The Best Tools for Writing and Sending Greetings in 2026

The best tool for a greeting depends on which part you need help with. For the words alone, a chat assistant's free plan or a free wish form does the job. For a designed card, Greetings Island or Canva. For a card the whole office signs, GroupGreeting or Kudoboard. For a song, Suno. For the same people every year, with a reminder before the date, a card with your own family in it and sending on the day, there is Wish Generator.

How we put this list together

We make Wish Generator, so read its entry as ours. For every other tool we opened its public website on 29 September 2026 and wrote down only what those pages say. We did not sign up, pay or test anything, and you will find no star ratings here. A dash in the table means we did not find the feature on the tool's public pages that day. It does not mean the tool can never do it.

Three well-known card sites, Jacquie Lawson, Blue Mountain and Moonpig, refused access from our location when we checked. We left them out rather than describe them from memory.

All the tools on one table

Chat assistants: ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot

All three are general assistants. They write anything, greetings included, and all three can be started without paying. They are strongest when the text is long or unusual and weakest at everything after the text: in a normal chat the greeting ends up in the chat window, and getting it to the person is up to you.

ChatGPT. Its pricing page lists a Free plan with everyday text chats, plus image generation, voice chats and memory with limits. The paid plans (Go, Plus and Pro) raise those limits and add scheduled tasks, which can work as a birthday reminder. Where it shines is flexibility: a wedding toast, a rhymed poem or a retirement speech reworked over ten rounds. If you already use it, or the message is a one-off, it is the obvious pick. We compared it with our own tool in more detail in Wish Generator vs ChatGPT.

Gemini. Google's subscriptions page shows a free plan with a Google account that includes image generation and editing; the paid Google AI plans add video generation and higher limits. For greetings, the useful part is free image editing right next to the writing, handy if your photos already sit in Google Photos.

Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft offers Copilot to try for free, and its Microsoft 365 plans raise the usage for chat and image creation and bring Copilot into Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. It makes most sense for people who write their cards and emails in those apps anyway.

Quick wish forms: Greetings Island and Typli

Greetings Island. Its wishes generator is free and needs no sign-up. You type the recipient's name, pick one of 18 event types and a tone (heartfelt, funny, poetic, formal, casual, religious, romantic or inspiring) and add details. Then you copy the wish, or press "Make it a card", pick a design and send it online or download it to print. Its FAQ says the generator writes in all major languages, Hebrew among them, and the site itself comes in several languages, Russian included. Beyond wishes, it makes invitations and group cards and has a Premium membership. Nothing else on this list gets you from a few words to a finished card faster, and you do not need an account to do it.

Typli. The birthday wish page says "Free. No signup needed." You add a name and pick a mood (heartfelt, funny or inspirational), and the wish appears next to the form. It is one small tool inside a larger AI writing suite. Use it when all you want is a quick line to paste into a chat.

Cards you design, send or post: Canva, Paperless Post, Punchbowl and Hallmark

Canva. The card maker is free and built on templates: you change colours, fonts, the message and the photos. Magic Write, Canva's AI writing tool, can draft the text. You can invite friends, family or colleagues by email to add their own message or photo, then download the card or order it printed through Canva Print, which delivers to your door. Canva's interface also comes in Russian, Hebrew and Arabic, and it has an Eid al-Fitr card maker. Choose it if you enjoy arranging a card yourself: no other tool here gives you as much control over the design.

Paperless Post. Online invitations and cards with a stationery look. Its site lists free card templates and free flyer invites, with premium designs paid in Coins or through an annual Paperless Pro plan. Cards go by email, text or link, and you can schedule a send for a date and time you choose. The draw is a formal card that arrives exactly when you set it, which makes it a good fit for holiday cards and anything with a guest list.

Punchbowl. Free online invitations with RSVP tracking, plus eCards you personalise and send by text or email. It is at its best on the party side: the guest list and a nudge for guests who have not answered live next to the invitation and the card. Parents planning a children's party are the obvious users.

Hallmark. Hallmark sells printed cards. On hallmark.com you can add a message to a card and Hallmark mails it for you; there are also eCards. The point is a card someone can hold and keep on the shelf, which plenty of grandparents still do. Check that it delivers to the person's country before you choose it.

Group cards for work: GroupGreeting and Kudoboard

GroupGreeting. A group eCard for the office. You pick a design (the site says over 10,000), share a link so the whole team can sign and see who has not signed yet, and can add a gift card that others chip in for. The card is delivered on the day and time you set, with a PDF copy to keep, and the site offers reminders for birthdays and work anniversaries. It replaces the paper card that travels from desk to desk, and it is made for office managers and team leads.

Kudoboard. Group boards and eCards aimed at workplace recognition. Its pricing page shows a free board for a small group of contributors, paid boards for bigger groups and business plans, and lists scheduled delivery among the features. It is built for scale: farewells, work anniversaries and company-wide thank-yous, run by HR teams in larger companies.

A song: Suno

Suno is an AI music service. You can start from a short prompt or from lyrics you wrote, and its site says you can make music free every day. It can also record a few seconds of your voice and let that voice sing what you write. Paid plans add more songs and commercial rights. Go there when you want a full song and are happy to spend an evening shaping its style and structure. If you would rather have the song come out of the greeting itself, see how songs work here in how to write a song with AI.

Wish Generator, the one we make

Wish Generator is a chat. The agent asks who the greeting is for, what they are like and the tone, and writes it; text greetings are free and the first one needs no account. After that it keeps working for you around the date:

• It saves the people you write to, with their birthdays and your notes, so it does not ask again next year.
• A reminder can come a week before a birthday, with a greeting ready to send.
• A photo card puts your own people into one picture from separate photos: up to six people, with faces most reliable up to four. The card can become a short video with sound, and the agent can make a song with the name, a voice message or a talking card.
• It sends the greeting by email, SMS, a popular messenger or a link, now or on the morning of the day. Delivery costs nothing.
• Greetings and photos stay in your library, visible only to you, and you can delete them any time.

Cards, videos, songs, voice messages and talking cards are paid in credits. The price is on the button before you press it, and sign-up gives 1 000 free credits (see pricing). The site works in English, Russian, Hebrew and Arabic, with Hebrew and Arabic written right to left.

Where others on this list do better: we have no group card for a whole team to sign (GroupGreeting, Kudoboard and Greetings Island do), we do not print cards on paper (Hallmark mails them, and Canva Print delivers them), and we do not handle invitations with RSVP (Punchbowl and Paperless Post do). Canva gives you far more design control than our scenes.

Which one to pick

• You need the words in the next five minutes: a chat assistant's free plan, or the Typli or Greetings Island form.
• You want a card on paper: Canva Print, or Hallmark if it should arrive by post.
• The whole team should sign it: GroupGreeting or Kudoboard.
• There is a party with a guest list: Punchbowl or Paperless Post.
• You want a song to work on for an evening: Suno.
• It is Mum, Dad or the grandparents, every year, with family photos and on time: Wish Generator.