Comparison

Wishlist Maker vs Sherpa

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Wishlist Maker

Easily create and manage beautiful wishlists and gift registries for any occasion. Add items from any website or manually, share with others who don't need to sign up, and track purchases to avoid duplicates. Organize by category and get price drop alerts.

Highlights
  • Create wishlists and gift registries
  • Add items from any website
  • Share lists without sign-up
  • Mark off purchased items
  • Organize by category
  • Track prices and get alerts
Features
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Making beautiful wishlists and gift lists has never been so easy. Moonsift is perfect for keeping track of everything you’re shopping for in one place and a game changer when it comes to special occasions like Christmas, Birthdays, Weddings, & Baby showers. Why people love Moonsift: • Create wishlists, gift registries and gift trackers for any occasion • Add any products from any website • People you share your lists with do not need to sign up to view it • Family and friends can mark off what they buy to avoid duplicate gifts • Works on mobile, tablet and desktop so you can save, view and edit lists from any device • Manually add items that aren’t online • Free: make as many free wishlists as you like • No ads: Moonsift a calm space to make considered purchase decisions • Say goodbye to hundreds of tabs and screenshots • You can organise by category e.g. collections for shoes, bags & home • Track prices and get price drop alerts Your perfect: • Shopping list, organizer and planner • General wishlist or 'wantlist' • Christmas wish list & registry • Wedding registry • Bridal gift list • Baby gift list • House warming list • Holiday gift list & registry • Gift tracker • Graduation List • Virtual Styling Personal Shopping board • Renovation & interior design product tracker How the app works: 1. Add items from any store in the world 2. Curate and share lists with friends & family 3. People can buy and reserve items without needing to sign up Shop smarter, stay organized and get the gifts you really want while keeping it a surprise! Moonsift stands for conscious stopping: Moonsift has been designed alongside a community that love to shop online, but are frustrated by the disjointed online experience that leads to overwhelm, impulse buying and waste. Everyday shoppers, stylists and interior designers are all helping us to reimagine the online shopping experience. We welcome you to be a part of this journey. Feel free mail us at hello@moonsift.com if you have any issues or ideas for improving the app and we will respond :)

About

Sherpa

This app proactively suggests places to visit based on your location, time, weather, and past preferences. It streamlines the process from recommendation to booking and remembering, eliminating the need for manual searching and decision fatigue.

Highlights
  • Proactive AI recommendations
  • Location-based alerts
  • In-app booking
  • Saves and remembers places
  • Learns from user visits
  • No ads or influencer content
Features
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Sherpa gets you out the door. Tell it one spot you love and it starts to get you. A couple of questions later it's putting real places in front of you. The wine bar before the show, the bakery worth the detour, the sauna after the trail. The more you use it, the sharper it gets. Nothing you teach it ever expires. WHAT'S WAITING FOR YOU • A feed built for right now. Time of day, weather, what's open, and what's near you all decide what's on top, with the best pick first and the reason it matches you right now. • Ask Sherpa. Your conversation for figuring out plans. A Tuesday dinner, a first date, a whole Saturday outside. Real showtimes, real events, and real hours in the answers, with links to find tickets, reservations, and directions. • Plans that land. Picks saved to your calendar in a tap, and the plan is easy to text to your friends. • Your place wallet. Every spot you save and every list you build, in one place instead of screenshots and half-remembered names. • The whole going-out universe. Restaurants and bars, live music and pop-ups, galleries and matinees, trails and saunas and run clubs. Your city has more than dinner. WHAT MAKES SHERPA DIFFERENT Sherpa's picks are yours, not the internet's. It knows how your tastes connect, so it can hand you somewhere you'd never have searched for that still fits you perfectly. No famous tourist traps. Not the lazy pick you’d find yourself by just searching "best bar near me”. Sherpa learns from what you actually do, not what you scroll. Saves and skips tune it, and the nights that really happen teach it the most. More than that, Sherpa will learn who you are. Maybe you're The Opening Night. Maybe you're The Corner Regular. Your persona is yours to claim, and your feed keeps growing. WHAT SHERPA IS NOT No ads. No influencer lists. No endless scroll. Sherpa isn't trying to keep you in the app. A good time starts with Sherpa and ends with you somewhere better than your couch. --- Terms of Use @ https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy @ https://www.sherpaapp.ai/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Wishlist Maker4 screens
Sherpa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wishlist Maker at none against Sherpa's 1. Wishlist Maker also leads on ratings volume (2.1K vs 1). Sherpa's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). On price, rating, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sherpa sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Wishlist Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sherpa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wishlist Maker has 2.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Wishlist Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sherpa's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wishlist Maker ships an update every 3 months, Sherpa fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Wishlist Maker versus Sherpa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWishlist MakerSherpa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.1K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoonsift LimitedTouch Grass AI LLC

Customer experience

Wishlist Maker

All ratings2,038 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews351 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.1%

Sherpa

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Wishlist Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashing and freezing issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when adding items
  • Syncing problems across devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to sort and organize lists
  • Implement price tracking and discount notifications
  • Allow custom notes and details for list items
  • Improve sharing and collaboration features

Sherpa

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Wishlist Maker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sherpa

Subscriptions1
  • Sherpa Pro Monthly$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Wishlist Maker free?
Wishlist Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sherpa free?
Sherpa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wishlist Maker or Sherpa?
Sherpa is rated higher. Wishlist Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Sherpa averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wishlist Maker or Sherpa have ads?
Neither Wishlist Maker nor Sherpa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wishlist Maker or Sherpa?
Wishlist Maker ships an update every 3 months, and Sherpa fortnightly. Most recently, Wishlist Maker was updated on October 27, 2026 and Sherpa on October 24, 2026.

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