December 2026, according to the brand.

I’m an associate SEO reporter at NBC Selected who covers skin care, wellness, lifestyle and beauty deals. I also write various gift guides, including the best blind box gifts. To find the best service gifts, I researched the most helpful products, subscriptions and gift cards available, including some NBC Selected staff favorites.

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