Group Card
Everyone signs one card. Recipient gets a reveal.
Free to use · No sign-up needed
Your three links appear here once the card is made: one for the people signing, one for the person it is for, and one for you.
One card, everybody signs it, and nobody has to find a pen
The paper version has a known failure mode. Somebody buys a card, it goes round the office in a brown envelope, three people are working from home that week, two more sign it twice by accident, and it arrives on the desk at four o'clock on a Friday with a coffee ring on the front. The people who had the nicest thing to say are usually the ones who never got the envelope.
So this one asks for a name and an occasion and nothing else. You get three links back. Send the first to everyone who should sign, keep the second for the person the card is for, and hold on to the third — that is yours, and it is how you close the card and find the other two again next week.
How to run one
- Put in who it is for and what it is for. “Sarah’s last day” is plenty.
- Set a closing date if you want a deadline to point at. It is optional.
- Send the signing link to the group. People write a message, add a sticker or a GIF, and pick how their page arrives.
- Watch the count on your own link until everybody who was going to sign has.
- Close the card, then send the recipient link to the person it is for.
Three things worth knowing before you send anything
Signing twice edits rather than adds. One message per browser, so somebody who spots a typo can go back to the same link and fix it instead of appearing on the card twice. It also means a shared machine in the kitchen is one signature, not several, which is the one place that rule is inconvenient — tell people to use their own phone.
Everyone picks their own animation. Bounce, confetti, hearts, sparkles, a flip, a rise, a wobble or a zoom: the recipient turns the card one message at a time and each page arrives the way its author chose. The words are readable from the first moment either way — nothing waits for an animation to finish — and if the person reading has asked their device for reduced motion, the whole card simply fades in instead.
Anyone with the signing link can write anything. There is a word filter and it is a first line rather than a wall. The signing page carries a Report link that takes the whole card off the air on one click, and your manage link is what puts it back. Send the signing link to the people you would hand a real card to.
Good uses
- A leaving card for somebody whose team is spread across three time zones.
- A birthday, where the surprise is the point and a group chat would ruin it.
- Thanking somebody who covered for the whole team while they were ill.
- A congratulations for a promotion, a new baby, a qualification, a retirement.
When to use something else
A card collects messages; it does not collect money, and it does not decide anything. For chipping in on a present that is Gift Pledges, and for picking between options somebody has already written down that is Live Poll. If you want everybody's words on one wall where the whole team reads them as they land, rather than saved up for one person, that is Kudos Wall.
Questions people ask
- Does anyone need an account?
- No. You make the card, you send the links, people sign. Nobody has to sign up, nobody has to give an email address, and nobody installs anything. The organiser can sign in if they want to keep it past ninety days and find it again without the link — that is the only thing an account does here, it is optional, and it changes nothing for anybody else. The links work in whatever browser is already open, on a phone as well as a laptop.
- Why are there three links and not two?
- Because three different people need three different things. The signing link goes to everyone who is writing a message — it shows the occasion and how many have signed, and never anybody else's words. The recipient link is the reveal, and it is the only one that opens the card. The manage link is yours: it counts the signatures, closes the card when everyone is done, and it is where you copy the other two from later. Send the wrong one to the group chat and the surprise is over, so the page says which is which every time it shows them.
- Can people see what everyone else wrote before it is sent?
- Not on the page, no — that is the whole design, and the signing page has nothing on it that would show them. What we will not pretend is that it is a vault. Anyone who has the six-character code and knows their way around a browser's developer tools can read the messages out of our database, because the same openness is what makes every live tool on Gleekit work without accounts. The recipient link stops the signing link being the reveal; it does not make the card a secret from somebody determined to spoil it.
- Do I need a Giphy or Tenor account for the pictures?
- No. The twelve animated stickers are ours — we drew them, they are part of the page, and they work with no key, no account and no network. If the site is set up with a GIF provider a search box appears next to them, and a GIF you pick is linked rather than copied, which means whoever opens the card loads it from that provider. With no provider configured there is no search box at all and the stickers are the whole thing.
- What happens to the card afterwards?
- It stays readable for ninety days after the last message, then it is deleted along with every message on it, and the recipient's link stops working with everything else. Every message pushes that date out again, so a card people are still signing does not go anywhere. There is no archive and no way to bring one back once it has gone — so if the card is something the recipient wants to keep, tell them to screenshot it while it is open. If you sign in from your manage link before then, the card stops expiring and stays where it is.