Digital invitation for Halloween: no apps to open

Your dad holds the phone at arm's length. He is squinting at a screenshot someone dropped in the family group: orange letters on a dark background, the address in tiny type at the bottom. He asks you to read it out. You read it twice. That is the moment a digital invitation for Halloween starts to make sense, not as a design exercise but as a page your guests can actually read. Digital Halloween invitations for guests who don't use apps open in the phone browser, with the day and the time where the eye lands first. You can make one today from the catalogue: pick a design, type your details, publish the link.

No accounts, no downloads, no "tap here to see the address". Just a link that opens. What follows is what to put on it, what to check before publishing, and what it costs.

A digital invitation for Halloween that opens without an app

Your guest taps the link and the invitation opens in the phone browser. Nothing to install, no account to create, no username and password screen to get past. The same link goes into the family WhatsApp group, sits as a QR code by the door for the neighbours, and opens on the tablet in the kitchen or the laptop in the living room. If your grandmother has large text switched on, she still reads it.

• Type "Saturday 31, 6.30pm, front door" into the date and place fields. No flourishes in front of it.
• Add one plain line about food: bring a glass and a plate of biscuits, we eat at seven.
• Send the link and the QR code in the same WhatsApp message to the family group.
• Open it on two phones before publishing, one of them with large text turned on.

Digital Halloween invitations you can edit after sending

If the biscuit table moves from six to half five, you change the time in the editor and the link stays the same. Nobody re-sends a message. Nobody reprints a poster for the doorway. Same for the map, the flat number or the line about fancy dress: guests see the version you have now, not the one you sent on Tuesday. You edit in the browser, nothing to install, and the preview updates as you type.

Confirmations land inside the invitation, in one ordered list, so you stop chasing replies across three different chats. The questions are yours to write: "Are you staying for biscuits, or just the pumpkin game?" Up to six of your own photos go on the cover and the inner scenes, a carved pumpkin on the doorstep, the table before anyone sits down, and they frame themselves. Swap any photo later if the first one comes out blurry.

One page, one link that never changes, and the time sitting where a grandparent's eye lands first.

How much a digital invitation for Halloween costs

29.99 EUR, one payment, no subscription. Try the design free first: in test mode you edit the cover without paying, and buying unlocks every scene. The invitation text can be set in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian, Portuguese or German, which helps when one grandchild only reads in English. It is digital, so nothing is printed or posted. If an aunt wants something for the fridge, print two or three copies for the people who keep things, and leave the link as the channel for everyone else. Do check that your guests have a phone, tablet or computer with a connection before you decide the link is the only way in. Then personalise the cover, test it on your own phone and press publish: the door that creaks already has a time.