How to share a wishlist with people who don't have the app
A public iFancy list opens in any browser from a plain link — no account, no download. Here's how to share one, and how to control who sees what.
By Tyler Holden
The most common reason a wishlist goes unused is friction on the other end. You send a link, and the person opening it hits a signup wall. They close the tab, buy something else, and the list may as well not exist.
iFancy is built so that never happens. A public list opens in any browser from a plain link — no account, no app install, nothing to explain over the phone.
Sharing a list
Open the wishlist you want to share and copy your profile link. That link is all anyone needs. It works on a phone, a laptop, or a decade-old iPad, and it shows the list exactly as you've arranged it.
If you'd rather share a specific list than your whole profile, each wishlist has its own link and its own visibility setting.
Choosing who can see it
Every wishlist is set to one of three visibility levels:
- Public — anyone with the link can view it, no account required
- Friends-only — only people who follow you can see it
- Private — only you
Set this per list, not per account. That means your birthday list can be public while a private list stays genuinely private.
One account-wide setting sits above all three: a private profile limits every list, public ones included, to people who follow you.
Hiding individual items
Sometimes one item on an otherwise shareable list isn't meant for everyone. Each item can be visible to everyone who can see the list, to only the friends you pick, or to only you. Picking just your partner is the usual fix for a list that's mostly public but has one thing on it meant for them.
Staying out of search
Search means two different things here, and each has its own setting.
Inside iFancy, turning off Show Me in Friend Search keeps people from finding your profile when they search for friends in the app. Anyone you've sent a link to can still open it.
Google is separate, and it's per list. A public wishlist has a Show in Google switch that's off by default, so your lists stay out of search engines unless you turn it on. Friends-only and private lists never appear there at all.
A note on the surprise
Sharing a list doesn't mean giving up the surprise. To mark an item as purchased, a gift-giver needs an account and has to follow you, and they pick the date you'll find out, if they pick one at all. Until then, anyone else signed in can see it's taken so nobody buys it twice, but you can't, and neither can anyone helping you build the list. People viewing it signed out don't see purchases at all.