Best Online Group Cards for VTubers in 2026: An Honest Comparison

If you are organising a fan project for a VTuber and you want the short answer: a group card built for many signers is the right shape for messages and fan art, Tribute is the right shape if what you really want is an edited video montage, and a plain hashtag thread on X is the right shape if the project is small and you want no tool at all. The rest of this page is the reasoning, the prices, and a verdict for each occasion in the VTuber calendar.

This comparison exists because the ones you find elsewhere are not about you. Search for the best group card platform and you get articles written by Kudoboard and GroupTogether about signing a card for a colleague who is leaving an office. A workplace card has twelve signers who all have corporate email addresses, one currency, one time zone and no moderation problem. A VTuber project has none of those things. So the honest place to start is not the list of tools. It is the list of things that break.

What a VTuber fan project actually needs

These are the ten things that decide whether a fan project works, drawn from how these projects are actually run rather than from any feature list. Every tool below is judged against them.

• Scale without a per person charge. A workplace card has twelve signers. A project for a mid size indie can have two hundred, and for an agency talent it can run into the thousands. If a tool charges per signer, or caps posts, the cap is the whole decision.
• No account for signers. Fans will not create an account, confirm an email and choose a password to leave a birthday message. Every step between the link and the writing box costs you signatures, and it costs you the casual fans first.
• Fan handles, not legal names. Fandom runs on pseudonyms. People sign as their handle with an oshi mark in it, and a tool that wants a real name or pulls one from an account is actively wrong for this. The academic work on VTuber circles makes the same point about participants guarding their physical world identities even inside organised projects.
• Fan art at full quality. Art is the main medium of these projects, not text. If images are compressed hard or cropped to a square thumbnail, the thing fans worked hardest on is the thing you have ruined.
• Voice, because fans in different languages want to speak. A fan who is not confident writing in English will record thirty seconds instead, and that is often the message the creator reacts to hardest.
• Moderation. An open link posted to a public hashtag will attract something you do not want read out live. You need to see and remove messages before the creator does. This is not an optional nicety for a public figure.
• A deadline in the right time zone. Most of this calendar runs on Japan Standard Time. A project that closes at midnight in your own time zone closes at the wrong moment for the stream it was made for.
• It has to survive being read on stream. The creator will share their screen and scroll it live. Pages that need a lot of clicking, or that look broken at 1080p on a stream overlay, make for bad content and the creator quietly stops.
• Money in many small amounts, honestly handled. Fans give small amounts from many countries. What matters is the fee on each contribution, whether there is a cap, and whether anything is deducted from the total at the end.
• The creator may not be able to accept cash at all. Many agency talents are contractually barred from taking money directly from fans. If that is your creator, the gift is the wrong feature and a pure messages project is the right one. Check before you collect, not after.

The options, side by side

Prices and limits below are from each company's own pricing page. Kudoboard, Thankbox, GroupTogether and GroupGreeting were checked in October 2026 and Tribute in November 2026. Not listed means we could not find it on their pricing page, not that the feature is missing. Prices change, so check their site before you commit. Thankeeu prices here are the live ones.

What a project needs	Thankeeu	Kudoboard	Thankbox	GroupTogether	GroupGreeting	Tribute
Price	$4.99 Classic, $6.99 Premium	Lite $6.99, Premium $9.99, Milestone $19.99	Classic $5.99, Premium $9.99	$5.50 AUD, £4.50 UK	$5.99 single card	DIY $35 to $99 by video length, Concierge $99
How many may sign	Unlimited, no per signer charge	Lite up to 20 posts, Premium up to 100, Milestone unlimited	Unlimited messages	Unlimited messages	Unlimited signatures and pages	Unlimited invites
Free while collecting	Yes, pay only when you send	Free trial offered; every board plan is paid	Yes, pay when you send	Card free with a collection of at least $20 AUD	No free card listed	No. Draft free, payment required before collecting
Account needed to sign	No	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed	Not listed
Voice notes	Every card	Not listed	Premium, Packs and Team	Not listed	Not listed	Video based
Video	Premium	Premium and above	Premium	Not listed	Not listed	Yes, the whole product
Keepsake	Memory Movie on Premium, PDF on every card	Slideshow on Milestone	Slideshow on Premium	Not listed	Digital PDF copy	Edited video, optional physical video book
Cash gift	Gift pot, no maximum, recipient claims the whole total	Gift card attached to the board	Gift collection with a fee per contribution	Collection: 1.8% contributor fee and 2% withdrawal fee in AUD, $20 minimum	Optional gift card from 350+ merchants	Not listed
Scheduled delivery	Yes, to the minute in the recipient time zone	Yes	Yes	Not listed on pricing page	Not listed on pricing page	Not listed

Option by option, including where we lose

Tribute, if what you want is a video montage

If the project you have in your head is forty fans each recording a clip, cut together into one film with music, Tribute is built for exactly that and a group card is not. Their own pricing page lists DIY at $35 for up to thirty minutes, $49 up to an hour and $99 beyond that, Concierge editing at $99 where their editors cut it for you, and an optional professionally edited Highlight Reel from $99. Invites are unlimited and they note that successful projects invite about thirty people.

Where it does not fit a fan project: you pay before you start collecting, so a project that fails to gather enough clips has already cost you money. It is video first, so a fan who wants to submit a drawing rather than appear on camera is awkward to accommodate, and for VTuber fandom specifically that is most of your contributors. There is no cash gift listed. And for a creator whose audience is thousands of people, video from everyone is not a realistic ask.

Kudoboard, for a wall of very many short posts

Kudoboard is a message board and a well known one, and its Milestone board at $19.99 lifts the post limit entirely, which matters here more than on any workplace card. If your project is a huge number of one line messages and you want a familiar brand that the fandom will recognise in a link, it is a reasonable choice.

The two things to weigh. Its cheaper tiers cap posts at twenty on Lite and one hundred on Premium, which is a real ceiling for a fan project rather than a theoretical one, so for this use the honest price to compare is $19.99 and not $6.99. And its gift is a gift card attached to the board rather than a pooled cash total, which is a different thing from a collection and worth understanding before you announce one.

Thankbox, closest in shape

Thankbox is the most similar product to a group card of the ones here, with unlimited messages, voice notes on Premium and up, video on Premium and a slideshow keepsake. Classic is $5.99 and Premium $9.99 on their pricing page, and it is free to start and pay when you send, which suits a project that might not happen.

The thing to check for a fan project is the gift. Their collection charges a fee per contribution, and their published pricing has capped the pot on the lower tier, which for a project that goes further than expected is the detail that bites. If your project might collect more than you planned, read their current limits before you open it.

GroupTogether, genuinely cheaper in Australia

If you are in Australia and running a collection, GroupTogether makes the card free with a money collection of at least $20 AUD, which is a better deal than paying for a card, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Their collection fees are published: 1.8% from the contributor and a flat 2% on withdrawal in AUD.

Where it struggles for this use: voice notes, video and a keepsake are not listed on their pricing page, and the collection is built around Australian residents in AUD, which is the wrong shape for a fandom scattered across twenty countries. Their US page lists a cap of $2,000 per collection.

GroupGreeting, if you only want signatures

Unlimited signatures and pages for a single card at $5.99, photos, GIFs and stickers, and a PDF copy at the end. If the project is purely a lot of names and short notes, that works. Voice, video and scheduling are not listed on their pricing page, and the gift is a merchant gift card rather than cash.

Doing it yourself, which is what most projects still do

The real competition is not a product. It is a form, a spreadsheet and somebody staying up late. A fan project typically collects messages through a form, coordinates in Discord, announces on X under a hashtag, and one organiser assembles the result by hand. The study of organised VTuber projects describes the same pattern: planning in Discord and virtual meetings, documentation on X, and a large amount of unseen coordination work carried by the organiser.

Be fair about its strengths. It is free, it is infinitely flexible, you own every file, and no company can change its pricing under you. For a project with twenty close fans and one organiser who enjoys editing, it is genuinely the right answer.

Its weaknesses are the ones that sink projects. A form gives you a spreadsheet of text, not something a creator can open and read on stream, so somebody has to build the artefact by hand, and that person becomes a single point of failure two days before the deadline. There is no moderation layer, so you are reading everything yourself. Images arrive at whatever size people upload. And if you take money, you are personally holding other people's money in your own account, which is the part that ends friendships. If you do it this way, decide the money question before the first post, not after.

Where a group card fits, and where it does not

A card like this one is built around the ten needs above. Unlimited signers with no per person charge, no account for anyone signing, fan handles as the name on each page, photos and GIFs with voice notes on every card, video and a Memory Movie on the Premium card, scheduled delivery to the minute in the recipient time zone, and a gift pot with no maximum where the contributors cover the fees as they give so nothing is deducted from the total at the end. It is free while it fills and paid once when you send, so a project that does not come together costs nothing.

It is the wrong tool in three cases, and they are worth saying plainly. If you want a professionally edited film, use Tribute. If you want nothing but a public thread the creator can retweet, use the hashtag and do not add a tool. And if your creator cannot accept money from fans, turn the gift off and treat it purely as messages, or reconsider whether a project is wanted at all.

A verdict for every occasion

These occasions are not interchangeable, and the right tool genuinely changes between them.

Debut

The hardest one, because the audience does not exist yet. There are no thousands of fans, there are forty people from a pre debut community who found the account early. Scale is not the problem. Warmth is.

Verdict: a card with a short deadline and voice notes turned on. Forty sincere messages read on a debut stream is a strong opening, and recorded voices carry better than text when nobody has heard the audience before. Do not open a gift pot at a debut unless the creator has asked for one, and most will not have.

Birthday

The busiest date in the calendar and the one with the most competing projects, often several for the same creator, which is the real problem. Coordinate with the others on the hashtag before you start rather than splitting the fandom across four links.

Verdict: a card, and the decision is the post limit. This is where Kudoboard's cheaper tiers run out and where a tool with no cap earns its place. Open it two to three weeks ahead, close it a day before the stream in JST, and moderate as it fills rather than all at once at the end.

Debut anniversary

Different from a birthday in a way that matters: the fans signing have a shared history with the creator and with each other. The messages are longer, they reference specific streams, and the project usually wants to look back.

Verdict: a card on the Premium tier, for the Memory Movie. A year of fan art and messages cut into one short film with music is the single most watchable thing you can hand a creator on an anniversary, and it is the one occasion where paying for the keepsake is clearly worth it. This is also the occasion where Tribute is a real contender if you can get enough clips.

Subscriber or follower milestone

These arrive with no notice. The number crosses on a Tuesday and the project has three days, which rules out anything that needs planning.

Verdict: a card you can open in two minutes and share immediately, or honestly just a hashtag thread. A milestone does not need a keepsake. It needs to be fast and to look like the fandom moved quickly, which is itself the compliment.

3D reveal or a new outfit

The most visual occasion in the calendar, and the one where fan art dominates completely. Text is almost secondary.

Verdict: whichever tool handles images least destructively, and check this yourself before you announce it. Upload a real piece of art at full size, open it on a phone and on a 1080p screen, and see what the tool did to it. An occasion that is entirely about how something looks is not the place to find out that images are compressed into mush.

Graduation

The one that matters most and the one with the least time. A graduation is usually announced two to four weeks before the final stream, the fandom is upset, and the project has to be organised quickly and handled with care.

Verdict: a card, with moderation treated as the main job rather than an afterthought, and a hard deadline before the final stream. Two specific cautions. Collecting money at a graduation is often inappropriate and sometimes contractually impossible, so default to messages only unless the creator has said otherwise. And download the keepsake. A graduating creator frequently loses access to accounts and channels, so the copy that exists as a file is the copy that survives. On this one, PDF or video export is not a nice extra, it is the point.

Hiatus and return

A hiatus project needs the opposite of urgency. Health hiatuses especially: the creator may not look at anything for weeks, and a project that demands a reaction is a burden rather than a gift.

Verdict: a card with no deadline pressure, delivered quietly, and said plainly to be there whenever they want it. Never schedule a hiatus card to arrive on a stream. For a return, the opposite: time it to the comeback stream in the creator time zone.

Totsumachi, collabs and group projects

Where several creators or several fandoms are involved, the hard part stops being the card and becomes agreement. Who runs it, whose hashtag, and who is included.

Verdict: one card per creator rather than one shared card, so nobody is reading messages intended for somebody else, and share the dashboard rather than the password. If the tool allows co admins, that is the feature to use here. Pack credits that do not expire are also worth having if you are running several of these a year.

Agency talent versus indie

Not an occasion, but it changes every answer above. Agency talents often have rules about accepting gifts and money, about what can be sent and where, and sometimes about fan projects themselves. Indies usually do not, and often need the support more.

Verdict: for agency talent, assume messages only until you have checked, and look for the agency guidance before you open anything. For an indie, the gift pot is frequently the most useful part of the project, and a pot with no maximum and nothing deducted at the end is worth more to someone funding their own rigging and art than any keepsake.

Memorials

They happen, and they deserve a mention rather than a verdict. Slow down, moderate carefully, do not collect money, and make sure the result is a file that the people closest to the person can keep. Every other consideration on this page is secondary here.

The money question, answered honestly

If your project collects, these are the four things to check on whatever tool you choose, including ours.

• Is there a cap on the total? Fan projects overshoot far more often than workplace collections do. GroupTogether's US page lists a $2,000 limit per collection and Thankbox has capped pots by tier. A cap discovered at the moment you hit it is a public mess.
• Who pays the fee, and is it taken from the gift? There is a real difference between a fee each contributor pays as they give and a fee taken out of the total at the end. The second one means the creator receives less than the number the fandom was shown, and fans notice.
• Is it cash or a gift card? Kudoboard and GroupGreeting attach a merchant gift card. That is genuinely fine for some creators and useless for one who needs to pay an artist. Decide which your creator needs before you announce a figure.
• Can the creator actually receive it? Covered above and worth repeating, because it is the single most common way these projects go wrong: the money is collected first and the restriction is discovered afterwards.

Moderation, which no comparison table covers

Every tool here will let you collect messages. None of them will protect your creator from what arrives in a public link, and for a fan project that is the risk that actually materialises. A link posted to an open hashtag gets abuse, spam and the occasional thing designed specifically to be read out live.

So whatever you pick, build the same three habits. Read messages as they arrive rather than in one pass at the end, because the end is when you have no time. Keep the link out of places you cannot watch. And make sure you can remove something after it is written, not just before. If a tool does not let you take a message down, that tool is not safe for a public figure, however good the rest of it is.

Mistakes that sink fan projects

• Announcing before checking whether the creator or their agency allows fan projects and gifts at all.
• Setting the deadline in your own time zone when the stream is in JST.
• Four competing projects for the same birthday because nobody talked on the hashtag first.
• One organiser holding both the files and the money, with no second admin.
• Choosing a tier on headline price and finding the post limit halfway through.
• Collecting money without saying publicly what the fee is and who pays it.
• No downloadable copy, on a graduation, where the accounts may disappear.

Questions fans ask

What is the best group card site for a VTuber?

For messages and fan art from a large number of fans, a group card with no signer limit, no account for signers, voice notes and a downloadable keepsake fits the job best, which is what a VTuber group card is built for. For an edited video montage, Tribute is the better tool. For a small milestone, a hashtag thread is enough. The right answer depends on the occasion, which is why there is a verdict for each one above.

How much does a VTuber fan project cost to organise?

The card itself is the small part. A group card here is $4.99 for Classic and $6.99 for Premium, which adds video and the Memory Movie, and it is free while you collect so an abandoned project costs nothing. Kudoboard's unlimited Milestone board is $19.99, Thankbox is $5.99 or $9.99, GroupGreeting is $5.99, and Tribute starts at $35 and must be paid before you collect. Those are their own listed prices as described above.

Do fans need an account to sign?

Not on a Thankeeu card. They open the link and write, with no account, no app and no password, which matters more in fandom than in an office because a casual fan will simply not register to leave a birthday message. The other platforms do not state their signer requirements on their pricing pages, so check before you rely on it.

Can fans sign with their handle instead of their real name?

Yes, and they should. Fans sign as the name they use in the fandom, oshi mark included. Nothing asks for a legal name and nothing pulls one from an account.

Can we collect money for a VTuber?

Often yes for an indie, frequently not for an agency talent, and that is a question about the creator rather than about the tool. Check first. Where you can, a pot with no maximum where contributors cover the fees as they give means the creator receives the whole total rather than a reduced one.

How long should a VTuber fan project stay open?

Two to three weeks for a birthday or an anniversary, long enough that the quiet fans and the artists have time. Days for a subscriber milestone, because speed is the compliment. As long as the announcement allows for a graduation, closing before the final stream. No deadline at all for a hiatus.

What about a card the creator can read on stream?

Test it yourself before you announce it. Open the draft, share your screen, and scroll it as the creator would at 1080p. Anything that needs a lot of clicking, or that renders badly at stream resolution, will quietly be abandoned halfway through.

The verdict

Choose a group card if the project is messages and fan art from more fans than you can count, you need no signer accounts, and you want a keepsake and possibly a cash gift at the end. Choose Tribute if you are making a video and you want it edited properly. Choose Kudoboard Milestone if you want a very large wall of short posts under a brand the fandom already knows, and budget $19.99 rather than the headline price. Choose GroupTogether if you are in Australia and running a collection, where the card comes free with it. Choose nothing at all if the occasion is small and a hashtag thread says it better.

Whatever you pick, the three things that decide whether the project is remembered are not features. Check what your creator is allowed to receive, moderate the link as it fills, and make sure somebody ends up holding a file. Everything above is downstream of those.

If you want the mechanics rather than the comparison, there is a page on VTuber group cards and a permanent creator page, and guides to how projects run in Japan, the United States and Indonesia.

Competitor prices and limits above are from each company's own pricing page, checked in October 2026 for Kudoboard, Thankbox, GroupTogether and GroupGreeting and in November 2026 for Tribute. Not listed means we could not find it on that page, not that the feature is missing. Prices change, so check their site.