If you want to send something better than a menorah emoji this Hanukkah, Tangy Limes Hanukkah cards put your family's real faces, cut out of a photo, into a short music video with an original Hanukkah song. Pick Latke Party for three faces, or Happy Hanukkah for one or two faces in a tall phone format. Either way you watch the whole thing free, with your photo in it, before you pay.
Picture your actual relatives in a kitchen next to a pan of sizzling latkes, singing a song they have never heard with complete commitment. That's the card.
Latke Party
Latke Party is a three-person card, and half of it is about food, which feels right. It starts in a warm dining room with blue and silver streamers and a menorah glowing in the window, then heads to the kitchen: a sizzling pan of latkes next to a mountain of potatoes somebody is going to have to grate, and it won't be the person who suggested latkes. After that comes a living room with a giant inflatable dreidel, and a party room packed with blue and silver balloons.
The mouths move to the words of the song, so your father gets to belt out a Hanukkah tune word for word, next to a giant inflatable dreidel, without ever having to learn it. He will act like he wrote it.
Cast it however your family works: two parents and a kid, three cousins, or both grandparents plus whoever's holding the phone. The one holding the phone should probably be in it, for once.
Happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah is built tall, in 9:16, so it fills the screen in Stories, Reels and TikTok. Same world, smaller cast: the menorah in the window, the latke stove, the balloon party room and the inflatable dreidel, with one dancer per scene. One face works. Two works. Send it from you and your partner to the relatives you keep meaning to call, and consider the call made.
Households that do both holidays can send one of each. Nobody has to pick a side at dinner.
What to put in the headline
Both cards say HAPPY HANUKKAH up top, and you can change it to whatever you like. A few ideas:
- TEAM APPLESAUCE
- WE FRIED, YOU'RE WELCOME
- EIGHT NIGHTS, ONE VIDEO
- LOVE, THE COUSINS
- SORRY ABOUT THE SMOKE ALARM
Making it
You don't need eight cards. One on the first night covers it.
Upload a family photo, or take one with your phone. Tangy Limes finds the faces, and you tap to choose who dances where, which is how Grandma ends up front and center by the dreidel. Type the names, press play, and shrink anyone's head if it looks too big. Captions are there if you want the words on screen.
If it makes you laugh, and it's hard to watch your aunt lip-sync next to a dreidel without laughing, keep it for $1.99. There's no account to create and no membership to cancel in January. Send the MP4 to the family group chat, share a link, or email it to up to five relatives from the card page. Then go find last year's latke photo and put everyone in it. Chag sameach.