A Giftster alternative, compared honestly

Updated 4 November 2026 for Christmas 2026

Giftster is the best-known family wish list, and it is good at what it sets out to do. This page is for anybody choosing between the two this Christmas: what Giftster does well, where yourwishpage differs, and which suits the family you are buying for.

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Create a list. Pick an occasion, name it.

Add wishes. Paste a link or write it down.

Share your wishlist by link, WhatsApp, email or QR.

What Giftster does well

A comparison that finds nothing good on the other side is not worth reading, so this first. Giftster is free, and is built around the family rather than the single list, which is exactly what plenty of families want:

Family groups. A group gathers everybody’s lists in one place. Its owner decides who is in; people ask to join and are approved, and from then on they see each other’s lists.
The surprise. By its own help pages, the person whose list it is cannot see what has been reserved or bought on it.
Child accounts. A parent can run lists for children — or pets — under one login, each showing up in the group as a member of their own.
Apps and a button. There are iPhone and Android apps and a Chrome extension that adds a product from any shop while you browse.
Public lists too. A list can be made public, and on a public list a guest can reserve without an account, in a browser.

If a family group that everybody joins is what you are after, Giftster does it well and the honest advice is to use it. yourwishpage does the same job without the group, and the rest of this page is about what that changes.

yourwishpage and Giftster, side by side

The Giftster column is as its own site and help pages described it in November 2026. Features change, so check anything that matters to you there.

	yourwishpage	Giftster
Cost	Free	Free
How it pays for itself	It does not: no ads, no affiliate links, no fees	Its advertising page says it works with shops’ affiliate programmes
How family get in	They open the link you send	They join your group, or open a list you made public
To reserve a gift	A first name, no account	An account in the group; no account on a public list, in a browser
What the owner sees	How many are reserved, never which	Not what has been reserved or bought
Lists for children	On your page, under the child’s name	Child accounts under your login
Everyone you buy for in one place	People I shop for: save a page, no invitation	The family group
Adding as you shop	Paste a link, the camera button, Android’s Share menu	Apps and a Chrome extension
Languages	English, Spanish, German	Check its site

For most families the choice sits in two rows: the third, about whether your aunt has to join something before she can buy the pedal, and the second, about who earns what when she does.

A group to join, or a link to open

Giftster’s lists are shared within a group by default: somebody asks to join, the group’s owner approves them, and then they can see and reserve. That is what makes it a directory — log in once, see everybody — and it is also a step every grandparent and in-law has to take before they can buy anything.

Here there is no group. Your page is yourwishpage.com/you, every list hangs off it, and whoever you send it to reserves with a first name and nothing else; the wishlist without signup page has the detail.

The directory half comes from the other direction. Anybody opening a list can press "Save to People I shop for", and that page then sits with everybody else they buy for, with every list they make, soonest occasion first. Without an account it is kept in their own browser; with one, on the account. Nobody is invited, approved or told.

Keeping the surprise

Both sites keep reservations from the person whose list it is, which is the part that matters. Here it is enforced on the server: every reservation is stripped out of the owner’s page before it is built, so there is nothing to see even in the page source, and no setting that turns it back on. You see "12 wishes · 3 reserved" and nothing about which.

Guests see the opposite: every taken gift with a first name beside it, because that is what stops two of them buying the same jumper.

Lists for the children

Giftster gives each child an account of their own under your login. Here a child’s list is a list on your page with their name on it: "Who is it for? Leo." The list’s header says it is Leo’s, your page groups it under "For Leo" beside your own lists and the others’, and the grandparents need one address for the whole family rather than one per child.

The family Christmas list page walks through a household of four with one link between them.

Moving a list across

There is no importer, so moving is by hand, and it is quicker than it sounds. Open your Giftster list beside a new list here and paste each product link into the add box: the title, picture and price come across wherever the shop shares them. Anything without a link, type. Then send the new link to whoever needs it.

Which one to pick

Choose Giftster if your family will happily all join a group, wants an app from the store or a browser button, or likes each child having an account of their own. It does those things well.

Choose yourwishpage if you want nobody to have to join anything: one link in the family chat, a first name to reserve, every list for every child on one page, no commission on anybody’s purchase, and a surprise that cannot be spoiled because the information is never in your page at all.

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Is Giftster free?

Yes: by its own site, making lists, sharing them, joining a group and reserving are free. Its advertising page says it works with shops’ affiliate programmes.

Is yourwishpage free?

Yes, entirely. There are no ads, no affiliate tags on the links you paste, no paid tier and nothing for sale.

Does my family need accounts?

Not here: they open the link, press "I’ll get this" and type a first name. On Giftster a group member has an account; on a list made public, a guest can reserve without one in a browser.

Can I see what has been reserved on my list?

Not on either. Here you see how many wishes are reserved, never which, and no setting changes that.

Can I keep lists for my children?

Yes. Add a list and answer "Who is it for?" with their name; it sits on your page under that name, and the header says whose it is.