Things To Have

Things To Have is a browser-based wishlist app for keeping track of products, sharing gift ideas, and showing other people the objects that matter to you. It can be a simple birthday list, a private record of things you are saving for, a collection of vinyl or everyday carry, or a public guide to recommended gear. The central idea is pleasantly restrained. It gives each person a flexible place for their things without turning the experience into a shopping feed or forcing every list into a single gift-oriented format. Someone can maintain a list for themselves, publish selected items for friends, or ignore the social layer altogether. That makes it a practical replacement for a spreadsheet or scattered shopping bookmarks as well as a conventional wishlist.

Adding an item is designed to require little cleanup. Paste a product link and the app can fill in its title, image, and price, then let you add your own pictures and notes so the entry identifies the exact version you mean. Items can live in flexible lists rather than one undifferentiated page. A list might present birthday ideas, document a desk setup, record a vinyl shelf, or read more like an article with recommendations. This flexibility matters when the same account needs to hold both private plans and polished public material. The app also offers quicker capture through a bookmarklet and an Apple shortcut, so an item found while browsing doesn't have to wait until the next time you open the main interface. Store owners can also use its widget to add wishlist functionality.

Sharing is deliberately low friction. Public lists open in a normal browser, and the recipient doesn't need an account to read them. The owner can check what a visitor will see before sending a link, while everything starts private until the owner chooses to expose it. For gift occasions, visitors can reserve an item so two people don't arrive with the same present. That reservation layer solves one of the awkward gaps between a personal list and a useful family wishlist. Creating an account only requires an email, with no password to remember, and the site works across devices without an installation. Those choices make it easier to include relatives or friends who won't adopt a dedicated wishlist app just to view one person's birthday ideas.

There is a social layer, but it stays optional and relatively quiet. People can follow one another, see an activity feed of recently added things, and use birthday notifications to keep up with friends. Mutual friends can see an upcoming birthday, subscribe to a birthday calendar, and receive an email on the day that points to the person's profile. The service doesn't use a recommendation algorithm to push products into the list, which keeps discovery centered on people a user has chosen to follow. Anyone who doesn't want that experience can keep every list private and skip social features entirely. It works better as a small network around real interests and gift giving than as another engagement-driven social platform.

The audience is broader than the name first suggests. An individual can use it as a personal purchase planner, while collectors can publish a shelf or setup and avoid duplicate gifts. Friends and families get a readable source of current gift ideas without having to ask for an updated document each year. Creators can turn a list into a gift guide or gear page and include their own affiliate links. Things To Have says creators keep what those links earn, rather than sharing the proceeds with the platform. That posture makes the public profile useful for hardware reviewers, hobby specialists, and anyone regularly asked what equipment they use. The same account can still hold private saving goals alongside those public recommendations.

Things To Have is completely free, with no limits hidden behind a paywall and no paid plan promised for later. Its privacy position is unusually explicit for a consumer list app. The service says it is GDPR compliant, runs without ads or tracking cookies, keeps content private by default, and lets users export everything they have added from settings. It doesn't lock people into a mobile ecosystem because the full experience works in any browser. The tradeoff is that its social and organizational model is intentionally narrower than a commerce platform with registries, checkout, or retailer fulfillment. For someone who wants an uncluttered list that can move between private planning, gift coordination, collections, and creator recommendations, that narrowness is likely the point rather than a missing feature.