Comparison

Wishlist Maker vs Flashback Journaling

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

Flashback Journaling

This app allows users to create multimedia journals with text, photos, and audio. Organize your thoughts using a unique keyword system to create searchable documents. Discover past entries through curated selections or random picks.

Highlights
  • Multimedia journaling (text, photo, audio)
  • Keyword-based document organization
  • View favorite, past, and random journals
  • Customizable user profile
  • Fast and easy post creation
Features
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Flashback is a multimedia journal where you automatically/creatively display store text, photo, and audio (Video coming soon). Take a picture in your iphone camera and it will be displayed instantly and artistically in your daily journal! Through Flashback’s sleek design, users are able to organize their ideas faster than ever with our keyword → document feature! In any daily journal the user may use any keyword that they choose followed by a colon (:), the paragraph following that colon will be copy and pasted into a document titled their keyword. From that document the users can view all the ideas that were added in date format from earliest to latest. Users can rinse and repeat with any keyword they choose!.. From the home screen users are able to view favorite journals (bookmarked journals), a journal that you created from a week ago, a month ago, and a random journal that was made since you started using Flashback!.. Users also have a fully customizable and stylistic profile where in future updates you will be able to share to your close friends! You will be able to create post fast and easily from your journal by simply selecting what you’d like to post!

Screenshots

Wishlist Maker4 screens
Flashback Journaling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Flashback Journaling at daily against Wishlist Maker's every 3 months. Flashback Journaling also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Wishlist Maker's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flashback Journaling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wishlist Maker has 2K ratings behind it against 3, 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 Flashback Journaling's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wishlist Maker ships an update every 3 months, Flashback Journaling daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Wishlist Maker versus Flashback Journaling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWishlist MakerFlashback Journaling
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoonsift LimitedVance Khacey Smith

Customer experience

Wishlist Maker

All ratings1,989 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews336 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.4%

Flashback Journaling

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 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

Flashback Journaling

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Wishlist Maker

No in-app purchases

None

Flashback Journaling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wishlist Maker free?
Wishlist Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flashback Journaling free?
Flashback Journaling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wishlist Maker or Flashback Journaling?
Flashback Journaling is rated higher. Wishlist Maker averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Flashback Journaling averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Wishlist Maker or Flashback Journaling have ads?
Neither Wishlist Maker nor Flashback Journaling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wishlist Maker or Flashback Journaling?
Wishlist Maker ships an update every 3 months, and Flashback Journaling daily. Most recently, Wishlist Maker was updated on October 13, 2026 and Flashback Journaling on September 30, 2026.

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