Not for everything. You can open a shared wishlist and reserve a gift without signing up. You'll want an account to keep your own wishlists safe, follow people, and change your settings.
What you can do without an account
View a shared wishlist. Anyone with the link can open a wishlist that's
Publicor Anyone with the link — no sign-up needed.Reserve a gift. If the owner allows it, you can reserve an item without signing in. See "How does gift reservation work?".
Start building a wishlist. If you visit the app without signing in, Wishpicks gives you a temporary guest session so you can create a wishlist right away.
What needs an account
Following people and seeing their wishes in your following feed.
Collections, saved items, and your settings — these are for signed-in accounts only.
Keeping your wishlists for the long term (more on this below).
How to sign in
Wishpicks signs you in with Google, Facebook, or an emailed magic link — a one-time link sent to your email that signs you in when you click it. There's no email-and-password login. Apple sign-in is coming soon.
Worth knowing
Guest work can be lost. A guest wishlist lives in your browser, so if you switch devices, clear your cookies, or your session expires, you can lose access — unless you sign up in the same browser or save a recovery link first. Signing up in that same browser is the safe route: the wishlists and reservations you made as a guest move into your new account automatically.
The magic link is your sign-in. It arrives by email and expires after about an hour. If it doesn't show up, check your spam folder.