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pricing

pay once. keep the party.

one price per birthday site. never monthly. friends always join free.

start a site — freeor walk the demo island

birthdayland is a birthday website your friends fill together. Sketch is free (5 friends' cards); Party is $19 once (50 friends' cards and all 12 festival games); Milestone is $39 once (unlimited cards and the signature themes). one payment per birthday site, never a subscription, and friends never pay.

birthdayland · receipt

one site · one birthday

1 × birthday site (party)
$19
friends' cards × 50
incl.
festival games × 12
incl.
the island, the board, the cake
incl.
friends pay
$0
monthly fee
never

total, ever$19

thank you, come again next birthday

the plans

  • Sketch

    freeforever

    try it with your closest five.

    • 5 friends' cards
    • the board, the island and the countdown
    • 2 festival games
    • open 30 days after the birthday
    start free

  • Party

    good for most groups

    $19once

    the whole group chat, all twelve games.

    • 50 friends' cards
    • all 12 festival games
    • 3 GB of photos and video
    • download every card as a ZIP
    • open a year, then kept as an archive
    • surprise reveal at midnight their time (soon)
    start with party

  • Milestone

    $39once

    for the 21st, the 30th, the big ones.

    • unlimited cards
    • the signature themes
    • all 12 festival games
    • 15 GB of photos and video
    • remove the badge
    • open two years, then kept as an archive
    start with milestone
custom look

Bespoke · $149: a theme made by hand for one birthday site: their colours, their jokes, their own nav. kevin emails within two days to plan it with you, a few slots at a time. book a custom look. questions? k.bowen.liu@gmail.com

ten looks.

sticker saga comes with every plan. the other nine come with milestone.

  • the demo site's front page in Sticker Saga: a torn kraft strip of colour stickers for a nav with home starred, SAMLAND as a big pink die-cut sticker with a sparkle, a stack of taped photos and four blob friends

    Sticker Saga

    • butter paper
    • kraft
    • bubblegum
    • tangerine
    • lemon highlighter
    • sky sticker

    free

  • the demo site's front page in Amber Notebook: a ruled notebook sheet on steel rings for a nav, five coloured index tabs under it with front page in a vermilion seal, and SAMLAND as an amber sticker on graph paper

    Amber Notebook

    • rice paper
    • amber
    • vermilion seal
    • turmeric
    • key cyan
    • tea jade

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Glossy Valley: a sky-blue glass bar of glossy pucks with white icons, home lit in a white ring and a teal halo, SAMLAND in rounded blue letters and a framed picture of a gem over green hills

    Glossy Valley

    • sky top
    • panel blue
    • glass blue
    • navy
    • mint
    • sunburst

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Garden Party: a rack of seed packets for a nav with front gate standing up with a sprout, an invitation line over SAMLAND in peony-pink serif letters, and a pink button on cream linen

    Garden Party

    • cream linen
    • sage card
    • peony
    • fern
    • butter
    • lavender

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Comic Pop: a strip of inked comic panels for a nav with cover red on its burst, SAMLAND in red comic capitals on a yellow action burst, and the lead in a speech bubble

    Comic Pop

    • newsprint
    • pulp
    • pop red
    • burst yellow
    • pop blue
    • bubble cyan

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Candy Shop: a striped awning over a shelf of gumball jars with the shop's lid popped open, SAMLAND in round pink letters and sprinkles across a mint page

    Candy Shop

    • vanilla cream
    • mint cream
    • strawberry
    • lilac
    • lemon drop
    • spearmint

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Starlight: a constellation of stars for a nav with home shining gold, SAMLAND in rounded periwinkle letters with twinkling stars at its corners, on a lavender-to-peach dusk

    Starlight

    • moonlight cream
    • lavender mist
    • periwinkle
    • star gold
    • peach glow
    • rose horizon

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Groovy Sunshine: a capsule with a wavy rainbow band for a nav, the porch in mustard with a daisy, SAMLAND in fat mustard letters with a stacked shadow, and sunbeams behind the page

    Groovy Sunshine

    • warm cream
    • oatmeal
    • mustard
    • burnt orange
    • sunflower
    • dusty rose

    milestone

  • the demo site's front page in Pixel Party: a game menu of pixel tabs with start filled cherry and three hearts on its frame, SAMLAND in red pixel letters, and the lead in a game dialogue box on an off-white pixel grid

    Pixel Party

    • screen white
    • cartridge grey
    • cherry
    • coin yellow
    • level-up green
    • sky blue

    milestone

compare every look

side by side.

every plan, side by side
what you getSketch · freeParty · $19Milestone · $39
friends' cards550unlimited
festival games2all 12all 12
photo + video storage500 MB3 GB15 GB
the board, the island, the countdownyesyesyes
themes (looks)sticker sagasticker sagaall 10
download everything (zip)noyesyes
takes cards for30 days after the day1 year, then an archive2 years, then an archive
"made with birthdayland" badgelargesmallremovable

how paying works

every site starts on Sketch, free. you can set it up, share the link and collect up to 5 cards without paying anything. when the group is bigger than that, or you want every game open, you move the site to Party: one payment of $19, for that birthday, and that's it.

upgrading later only ever costs the difference. Party to Milestone is $20, not another $39.

why one-time

a birthday happens once a year. paying monthly for it would be strange, and forgetting to cancel would be worse. so it's one price per celebration, like a really good card, except this one has an island in it.

what nobody pays for

  • friends never pay, never sign up and never see an ad.
  • the birthday person never pays for their own party.
  • no subscription, no renewal email, no card kept on file for next month.

money questions.

  • how much is it?

    Sketch free, Party $19, Milestone $39, one payment per birthday site. Sketch takes 5 friends' cards and 2 festival games; Party takes 50 and opens every game; Milestone adds the signature themes and room for every friend. friends never pay, and nothing is a subscription.

  • is it a subscription?

    no. a paid plan is one payment for one birthday site: no monthly bill, no renewal email, no card kept on file. Party is $19 once and Milestone $39 once, and Sketch costs nothing. next year's birthday gets a site of its own, which starts free again.

  • do friends pay anything?

    never. friends open the link and leave a card for free on every plan, with no account and no ads. only the host pays, once, and only if the site needs more than the free plan's 5 cards or every game. the birthday person never pays for their own party either.

  • can i upgrade later?

    yes, any time, and you only pay the difference: Party to Milestone is $20, not another $39. every card already on the site stays where it is, and the bigger limits arrive as soon as the payment goes through, usually within seconds.

  • how long does it stay up?

    on Sketch, it takes cards until 30 days after the birthday. on Party, it takes cards for a year and then stays up as a read-only archive, and Milestone keeps it open for two years before it's archived. you can download every card and video as a zip on either paid plan.

  • can i download everything?

    yes, on Party and up. one zip holds every card's note, photos, doodles and videos, with a page inside that shows them all offline, no internet needed. friends' cards still belong to the friends who made them, so share the download the way they'd expect. the free Sketch plan has no download.

  • can you make a custom look?

    yes: a theme made by hand for one birthday site is $149, a few slots at a time. book one from the pricing page and kevin emails within two days to plan it with you: their colours, their jokes, their own nav. questions first? write to k.bowen.liu@gmail.com.

  • when can i start one?

    now. press "start a site", sign in, and set it up in about ten minutes: their name, their birthday and a few photos. every site starts free on Sketch, and you only pay once if the group outgrows five cards. friends never need an account.