Do guests need an Amazon-style account to use these alternatives?

For most of them, no — Twish, Giftster, GoWish, Wisher and Things To Get Me all let a guest view a shared list and reserve or mark a gift without creating an account.

Is Amazon Lists still worth using for anything?

Yes, if everything you want is genuinely sold on Amazon — it's simple, widely known, and the surprise-hiding default works well for that specific case.

Which of these keeps reservations most fully hidden from the list owner?

Twish and GoWish hide reservations from the owner with no reveal option at all. Giftster, Wisher and Things To Get Me hide them by default, though Things To Get Me lets the owner opt into seeing who gave what afterward.

Comparisons

Amazon Wishlist alternatives for gifts from more than one store

Amazon Lists are genuinely good at what they do — for products sold on Amazon. The gap shows up the moment your wishes come from anywhere else.

7 min readUpdated September 1, 2026

In short

Amazon Lists no longer supports adding products from outside Amazon, since March 2023
Twish, Giftster, MyRegistry, Elfster, Wisher, GoWish and Things To Get Me all work with any store
Twish and GoWish hide reservations from the list owner with no reveal option
MyRegistry leans toward wedding and baby-shower registries rather than everyday wishlists
Most alternatives let a guest reserve or mark a gift without creating an account

Amazon Lists (formerly "Wish Lists") work well when most of what you want is actually available on Amazon — sharing is straightforward, and the surprise-hiding setting is on by default. The limitation is specific: since a March 2023 change, Lists no longer support adding products from outside Amazon. If what you want spans a clothing shop, a bookstore, and a homeware site, that's exactly where a universal wishlist app earns its place.

Twish

Twish is built specifically as a universal wishlist: paste a product link from almost any online store and it pulls in the title, image and price automatically, or add an item manually if a link doesn't import cleanly. Every wishlist shares as one link, guests reserve a gift with just an email — no account required — and that reservation stays permanently hidden from the wishlist owner, with no option to reveal it later. Free during the current MVP.

Giftster

Free and built around family and friend groups, Giftster's "Fetch" tool adds items from a link on any site. Purchases are hidden from the list owner and visible to the rest of the group, and a public list can be viewed and shopped by a guest without their own Giftster account.

MyRegistry

MyRegistry is a universal registry platform, free to use, with a browser extension that adds items from virtually any retailer in one click. It leans toward wedding and baby-shower registries specifically, rather than everyday personal wishlists.

Elfster

Elfster lets participants add items from a wide range of retailers, but it's centred on Secret Santa and gift-exchange organising — automated name draws, group messaging — rather than functioning as a standalone universal wishlist. It's free, ad-supported.

Wisher (Wishr)

A free wishlist app with a Chrome/Edge extension for saving items from any store, plus price-drop tracking and an AI gift-finder. Reservations stay hidden from the list owner until after the occasion, and guests can reserve without an account.

GoWish

A mobile-first wishlist app with no restriction on which store an item is from, sharing via SMS, WhatsApp, email and similar apps, and reservations hidden from the list owner but visible to other guests. It's grown fast, past 13.6 million registered users, and includes a built-in gift-discovery feed.

Things To Get Me

A free, privacy-first option that needs no signup at all — lists work through unique, unguessable links. A browser plugin adds items from any site, and guests tick off what they're getting; the owner can't see who ticked what unless they later open a separate "Reveal" section, which can also be turned off entirely.

What's the main reason to move off Amazon Lists specifically?

Amazon Lists stopped supporting products from outside Amazon after a March 2023 change. If what you want to add spans more than one retailer, a universal wishlist app is the direct fix — the rest comes down to which sharing and reservation model fits how you actually gift.

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Frequently asked questions

Where an app supports importing a shareable list, yes — Twish can bring over an existing list as a starting point where that's supported, and anything that doesn't transfer automatically can be added by hand.