Six group card platforms, their real prices, and who each one is actually best for. We make one of them — Panda Greetings — so we've marked our bias, kept the numbers straight, and told you when a competitor is the better pick.
Disclosure: this page is written by Panda Greetings. Prices checked July 23, 2026; platforms change pricing — always confirm on their site before buying.
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| Panda Greetings | Kudoboard | GroupGreeting | Ellacard | GroupTogether | Thankbox | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom AI artwork made for the recipient | ✓ Included | — | — | — | — | — |
| Voice message on the card | ✓ 60 seconds, included | — | — | — | — | Voice notes at $9.99 |
| Animated reveal of the card art | ✓ Optional add-on | — | — | — | — | — |
| Printed & mailed keepsake | ✓ Premium card stock | Poster & book prints (priced separately) | PDF download included | — | — | — |
| Printed card opens an online reveal (QR) | ✓ Unique to Panda | — | — | — | — | — |
| Card with voice/video-grade features | $7.98 — included in the base price | $8.99 Premium | Not offered | $3.99 | Not offered | $9.99 Premium |
| Entry price (fewest features) | $7.98 (there's only one tier — everything's in it) | $5.99 Lite (20 posts, no video) | $4.99 | $3.99 (packs cheaper) | $5.50 — free with $20+ gift collection | $5.99 Classic (no video/voice) |
| Signer limit | 30 | 20 / 100 / unlimited by tier | Unlimited | Unlimited | No cap listed | Unlimited |
| Contributor photo & video posts | — (messages, emoji & GIFs) | Photos & GIFs; video from $8.99 | Photos | ✓ Photos & video | Photos | Photos & GIFs; video at $9.99 |
| Collect money for a group gift | — | Gift cards can be attached | — | — | ✓ Core feature | ✓ Up to $400 / $1,000 |
| Collect signatures before paying | — (free card preview; pay to invite signers) | — | — | — | Card free with $20+ gift | ✓ Pay only when you send |
| Deals for frequent senders | ✓ Pro ($9.99/mo): group eCards $5.99 | ✓ Packs save up to 60% | ✓ $3.49–$4.50 per card in packs | ✓ Subscriptions from $40/yr | — | — |
Kudoboard is the one everyone's coworker has already used, and its board format is genuinely good at scale: dozens of posts with photos, GIFs, and (on paid tiers) recorded videos, laid out as a wall the recipient scrolls through. Poster and book printing turn big boards into physical keepsakes.
The trade-off is the tiering: $5.99 only buys 20 posts and no video; most teams end up at $8.99 Premium (100 posts, video, download), and unlimited posts cost $19.99. If your group is large and media-heavy, that's money well spent. If you want one beautiful card rather than a bulletin board, it's paying for volume you won't use.
GroupGreeting keeps it plain: $4.99 for a card with unlimited signers and unlimited pages, plus a PDF copy on delivery. For HR teams and office managers who send cards every week, the annual packs ($45 for 10 down to $349 for 100, about $3.49 per card) make it the cheapest habit in the category — with the caveat that unused cards expire after 12 months.
What you don't get is much of an experience: template designs, no video, no voice, no reveal moment. It's the utility pick — the right choice when the message matters and the medium doesn't.
Ellacard undercuts everyone at $3.99 per group card with unlimited contributors adding text, photos, videos, and GIFs across unlimited pages — and it has a genuinely capable group-video product besides. Frequent senders can move to subscriptions starting at $40/year.
The catch is polish: the experience leans functional over designed, and there's no printed-keepsake path advertised. If budget-per-card is the deciding factor and contributors want to post videos, it's the value pick of this list.
GroupTogether's real product is the group gift: collect contributions, hand over the total as an AnyCard the recipient swaps for a retailer gift card of their choice, and attach a group card to go with it. Collect $20 or more and the card itself is free; standalone it's $5.50 including fees.
If the office is pooling cash anyway — leaving gifts, big birthdays, baby funds — this is the least-friction way to do both at once. If you only want a card, the gift machinery is overhead and the card alone is less of an event than the alternatives.
Thankbox nailed the mechanic everyone else makes you commit before trying: create the card and collect messages, photos, and GIFs for free, and pay only when you actually send it — $5.99 Classic, or $9.99 Premium for contributor videos, voice notes, and premium fonts. It also collects gift money (up to $400 on Classic, $1,000 on Premium).
That try-before-you-buy flow is the best conversion answer in the market to "will enough people even sign this?". The cards themselves are pleasant but template-based; you're choosing the workflow, not the artwork.
Ours. Panda generates one-of-a-kind card artwork from a description of the actual person — the inside joke, the hobby, the era — so the card isn't a template with names on it. Everyone signs from one link with no accounts (messages, emoji, GIFs), the organizer can add a 60-second voice message and a Spotify track, and the reveal is an event: an animated envelope opening into the card, with an optional AI animation of the artwork itself. It's also the only option here where a printed card on premium stock carries a QR code that opens that same online reveal — physical keepsake and digital experience in one. And there's exactly one tier: $7.98 includes the custom art, the voice message, the music, and the reveal — features that push Kudoboard to $8.99 and Thankbox to $9.99.
Where we're honestly beaten: we cap at 30 signers (Kudoboard Premium, GroupGreeting, Ellacard, and Thankbox all go bigger or unlimited), contributors can't upload photos or videos of their own, we don't collect gift money, and you pay at checkout rather than after signatures are in. For a 200-person photo wall or a cash collection, pick from the rows above. For a card someone keeps, that's the one we built.
There's no fully free unlimited group card among the major platforms. The closest are Thankbox (free to create and collect signatures — you pay $5.99+ only when sending) and GroupTogether (the $5.50 card is free when you collect $20+ toward a group gift).
Ellacard at $3.99 per group card, then GroupGreeting at $4.99 with unlimited signers. Both undercut Kudoboard's $5.99 Lite board — and Kudoboard's Lite tier caps you at 20 posts with no video, so its realistic price for most teams is the $8.99 Premium.
For contributor-recorded video posts: Ellacard (included at $3.99), Kudoboard Premium ($8.99), or Thankbox Premium ($9.99). Panda Greetings takes a different angle — signers add text, emoji, and GIFs, while the card itself carries a voice message, a Spotify track, and an optional AI animation of the artwork.
GroupTogether — gift collection is its core product, and collecting $20+ makes the card free. Thankbox also collects up to $400 (Classic) or $1,000 (Premium) alongside the messages. Kudoboard lets you attach a gift card; Panda Greetings and GroupGreeting don't do money at all.
Kudoboard is a board — a scrolling wall of posts. Panda is a card — one-of-a-kind AI artwork made for the recipient, signed by up to 30 people, delivered as an animated reveal with optional voice and music, or printed with a QR code that opens the online version. Group eCard is $7.98 all-in versus Kudoboard's $8.99 Premium. Kudoboard wins on contributor count and photo/video posts; we win on the card being something they keep.
We last checked every price on this page on July 23, 2026, directly against each platform's published pricing. Platforms change plans without notice, so treat this as a snapshot and confirm on their site before you buy — and if you spot something outdated, tell us and we'll fix it.
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