The short version, and it is good news
Amazon is the exception among large shops. Its wish lists are genuinely shareable: you can set a list so that it has a link, send that link to somebody, and they can open it and see everything on it.
If you have arrived here after trying the same thing on Myntra, Flipkart, Nykaa or AJIO and finding no such option, that is not you missing a setting. Those shops do not offer it. Amazon does.
How the sharing works
A wish list has a privacy setting, and that setting is what decides who can reach it. Private means only you. The shared or public setting gives the list a link, and anybody holding the link can view it.
You can keep more than one list, which is the part people underuse. A single list holding birthday ideas, a new kettle and three books is less useful than three lists, because the person you send it to has to guess which part concerns them.
Lists are also built with gifting in mind rather than just saving: when somebody buys something from a list, the list can reflect that so two people do not buy you the same thing, and it can do it without spoiling the surprise.
The thing it still cannot do
The limitation is in the name. An Amazon wish list holds Amazon items. If the thing you want is on Amazon, that is no limitation at all. If your shortlist of four dresses has two from Amazon, one from Myntra and one from a small Shopify shop you found on Instagram, the list can only hold half of it.
That is the common case for anything involving clothes, furniture, or gifts in India, where the interesting things are spread across a dozen shops and the big marketplaces hold only part of the field. You end up with a wish list for the Amazon half and a chat thread for the rest, which is worse than either on its own.
The second, smaller thing: the person opening the link sees it inside Amazon, in Amazon’s layout, surrounded by Amazon. For a gift registry that is exactly right. For “which of these four do you like” it is more shop than the question needed.
What about saving Amazon links into another tool?
This generally works better for Amazon than for most Indian shops, which is worth knowing if you are trying to assemble a list that spans several retailers.
Shops vary in how they treat an automated request, and more than you would expect. Measured on 25 October 2026 from a home connection across twenty Indian shops: fifteen returned a full page, including Myntra, Flipkart, Tata CLiQ, Croma, FirstCry, Pepperfry and Westside. AJIO and Meesho refused outright with an identical 366-byte “Access Denied”. Nykaa refused by two different routes on two attempts. Amazon.in answered with a 2 KB stub rather than a page — which is its own kind of refusal, and the reason a tool may save you an Amazon item with no price. Myntra and Flipkart, readable here, are known to refuse the same request when it arrives from a data centre.
The practical point is that a tool collecting links from several shops will not behave uniformly across them, and the good ones are honest about the failures rather than saving you an item with a title and no price. A browser extension avoids the question entirely, since the page is read from the tab you already have open.
What actually works
If everything you want is on Amazon — a birthday list, a wedding registry, a wish list for relatives abroad — use Amazon’s own wish list. It does the job, the sharing is real, and nothing else will do it better.
If the shortlist crosses shops, which is most of the time once clothes or homeware are involved, it needs to live somewhere that does not belong to any one retailer. The test is the same as always: can the people you want an opinion from open it without signing up for anything?