Ideas into action.
Your thoughts are everywhere and nothing gets built. Lay them out, move them, connect them — then make it.
Start 7 days free from €4 a month after · cancel in one click · export your cards anytime
Did you see the scenes of a film but never the script?
Did you have every piece of the essay and no first line?
Did you want to build the app and could not say what it was for?
You got stuck. Not for lack of ideas — for lack of a way to see them. A page, a doc, a notes app hide that ideas are changeable: movable, deletable, connectable, pushable out of the way.
Writers have fixed this the same way for seventy years: index cards, a flat surface, and their hands.
“I strewed the cards face up on the plywood… I didn’t stare at those cards for two weeks, but I kept an eye on them all afternoon. Finally, I found myself looking back and forth between two cards.”
This is the table.
Your first deck, on the real thing. Every card here is one you can pick up, write over, tilt, join to another, or throw away. The button opens the whole table — no account, nothing to fill in, and nothing to lose.
Made for the card method.
Nabokov wrote Lolita on index cards. McPhee laid his out on plywood. Breaking Bad was built on corkboards. Rodriguez lays his out to see the story. The method needs three things: cards you can make, a surface big enough, and nobody asking you to organise before you have thought.
“…creative spirit… doesn’t have hands. It’s waiting for you to get off your ass, and pick up the pen.”
Feels like hands
Drag, tilt, resize, connect. Chunky targets, no dialogs, and undo instead of “are you sure”.
Cards first, structure later
No template, no wizard, no name-first. Connect when you want to. Nabokov: “The pattern of the thing precedes the thing.”
Never less than paper
Export everything as plain JSON and PNG, any time. If you stop paying, your decks stay readable forever.
One product. Pick how you’d like to pay.
Monthly
€4 /month
Try it month by month.
7 days free · card required · cancel in one click · first charge in 7 days
Start 7 days freeWe email you 3 days before — the date, the amount, and a one-click cancel link.
Yearly
€39 /year
Two months free.
7 days free · card required · cancel in one click · first charge in 7 days
Start 7 days freeWe email you 3 days before — the date, the amount, and a one-click cancel link.
Lifetime
€99 once
= 2.5 years of yearly. Pay once, keep forever.
7 days free · card required · cancel in one click · first charge in 7 days
Start 7 days freeWe email you 3 days before — the date, the amount, and a one-click cancel link.
Prices include VAT. Every plan starts with the same free week; the card is charged on day 8 for the plan you chose. Not for you? Cancel in the week and you are never charged. Paid and changed your mind? 14 days, no questions. Refunds and withdrawal.
Lifetime means the lifetime of Cardigani: if it ever ends you get 90 days’ notice, export keeps working, and nobody is asked for money to retrieve their own decks.
The questions people ask first.
- What happens on day 8?
- The card you gave is charged for the plan you picked. Three days before, you get an email with the date, the amount and a one-click cancel link.
- Why do you need a card for a free week?
- So the week is a real trial of the real thing, and so day 8 is one click away for you rather than a second sign-up. Cancel in the week and nothing is charged.
- How do I cancel?
- From your account page, one click, no questions. Not harder than signing up.
- Are my cards mine?
- Yes. Export everything, any time, as plain JSON and PNG, without asking us. If you stop paying, your decks stay readable, forever.
- Does it work on my phone?
- Yes — it was built for fingers first. Any current browser, nothing to install.
- What does “lifetime” mean?
- The lifetime of the service, honestly stated: 90 days’ notice, export throughout, no ransom.
I’m Ivan. I made Cardigani because my own ideas came faster than my ability to put them in order. It’s one person and the customer. Write to me: support@cardigani.app.
— Ivan, Cardigani’s creator
Your thoughts are everywhere and nothing gets built. Lay them out, move them, connect them — then make it.