Best Ouish Alternatives
Ouish is a web wishlist for occasions with cash funds and multi-currency support. It is a good answer to one specific question — a wishlist where friends and family live in different countries — and if that is your situation, it may be all you need.
This page is for the people it does not fit: those who want a list that is still navigable once it runs to a few hundred things. It compares Ouish with Things To Have on the eight things that decide whether a wishlist actually gets used, and lists the alternatives worth considering alongside it.
Short version: if you want a free, calm wishlist app for you and your friends — no ads, no account needed to view, and reservations your family can use without spoiling the surprise — Things To Have is the closest fit. If you need a wishlist where friends and family live in different countries, Ouish is probably still the right tool.
What Ouish does well
- free, with a wide range of occasions
- named cash funds alongside gifts
- multi-currency, useful across borders
- no account needed to view
Why people look for an alternative to Ouish
Web only. No mobile apps are published.
No browser extension we could confirm, so adding items is manual.
Cash funds mean platform payments and the questions that come with them.
Ouish vs Things To Have
| App | View without an account | Reservations keep the surprise | Free, no paywall | No ads | Any store + autofill | Works on any device | Sort & filter | Export your data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Things To Have | Yes | Yes — anonymous even to the owner | Yes — everything free | Yes | Yes — autofill without an extension | Yes — web/PWA, nothing to install | Yes | Yes — JSON |
| Ouish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes — web only | — | — |
“—” means we could not confirm it from the app’s own documentation.
The best alternatives, compared
| App | View without an account | Reservations keep the surprise | Free, no paywall | No ads | Any store + autofill | Works on any device | Sort & filter | Export your data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Things To Have | Yes | Yes — anonymous even to the owner | Yes — everything free | Yes | Yes — autofill without an extension | Yes — web/PWA, nothing to install | Yes | Yes — JSON |
| Farha | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| Giftwhale | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly — no Android app | — | — |
| WishGiven | Yes | Yes — anonymous claim | Yes | Partly | Yes | Partly | — | — |
| My Wishlist | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes — web only | — | — |
“—” means we could not confirm it from the app’s own documentation.
How the two compare, criterion by criterion
2 columns are left blank above — Sort & filter and Export your data. Ouish's own documentation does not answer them, and a guess in a comparison table is worse than a blank.
Giving up: Ouish's specific strengths, listed above. If those matter more than the criteria in the table — and for some people they genuinely do — staying is the right call.
Which should you choose?
- You want a free list to send to family who will not sign up: Things To Have.
- You want what Ouish is best at (a wishlist where friends and family live in different countries): stay with Ouish.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to Ouish?
Yes — Things To Have has no paywall and no list limits. Ouish is free too, so cost is not the reason to switch — the rest of the table is.
Do my friends need an account to open the list?
Not on Things To Have — viewing never requires a signup. Ouish also lets people view a list without one. This is the criterion that decides how many people actually see your list.
Can I move my list out of Ouish?
Ouish publishes no export we could confirm, so copy what matters before you stop using it. Either way, a pasted list of links is enough to rebuild it here — importing shows a preview before anything is written, and the way back out is an export in JSON.
Keep comparing
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- Every comparison — one page per app