Chestr is a slick price-tracking wishlist that saves products from any store. WishApp is built around gifting. Here is how the two compare on platforms, reservations, reliability, and whether Chestr is even still being maintained.
Last updated: June 2026
Looking for a Chestr alternative? Chestr is a free, Chrome-and-iPhone wishlist with built-in price tracking, but it has gone two and a half years without an update and has no gift reservations. WishApp is free, actively maintained, runs almost everywhere, and hides reservations so surprises stay safe. Among Chestr alternatives, WishApp is the one we'd pick.
Every row reflects what each app actually does today. Chestr wins on price tracking, so we marked that honestly too.
| Feature | Chestr | WishApp |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing & value | ||
| Free forever, no subscription | Free | Free |
| No selling of your shopping data | Planned data sales | Never sold |
| Price-drop and discount alerts | Built in | Not offered |
| Platforms & devices | ||
| iPhone app | Yes | Yes |
| Android app | None | Phone + tablet |
| Browser extensions | Chrome only | Six browsers |
| macOS and Raycast | No | Yes |
| Sharing & privacy | ||
| Share with one link | Yes | Yes |
| Friends view without an account | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple currencies | Not supported | All currencies |
| Gifting features | ||
| Hidden reservations (owner cannot see) | None | Yes |
| Secret Santa / gift exchange | No | Yes |
| Reserved and received tracking | No | Yes |
| Collaborative lists | No | Yes |
| Reliability & upkeep | ||
| Add from any store by pasting a link | Often fails | Auto-fills |
| Actively maintained | No update since 2023 | Active |
| Responsive support | Unanswered | Yes |
Both apps are genuinely free, with no paid tier on either side. The catch with Chestr is how it planned to make money. Its stated model was selling aggregated shopping-intent data to brands, and the App Store listing flags Location, Contacts, Identifiers and Usage Data as collected and tied to you. WishApp runs on affiliate commissions instead, with no ads and no user data sold. Same price, very different trade.
WishApp covers far more ground. Chestr is iPhone plus a Chrome extension plus a web app, and that is the whole list. No Android at all, which leaves out most of the world's phones. No Firefox, Safari, Edge or Brave extension either, so it's Chrome or nothing on the browser. WishApp ships iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet, macOS, a Raycast add-on, and extensions for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Firefox and Safari.
This is the real split, and it's where Chestr earns its keep. Chestr watches your saved items and pings you when prices drop or coupons appear. WishApp does not track prices at all. But Chestr was built for solo deal-hunting, not for gifts. It has no way to reserve an item, so friends can't claim something without the owner finding out, and duplicates are on you. WishApp's hidden reservations are the whole point: the owner never sees who took what.
For coordinating gifts, the two aren't close. Chestr has no reservations, no Secret Santa, no group gifting, and no collaborative editing. An independent 2026 review summed it up as good for deal hunters and nothing else. WishApp runs Secret Santa, lets a few people co-manage one list, tracks what you've reserved and received with a note like 'from Sarah', and keeps the owner in the dark about reservations so the surprise holds.
Here's the honest problem with Chestr. Its core trick, saving a product in one click, fails a lot. Reviewers describe links that vanish and a share button that doesn't work, with one saying it saved roughly 60% of the time. Support messages reportedly went unanswered. And it has shipped no update since November 2023, with the founders now running other companies. WishApp's scraper has dedicated extractors for Amazon, Best Buy and Target, and the app is actively maintained.
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