Amazon / Health & Fitness / HAPPY BIRTHDAY
REVIEW
Happy Birthday charges $9.99 for a greeting card.
A paid Fire app from Relaxingapps that files itself under Health & Fitness, asks ten dollars for what every web browser delivers for free, and trusts that someone, somewhere, will tap install in a panic.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Happy Birthday
RELAXINGAPPS
OUR SCORE
5.7
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
$9.99
The Amazon Appstore has a long tail that the iPhone App Store quietly weeded out a decade ago — single-screen novelty apps charging real-money prices for what a Google search would answer in three seconds. Happy Birthday, from Relaxingapps, is a tidy example. Nine dollars and ninety-nine cents for a card, a song, and an animated cake.
It is filed under Health & Fitness, which is either a wry joke about the heart-warming properties of celebration or, more likely, a category drop-down somebody clicked by mistake during submission. There is no description on the listing. There are three screenshots. There is one five-star rating, presumably from someone with a personal interest in the rating.
None of this makes the app dishonest — the screenshots show exactly what you get — but it does make the ten-dollar price tag the loudest thing in the listing, which is rarely where a developer wants the loudest thing to be.
Ten dollars is a card-shop price for what is, in practice, a card-shop product without the card.
FEATURES
The pitch is in the name. Happy Birthday is a single-purpose greeting app: open it, pick a card or animation, play a song, hand the tablet to the birthday person. Three screenshots in the listing show a static greeting screen, a candle-and-cake illustration, and what looks like a song-playback view. There is no description text in the store listing — buyers are flying on the icon and three thumbnails alone.
Relaxingapps has a back-catalogue of similar novelty titles across Amazon's Appstore, all built around a single occasion or mood. Happy Birthday slots into that pattern. The category label — Health & Fitness — is a clerical accident rather than a feature claim. There is no tracker, no breathing exercise, no log. There is a card, a tune, and a price.
At $9.99 it is one of the more expensive single-screen novelty apps on the Fire tablet store. No in-app purchases, no ads, no subscription — one charge, one card.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The premise is honest. The icon and screenshots tell you exactly what you are buying, and the app does not pretend to be more than a tap-and-celebrate greeting. For a grandparent handing a Fire tablet across the dinner table, the no-ads, no-tracking, no-account flow is genuinely useful — open the app, see the cake, hear the song, done.
The lack of in-app purchases is worth a small mark of respect in a category notorious for $0.99 download fees followed by $4.99 unlocks.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Every other part of this is hard to defend. Ten dollars is a card-shop price for what is, in practice, a card-shop product without the card. A free YouTube search returns a hundred versions of the same song with better animation. A free image search returns a thousand birthday cards you can text in two seconds. The Fire tablet ships with a web browser that does both at no charge.
The Health & Fitness category placement is misleading enough to be a problem on its own — anyone browsing fitness apps for actual fitness apps will see this listed alongside step trackers and breathing tools. Amazon's review system shows a single rating, which on the Appstore typically means "the developer or one friend rated it" rather than a signal of real-world quality.
CONCLUSION
Happy Birthday is the kind of app that exists because the Amazon Appstore lets it exist. It is not malicious, it is not broken, it is simply a $9.99 charge for something the open web gives away. Tap install only if you genuinely cannot find a free birthday song online and have ten dollars you do not want back. For everyone else, the browser tab is the better app.