Send Your Own Video as a Party Invitation, Free, with RSVPs

How it works, step by step

• Open getblast.video/new and choose "Your video", the last tile. Tap "Choose a video" and pick a clip from your camera roll. Up to 20 seconds; vertical looks best, and a landscape clip is shown with bars rather than cropped.
• The clip uploads and is prepared for phones. This takes about a minute. If the clip is longer than 20 seconds or larger than 150 MB, Blast says so before uploading and you trim it in your phone's gallery.
• Type who the party is for and what the occasion is: a birthday, a baby shower, an anniversary, a graduation, a housewarming, or just a party. The name goes in the opening scene, so nothing is drawn over your clip.
• Pick the music. Three songs are offered to match the occasion, or continue without music. Your clip keeps its own sound either way.
• Add the date, start time, place, a note if you like, and a gift registry link if you have one. On the Ready screen you can set how many guests each invite covers.
• Send. You verify your mobile number with a one-time code, then share the link by text, WhatsApp, email or any app. Replies land on your host page as they come in.

What guests see

The link opens a short vertical story on their phone: "You're invited to Maya's Birthday" (or the occasion in your own words), then your clip, then the details, your note, and "Will you be there?" with Going, Maybe and Can't buttons. They choose "Party Mode" to watch with sound or "Quiet Mode" without. A reply takes a name and an email, nothing else, and they can add a note or add the date to their calendar.

What to film in 20 seconds

The clip does the inviting, so let it talk. The strongest clips are simple: the birthday child saying "come to my party" to the camera, a baby bump with a hand-written sign, the couple raising a glass, the new keys held up in front of the door. One idea, one take, phone upright.

• Film upright. The invitation is vertical and the clip fills the screen that way.
• Say the date out loud if you can. People remember a voice better than a line of text, and the details scene repeats it anyway.
• Keep the first second interesting. Guests decide whether to keep watching almost at once.
• Daylight near a window beats any overhead light. Wipe the lens.
• Trim before you upload. The 20-second limit is a feature: short clips get watched to the end.
• No sound is fine. A silent clip still works, and the music carries it.

Limits and the fine print

• Up to 20 seconds and 150 MB per clip. Longer clips are refused before upload with a plain message.
• One clip per invitation. You can swap it until you send; a sent invitation keeps its clip.
• The raw file is deleted once the clip has been prepared; the invitation keeps only the version guests see.
• An invitation you start but never send is deleted after seven days.
• Free, including the RSVPs and the host page. No subscription and no per-guest fee.

When a Blast design is the better choice

If you have no clip you like, or the party has a theme the child cares about more than a video of themselves, pick one of the animated designs instead: dinosaurs, space, princesses, K-pop, milestone birthdays, baby showers and holidays. The steps after the design are the same, and the design comes with its own song.