Birthdays
A birthday gift you can send in the next ten minutes.
Their birthday is today and you still have time for this. Maybe you planned for weeks and something is still missing. Maybe it is nine in the evening and you have remembered. Both of those end in the same place: you want the day to carry something of you in it, and you want it to exist before midnight.
6.99 USD once — no account needed to create it.
One more birthday surprise.
On its own, or scanned off the box you already wrapped. Either way it is the part that sounds like you.
- A message
- Last year's photos
- Sing it badly
Happy birthday
A little something for Noah
“Another year of you leaving cupboards open and making me laugh about it anyway. I would not trade a single one of them.”
— Clara
Two ways people use this on a birthday
As the thing itself
A message, photographs and your voice, opened from a link. Complete on its own, and nothing about it says it was made quickly.
As the personal half of something else
You have already bought the gift. This is what turns it from an object into a thing somebody chose — add the QR code to the flowers, the box, the breakfast tray, the envelope. They scan it and the rest opens on their phone.
About the last minute
Nothing here punishes you for being late. There is no delivery date to make, no stock to check and no queue: a last-minute gift you can write and send today, with the link and the QR in your email as soon as the payment goes through.
It does mean the deadline is real in one direction only. Send it at 11:40pm and it arrives at 11:40pm. Nobody can tell from the gift when you started it.
What goes in a birthday one
- The message — up to 500 characters, which is more than it sounds and enough for the thing you never say out loud.
- Up to 3 photographs, which on a birthday tend to be the ones from last year's.
- Up to 60 seconds of your voice. Singing it badly is a legitimate use.
- An optional secret, if you want them to answer something before it opens.
What people write on the day
A birthday message fails when it sounds like a card. These do not, because each one is about a specific person.
For someone you see all the time
Another year of you leaving cupboards open and making me laugh about it anyway. I would not trade a single one of them.
For a parent
You have had this birthday thirty times since I have known you and I have never actually told you what you did for me. So here it is, in my own voice, because writing it was not enough.
When you are adding it to a gift
The box was the easy part. This is the bit I actually wanted you to have — scan it when you get a minute to yourself.
Your turn
Create a birthday surprise.
Write the message first. The photographs, the voice note and the secret are all optional, and the whole thing exists the moment you have paid.
For
you
Someone sent you a rose
For you
A little something for you
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Step 1 of 2
Write your message.
Tell them what’s in your heart. You can make it even more special in the next step.
Add both names and a message to continue.
Already have a plan?
The things people ask first.
Is this a good last minute birthday gift?
It is built for it. There is no delivery date to make and no stock to check: you write it, you pay, and the link is in your email. The only part that takes any time is deciding what to say.
Can I send a personalized birthday gift online without posting anything?
Yes. Nothing is posted and nothing is printed unless you choose to print the card yourself. What they receive is a link, or a QR code you can put on something you are handing over.
Can I send it today?
Yes. The link and the QR code arrive by email as soon as your payment is confirmed, and the only part that takes time is deciding what to write. Everything else is already built.
Can I add it to a gift I already bought?
Yes, and a lot of people do. You get a QR code alongside the private link, so you can put it with flowers, in a box, on a card or in an envelope. Scanning it opens what you made. The physical part is yours to arrange — we make the digital half.
Can I make it now and send it later?
Yes. Nothing is sent on your behalf and nothing opens on a schedule. You hold the link from the moment you buy it and you decide when it goes.
Will they know how long I spent on it?
No. What they open looks the same whether you wrote it in a week or in ten minutes. What changes the result is what you say, not how long you took.
Add something personal to their birthday
Write the message first — the rest is optional, and you can see the whole thing as you go.