A birthday card they open on their phone.

Three cards, already made

Tap an envelope to open it. Nothing here is sent to anybody — these are samples, and the links below them open the write page with that note in the message box, which is as far as any of it goes. We never ask for the other person’s number: you get a link at the end and you send it yourself.

1. For a friend · Marigold, casual hand

   Tap the envelope

   Happy birthday to the friend I can go three months without calling and then pick up mid-sentence with. That's rarer than it sounds, and I don't take it for granted. Have a very good one, and ring me when you're free.

   Write this one for a friend

2. For your mother · Blush, formal script

   Tap the envelope

   Happy birthday, Maa. I know I ring less often than I should, and say less than I mean when I do ring. So, plainly: I'm alright, I'm grateful, and most of the reason for both of those is you. Have a good, slow day today.

   Write this one for your mother

3. For your brother · Sky, the default hand

   Tap the envelope

   Happy birthday, bhai. Still the best person to have on my side of an argument, and the first person I'd call if something went badly wrong. Have a proper day today, and let the family make their fuss of you.

   Write this one for your brother

The names on these three are made up. The words are the suggestions we wrote, which is exactly what you get in the box — and then you change whatever is only yours.

What you are buying

₹49 is the card itself: up to 400 characters in your own words, the envelope, the wax seal, and the paper unfolding when they open the link on their phone — which is what the three above are doing. You see the finished thing, working, before you pay for it.

₹99 adds a photo, or a voice note of up to a minute in your own voice — one or the other, not both — and lets you seal the card so it will not open before a time you choose, anywhere from fifteen minutes to thirty days ahead, Indian time. Either card stays readable for ninety days, counted from when you send it or from when a sealed one unlocks.

The paper, the envelope colour, the wax and the handwriting are all yours to change while you write — the three above are three of the combinations, not three fixed designs. There is no account to make and nothing recurring. We do not know when a card is opened, and we do not tell you.