Send the birthday moment even when you cannot be there. Five candles sit above your photo or card. Your friend taps or swipes to put them out, then opens the birthday message you wrote.
Tap or swipe works straight away. Microphone access is optional and only requested if you choose it.
Free to create, send and open · no signup · no app · no watermark · the link keeps working · photos and voice messages kept 30 days · Updated
Try the demo: tap or swipe across the candles. Choose ‘Blow for real’ only if you want to try the microphone.
Write your own birthday wish →Start with the candle reveal and birthday card selected.
Write your birthday wish, add an optional photo, then preview.
Create and send the link. They tap, swipe or choose microphone mode to blow out the candles.
Choose candles for the familiar pause before making a wish. If they would enjoy slicing a cake to find your message, use the cake-cutting template instead. Both end with your personal card; neither sends a physical cake.
The birthday occasion page brings these choices together. This page takes you directly to the candle version, so there is no need to search through effects before writing your wish.
Tap a line to start with it — it lands in the card, ready to edit.
Yes, on browsers that support microphone access. They choose ‘Blow for real’ and allow access first. Tap and swipe are always available, including when permission is denied or no microphone is available.
No. The recipient must choose microphone mode. They can stop it, and microphone capture stops when they leave the reveal. The greeting works without using it.
This reveal uses five candles. You can put their age, name and your own wish in the message, but there is no candle-count or cake-decoration editor.
Yes. The virtual birthday cake template uses a cutting gesture. This page starts with the candle-blowing effect; the maker lets you switch effects before creating the gift.
You share the link yourself. You can choose an unlock time in the maker, but it does not automatically send the message. With a photo, the unlock time must be within 30 days, while the photo is still stored.
Same photo and words, a different thing for them to open.
Free, no signup. Add a photo and your words, and send the link.
Make a candle birthday cardOpen a Gift is a free website for sending a virtual gift by link: a message, an optional photo and voice message inside an interactive reveal (15 reveals, 14 card designs) that the recipient opens in their browser. It is free to create, send and open. There is no signup and no app for either side, and no watermark on the gift. Gifts are private: only people with the link can open one. The link keeps working until the sender deletes the gift; photos and voice messages are stored for 30 days, then deleted. It opens in any phone or desktop browser, straight from WhatsApp, iMessage, email or any chat.