An anniversary gift made of your years
Flowers fade and dinners end. This is a small world built only from the two of you — your photos on its screens, your song in the air — that you can open again next year, and the year after. It suits a first anniversary as well as a fortieth, and it works just as well as a present for your parents’ anniversary, made from the family’s photos of them.
- What it is
- A night city made from your photos: they appear on the big lit screens along the streets. They drive through it, or press Automatic and watch it as a film, with your song playing.
- What it costs
- One payment of £14.99, €14.99 or US$14.99, depending on your country. No subscription, no account.
- How you make it
- Add up to 20 photos and one song if you like (an MP3, otherwise our soundtrack plays), then pay £14.99, €14.99 or US$14.99 securely by Stripe. Your world is usually ready about a minute later; a slow connection takes longer.
- What you get
- One small file, usually under 10 MB. We also e-mail you a receipt with the file attached when it is small enough for e-mail.
- How they open it
- In the web browser they already have, on a phone, tablet or computer. No app, no account, and it works offline. On iPhone they open ourspecialworld.com in Safari, tap “Open a saved world” and choose the file. Phones play it sideways, in landscape.
How to tell your story in twenty photos
Follow the shape of your relationship
- The beginning: the earliest photo of you together, even if it is not your best-looking one.
- The firsts: first trip, first home, first pet.
- The big days: the proposal, the wedding, the children.
- The ordinary days: a Sunday walk, cooking together. These are often the ones that make people cry.
- Now: a recent photo of you both, to end on.
A sideways photo of the two of you leads
The biggest screen, on the main square, goes to the photo whose shape suits it best — a landscape (sideways) photo — and among equal fits, the earliest in your order. Put your favourite landscape photo of you both first, and choose one where your faces are large.
For a 25th, 40th or 50th
The early photos are probably prints. Photograph them flat by a window in daylight, without flash, and crop off the borders. A wedding photo from 1985 on a lit city screen is quite a moment.
Your song
The first-dance song, the song from your first date or the one you always sing in the car: add it as one MP3 you own, up to ten minutes. Without one, our own soundtrack plays.
How to give it on the day
- Watch it together: open it on a laptop after dinner, press Automatic and let the film run, then take turns driving.
- Hide it in plain sight: send the file in the morning with “do not open until tonight”, and give the gift card at dinner.
“Ten years, twenty photos, one city that is only ours. Press Automatic and turn the sound up.”
A look inside a finished world
Honest answers
Is it romantic, or is it a game?
A little of both. You can drive the car past your photos, or press Automatic and watch it as a film with your song. Most couples watch first and drive afterwards.
Are our private photos safe?
Your photos are used once to build the world, then deleted from our server once your file is downloaded. If you do not buy, they are deleted when you leave, at the latest 15 minutes after you add them; while you are at the payment page they are kept until the payment finishes or is abandoned, about half an hour at most. We keep no copy of the photos or the world.
Can we keep it for years?
Yes. It is a file, so it does not depend on an account or a subscription. Keep it somewhere safe, as you would a photo; we also e-mail a copy when it is small enough to attach. We cannot make it again from our side, because we keep nothing.
Does it work on our phones?
Yes, on phones, tablets and computers in an ordinary web browser, without the internet once saved. Phones play it sideways, in landscape. On iPhone, open ourspecialworld.com in Safari, tap “Open a saved world” and choose the file.
Is it a video I can post?
No. It is an interactive world, not an MP4, so it is for the people you send it to rather than for social media.
Can I get a refund?
Each world is made to order and delivered at once, so all sales are final. If you made a mistake, e-mail [email protected] and we will look into it. Refund policy.
Make your anniversary world
Choose your twenty photos and your song; the rest takes a few minutes.
Add your photos. Add a song. Pay once and it is yours.