Wishes and invitations people play with, not just read.

What is HView Interactive?

HView Interactive is a set of free, personalised animated experiences you can send to someone as a private link: birthday wishes, New Year greetings, festival wishes, invitations and surprises. Each one asks the person to do something small, such as lighting candles, launching fireworks, popping balloons or opening a gift, before your message appears. They open it in their phone browser, with nothing to install and no account to create.

We started with Diwali, where readers created more than 1,800 personalised greetings in the first weeks, and are now bringing the same idea to other occasions. Every experience is built by the H View team, tested on ordinary Android phones and iPhones, and designed to load quickly even on a busy mobile network.

Why send an interactive greeting instead of an image?

Forwarded images are easy to send and just as easy to scroll past. A greeting that uses the person's name, carries your own words and gives them something to do feels like it was made for them, because it was. It also lasts: they can replay it, show it to family and reply by making one of their own. For many people that is the difference between a polite “thanks” and a real conversation.

How do the shared links work?

When you create an experience, H View saves the details you typed and gives you a short link that is hard to guess. Anyone who has the link can open it, so share it only with the people you mean it for. Personal links are marked so that search engines do not index them, and they expire after a set period. The person who opens it sees an introduction, plays through the animation and then sees your message with options to replay, share it on, or make their own.

When you share on WhatsApp, the chat shows a preview card with their name, created on our server so it appears reliably. Pressing a share button only means a share was started; we count a greeting as received only when its link is actually opened.

Free experiences and premium customisation

Every live experience is free to make and share, as many times as you like. Some occasions, such as weddings, business greetings and event pages, need more care than a template can give. For those, the H View team offers premium customisation: special animations, photo stories, custom invitations with RSVP, and greetings with your business logo and colours. You request it on any experience page, get an order ID and a private status page, confirm the details and price on WhatsApp, and pay by UPI only once the price is agreed. We do not use a card payment gateway, and every UPI payment is checked by hand before we begin.

Experiences for every occasion

The catalogue covers six groups. Animated wishes for birthdays, New Year, anniversaries and congratulations. Invitations for weddings, birthday parties, housewarmings and baby ceremonies. Surprises and messages such as secret notes, gift boxes, scratch cards and proposals. Friendship and fun, with quizzes, spin-the-wheel, truth or dare and awards. Festivals and occasions including Diwali, Holi, Sankranti, Ugadi, Ganesh Chaturthi, Dussehra, Raksha Bandhan, Eid, Easter, Independence Day, Teachers' Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day. And creative and business experiences such as slideshows, memory books, countdowns, QR surprises, certificates and branded invitations.

Experiences marked as ready can be made right now. The rest are being built one at a time to the same standard, and until each one is ready you can order it as a custom design.

Privacy, safety and accessibility

We keep only what is needed to show your greeting: the names and message you typed, the design you chose and an optional photo resized on your phone. We do not ask for phone numbers or email addresses to create a free greeting. Links can be reported from the greeting itself, and greetings that break our rules are removed. Animations respect the reduced-motion setting on phones, every interaction can be done with a simple tap, and sound stays off until the person turns it on.

Tips for a greeting people remember

• Use the name they are called by at home or among friends, not their full formal name.
• Mention one specific memory or detail from the past year.
• Keep it short enough to read in one breath; the animation does the rest.
• Send it at a moment that matters: midnight, the morning of the day, or just before the event.
• If you are not sure which design they will like, send one. They can replay it in the other designs.