Can you change the apple id of a downloaded app?

My wife opened a new apple id to download me am app for my birthday, can i register/ switch that app to our shared apple id?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
No. Apple does not transfer content from one ID to another and Apple does not merge IDs. In the future she may wish to look into iTunes Gift Cards and elecronic Gift Certificates that allow the user to download the gift using their own Apple ID from either the Mac App Store or the iTunes Stores.

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