Your Group Chat Has Lore. Now It Has a Permanent Record.

Announcing The Chat Group Yearbook by Macguffin Co.

Somewhere in your phone is the most important room in your life. It has a stupid name. It has forty thousand unread messages, one member who has been "omw" since 2019, and the complete emotional history of everyone you love. It has legends. It has villains. It has a founding era that gets mythologized every time someone screenshots an old message.

What it doesn't have is a record.

That always struck us as a little tragic — every friend group is a tiny institution, and institutions deserve archives. School got a yearbook. Your job gets an org chart. The group chat, the room that actually raised you, gets nothing but a scroll wheel and the hope that nobody drops their phone in a lake.

So we made it a yearbook.

Introducing The Group Chat Yearbook

The Group Chat Yearbook is a fill-in keepsake built like the yearbooks you grew up signing — except this one is for the friends you'd take a bullet for and have also left on read. Inside: 130 superlatives to award ("Most Likely to Say 'I'm Omw' From Their Bed" — you already know who), photo mounts for the receipts, a Permanent Record for the quiet, sincere stuff, and signing pages for the last-day-of-school finale. It starts as a roast. It ends in tears. That's by design.

There's also a deck. The Group Chat Awards is the same energy as a party game: draw an award, read it aloud, everyone points on three, most fingers wins. One hundred fifty cards, three-plus players, and exactly one guaranteed argument per round.

But you can play right now — for free

The book is on its way. The companion is live today at groupchatyearbook.com and it's free:

The Award Card Maker. All 130 superlatives, searchable — or write your own. Type the winner, attach the documented evidence, pick a badge (Perennial Champion, First-Time Honor, or Held Since the Chat Was Founded), and get a finished award card in seconds. Built for sharing: 9:16 by default and crop-safe, so one file works as a Story, a Reel, or a post. There's a transparent sticker version to slap on your own photos, a 3-slide reveal for the drumroll, and a one-tap caption so you can tag your winner properly.

Here's the range — three cards, three of the built-in themes:

Tommy has been left on read so long it looped back around to an honor. Ava is the glue, and glue gets the rose treatment — the heart awards exist because the roast was always a love language. Elaina's card is in the notebook theme, which matches the book's cover, because a meme dealer of her caliber deserves to be written up officially.

The Photo Print Studio. Pick photos from your camera roll and get print sheets sized exactly to the book's photo mounts — roster portraits, snapshot squares, wallets. Print at home, cut on the dashed lines, tape your legends in.

The Awards, Live. The party game as a pass-the-phone app: countdown, point, tap the winner, crown a Group Chat MVP, save the results card. One phone is the whole game.

And there's an Award of the Week — every Monday, one award gets featured, synced to the actual calendar of friendship: move-in week, Galentine's, finals, grad season, the group trip. If you never know what to post, now you do.

The part we're weirdly proud of

Everything above runs entirely on your device. No app to install. No account to make. Nothing uploads. Your photos never touch a server; the names you type never leave the page. We built it that way partly because it's the Macguffin Co. house style — small, fast, private, drag-and-drop simple — and partly because a keepsake about your closest friendships should not come with a data policy you need a lawyer to read. The privacy line isn't fine print here. It's the product.

Your awards can become canon

One more thing, and it's our favorite mechanic: the official award bank is not finished, because your group chat knows things we don't. Make a custom award, post it, tag @groupchatyearbook — the funniest ones get added to the official deck in future printings, with credit. Your inside joke, canonized. Immortality was always going to come from the group chat; we're just making it official.

Go crown somebody: groupchatyearbook.com