A gender reveal website, on one link

The answer is not on the page until you unlock it

This is the part that makes it a reveal rather than an announcement, and it is worth saying plainly.

The answer is held on the server. It is not in the link, not in the page a guest downloads, and not sitting in the markup for somebody curious enough to look — there is nothing to find early because there is nothing there. When you press the button it changes for everybody, and the reveal plays for anybody opening the link for a week afterwards, or until you carry the page on to the birth announcement.

There are three reveals and you pick which one plays, including after the answer is out — so a host who reveals at four in the afternoon can still change what everybody who has not opened the link yet is going to see.

What your guests actually see

A link in a message. They tap it and the page opens on their phone: a cover they tap through, your names, when and where, and a form to reply.

There is nothing to sign up for. A guest never makes an account, never installs anything and never sees an advert. That is the whole design — most people who open your invitation will use this site exactly once, and asking them to register is how a reply gets abandoned halfway.

The guessing, and the moment itself

Every guest picks pink or blue when they reply. You watch the tally fill up, and so do they — a room that has guessed is more fun than a room that has not.

The answer stays sealed until you unlock it. Nobody can read it off the page early, because it is not on the page: it is withheld on the server until you press the button.

When you do, the page plays a reveal — balloons and paper cannons, in one of three styles you pick. It plays for everyone who opens the link for a week, or until you move the page on to the announcement, whichever comes first. The guests who guessed right are named afterwards.

The same link becomes the announcement, then the first birthday

This is the part that is genuinely different, and it is worth understanding before you compare prices.

Your address does not expire when the party does. The same link becomes your birth announcement, and a year later your child's first birthday invitation. The design carries forward, and so do the photographs, the messages people left and the guest list — so the people who guessed are the people you announce to, without typing anybody's name a second time.

Most places sell a reveal, a shower and an announcement as three separate purchases. Here they are three stops on one address.

Fourteen designs, and they are actually different

Not one layout in fourteen colours. Each is a different arrangement: cards on warm ground, the stitched leaves of a bound book, a night sky you walk down through the phases of the moon, notes stuck to a fridge door, a long table laid with one seat for every guest who has replied.

You can build your whole page in any of them, for free, and change your mind as often as you like before you publish.

What it costs

Building is free, and that is the entire page — every design, every section, the reveal, your own photographs. You can see exactly what your guests will see before you decide anything.

Publishing it at your own address is one payment. No subscription, no per-guest pricing, and no advert on your page.