Best holiday ecards 2026: 8 picks for family, coworkers and friends (we make them)

If you searched for the best holiday ecards 2026, here's who's answering: we make Tangy Limes, so these eight are our own picks, not an independent ranking. Our one rule going in is that a holiday card should star the people you're sending it to. In every pick, real faces cut out of your photo dance through four scenes and sing an original song for the holiday, mouths moving to every word.

Short answer, by who's getting it:

• Family, Christmas: Holly Jolly Family or Holiday Boy Band
• Family, Hanukkah: Latke Party, or Happy Hanukkah for phones
• Family, Diwali: Festival of Lights
• Coworkers or a mixed crowd: Ugly Sweater Party, which says HAPPY HOLIDAYS
• Friends: Friendsgiving, then Midnight Countdown on New Year's Eve

The preview with your faces in it is free. Each card is $1.99, or 3 for $4.99, which covers three holidays and most of your December guilt. No subscription, no app, and no account for a single card.

For the family

1. Holly Jolly Family (Christmas, Friday, December 25). Four faces in plaid pajamas by a huge tree, then a front yard with far too many blinking lights, a kitchen covered in flour and gingerbread, and a snowy Christmas market. Cast the uncle who blinks in every photo. You pick the photo this time.

2. Holiday Boy Band (Christmas). Four faces in a late-90s boy band video with fake snow, lasers and matching white outfits, plus a stop in Santa's workshop. The headline says HAPPY HOLIDAYS. Somebody has to be the heartthrob, and it should be the one who least wants to be.

3. Latke Party (Hanukkah, from sundown Friday, December 4). Three faces in a dining room with blue and silver streamers and a menorah in the window, then a kitchen with a sizzling pan of latkes and a mountain of potatoes somebody has to grate, then a giant inflatable dreidel. Happy Hanukkah is the tall phone version, for one or two faces.

4. Festival of Lights (Diwali, Sunday, November 8). Three faces, so Mom, Dad and you, or you and two siblings agreeing on something for once. The headline says HAPPY DIWALI, and you can type over it with what your family really says, like SAVE ME SOME KAJU KATLI.

5. Gobble Gobble (Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26). Four faces doing a turkey dance with flapping elbows, then backyard football in the leaves, a pumpkin patch and a food coma in stretchy sweatpants. You already know which relative goes on the touchdown dancer.

For coworkers

6. Ugly Sweater Party. Three faces at a tacky office party with tinsel on every surface, then a living room with a toy train, then a can-can kick line on a rooftop next to an inflatable Santa. It says HAPPY HOLIDAYS, so nobody in the department gets left out. Put your manager on the can-can dancer and see if anyone notices who made it.

For friends

7. Friendsgiving. Four faces around a long table of food, then pies cooling in the kitchen, a football toss in the leaves and everyone patting their stomachs by the fireplace. Type the date and address over the headline and it doubles as the invite.

8. Midnight Countdown (New Year's Eve, Thursday, December 31). Four friends at a balloon drop, fireworks at midnight, a pajama party and a rooftop. Make it that afternoon, while you can still read a screen. At midnight your one job is pasting a link.

How they work, and where else to look

Pick a card, add a photo, and tap to choose who dances where. The faces are cutouts with nothing redrawn, so your uncle keeps his mustache, and only the mouths move, about 40 seconds per card. You can paint the cutout to add hair back, fix the mouth and teeth, resize a head, and save it wide (16:9), tall (9:16), square (1:1) or 4:5. Dog and cat faces get found too. A custom song is $9.99 if you want the words to be about your family, and you can edit them all before paying.

Then paste a share link into the group chat. It plays on every phone and nobody has to download anything, which is good news if the group chat includes Grandpa. You can also download the MP4 or email it to up to five people.

Want to compare? Other places that sell holiday ecards include Jacquie Lawson, American Greetings and Punchbowl. We haven't reviewed them, and grading your competitors on your own blog is a bad look, so we won't.

The quickest way to judge ours is free: pick the next holiday on your calendar, add the family photo, and watch your relatives sing about it.

Jacquie Lawson, American Greetings and Punchbowl are trademarks of their owners. Tangy Limes isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them.