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Make a wish list and share it with one link

Tell them what you actually want. Write your gift list once and send whoever asks a link. They can mark something off, so nobody buys the same present twice — and you never find out what.

Start your list

Free. No account. Takes about a minute.

Nobody buys the same gift twice

Anyone looking at your list can mark something as taken, and everyone else sees that it is spoken for. It is the useful half of a wedding registry, without the shop.

Add a link to the exact gift

Add a link to the exact item and a note about the size or the colour. That is the difference between the jumper you wanted and a jumper.

The list is the invitation

Add the date, the time and the place and the same link becomes the invitation. Guests answer yes or no on the page, so you get a head count instead of chasing replies across four group chats.

Three people can give the same thing

Say how many of something you would like — six wine glasses, three of the same book voucher — and the list shows how many are still going. Useful for a wedding, and for the kind of present that is better in a pair.

One link for the whole family

One link to your mother, your sister and whoever else asks. Add something in December and they all see it, with nothing for them to install.

You are never shown what has been taken. Your own list looks exactly as you wrote it. Guests see what is spoken for; you see nothing — so the surprise holds.

Ask someone else for their wish list

Send an invitation and they write their ideas straight into the page. The same link then shows what they wrote, to you and to anyone they pass it on to — so forwarding it is the right thing to do rather than a mistake. Still empty a week before? There is a nudge you can send that does not read as nagging.

Free, no account, no shop registry

No account, no email address, no password, no adverts. Your list lives on your phone unless you deliberately share it, and nothing about you is collected or sold.

And this is it, on a phone

Three screens out of the app as it stands today. The gift list in them is made up — a real one has real people on it.

Three gift lists on one screen — a birthday, Christmas and a new house — twelve ideas between them, two of the lists already shared.
Every list you are keeping, and which of them you have sent out.
One birthday list open: the date and place at the top, then five ideas, most with a note saying which one to buy — a skateboard around eight inch, a small waterproof speaker, the illustrated Hobbit.
One list, with the date and place on it, and a note beside each idea.
The same list as a guest sees it through the link: one of five ideas struck through and labelled somebody is getting this, with a line explaining that the person whose list it is will not be shown.
What a guest sees. The skateboard is spoken for — and the person whose birthday it is is never shown that.

Birthday coming up?

Write down three things you would actually like. It takes about a minute.

Start your list