How it compares
Honest, with the others' prices as they were in September 2026.
Kindnotes is a $9.79 one-off digital card: a hand-drawn object that reveals your note as they scroll, sent as one link, no app and no account on either side. The alternatives are designer invitation sites priced per recipient, ecard subscriptions priced per year, free link cards built from templates, and printed cards in the post. Here is what each one gives the person who opens it.
If you send fifty cards a year to a list, a subscription is cheaper. If you are sending one card to one person and want it to be theirs, this is what the $9.79 buys.
Side by side
Kindnotes vs designer cards and invitations
Paperless Post, Greenvelope
What they open
A scroll-driven reveal: the envelope unseals, the letter rises, the ink darkens line by line
An envelope animation that opens onto a static card
How it's priced
$9.79, one card, no subscription
Coins per recipient, roughly $0.14 to $0.23 each, or a mailing price by guest count
Account
None, on either side
Sender account
Made for
One person, one note
Lists and events, RSVPs
Kindnotes vs free link cards
Emocia, Open a Gift and the like
What they open
A hand-drawn object that moves as they scroll; the note in a real hand; tap to read
Template pages that tap through, with music and effects
How it's priced
$9.79, and it stays
Free with branding and limits; about $2.99 to keep one
Craft
One layered object per design, tuned frame by frame
Web templates and stock animation
Voice and photo
Both, in the card
Photos on paid tiers; voice varies
Kindnotes vs ecard subscriptions
Hallmark eCards, JibJab, Blue Mountain
What they open
Your words, on an object made for them
A licensed animation with your name typed in
How it's priced
$9.79 when you need one
$12 to $80 a year, whether you send one or fifty
Delivery
One link, any phone
Email, often with an unsubscribe footer
Who it's for
Someone you'd write a real letter to
Everyone on the list
Kindnotes vs printed and posted
Moonpig, Punkpost
What they get
A card that opens on their phone in seconds and can be saved or put on their Home Screen
A real card in the post, days later
How it's priced
$9.79
The card plus postage; handwritten from about $6 to $10
When it arrives
The moment you send it
Two to five days, if the address is right
After sending
Edit the note any time; changes go live on the same link
It's in the post
Other companies' prices are theirs to change; check their sites. Ours is on the pricing page.
Updated