Your Friendship, On Display
Photos of you two, or the whole group chat, fill the hangout. Each one opens up to bring back the moment behind it.
- Add 3 to 12 photos
- Arranged automatically around the cake
More than a happy-birthday text
Create an Unforgettable Birthday Surprise for Your Best Friend
Build a 3D birthday hangout stocked with your favourite photos together, a cake with their number lit up, and a message only the two of you would get.
- Ready in about five minutes
- No account needed for them to open it
- Works on any phone or laptop
A birthday text gets a heart react. A hangout gets "wait, I can walk around in this?"
WishVerse turns your camera roll, a cake and whatever you would actually say into a private 3D hangout your best friend can open on their birthday, and come back to whenever they want a reminder of why you are their person.
WishVerse is an interactive birthday surprise you build in your browser for your best friend. It works like a birthday card, except instead of reading it once and losing it in a drawer, they open a link and land inside a 3D hangout built from your friendship: photos of the two of you (or the whole group) scattered around a cake they can light and blow out for real, and a birthday message from you waiting at the end of it. It turns a birthday text into something they will actually open twice.
Three simple steps
How a hangout comes together
Step 1
Make it unmistakably theirs
Add their name, the number for the candles, and the message you'd actually say to their face.
Step 2
Load up the memories
Upload the photos that sum up your friendship and watch them fill the hangout.
Step 3
Send the hangout
One private link, sent however you would normally hit them up. No app, no account needed on their end.
What is inside
Everything you can make theirs
You choose the name, the message, the photos and the candles. WishVerse arranges them into a hangout and gives you one link to send.
A Cake With Their Number
Pick how many candles stand on the cake and the number that lights up, so it is unmistakably theirs.
- Choose the candle number
- Choose the candle colour and style
The Message You'd Actually Say
Write the thing you'd tell them in person, or the thing that's easier typed. It shows up the moment the candles go out.
- Add their name
- Write your own birthday message
One Link, No App
Every hangout gets its own private link. Drop it in the group chat, a DM, wherever. No account needed for them to open it.
- Just one private link
- Works on their phone, tablet or laptop
The finale
And then the whole hangout lights up
When the candles go out, the confetti drops, the lights switch on, and your message is waiting right where they are standing.
Your wish
Whatever you write shows up here, inside their hangout.
Where it fits
Built for friendships like yours
A few of the ways a WishVerse hangout tends to get used for a best friend.
Across the distance
A long-distance birthday surprise for your best friend
When a flight or a time zone keeps you apart, send a place instead of a text. They open the link and land in a hangout built entirely out of the two of you, the closest thing to showing up.
From everyone
One hangout, built by the whole group
Instead of everyone dropping a photo into the group chat that gets buried in twenty minutes, gather the best ones into a hangout the birthday person can actually go back to.
For keeps
A keepsake for the friend who has been there since day one
For the friendship that has outlasted three phones and two cities, put together something that is actually worth keeping, not just another story reply.
Good to know
Questions, answered
Your best friend's name, the birthday message you write, the photos that fill the hangout, how many candles are on the cake, and the candle colour or style.
Anywhere from 3 up to 12, plenty to tell the real story of your friendship without crowding the cake or slowing things down on their phone.
No. You need an account to build a hangout, but they just open the link. There is nothing for them to sign up for or install.
Yes. The hangout runs on phones, tablets and laptops, so they can open it wherever they are.
Every hangout gets one private link. Drop it in the group chat, text it, DM it, however you would normally reach them. Whoever has the link can open it.
No. Nothing you upload turns up in a public gallery, a search result or anywhere else on WishVerse. The hangout opens for whoever holds the link and for nobody else. Which is the one thing worth remembering: the link is the key, so drop it in the group chat you trust and not a public post.
Yes. The real hangout listens through the microphone, and there is always a hold-to-blow button for anyone who would rather skip that, or whose device cannot use it.
Then they get an illustrated version of the hangout instead, with no error message and nothing to troubleshoot. Every photo, the lit cake and your message are all still in it. The only part that drops away is walking the camera around.
Still deciding? Scroll back up and preview their hangout. It takes thirty seconds, nothing is saved, and no account is needed to look.
Their birthday deserves better than three heart emojis.
Add their name, choose the candles, gather a handful of photos and write the thing you'd actually say. A few minutes from now, you can send your best friend a hangout.
- Ready in about five minutes
- No account needed to open it
- Works on any phone or laptop
Free to try. You only need an account to save and share your hangout.