A Wishlist
For The Two Of You.
Keep the things you'd love in one quiet place, shared just with your person. Claim their gifts in secret.
One quiet place
Your list. Their list. Together.
Two lists, one private space. Linked once through iCloud and synced quietly between the two of you, forever.
How it works
Three small things, done with care.
Add anything, in seconds.
Paste a link from anywhere. Listmates pulls the title and image automatically, the same way iMessage does it, because it's the same iOS framework underneath. No registry sign-up, no copy-and-pasting from a spreadsheet.
Or just type a thought. A new throw for the couch. Books I keep meaning to read. Add a price if you want, tag a priority, pick a category, done.
Claim, quietly.
When you open your partner's list, tap claim on anything you'd like to gift them. A small rose check appears on your side, a quiet note to yourself that you've got it covered.
They never see the check. The item stays on their list exactly as they left it; nothing moves, nothing changes for them. The surprise is preserved.
Only you see this check. They’ll never know.
Your lists live in your iCloud, not ours.
No accounts, no passwords, no servers we run. Listmates uses Apple’s CloudKit, so your lists are shared privately with one other person, and only that person. We can’t read them, can’t lose them, can’t accidentally email them to a marketing list. If you ever delete the app, your data goes with it.
The claim
One list, two views. The check is just for you.
What Theo sees on his own list
No checks, no claim hints. Nothing changes for him.
What you see on Theo’s list
A quiet rose check on the one you’ve claimed.
Theo’s list looks the same to him whether you’ve claimed something or not. The check lives only on your side, a private note that you’ve got the gift covered.
From anywhere
From any app, in two taps.
See something good in Safari, Instagram, Etsy, the Apple Store, anywhere? Hit the Share button, pick Listmates, and a small sheet slides up. Title and image come in automatically, the same link preview the rest of iOS uses.
Add a note, a price, a priority, or just tap Save. The item lands in your list before you tap back into the app you came from.
From inside the app
Or, right inside the app. Three taps.
Tap the plus.
A small floating button, lower-right of your list.
Fill it out.
Title, link, price, priority. Paste a URL and the title fills itself.
Done.
It lands in your list, and on your partner's view too.
A small overview
A quiet sense of the list, from both sides.
A small card sits at the top of each list. Yours shows the spread of prices and how many items you’ve flagged as “really want this.” Theirs, when you’re shopping for them, shows how much you’ve already covered.
On your own list
On your partner’s list
Built native
Made by hand, for iOS.
Listmates is written in SwiftUI, runs on CloudKit, and uses the same link-preview engine that powers iMessage. There's no React Native shell, no Electron wrapper, no third-party analytics SDK stitched into the app.
That's also why pairing is one tap, why it works offline, and why everything renders at 120Hz on your iPhone.
Questions
The things people ask.
Who is Listmates for?
Couples: dating, engaged, married, long-distance. The app is built around two people sharing one quiet space, with the option to claim gifts in secret. It works year-round, but tends to come out around birthdays, anniversaries, and the holidays.
Do we both need iPhones?
Yes. Listmates is built natively on iOS using CloudKit, which means it relies on each person having an Apple ID and an iPhone (or iPad). An Android version isn't on the roadmap.
What does Apple, or you, see?
Your lists live in your own iCloud, shared privately with your partner through Apple's CloudKit. We don't run servers, we don't have user accounts, and we don't have analytics that read your content. We can't see your lists, even if we wanted to.
Is it free?
Listmates is free to download and free to use for the core experience. If we add anything beyond that later, it'll be a small one-time unlock. No subscriptions, no nagging upgrade prompts.
What if we break up?
Either of you can unpair at any time, from Profile. Unpairing wipes the shared wishlist for both of you and dissolves the iCloud share, so there's nothing left to clean up later. We never had a copy on our end, because we don't run servers.
Can I move my list to a new phone?
Yes. Sign into the same iCloud account on the new device, install Listmates, and your list comes with you. There's nothing to migrate manually.