Personal gift
Make a birthday surprise link
For their big day. Pick a design, add your own words, and send a small animated gift — no app for them to open, just a link.
Create a birthday giftBy mid-morning their phone is a wall of near-identical messages, and yours is somewhere in it. A birthday message gets two seconds; a birthday gift they have to open, play and finish takes a minute of their day and stays in it.
People call it a birthday website, a surprise link, or just "that thing you send" — it's a page made for one person, live the moment you send it and theirs to reopen for the next ten days.
Everything below is built in your browser and sent as a link — no app to install on either end, no account, no cost.
4 ways to send a birthday gift
Nested surprise boxes
Five wrapped boxes, each hidden inside the last — then a teddy hands over your letter.
Balloon pop
Pop a sky full of balloons — one for every year — then a cake and your message appear.
Photo album
A little album on a desk — flip through the photos, one memory to a page.
Pirate spyglass
Board the ship, raise the spyglass, and turn the focus ring — each picture swims into view.
How sending a birthday gift works
- 1Pick a design — each one is a small scene they open and play with.
- 2Add your own words, names and photos. Nothing is required except the bits that make it theirs.
- 3Get a private link and send it. It opens in any browser, on any phone.
Making a birthday gift land
- Send it at midnight — being first is worth more than being clever
- Use their age — the balloon game fills the screen with one balloon per year, so the gift is literally their number
- Name something from the year they just had, not a general compliment
- Follow it with a plan — a gift plus a date beats a gift on its own
- Know how long you've got — the birthday countdown counts to midnight on the day, and the wish generator has 270 birthday lines when the message box is the part that's stuck
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It's free, it takes about five minutes, and there's no account on either end.
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