A wishlist app you install from the browser, not an app store
yourwishpage works as an app on your phone: an icon on the home screen, a camera button for the thing you just saw in a shop, and on Android a place in the Share menu. There is nothing to download and nothing to update, and the list your friends open is the same page it always was.
Peter's Christmas Wishlist 🎄
6 gift ideas ·Christmas ·in 75 days ·1 already reserved
Boss Guitar Pedal
Adidas SL72
Restaurant Voucher
Guitar Strings
Elixir Nanoweb, 10–46 if possible
Install it in two taps
On Android, Chrome offers to install the site the second time you visit; tap Install and the icon lands with your other apps. On an iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen". Either way it opens full-screen, without the browser bar, and stays logged in.
It is the same account on every device. Install it on your phone for the shop and use the website on a laptop for the typing; the list is one list.
Snap a wish in the shop
Under the add box on every list there is a camera button. Tap it, take the photo, and the wish is on the list, named after the day, with the photo already on it. Give it a name and a price afterwards, or leave it for later. Long-press the app icon and "Snap a wish" is right there.
The photo is made small on your phone before it is sent, so it goes up in a second on one bar of signal, and the location and camera details a phone writes into every picture are removed before it is kept.
Share into it from any other app
On Android, the installed app appears in the Share menu. A photo from the gallery, a product from a shop’s own app, a page from the browser: share it to yourwishpage, pick which list, and it is on there. A shop link is followed for its title and price the same way a pasted one is.
iPhones do not let a web app into the Share menu, so there the camera button and the add box are the way in.
A gift list app your friends do not have to install
The people buying open a link. That is the whole of it: no app, no account, a first name to reserve a gift. A gift list app that needs everybody to install it is one the grandparents never open, and that is where most lists fail.
What they see is a web page that works in any browser, and what you see is the same list with every reservation removed, so nothing is spoiled by checking it in December.
Compared with an app from the store
| A store app | This one | |
|---|---|---|
| Installing | Download, 50–200 MB, an account | Two taps from the browser, nothing to download |
| Updates | Through the store, when you let it | Already done; the page is always the current one |
| Your friends | Usually need the app too | A link, no app, a first name |
| The camera | Yes | Yes, with location details removed |
| Notifications | Yes | No — nothing here needs to interrupt you |
| Works offline | Often | It opens; the list itself needs a connection |
What it does not do
It sends no notifications and no email to anybody. It does not work offline beyond opening, because a wishlist cached on your phone could be shown to the wrong person. It is not in Google Play or the App Store, because it does not need to be; everything above works from the browser.
Is it on Google Play or the App Store?
No. Install it from the browser: Chrome offers it on Android, and on an iPhone it is Share, then "Add to Home Screen". It behaves like an installed app once it is on the home screen.
Does the wishlist app work offline?
It opens, and tells you it has no connection. The lists themselves are never stored on the phone, on purpose: a cached list could be shown to somebody it was not built for.
Is it free?
Yes, with no ads and no paid tier. The site takes no commission and adds no affiliate tags to the links you paste.
Can my friends reserve from their phones without installing anything?
Yes. They open the link in any browser, tap a gift and type a first name. Only the list’s owner ever has an account.
