Moms give the best gifts, so it stands that you should get the best gifts for Mom when you’re shopping for her in any scenario. That includes Mother’s Day, her birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other holiday in your family’s life that includes gift-giving.
If you’re worried you’re going to give her a disappointing gift or something she already has, fear not: I’ve gathered the coolest things we recommend here at WIRED that just about any mom will love. From wellness gadgets that can improve her skin and circulation to putting her digital calendar in an IRL device, moms everywhere can get a ton out of these gifts. Many of these items I’ve given to my mother, or other WIRED staffers have given to theirs, or it’s at the top of my list as a mother of a 3-year-old.
Updated May 2026: I’ve added all new gifts to this guide for 2026.
Featured Gifts
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Forever Flowers
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I love getting fresh flowers. Even better? Lego flowers. There’s now an elite combination to get both, thanks to The Bouqs Co.’s and Lego’s partnership for Mother’s Day. You can choose from three sets: the Sunflowers Gift Set ($114), the Petite Sunny Bouquet Set ($124), and Tulip Bouquet Gift Set ($159). I tested the Petite Sunny set and loved how similar the real bouquet looked to the Lego set, from the sprigs of blue delphinium to the yellow and pink blossoms that make up the heart of this bouquet. So far I’ve just been enjoying the real-life flowers, and once those are done, I’m excited to build the Lego set to commemorate the beautiful bouquet.
Next-Level Skin (and Scalp) Care
The must-have gadget for women of almost any age is an LED mask. These masks promise to use red light to erase wrinkles, brighten your skin, and keep acne at bay. I haven’t seen much change in my wrinkles in my year-plus of regularly using a red light mask, but I can confirm it makes my skin brighter and calms down acne and scars much faster when I’m regularly treating my skin. HigherDose is a personal favorite mask of mine because the three-strap design lets it hang on my head rather than squeeze it, making it one of the most comfortable masks I’ve ever worn.
My other favorite LED tool actually sits on my head, and also comes from HigherDose. The brand’s Red Light Hat treats your head with red light to rejuvenate your scalp and hair follicles for better hair growth, and as someone with a sensitive scalp and a hair-pulling problem, using this cap regularly genuinely improved my scalp and hair. It’s the healthiest it’s ever been, and my scalp is the least itchy, too. I love that this hat also has a battery pack, so I can comfortably wear it anywhere while I treat my head.
For the Reader
Look, I love a Kindle, but if you want to get the best e-reader for your buck, the answer is actually a Kobo. My favorite is the Kobo Libra Colour that’s cheaper than the Kindle Colorsoft and can also double as a digital notebook if you add on the $70 stylus. I also prefer Kobo’s annotating options; you can write right on the pages, instead of in weird pop-up margins and boxes only on Kindle. Kobo also has its own page-turner remote now, which I love to pair with a pillow stand holder so I can lean back and relax without holding up my e-reader at all while I read. I gave a similar pillow stand to my mom, and now I can spot her last reading spot easily because that pillow is resting there.
Clear Listening
My husband and I got AirPods around the same time. We were late adopters and longtime fans of our Apple corded headphones. The AirPods 4 aren’t the WIRED team’s favorite for sound, but I’m one of the many people who can’t seem to keep other earbuds in her ears, so Apple’s tip-free design is the best fit for me, though that means you aren’t getting good noise canceling. I got my first set for Christmas from my siblings this year, and originally I stuck some pretty stickers on my case to tell the difference between my case and my husband’s. I’ve since upgraded to this stylish case from Mujjo, which makes it easy to see which case is mine and clip it onto my keys. It’s a nice accessory if your mom already has AirPods but struggles to keep track of them, or is looking for an easier way to differentiate hers from the other members of the house.
Gamer Gear
When the workday comes to an end, you can find me parked on the couch with my Nintendo Switch. I recently upgraded to a Nintendo Switch 2 ($449) so I could finally buy and play Pokopia ($70), since it’s exclusive to the new console, and I’ve already clocked an obscene amount of hours on the game. It’s similar to Animal Crossing, but imagine it’s all Pokémon instead of random animal people. It has a chokehold on me, similar to Animal Crossing: New Horizons did in 2020, and there have been multiple times when I’m still awake playing when my son has a midnight wake-up or an accident. (You could say it’s helping me be ready to parent.) I really like the feel of the new Joy-Cons, too, especially with the included Joy-Con 2 Grip. If you’re not looking to upgrade her console just yet but need a Switch-friendly cozy game for her, Stardew Valley has another big update in the works and only costs $15.
Her Google Calendar IRL
My latest favorite family planning gadget is a digital wall calendar. These handy devices take the Google Calendar I live by (and just about any other digital calendar, too, if your mom isn’t a Google girl) and put it on a physical device I can quickly tap into without needing to grab my phone or bark at Alexa. The Skylight Calendar 2 is my favorite because it not only includes to-do lists, meal planning, and a recipe book but also doubles as a digital photo frame. That means it displays cute photos of my family most of the time, and then, with a simple tap, it opens the calendar or whatever page I was last on to show me what’s on my family’s schedule. It does have a subscription fee, though, to get the digital photo frame feature and a few other options too, like meal planning. But I think it’s well worth it to get so many features in a single device.
Photo Spotlight
As a mom, I take a lot of photos of my family. A lot. And sometimes it feels like all those great photos of my son’s milestones go to my camera roll and photo storage to die. There are two solutions I love for this that are incredibly giftable: a digital photo frame she can instantly upload images to, and a printed photo book where you can take the best of the best and put them at her fingertips. I have and love both for different reasons. I love the digital photo frame to add all the photos from a fun weekend at the San Diego Zoo or Los Angeles Renaissance Pleasure Faire for me to relive again and again, but I also love being able to pull a photo book from the bookshelf and relive a specific moment I know is waiting there for me. Aura makes my favorite digital photo frames (followed by Skylight and the Calendar 2 if you want a multipurpose device, but Aura has no subscription fee if you only want photos), while Mixbook has been a favorite of mine for a while when it comes to printing photos, and has great starting prices for its photo books.
A Bird’s Eye View
If you know a mom who loves to bird-watch (I know one!), you can upgrade her bird feeder to a smart one. Smart bird feeders add a camera into the feeder so she can see a close-up feed of the birds that come to hang out in her yard, and they’re adorable to boot for a little smart curb appeal. WIRED reviewer Kat Merck recommends the original Birdfy Lite as a great gift; it’s her favorite smart bird feeder and comes in adorable colors to brighten your mom’s yard and catch the eye of neighborhood birds. But the one she and I both have our eye on (her for her mother, me for myself) is the Birdfy Nest Duo, which is actually a birdhouse with two cameras so you can see the birds entering the nest outside and raising a family inside.
An Adorable Pan
I didn’t know I needed a tiny cast iron pan until it arrived. Field Co’s hand-finished, preseasoned cast iron pans are already known for being both lightweight and handsome. But with a mere 5-inch cook surface, this one might even cross the line from handsome into “cute.” But that’s what makes it a good gift: Your mother almost certainly does not have a cast-iron pan this small, and yet it also has real utility. At just 2 pounds, this pan is easy to pull out and stash, easy to maneuver or flip a pancake, easy to serve from, and the perfect size to fit the perimeter of a two-egg omelet. In addition to an egg pan, it’s a great, low-effort, single-serving pan in general—whether for grilled cheese, a little bit of bacon or sausage, or a couple chicken thighs. The egg pan can be bought all by itself. But for $60 more, the gift set is nice. It comes with a cleaning kit (with maybe my favorite chain mail scrubber in existence), some seasoning oil, and a leather handle cover in cognac, black, brown, or cherry. —Matthew Korfhage
Compression Care
There’s a wellness gadget for everything now. Rings that track your sleep and blood oxygen levels, masks to make you look younger, massagers to relax your muscles, and now there are even boots to improve circulation. WIRED reviewer Boutayna Chokrane says her mom loves these compression boots from Therabody to improve circulation, which is a common problem for many of our aging parents. These boots combine compression, vibration, and LED therapy into a single wearable device that comes with eight preset routines to focus on legs, knees, and joints. It’s a unique option if she wants better recovery for her legs or better circulation for her health.
Better Espresso
The DeLonghi Rivelia is the best and easiest and most user-friendly superautomatic espresso machine I have tested. What’s superautomatic mean? It means you pour whole beans into the hopper, put milk in the milk carafe, and select the drink you want to make on the touch-screen menu. And then you let the machine do most of the rest. The style of espresso made by a superautomatic machine like this Rivelia is generally a bit smoother, and less intense than the sort you get in a cafe. But the process is also less finicky; you won’t be dealing with coffee grounds and portafilters. What’s especially nice with this Rivelia is the ability to make multiple “profiles” for different coffee drinkers in the house, each with their own favorite drinks—and the ability to swap out bean hoppers to make decaf coffee in the afternoon. The Rivelia is also the machine my own mother, a drinker of lattes and dark-roast beans, loves unreservedly. Like others on the WIRED Reviews team, I often ask colleagues and those close to me to test my top-rated machines over long periods to see how they hold up over months or years of regular use. My mother thanks me nearly every month for letting her test the Rivelia. —Matthew Korfhage
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