13 Places to Find Completely Free Ecards

Punchbowl is my favorite free ecard website because not only will you find beautiful free ecards here, their website is extremely easy to use. You'll find free ecards for birthdays, holidays, thank you's, good luck's, apologies, and just about every other reason you'd want to send someone an ecard.

You'll get to customize the inside text, envelope liner, postage stamp design, and rubber stamp greeting before sending off your free ecard at Punchbowl. You can even include a gift card along with your ecard.

Tip: Punchbowl's free ecards are the ones with the blue circle that says "Free" at the top. All other ecards are available only to paying members.

Using professional designers, including Martha Stewart, to create lovely cards for just about any occasion lands Pingg straight near the top of my list for the best free ecards. 

You'll get to personalize the free ecards at Pingg with your own custom text like the event name and time, location, address, and a message to the recipient.

Besides free ecards, Pingg also has free online invitations that you can send for any event that you are having and allows you to collect your RSVP's straight from Pingg to your email.

Tip: While most of the ecards are free at Pingg, the ones that are categorized as "Premium" require you to have a paid membership. You can filter the results by "Special Features" and choose "Free Designs" to see just the free ones.

Ojolie is another place you can visit for free ecards, and while there are lots of ecards to look at, there's a rather sparse selection of free ones.

Some of these particular ecards are animated. Select one to get a full-screen view of the card and to play out the animation, and then choose the "Send this free card" link at the top of the ecard to customize the greeting voice and message.​

You can send Ojolie's free animated ecards to up to 40 people at once and do so immediately or on a future date. A personal message can be included with the ecard too, as well as email notifications when the recipient views the card.

Open Me has some great looking free ecards that feature adorable illustrations along with bright colors.

You can browse the ecards by occasion and holiday or you can also view them by categories like animals, food, funny nature, and photo cards.

Open Me also has free group ecards which allow you to pass around a card virtually with your family, friends, or coworkers so everyone can add a message before it goes to the recipient.

Just Wink has a great selection of quality ecards for birthdays, thank you's congrats, anniversaries, weddings, new babies, and more interesting categories like "random notes" and "lgbtq."

All the ecards here are free and can be sent to an email or Facebook account of your choice. They can be customized with photos, messages, and custom signatures.

Unlike the other ecard websites,  you can also choose to send any of these cards by mail for a fee of around $4 each which includes the card, postage, and them mailing it out for you.

Someecards offers a unique selection of free ecards which feature sassy pencil drawn characters that seem bent on sharing just exactly what's on their minds.

You can choose from a large group of pre-made ecards in many different categories or create your own card by entering text and choosing a background color and image to go with it.

These ecards can be scheduled to be sent out to multiple email addresses on a specific day or right away, with an additional message included with the ecard.

Greetings Island has a great collection of ecards in just about every category imaginable, ranging from holidays and occasions, to the everyday. 

Many of the free ecards here can become photo cards and all of them can be customized with personal messages, stickers, and choice of layout.

WrongCards has a great collection of free ecards with messages full of wit and sarcasm that you can send to your friend's to help them celebrate or just to let them know you are thinking about them.

With categories like "Thank God It's Friday" and "Zombies," these free ecards are so wrong that they may be just right.

Other sections of the site like romance, celebration, holiday, topical, and concern include additional categories for finding a free ecard. The random link is another way to find an ecard from WrongCards.

You can send an ecard to only one email address at a time, but you can do so right now or at a later day, include a message with the ecard, and get notified when the other person opens it.

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) has some adorable free ecards that feature animals in their natural habitat.

You'll find free birthday, friendship, love, thank you, invitation/announcement, and occasion ecards here. These are really unique ecards that both adults and kids will love.

The free ecards at WWF can be sent on any day you want and to multiple recipients simultaneously. 

All of the ecards at Care2 support environmental causes. They have a huge selection of thousands of beautiful ecards for lots of different occasions — some animated and others video ecards.

The website is easy to use and they even have ecards that let you add your own photo. Some of the categories include nonprofit, fun & games, expressions, art, and holidays, and each of them have subcategories too.

A donation is made to a charitable organization of your choice for each and every ecard you send from Care2.

JibJab has a huge collection of free ecards that all let you put your face, or someone else's, right in the action of an animated greeting card.

All the occasions are there and the holidays, as well as some everyday cards like love and flirting and music video ecards, that you can send just to make someone smile.

They also have a free app, making it very easy to send a free ecard when you're on the go.

Katie's Cards is a smaller ecard website but you won't want to miss out on the unique cards that are created by the artist and owner, Katie Davies.

There are tons of categories of ecards here, each with quite a few options considering how small the website is. There are ecards for birthdays, holidays, special events, and more.

All the ecards can be personalized with your own message and then sent along to the recipient's email address.