Best Picky Me Alternatives
Picky Me is a wishlist that tracks prices and stock availability inside the app. It is a good answer to one specific question — tracking favourite products and their prices — 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 opens on whatever device the family already owns. It compares Picky Me 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 tracking favourite products and their prices, Picky Me is probably still the right tool.
What Picky Me does well
- "No Fees & No Ads"
- instant price and stock updates inside the app
- personalised collections
- a browser extension for saving
Why people look for an alternative to Picky Me
Thin on gift-giving. No reminder or birthday layer, and little about sharing with people who do not use the app.
Price watching, not gift coordination.
Android availability is unclear from the app's own pages.
Picky Me 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 |
| Picky Me | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partly — iOS plus web | Yes | — |
“—” 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 |
| Chestr | — | No — personal tracker | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | — |
| Moonsift | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No — desktop browsers only | Yes | — |
| Listful | Partly | Yes | Partly | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | — |
| Wishupon | Partly | Yes | Partly — Wishupon Plus | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | — |
“—” means we could not confirm it from the app’s own documentation.
How the two compare, criterion by criterion
Against the eight criteria, Picky Me falls short on 1 of them. The two apps are level on 5 others.
- Works on any device
- Picky Me: partly — iOS plus web. Things To Have: yes — web/PWA, nothing to install.
2 columns are left blank above — View without an account and Export your data. Picky Me's own documentation does not answer them, and a guess in a comparison table is worse than a blank.
Giving up: Picky Me'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 Picky Me is best at (tracking favourite products and their prices): stay with Picky Me.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to Picky Me?
Yes — Things To Have has no paywall and no list limits. Picky Me 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. Picky Me does not document what it requires. This is the criterion that decides how many people actually see your list.
Can I move my list out of Picky Me?
Picky Me 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.
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