Rewind · 2026 → 2027
Rewind the year, one frame per month
A year-in-review card that plays like a film
A clock whose numerals are months spins to the month you choose. A 35 mm negative runs across the screen, one frame per month, your photo and a handwritten caption in each. Three lines are typed on black pages. Then the wish, their name, your name, and a 3, 2, 1 into next year. Five minutes to build, one link to send anywhere.
- One frame per month, up to twelve
- Three typed lines and a wish
- One link, anywhere in the world
At a glance
A year-in-review card that plays like a film
Rewind is a year-end recap card you make for one person, a group or a team, anywhere in the world. A clock whose numerals are months spins to the month you choose; the chosen month lights gold and zooms until the screen is gold; a 35 mm negative runs across the screen with one frame per month, your photo and a handwritten caption in each, every photo coming up to colour as it passes; three black pages are typed, one line each; the black warms to midnight blue for your wish; a contact sheet lays every frame out; and a film leader counts 3, 2, 1 into the next year. About a minute long, built in five minutes in the browser, sent as one private link or exported as a 9:16 or 16:9 video. Free to build and preview.
Photos
Up to twelve, one per month
Captions
Handwritten, under each frame
The month
Any of the twelve; the dial stops there
Typed lines
Three, sixty characters each
Length
About a minute to September, more to December
Formats
9:16 and 16:9, plus video export
Sound
Silent by default; any track from the library
Price
Free to build and preview
Try it with your month
Spin the year, right here
Pick the month you are in and the year. The real card plays in the phone: the dial spins to your month, the reel runs with the example captions, the pages type, and the wish is signed with your name.
- The dial stops on your month; every month before it gets a frame.
- In the editor, one photo per month and a caption under each.
- One link, or a 9:16 and 16:9 video. Silent by default; add any track.
How it plays
Six scenes, one reel
It runs by itself, start to finish. Three optional taps let the viewer start a scene early; in the video they play on their own.
Scene 1
A clock made of months
Black screen, film grain, a clock whose numerals are months. One flick and the dial spins, a tick on every month that passes, slowing until the month you chose stops under the hands and lights up gold.
Your words here
The year, the month, and a title line (Rewind the year, or your own).
Scene 1, the cut
The month fills the screen
Three stepped zooms: the word grows, holds, grows again, then past the edges of the screen until the whole frame is gold. The gold fades to black, and the reel begins.
Your words here
Nothing to fill in. This is the cut.
Scene 2
A 35 mm negative, one frame per month
A film strip runs slowly across the screen, sprocket holes top and bottom, frame numbers in orange, a blinking REWIND and a timecode. Each month is a frame; each photo comes up from negative to colour as it passes the centre.
Your words here
Up to twelve photos, one per month, with a handwritten caption under each (Jan, where it started).
Scene 3
Three lines, typed
Three black pages, one line each, typed with a cursor and held. Between pages a hairline sweeps like a film gate.
Your words here
Three lines, up to sixty characters each. The defaults: Years change. Routes change. The people who stay don't.
Scene 4
The wish
The black warms to midnight blue at the bottom edge, a gold line draws across, and your wish appears in a serif with their name above it and your name below. An optional closing photo sits above it as the last frame, in full colour.
Your words here
Their name, the wish (Here's to 2027. Thank you for being in the frame.), a closing photo, and your name.
Scene 5
The contact sheet
Every frame of the year laid out on one sheet, in colour, landing one after another, with the months still to come dimmed.
Your words here
Nothing new. It is made from the photos you already added.
Scene 6
3, 2, 1, next year
An old film leader counts down in a ring, 3, 2, 1, and the next year lands in gold: take one, roll 2027. Your closing line and your name sign off, and a replay button appears.
Your words here
The closing line (See you in the next frame.) and your name.
What to write
A caption for every month
Forty characters or fewer, handwritten under the photo. Four ideas for each month; the full guide with the three-line sets and the wishes is on the captions and ideas page.
01A
January
- — Jan, where it started
- — Jan, new city, same us
- — Jan, the first morning of the year
- — Jan, cold hands, warm plans
02A
February
- — Feb, the week we stopped pretending
- — Feb, your birthday, my cake
- — Feb, two umbrellas, one street
- — Feb, the long call
03A
March
- — Mar, the trip
- — Mar, first sun of the year
- — Mar, the day we got lost on purpose
- — Mar, you, mid-laugh
04A
April
- — Apr, the move
- — Apr, new keys
- — Apr, rain and the good coffee
- — Apr, the exam we survived
05A
May
- — May, the wedding we danced through
- — May, mangoes, finally
- — May, graduation, somehow
- — May, the garden you started
06A
June
- — Jun, the beach, finally
- — Jun, the summer we said yes
- — Jun, midsummer, no sleep
- — Jun, the road trip playlist
07A
July
- — Jul, monsoon and the window seat
- — Jul, the festival weekend
- — Jul, the one with the fireworks
- — Jul, home for a week
08A
August
- — Aug, the hike that nearly ended us
- — Aug, late trains, better stories
- — Aug, the birthday on the roof
- — Aug, the last of the heat
09A
September
- — Sep, where we are now
- — Sep, first day of the new job
- — Sep, the apartment, before the furniture
- — Sep, back to school, back to us
10A
October
- — Oct, the lights went up
- — Oct, the marathon you finished
- — Oct, the costume you still deny
- — Oct, the first cold evening
11A
November
- — Nov, the table was full
- — Nov, the trip we almost cancelled
- — Nov, the long weekend
- — Nov, the photo you hate and I love
12A
December
- — Dec, the last frame
- — Dec, the tree, the mess, the noise
- — Dec, snow, at last
- — Dec, here's to the next one
The typed pages
Three lines, one for each page
Anyone who was there all year
- Years change.
- Routes change.
- The people who stay don't.
Each page is typed on, then held. The pause after the third line is the point.
Who it is for
One card, six kinds of year
For a partner
The year in twelve frames, from the first month to now, with the photos only the two of you have.
“Here's to 2027. Every frame of this year had you in it, and next year's reel is already loading.”
For a best friend
The trips, the birthday, the night that became a story. The captions can be inside jokes.
“Here's to 2027. Same chaos, same you, more frames. Thank you for staying in the picture.”
For the family group
One link in the family chat on New Year's Eve, with the wedding, the new baby, the house, the table.
“Here's to 2027. Whatever changes, the frame stays full. Love from all of us.”
For long distance
Set the months you met in person to the photos, and the months apart to the captions. The reel still runs.
“Here's to 2027, and fewer months between frames. You were here even when you weren't.”
For a team
A work year-end that is not a slide deck: the launch, the offsite, the fix at 3 AM, the people who stayed.
“Here's to 2027. Thank you for every late frame. The best roll is still ahead of us.”
For yourself
A rewind you make for nobody but you, exported as a video and kept. The photos you would not post, the captions you would not say.
“Here's to 2027. I kept the good frames and learned from the rest.”
Also widescreen
Recomposed for 16:9
The same card, laid out again for a laptop, a TV at the party, or a YouTube upload. The clock sits centre, the reel runs wider with four frames on screen.
Making it
Six things that make the reel land
- 1
Four photos is enough
The reel plays every month from January to the one you choose, so four photos still make a nine-month film. Months without a photo show a dark frame with the month's name.
- 2
Square photos, faces in the middle
Each frame is a 1:1 crop. Phone photos work; the editor crops them, and a face near the centre survives the crop.
- 3
Captions under forty characters
They are handwritten under the photo, on a phone. Jan, where it started. Mar, the trip. Sep, where we are now.
- 4
Three lines, not three paragraphs
The typed pages hold one line each, and the pause after the third is the point. Say the true thing, short.
- 5
The wish does the work
Their name above it, your name under it, up to 140 characters. 2027 is filled in for you from the year you set.
- 6
Choose the month, not the date
The dial stops on the month you pick, so the card works in July as well as December: a birthday year, an anniversary year, a work year.
When to send it
New Year's Eve, or any month
| New Year's Eve | · The classic: send it in the evening, before the countdown. |
|---|---|
| New Year's Day | · The morning after, when everyone is reading their phone in bed. |
| Christmas week | · Quieter inboxes; the card gets watched, not skimmed. |
| Any month | A birthday, an anniversary, a work year-end · Set the month to the one you are in; the dial stops there. |
How it works
Five minutes, one link
- 1
Open the Rewind template
It starts with the year, the current month, four example captions, three lines and a wish, so the film plays before you change a word.
- 2
Pick the month and add photos
Choose the month the dial stops on, then add one square photo per month, up to twelve, and a caption under each.
- 3
Write the three lines and the wish
One line per page, sixty characters each. Then their name, the wish, an optional closing photo and your name.
- 4
Preview and send the link
Watch it through once, then share the link anywhere, or export the 9:16 or 16:9 video.
Questions
Year-in-review cards, answered
A card that recaps one year for one person or group: the months, the photos, the lines you would say at the end of it. Rewind on MomentoCard does it as a film: a clock of months spins to the month you choose, a 35 mm reel runs one frame per month with your photo and caption, three lines are typed, and your wish signs off with a 3, 2, 1 into the next year.
Four is enough. The reel plays every month from January to the month you pick, so four photos still make a nine-month film; months without a photo show a dark frame with the month's name. Twelve photos make the full year.
Yes. Pick any month from the dropdown and the dial stops there; the reel plays January up to that month. A birthday in July, an anniversary in March, a work year-end in September all work.
A caption under each photo (forty characters), three typed lines (sixty each), a wish (140), their name and yours. The page above has four caption ideas per month and eight three-line sets; the editor opens with defaults you can keep.
Yes. Set the year once and the wish's {nextYear} becomes that year plus one, and the final countdown lands on it.
No. It is a year-end card for New Year's Eve, but the same film works for a couple's year, a best friend's year, a family year in the group chat, a team's year at work, or a rewind you make for yourself and keep.
It is silent by default, so it plays cleanly in a chat. In the editor you can add any track from the library; the volume is set low so the lines stay the focus.
Build it in the browser, preview it, and share the private link on WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram or email. It opens in any phone or desktop browser with nothing to install. You can also export a 9:16 video for a story or a 16:9 video for a screen or YouTube.
Building, previewing and sharing the link are free. Premium removes the watermark and unlocks the video download; the price is shown in the editor in your currency.
Also for the turn of the year
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Keep reading
Year-in-review card ideas: captions by month, three-line sets, wishes
Everything to write, with the card beat by beat.
Year-in-review card online: the quick guide
The answer box, five steps, and the card against a slideshow app.
New Year wishes and messages
Lines for the wish, by who you are sending it to.
When is New Year?
31 December and 1 January, with a countdown.
2027
take one · roll 2027
Thank them for being in the frame
Twelve frames, three lines, one wish. Free to build and preview; send the link anywhere, or export the video.
