A singing birthday card on Tangy Limes is a short music video where the birthday person's real face, cut out of a photo, goes on a dancer and sings an original birthday song. Their mouth opens and closes with the words. It runs about 40 seconds: an intro with the names, then four dance scenes. Your sister in a gold jumpsuit on a stadium stage, singing. That kind of thing.
If you want the song to sing their name too, that's the custom song, covered below.
How a singing birthday card with their face works
- Pick a card. Each one has its own song and its own four scenes: a disco club, a red carpet, a karaoke stage, a backyard with a bounce house.
- Add a photo. One photo is enough, even a group photo. Faces are found and cut out for you. Pick one where they face the camera with their mouth visible, since the mouth is what moves.
- Choose who dances where. On a two- or four-person card, you decide which face goes on which dancer. You can also change head size and tilt, and paint the cutout to add back hair or erase a stray shoulder.
- Write the headline. The big words on screen say whatever you type. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NANA works. So does 30 AND STILL ON MOM'S PHONE PLAN, if that's who you're sending it to.
- Watch the preview. It's free and shows their face singing before you pay anything.
- Send it. Download the MP4 for $1.99, or make a share link that plays in a text, iMessage or WhatsApp. The person who gets it installs nothing and signs in to nothing.
The faces are real photo cutouts with no AI changes, so it looks like them because it is them. The squint, the eyebrows and the haircut they regret all make it in.
A birthday card that sings their name
Every regular card has its own original song, and that song is the same for everyone who picks that card, so it doesn't sing a name. The names show on screen in the intro, and the headline can carry their name, but the singer doesn't say it.
For a card that sings their name out loud, get a custom song:
- You say what the song is about, or write your own words. Put their name in, plus anything else they'd recognize: the dog, the job, the thing they always say.
- The song is written to fit that card's dance.
- You can edit every word before you pay, so nothing goes in that you didn't approve.
- Then it's sung, and their face sings it in the video.
The custom song is $9.99, a separate purchase, and the card download is still $1.99. For ideas on what to put in the words, our funny birthday video cards post matches cards to the kind of person.
Singing birthday cards to start with
- 90s Birthday Bash fits two: hip hop, aerobics, a bodybuilder and a sumo dance. Nostalgic and very silly.
- Birthday Superstar takes one face and gives it a red carpet, a stadium stage and a rooftop pool with flamingos. For the person who likes attention and will say they don't.
- Make a Wish is a vertical phone video for one or two, so it fills the screen in a chat: a giant tiered cake, a balloon arch, a karaoke stage and confetti cannons.
- Birthday Disco Fever fits three in bell bottoms on a light-up floor, then a roller rink.
- Surprise Party fits four, so the whole friend group can jump out and yell.
Try Make a Wish if it's going to a phone, or see every option on the birthday cards page.
What it costs
The preview is free. Downloading a card is $1.99, or 3 cards for $4.99. There's no subscription and no membership, and you don't need an account to buy one card. You see their face singing first, then decide.
If you forgot and the birthday is today, all you need is a photo you already have on your phone. Send the share link into the birthday chat, and let everyone assume you planned this for weeks.