Wishlist
“Just tell me what you want” is the hardest question of the year. A wishlist answers it once, for everybody, and spares you three identical conversations in December.
No password — you sign in with a link by email, or with Google or Apple.
Type a line, or paste a shop link and let it fill in title, price and picture. The list is yours alone until you decide otherwise.
One link for the whole list. Send it to your family, your friends, the colleague who always asks. Nobody has to install anything or sign up.
Whoever opens the list can mark an item as taken, so two people do not buy the same thing. Claimed items stay visible, just greyed out.
You see your list exactly as you wrote it — never who claimed what. That is the whole point: a list you can read the answers off is a shopping report, not a surprise.
Claims are not a field on your wish. They live in their own place, which none of the ten operations behind your own list can even read — a rule that is checked automatically every time the project is built, not just promised in a help page.
The practical consequence is small and important: the length of your list never changes, no number moves, nothing greys out on your screen. There is nothing to read between the lines, because there are no lines.
That is the entire access rule, and it is deliberate: asking a grandmother to create an account before she can see what you want is a hurdle in the wrong place.
A list shared in November has to still work in the week before Christmas. It stays valid until you withdraw it.
One tap creates a new link and kills the old one. Someone who once had it legitimately sees that it was withdrawn — not a page pretending the list never existed.
Shared lists are excluded from search engines. A wishlist belongs to the people you sent it to, not to an index.
Not a shop. Kalendo stores what you want and links to where it is sold; buying happens there, and there is no checkout, no cart and no price comparison.
And not several lists. There is exactly one list per account — so “a separate wishlist for each of my children” is something this app cannot do. Each child would need their own account. It says so here rather than in a support reply three weeks later.
Connect with someone and their list shows up next to their birthday — including the same secrecy in the other direction: they never learn what you claimed.
Two weeks before, then three more times, the last one on the morning of the day itself — by email and as a notification.
If somebody has no list, the app suggests gifts from what you know about them: age, relationship, interests, budget. Without interests it asks first instead of guessing.
Nothing on the list is sponsored, nothing is ranked by payment. Some shop links carry commission, which is said above the suggestions — it changes nothing about the price.
Open the ideas tab, switch to “My wishes”, and type or paste. You get a link you can share with anyone; they do not need an account.
No, and that is by design. Claims are stored separately and are never shown to the owner of the list — otherwise the list would tell you your own presents.
No. The link opens a page in the browser where they can claim an item. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
No. There is one list per account. For a separate list, that person needs their own account.
No, it stays valid until you withdraw it. Withdrawing creates a new link and stops the old one immediately.
No password — you sign in with a link by email, or with Google or Apple.