Free Animated AR eCards, Half the Price of a Card

Send a Ping instead of a card, and watch it come to life. A Ping is a free, animated AR eCard – instant, cheaper than a card, and worth keeping. No queuing at the post office, no waiting days for delivery – just pick a design, add your words, and send.

Traditional cards are expensive, slow, and end up in the bin. A Ping solves all three problems at once. Because it’s digital, there’s no printing cost and no postage fee. So you save money on every single Ping you send. What’s more, delivery is instant. Your message reaches its destination the moment you hit send, not three days later. Meanwhile, a paper card still has to survive the postal system before it even reaches the letterbox. And that’s assuming it isn’t lost along the way.

Unlike a standard eCard, every Ping includes free animation and augmented reality magic built in. So instead of a flat image, your recipient sees their Ping animate right in front of them. It happens in AR, on their own phone screen. As a result, sending a Ping feels less like a traditional eCard. It feels more like handing someone a genuine surprise. Better still, that surprise doesn’t disappear after one viewing. It stays saved on their Wall, ready to open and watch again whenever they like.

First, pick a design from the gallery, or upload your own photo if you’d rather make it personal. Next, write your message – as short or as heartfelt as the moment calls for. “Then, choose an animation to bring the whole thing to life. This is the part that turns a simple message into a proper Ping. Finally, hit send. Your Ping arrives instantly, no matter where in the world your recipient happens to be. Altogether, the whole process takes less time than writing an envelope by hand.

There’s no need to plan ahead or visit a shop. You can send a Ping the second an occasion crosses your mind. Even five minutes before the big day. Equally, a Ping works just as well for occasions that don’t come with a shelf full of cards. Congratulating a friend on a new job. Cheering someone up after a rough week. Or simply letting someone know you’re thinking of them.

There’s no paper, no ink, and no delivery van involved. A single Ping produces only a fraction of the carbon footprint of a traditional card. Consequently, every Ping you send instead of a card is a small, easy way to cut down on waste. You don’t even have to think twice about it. In other words, saving money and saving the planet turn out to be the same decision here.

Unlike a card that gets read once and then binned, a Ping sticks around. Once it’s sent, it can be pinned to the Wall of Kindness, either publicly or privately. There, it becomes part of a growing, permanent collection of good moments. So rather than disappearing into a drawer, your Ping stays exactly where your recipient can find it. They can view it in AR, and revisit it any time they want reminding of that message.

Yes — sending your first Ping doesn’t cost a thing. Once you’ve tried it, you can keep sending Pings on a ping-as-you-go basis. Or switch to a subscription plan if you send more than a handful a year. Either way, there’s no obligation to commit to anything. Not before you’ve actually seen what a Ping looks like in someone’s hands.

Almost everyone says the same thing after their first Ping: it feels different to anything else they’ve sent before. Partly that’s the animation, and partly it’s simply the fact that nobody expects a message to arrive like this. Consequently, a Ping tends to get a reaction that a text message or a standard eCard rarely manages. Genuine surprise, followed by someone asking how they can send one too.

Ready to send your first Ping? Download the free app and claim your first free animated AR eCard. See for yourself why so many people have already ditched the card for good. It works whether it’s for someone across the room or someone on the other side of the world. Your first Ping takes less than a minute to put together. No card needed, no stamp, and no trip to the shop. Just an idea, a phone, and someone worth reaching out to. Once it’s sent, you can watch it get opened in real time. There’s something genuinely satisfying about seeing that reaction land instantly. After all, the best way to understand what makes a Ping different is simply to send one. So go on, give someone a reason to smile today.

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