A Thanksgiving card for the whole family, made from your own photos
Thanksgiving is the one day a year everyone sits down together, and it is the easiest day to forget to say the thing that matters: thank you. A CinematicCard turns the photos already on your phone into a short cinematic film — a candlelit harvest table, autumn leaves drifting down, music, and your family's name written in calligraphy.
Send one link to the family group chat and everyone watches the same card, on any phone. Add last year's table, the kids' handprint turkeys, the burnt pie nobody lets you forget. Record a short voice message if you can't say it out loud at dinner. It takes less than a minute, and you can schedule it to arrive by email on Thanksgiving morning.
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15 Thanksgiving Messages for Your Family
- Every year around this table, I'm reminded how lucky I am to belong to all of you.
- Thank you for the laughter, the leftovers and all the love in between.
- The food is good, but the people at this table are the reason I come home.
- Grateful for every seat at this table, and for everyone who fills them.
- You're the family I'd choose even if I got to choose.
- Happy Thanksgiving to the people who know all my stories and love me anyway.
- This year I'm thankful for second helpings, inside jokes and all of you.
- Here's to the cooks, the dishwashers and the ones who only showed up for pie.
- Whatever this year brought, we got through it together. Thank you.
- Home isn't a place. It's this table, with you around it.
- Thank you for every phone call, every visit and every time you showed up.
- May our table always be this full and our hearts even fuller.
- The best thing on the table this year is everyone sitting around it.
- Grateful for the traditions you started and the ones we're still making.
- Happy Thanksgiving from the one who always asks for the recipe and never makes it.
How CinematicCard Compares
| CinematicCard | Hallmark | Moonpig | Paperless Post | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Your own memories: the photos on your phone, your music or voice, your message | A Hallmark design you personalize with photos and a message | A printed card design you personalize, with optional photo upload | A Card or Flyer design from its collection, or one you upload |
| Your photos | Up to 20, played as a cinematic slideshow | Upload photos to an eCard design; customized printed cards have photo spaces | Upload your photos onto a photo-upload design, printed on the card | Upload your own design image; add a video section (paid) |
| Sound | A soundtrack, or your own audio file (WAV, MP3 or MP4): a song or a voice message | Not described in the help articles we checked | Optional video or audio message reached by a QR code inside the card (up to 6 months) | An optional video block with sound (paid) |
| Pricing | First card free, then from $3.99 per card; no subscription | One free eCard a month with free Crown Rewards; unlimited eCards with Hallmark+ ($8.99/month or $79.99/year plus tax, 7-day free trial) | Priced per card plus delivery; eCards £/$/€0.99; optional Moonpig Plus in the UK | Free designs for up to 50 recipients; paid designs priced in Coins by feature level; Paperless Pro subscription |