Best Wishr Alternatives
Wishr is a web wishlist that its users recommend for having no ads and per-list visibility. It is a good answer to one specific question — a quiet web list with granular visibility — 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 reservations the list owner never sees, so nothing is spoiled in advance. It compares Wishr 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 quiet web list with granular visibility, Wishr is probably still the right tool.
What Wishr does well
- users specifically praise it for "no ads at all"
- per-list visibility, so a public profile can still hold a private list
- no account needed to view a public list
- simple and free
Why people look for an alternative to Wishr
Web only, with no mobile apps or extension we could confirm.
Manual adding is the only route, which gets tiring past a few items.
Little published on export or long-term data handling.
Wishr 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 |
| Wishr | Yes — public profile | Partly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes — web | — | — |
“—” 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 |
| My Wishlist | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes — web only | — | — |
| WishList.com | Partly | Partly | Yes | Partly | Yes | Yes — web | — | — |
| WishApp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | — |
| GiftList | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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, Wishr falls short on 1 of them. The two apps are level on 5 others.
- Reservations keep the surprise
- Wishr: partly. Things To Have: yes — anonymous even to the owner.
2 columns are left blank above — Sort & filter and Export your data. Wishr's own documentation does not answer them, and a guess in a comparison table is worse than a blank.
Giving up: Wishr'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 Wishr is best at (a quiet web list with granular visibility): stay with Wishr.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free alternative to Wishr?
Yes — Things To Have has no paywall and no list limits. Wishr 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. Wishr also lets people view a list without one (public profile). This is the criterion that decides how many people actually see your list.
Can I move my list out of Wishr?
Wishr 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
- Best wishlist apps — all of them, ranked against the same eight criteria
- Every comparison — one page per app