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Getting started

Your first signature, from sign-up to sent.

  • Create your account

    Sign up with a code sent to your email, or with Google or Microsoft. The first month is free and no card is asked for.

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  • Choose a design

    Every design is drawn for one animation of your photo. Your details carry across when you switch, so try a few.

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  • How the free month works

    Everything is open for a month. After that, choose a monthly or yearly plan in Settings to keep editing; installed signatures keep working either way.

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Creating your signature

Designs, details, colours and the animation.

  • There is no Save button

    The builder saves as you go. If an image is still uploading it waits for it, and tells you if one failed rather than saving without it.

  • Change colours and fonts

    The Brand panel sets your palette for light and dark, and any field the design allows can take its own font, weight and size.

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  • Choose your social icons

    Pick up to five from ten networks. Once five are on, the rest are locked until you turn one off.

  • Add a banner

    Design one from your own words or upload a 320x80 image. It sits under your signature on every email.

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  • Make an animated profile picture

    The builder's last section turns your photo's animation into a 400x400 GIF you can download and use anywhere.

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Installing

Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and phones.

  • Install in Gmail

    Copy the signature on the Install page, then paste it into Gmail's Settings, Signature. Set it for new emails and replies.

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  • Install in Outlook

    New Outlook and the web: Settings, Accounts, Signatures. Classic Outlook: File, Options, Mail, Signatures.

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  • Change an existing Outlook signature

    Select it in the signature settings, replace its contents with your new copy, and save.

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  • On your phone

    Most phone mail apps store plain text only. Set the signature on your computer, or in Apple Mail on the iPhone, and mail sent from there carries it.

Troubleshooting

When something doesn't look right.

  • The animation doesn't play in Outlook

    Older Outlook for Windows, or Windows with animation effects off, shows the first frame only. That frame is your finished photo, so the signature still looks complete.

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  • The signature pasted as plain text

    In classic Outlook, paste with Keep Source Formatting (Ctrl+Shift+V). Paste into the signature editor, not into an email first.

  • My changes aren't showing

    A signature already pasted into your mail client keeps what it had. Copy it again from the Install page and paste it over the old one.

  • Images don't show for a recipient

    Their client may block images until they allow them. Your name, role and links are text, so they still read.

  • It looks wrong in dark mode

    Some clients invert colours. Preview dark mode in the builder, and use a logo with a solid background or a light outline.

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Analytics

Clicks, banner loads and what they mean.

  • What is counted

    Clicks on your signature's links and banner, approximate banner loads, and the country and device a click came from, as daily counts. Opens are never tracked.

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  • Why banner loads are approximate

    Apple Mail fetches every image in advance and Gmail keeps copies, so a load is not one person reading.

Banners and campaigns

Scheduling what sits under your name.

  • How campaigns work

    With campaigns on, your signature carries one slot filled when an email is opened, so a scheduled banner appears without a new copy.

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  • When two campaigns overlap

    The higher priority shows; on a tie, the one that started later.

  • Between campaigns

    The slot shows your own banner from the builder, or nothing, rather than a gap.

Teams

Signatures for more than one person.

  • Can I manage my team's signatures?

    Not yet. Each person makes their own signature. For a consistent look, agree one design, palette and set of networks.

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Account and billing

Plans, payments, sign-in and deleting your account.

  • Plans and prices

    One plan, monthly or yearly, priced in your currency with tax included.

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  • Subscribe, change card or cancel

    Settings, Billing. Cards, invoices and cancelling are handled in Stripe's secure portal. Cancelling keeps everything working until the paid period ends.

  • Sign-in options

    A code to your email, a password (added after your first code sign-in), Google or Microsoft. Forgot your password? Sign in with a code.

  • Delete your account

    Settings, My account. It cancels any subscription, then deletes your images, data and login, and signs you out everywhere.

  • Security and privacy

    How your account is protected and how to report a problem.

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Most asked

Common questions

What is an animated email signature?

It is an ordinary email signature whose photo, logo or call to action moves. The motion is a small animated image sitting inside the same table markup every signature uses, so it plays in the recipient's inbox with nothing to install at their end.

Do animated email signatures work in Outlook?

Yes. Current Outlook for Microsoft 365 plays animated images. Older versions of Outlook on Windows, and any Windows machine with animation effects switched off, show only the first frame, so every animation is built with the finished picture as frame 0. Either way Outlook shows a complete signature rather than a blank one.

Which email clients and devices are supported?

Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail on the desktop and on the phone, and anything else you can paste formatted text into, including most CRMs. A signature is nested tables with inline styles, the markup email clients have agreed on for twenty years, so it survives being forwarded and pasted around.

Do you track when someone opens my email?

No. Opens are never tracked and no pixel is ever added to your signature. Clicks on your signature's links are counted while link tracking is on, because a recipient chose to follow them, and you can switch that off on your dashboard at any time.

Will an animated signature get my email marked as spam?

An animated image is not a spam signal on its own, though nobody can promise where an email lands: spam filters judge the whole message and the reputation of the domain that sends it. What the signature adds is ordinary table markup and small hosted images, with no scripts, no web fonts and no tracking pixel. Every link is checked before it is sent, and what you type goes out as text.

How large is an animated email signature?

About a quarter of a megabyte of images for a design with an animated photo, a logo and five social icons, plus a few kilobytes of markup. There is nothing else to load: no frameworks, no fonts, no scripts.

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