You want to send a link and let them find the surprise. Put your photo and message behind a scratch layer, inside an egg they crack, a box they unwrap or bubble wrap they pop. If you like, lock it until a date or make them answer a question first. Then send the link in any chat.
Hide your message and photo behind an opening they perform. Add a date lock or a question if you want them to work for 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: drag across the foil to uncover the card underneath.
Hide your own surprise →Opening pre-set; the unlock date and question are optional extras inside the maker.
Box locked until a date
Unwrap it in a week; a countdown until then.
Answer a question first
An example question is filled in; change it to one only they know.
Pick the opening below. The scratch card is selected by default.
Write the surprise, add an optional photo, and set an unlock time or a question if you want one.
Create the link and send it. They open it in their browser and reveal it themselves.
Scratch card: silver foil they rub away with a finger or mouse. Surprise egg: a shell that cracks after three taps. Gift box: a ribbon to pull and a lid to lift. Bubble wrap: a sheet they pop to uncover what is underneath. Every one ends on the card with your photo and message.
Pick the one that fits the person, not the occasion. All four work for a birthday, good news or no reason at all.
Open ‘Seal it for later’ in the maker and pick a date and time. Until then, the link opens on a sealed screen with the occasion and a countdown. After the time passes, the same link opens the surprise. You still send the link yourself; nothing is sent automatically. With a photo, pick a time within 30 days, while the photo is still stored.
Open ‘Add clues before the reveal’ and write a question, the answer and an optional hint. They see the question first. A wrong answer shows your hint; after three wrong answers they can skip. Use something only they would know, such as where you first met.
For the general idea of a gift you send as a link, see the gift link page. For the category of virtual gifts with a photo and message inside, see the virtual gift page.
Tap a line to start with it — it lands in the card, ready to edit.
Whatever you put there: a message you wrote and an optional photo. It is not a gift card, money or a physical item. The surprise is the reveal plus your words.
Yes. Choose an unlock date and time in the maker: up to five years ahead, or within 30 days if the gift has a photo. Until then the link opens on a sealed screen with the occasion and a countdown; the contents stay hidden. The link is not sent automatically; you send it whenever you like.
Yes. Add a question, the answer and an optional hint. The hint appears after a wrong try, and after three wrong tries they can skip the question. Answers are compared ignoring case and extra spaces.
No. The link opens in any phone or desktop browser. Neither of you signs up.
The gift and its link stay until the sender deletes it; photos and voice messages are deleted 30 days after creation, and the gift then opens without them. An unlock date must fall inside that period.
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 surprise gift linkOpen 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.