MakerManifest started as a tool for creators. You build a gear list, your links carry your affiliate tags, and you can see which items earn. All of that still exists and is still the point for a lot of people using it.
But a steady share of people signing up do not want any of that. They want a wedding registry, a classroom supply list, a packing list for six people going camping. They open a dashboard built for affiliate marketing and have to work out which two of the fourteen things on it apply to them.
Just lists is the answer to that. It is a setting, not a different product.
What it does
Pick it and the dashboard drops everything built for earning: affiliate programs, affiliate links, click analytics, bio links, referrals, invites, link import, the API and custom domains. What is left is the list builder, sharing, templates and short links.
Your profile settings shrink too — the creator social fields (YouTube, X, Instagram, Patreon, Facebook) come off, and your website field stays.
You are asked which experience you want the first time you open your dashboard, and you can change it whenever you like under Settings, Preferences, Experience.
Nothing is deleted
Switching to Just lists only hides those sections. Any affiliate rules, bio links or analytics history stay exactly as they were and reappear the moment you switch back to Creator. It is a view, not a migration, so there is no cost to trying it.
Your links still carry a tag — and the page says so
This is the part worth being clear about, because "hides the affiliate tools" sounds like "turns off affiliate links" and it does not.
A product link on a free account still gets the MakerManifest affiliate tag applied when you have not set one of your own, and your public list shows the affiliate disclosure that requires. That is how the free tier is paid for. It costs whoever is buying nothing and changes no prices — but it is real, it is on the page, and you should know about it before you send a registry to two hundred wedding guests.
If you want it off entirely: Basic and Premium can disable the MakerManifest fallback tag under Affiliate Fallback, which lives in the Creator experience. Switch to Creator, change the setting, switch back.
Your share links live on one domain
Just lists uses shr.ms as its sharing domain instead of mkr.ms — for the short links and for the full link to a list. Nothing you hand out mentions makermanifest.co or reads as a creator tool. If you have already picked a short domain yourself in Settings, your choice wins.
Both domains resolve exactly the same codes, so any link you shared before still works.
What you get
- Items from any store. Paste the URL of a product page and the title and picture come from that page. One list can span a big-box retailer, a specialty shop and a one-person maker's own site
- Your own note on any item — the size, the color, the reason, "any equivalent is fine"
- Order you control, so the thing you most want sits at the top
- Draft until you publish. A draft is invisible to everyone, including by direct link
- No account needed to view. Whoever you send it to opens a web page. No app, no sign-in
What it does not do yet
Two things, said plainly because they are the ones people ask about.
Nobody can claim an item. There is no way for a visitor to mark something as bought, so every visitor sees the same list and two people can buy the same gift. Today you edit the list yourself as things arrive. It is on the roadmap.
Every item needs a product page. There is no plain-text entry, so "money toward the honeymoon" or "help us move on the 14th" cannot be a line on the list.
The limits
Free gives you 10 lists with 25 items each, which covers most of what people use this for. Basic raises it to 50 lists with unlimited items per list — worth it if you are building a long registry or running lists for several classes.
Where to start
Depending on why you are here:
- A wedding registry across more than one store
- A wishlist that is not tied to Amazon
- Group camping gear with owners against each item
- A road trip kit the whole car can open
- Everything for a first apartment
Create a free account and pick Just lists on the way in.