birthday surprise link
a birthday surprise link,
sealed until midnight.
A birthday surprise link you send early that opens at midnight on their day: a countdown until then, then your wishes, photos, music and a cake to cut. Send it on WhatsApp or print its QR code.
$1.02 once, per card. No subscription, nothing renews. Photos, a video or a voice note are included. They need no app and no account.
Next: write it and see it first, no account needed. You sign up and pay only when you send it.
Open a little surprise.
Try a digital card, just as they will. No sign-up needed.
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Illustrated stories
Your moment, drawn as a story.
Tell us who it is for and why. We write a short picture book about you two, draw every scene, compose its music, and it plays before your message.
Illustrated story · 5 scenes
Missing you
A sister in Kochi to her brother, starting his first job and first winter in Berlin.
Illustrated story · 5 scenes
A first Christmas away
A grandmother in Kerala to her granddaughter, spending Christmas in Toronto.
Illustrated story · 5 scenes
Happy 60th, Papa
A daughter in Bangalore to her father in Jaipur, on the birthday she can't be there for.
Choose how it opens
Prefer an illustrated card? Pick a paper-craft scene and an envelope to open.
Balloons 
Christmas star 
Hearts
How a birthday surprise link works
Send it whenever you like. It keeps the secret.
Make it ahead
Your birthday wishes, up to twelve photos, a video or a voice note, and birthday music they can turn off.
Set it to their midnight
Choose the day and the time. Until then, the link shows a closed envelope and a countdown.
Send it early
Share the link on WhatsApp, or print its QR code for a gift tag. Opening it early spoils nothing.
At midnight, it opens
They cut the cake, blow out the candles and find your words.
Birthday surprise wishes to copy
Written for a link that opens at midnight. Change one detail and it is yours.
A partner far away
Happy birthday, my love. It's midnight and I wanted to be the first. I'll be the loudest at the real party, I promise.
Make it yours: Swap "the real party" for your actual plan: a call, a visit, a flight.
Your best friend
Happy birthday to the one who knows all my secrets and still answers at midnight. Another year of us. Cake is on me.
Make it yours: Swap the cake for the thing you two always share.
Your sister
Happy birthday, didi. You were my first best friend and my first bodyguard. Thank you for still being both.
Make it yours: Change "didi" to what you call her.
Mum
Happy birthday, Amma. Everything good in me started in your kitchen. I hope today someone cooks for you.
Make it yours: Name the place or the habit that is hers.
Husband or wife
Happy birthday. Another year of you stealing the blanket and me letting you. I wouldn't trade a single night of it.
Make it yours: Swap the blanket for your own small household joke.
A friend abroad
I set this to open at your midnight, not mine, so you'd have it first thing. Happy birthday from a long way off, and from very close.
Short and sweet
Midnight, and you're officially a year more wonderful. Happy birthday.
Questions
- Can it really open at midnight?
- Yes. Once the card is unlocked, choose the day and the time, midnight included, and the link stays closed until then.
- Whose midnight is it?
- Yours: you pick the time on your own clock. If they live in another time zone, choose the time that is midnight for them.
- What if they open the link early?
- They see a closed envelope and a countdown to the moment you chose. The card itself stays hidden.
- Can friends add their wishes?
- Yes. Share an invite link and each friend adds a message and a photo, with no account. How group cards work
- Can only they open it?
- Yes, if you like. Set a question only they can answer, and it opens when they get it right.
- Does the person need an app?
- No. They open the link in any browser on their phone or computer, with no account.
- Is it free?
- Making and previewing a card is free, and only you can see it. You pay once per card when you unlock it to send.
More on digital greeting cards, or send a handwritten birthday card by post.
Something else in mind? a birthday website, a virtual birthday gift or a birthday QR code.
Make one now.
Write it, preview it, and send the link when you are ready. You only pay when you unlock it.