Graduation
Advice for what’s next,
from everyone behind them.
Grandparents three states away, the fourth-grade teacher, the coach, the friends they are about to leave behind. Each adds something privately, and the graduate opens it all on graduation day.
Coming soon to the App Store.
Organizers start one in the iPhone app. Everyone else just needs the link.
Graduation
Jordan Ellis
From your family and friends
How it works
Four steps, one link.
Start it in the app
Who it is for, a photo if you like, and when it opens: on a date, or when you say. It takes a couple of minutes on iPhone.
Share one link
Send it wherever your group talks, or print the QR card for the break room or the inside of a real card.
Everyone adds privately
A note, photos, a voice note or a video, from any phone or computer. No account, no app.
They open it on the day
It stays sealed until then. They press and hold the seal, and the entries open one at a time.
What goes in
More than a signature.
A note
Written for one reader, not the room.
A voice note
Up to two minutes. The part people replay.
Photos and video
Up to six photos with each entry, or a minute of video.
Graduation
Before everyone scatters
Graduation sends people in every direction. Sendoff gathers them first: one link, sent to the family group chat and old teachers alike, and everyone adds a note, photos, a voice note or a minute of video from wherever they are.
Grandparents who would rather talk than type can record a voice note. Friends can add the photos only they have.
Graduation
Something to take with them
They open it once, on the day, one entry at a time. Then it goes with them to the first apartment, the first job, the hard week in the second semester.
Prompts
Something to start from.
Anyone stuck on where to start gets a few prompts, written for the occasion.
- Proudest moment
- Advice for what’s next
- What you noticed about them
- Something to remember on a hard day
Cost
Free to start.
Starting one and collecting up to 10 entries is free. When more people want in, the organizer pays once for that Sendoff: $8.99 for up to 100 entries, or $14.99 for no limit, every Plus look and a song from Apple Music. Nobody who adds to it or opens it pays, and every plan can be printed or saved as a PDF.
Running these for a whole company or school? Sendoff for teams covers every one for a year.
The song plays in full in the app for Apple Music subscribers, and as a 30-second preview everywhere else.
Questions
Before you start.
Who usually starts one?
A parent, most often; sometimes a sibling, a teacher or a coach. Whoever starts it uses the iPhone app, and everyone else just needs the link.
Does everyone need the app?
No. Only the organizer uses the iPhone app, to start it and share the link. Everyone else adds from the link or a QR code in any browser, with no account. The person it is for opens it on any phone or computer.
Who can read what people write?
Only the person it is for and the organizer. People who add cannot read each other’s entries unless they choose to share theirs with the others who added.
What does it cost?
Starting one and collecting up to 10 entries is free. Sendoff ($8.99) holds up to 100 entries, and Sendoff Plus ($14.99) has no limit, every Plus look and a song from Apple Music. The organizer pays once, in the app; nobody who adds to it or opens it pays.
Can they keep it?
Yes. After the day it stays theirs to come back to, and they can print it or save it as a PDF, on every plan.
Everyone adds privately.
One person opens it, on the day.
Coming soon to the App Store.
Organizers start one in the iPhone app. Everyone else just needs the link.