If you forgot a birthday, make a video card and send it before anyone notices. A Tangy Limes birthday card puts the birthday person's real face, cut out of a photo, on a dancer singing an original birthday song, and the whole thing happens in your phone's browser. No store, no stamp, no app.
Here's the fast route.
The short version
- Pick a card. Make a Wish and Totally Rad Birthday are vertical, made for phones.
- Add a photo. The one already in your camera roll is fine, as long as they're facing the camera with their mouth visible.
- Type the names and, if you want, rewrite the big headline.
- Watch the free preview, then download it or make a share link.
Photos are processed on your device, and nothing about the face gets changed by AI. It's a real cutout. Only the mouth moves, opening and closing to the words.
Cards that hide how late you are
Make a Wish puts the birthday face next to a tiered cake taller than they are, then under a rainbow balloon arch, on a karaoke stage and at a backyard party with confetti cannons. Totally Rad Birthday is an 80s tour: an aerobics studio with mirrors, a neon arcade, a roller rink and a shopping mall at night.
Birthday Block Party fits four faces, so the friends who also forgot can quietly add themselves. Rooftop DJ, a street party, a karaoke room, a bonfire. Birthday Throwback is four faces at a 90s house party with a boombox, a basketball court at night, a barbershop and a backyard grill.
If they'd rather be the only star, Birthday Superstar is one face on a red carpet and then a stadium stage. And if it's the dog's birthday, or the dog is simply invited, Pawty Animals fits two people and two pets.
The headline is your alibi
Every card has a big line you can rewrite, and a late card should own it. HAPPY BELATED, I'M SORRY. I WAS BUILDING SUSPENSE. STILL YOUR BIRTHDAY SOMEWHERE. YOU'RE OLD, I'M LATE, WE'RE EVEN. Turn on captions if you want the song's words on screen too.
Sending it
Watch it free with their face in it. If it's right, it's $1.99 to download the MP4, with no subscription. Text it straight from your phone, email it to up to five people, or make a share link that plays right in the chat. Save it as 9:16 to fill a phone screen, or 16:9 if it's going on the TV at the party you also forgot about.
Next year
Next year, make it the night before and send it at midnight. They'll think you planned it. You didn't, but they don't need to know that, and the card won't tell them.