A personalized birthday song, with your kid's name in it

The child is the main character rather than the audience. Their name goes in the chorus, their favourite thing goes in the verse, and whatever they are obsessed with this month goes in too, dinosaurs or a cricket bat or one specific cartoon. Children work out very fast whether a song is really about them.

Tell us how old they are and we match it. Under five wants a short chorus and lots of repetition, because repetition is the entire point at that age. Seven to ten can follow a story and enjoys being teased gently. Teenagers want it to sound like actual music, so we drop the sing song entirely.

Please make it so. The more oddly specific the better: the stuffed elephant with one ear, the fact that she narrates her own football matches, the word he has been mispronouncing for a year. Those details are what a child remembers hearing about themselves.

Yes, a few names sit comfortably in a song. Give us the ones who will be in the room and we place them where they will be heard, usually a line each rather than a list. The birthday child stays the one the song is about.

That is where most of these songs live. Download it as an ordinary audio file so it plays off any phone or speaker, and cue it as the cake comes out. You also get a gift link that opens with their name on it, and a short video of the best bit for the family group.

It is one of the best cases for it, though the audience is really the adults in the room and the child at six years old watching the video back. We keep the arrangement plain enough to survive being played on a phone speaker for the next three years, and the name gets sung clearly rather than cleverly.

On Fully Custom and Pro Studio the lyrics come to you before anything is recorded, and you can rewrite any line yourself or describe the change and let us do it. After the song exists, one free regeneration comes with Fully Custom and two with Pro Studio.

Four things: the child's name, their age, two or three things they love right now, and the language the family speaks at home. Pick a voice from the samples on this page, hear a real birthday song sung in it before you pay, and the finished track is back in minutes. You do not write a line of the lyrics yourself.

Yes. Say it is for the room rather than for one pair of headphones, and we write it louder and simpler, with a chorus the other children can shout back. The name still goes in the chorus, because that is the part the birthday child is listening for.

A song lands hardest in the language someone thinks in, so pick theirs rather than yours. You can create in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu, Konkani, Maithili, Sanskrit and Nepali, along with English, Spanish, French and more, over 40 languages in all. You can also let two languages share one song the way most families actually speak. Type the name in its own script, राम or ராம், and the singer pronounces it the way home does.