How much does it cost?
Nothing. Free to send, free to receive. No subscription, no paywall, nothing to unlock. The light is the point.
Lantern Post
How to send a lantern.
About a minute, start to light. The words are already written, the links are already safe — you bring the person and the reason.
- Pick a card. Choose a feeling — Appreciation, Love, Encouragement, Friendship, Celebration — or press Surprise me. Twenty-five cards, each with original art and a two-line sentiment already written, so you never face a blank box.
- Hide something wonderful. Tap one of the pre-verified reveals — a song, a playlist, something to read — or paste a link from a trusted home and Lantern Post verifies it on the spot. Then add your personal touch: one line of your own inside the card, and a “why this one?” note that appears under the reveal in your handwriting.
- Light it. You get their link — one clean URL that unfolds into the full card experience. Text it, email it, WhatsApp it, or print the QR code; it opens the same card, verified on every scan. The recipient needs no app and no account.
What they experience.
They open your link. The card unfolds — the hook on the front, the warm twist inside, your line beneath it. Then a lantern appears: “...and I left something else for you.” They tap — the light floods, and there is the song you picked for them, with your “why this one” note underneath, in your handwriting. A beautiful sentiment, a hidden gift, and your reason — delivered in a link.
Why you can trust the tap.
We have all hesitated before tapping a link in an e-card — e-card phishing is a real and common scam. Lantern Post is built so that hesitation never applies: every reveal destination is checked server-side against a trusted allowlist and screened against Google’s Web Risk threat lists before the card can be sent — and rechecked at click time. The link your recipient taps never carries a raw address at all, only a signed token that we can turn dark if a destination ever goes bad.
And your words stay yours.
No tracking pixels, no rewritten links, no profile of your recipient, no analysis of what you wrote. Read the whole promise in plain language →
Quick questions.
Does the person I send it to need an account?
No — never. They tap your link (or scan your QR), the card unfolds, they tap the lantern. No app, no sign-up, no anything. They just receive light.
What can I hide inside a card?
A song, a playlist, or something to read — an article, a poem, a quote, a story, a book. Choose from the pre-verified library, or paste a link from a trusted home like Spotify, YouTube, or Wikipedia and it’s verified before the card can travel. Some library picks, like a NeoAesop story, are free to read after a quick free sign-in — and the label always says so before anyone taps.
Are the links actually safe to tap?
That’s the quiet innovation. Every reveal destination is resolved to its true final address, matched against a strict allowlist of well-known homes, and screened against Google’s Web Risk threat lists before the card can be sent — then rechecked the moment the lantern is tapped. If a link ever goes bad, its light goes dark instead of leading anywhere unsafe.
What about privacy?
A card is between two people. No tracking pixels, no rewritten links, no profile of your recipient, and we never analyze what your card says. We count lanterns, not lives.
Who made this?
Lantern Post is made by Lindsay Hiebert as part of the NeoAesop family — small, careful software about stories, gratitude, and light, alongside the books that started it all: The Wick of Wit and The Carried Light.