About thankyou.video

Most people who deserve a thank-you never get a proper one. Not because nobody is grateful, but because a card feels too small and organising anything bigger feels like a project. thankyou.video sits in between: a short film with a few photos, a couple of honest sentences and a song, made in about five minutes, that the person can keep and watch again.

What you can make

• A class video for a teacher at the end of term, or a message from a whole school during appreciation week.
• A thank-you to a team, a manager, or a colleague who is leaving or retiring.
• A note for customers, clients, donors or volunteers, to send by email or post on your channels.
• A video for wedding guests, for the people behind a graduation, or for everyone who sent birthday wishes.
• Something small and personal for a parent, a friend, a nurse or a coach.
• An animated thank-you slide to end a presentation, a thanks-for-watching card for a video, or a thank-you GIF to drop into a chat.

Each starts from a template made for that occasion. You change every word, add your own pictures and clips, add a built-in track or a song from your device, record a few spoken words if you like, and pick the shape: vertical for phones, square or portrait for feeds, landscape for a TV, or a short slide for a talk. It saves as an MP4 or a looping GIF.

How it works

The site is a web app that runs entirely in your browser. When you add a photo, a clip or a song, the browser reads it from your own device; the preview is drawn there, and when you export, the MP4 is encoded there too, using the video features built into modern browsers. There is no server that receives your files, so there is nothing for us to store, lose or look at.

Your work is saved in the browser as you go, so you can close the tab and come back. The finished video is an ordinary file: send it on WhatsApp, attach it to an email, post it, or play it at the event.

What we promise

• Your photos, clips and music are never uploaded. That matters when the pictures are of children, patients or guests.
• No account, no fee, no trial and no watermark on what you make.
• No advertising. Visit statistics can be switched off from Cookie settings in the footer, and the privacy page lists everything we measure.

Where to start

If you know who you are thanking, the occasion pages are the quickest way in: a video for a teacher, an employee appreciation video or a wedding thank-you for guests. If the words are the hard part, the thank you message ideas are a good first stop. Questions and ideas are welcome on the contact page.