Best Kit.co Alternatives
Kit.co was a creator platform for publishing gear and product lists with affiliate links. It closed on 11 May 2026, and this page is about where you can go next.
It closed on 11 May 2026, and creator storefronts closed with it.
Creators lost a publishing surface. Kits were shopfronts with affiliate links attached.
The replacement question is different. It is about publishing a guide.
What each replacement is good for
| If you need | Try | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Publish a gear guide with your own affiliate links | Things To Have | lists can be article-like buying guides, and the affiliate links belong to the creator |
| Curated creator storefronts with platform commission | ShopMy | a full creator-commerce platform, with commission taken by the platform |
| Creator commerce at scale | LTK | 40M+ users and 8,000 brands, but the economy belongs to LTK |
| Weight-based gear and packing lists | LighterPack | free and open, but narrow: packing lists for hikes |
Things To Have vs the rest of the list
| App | View without an account | Reservations | Free, no paywall | No ads | Any store | Autofill | Works on any device | Sort & filter | Export your data | MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Things To Have | Yes | Yes — anonymous even to the owner | Yes — everything free | Yes | Yes | Yes — no extension needed | Yes — web/PWA, nothing to install | Yes | Yes — JSON | Yes — Claude, ChatGPT and more |
| Moonsift | Yes | Yes — guests mark bought | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes — browser extension | Yes | No — manual reorder only | No — on request | No — none published |
| Chestr | — | — | Yes | — | Yes | Yes — Chrome extension, iOS share | Yes | No | — | No — none published |
| Picky Me | — | — | Yes | No — curated Discover feed | Yes — share sheet, Safari extension | Yes — prices fetched from stores | No — iOS plus web | Yes | — | No — none published |
| Listful | Yes | Yes — gifters mark purchased | No | No — gift suggestions | Yes | Yes — paste a link | Yes | — | — | No — none published |
| Wishupon | Yes | Yes | No — Wishupon Plus | No — contains ads | Yes | Yes — paste a link | Yes | No | — | No — none published |
“—” means we could not confirm it from the app’s own documentation.
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Moving on without losing your lists
The lesson from Kit.co is that the list has to outlive the app.
- Export what you can from the old service while anything is still reachable.
- Bring it into Things To Have in Settings → Data → Import data by pasting a list of links, or dropping in a
.txt,.mdor JSON file. You see a preview of every item before anything is written, and skipped rows are listed so you can fix them. - Send the link to the people who need it. Nobody needs an account or an app to open it, which keeps the list useful when the next app closes.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free Kit.co replacement?
Yes. Things To Have is free with no paywall, and several apps in the table above are free too. If price tracking was what you used Kit.co for, Moonsift and Wisher are the closest matches. Neither is a full replacement, so expect a narrower tool.
Will my data survive if the next app closes?
Only if you can export it. That is why the last column of the comparison table matters. Without an export feature, you cannot keep your data if an app closes.
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