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Thank you. You arrived here meaning to help, and that is the only reason any of this exists. A monthly membership is the best way to support KEEP CALM, because money that arrives every month is what keeps a free library free. As a thank you, we send you songs back each month, and you get to invent games that everybody else then plays for nothing, and your member discount is waiting in the shop. Posters stay free for everybody, on every plan, always. Every game at KeepCalm.org is free to play too, unlimited, with no signup.

View all plans Start with one month free

The free month is offered on Supporter, the $15 size, so pick that one and the button appears. Would you rather give once instead of monthly? Tick the one-time gift box beside the switch below, or .

How often would you like to give?

Annual is twelve months of membership for the price of ten, on every size. Your songs still arrive every single month.Monthly, and you can change it or stop it whenever you like.

This renews automatically. A monthly plan charges the monthly amount shown here every month on your billing date. An annual plan charges the full yearly amount shown here every year on your billing date. Either one continues at that price until you cancel. You can cancel any time in Account at KeepCalm.org, or by replying to any KEEP CALM email, and you get an email before every renewal.

Supporter

Fifteen dollars. Ten songs and ten games, at $1.50 a song. The size most people start at.

$150
per year, billed yearlyper month, billed monthly
Two months free. You save $30 a year, and that works out to $12.50 a month.Switch to annual and two of the twelve months are free.

Yours each month

  • 10 songs a month, written to your words
  • 10 games a month, built from your description
  • 40 messages a month with a Calm Coach
  • Unlimited posters, print quality 2400 by 3200
  • Free, unlimited play on every game in the library
  • 10% off in the shop, once you are signed in
  • Your allowances reset on your billing date each month, annual included

Pays for your songs and games and carries at least 3 people who cannot pay.

Benefactor

Two hundred fifty dollars. Up to two hundred songs and two hundred games. The size that underwrites.

$2,500
per year, billed yearlyper month, billed monthly
Two months free. You save $500 a year, and that works out to $208.33 a month.Switch to annual and two of the twelve months are free.

Yours each month

  • 200 songs a month, written to your words
  • 200 games a month, built from your description
  • 600 messages a month with a Calm Coach
  • Unlimited posters, print quality 2400 by 3200
  • Free, unlimited play on every game in the library
  • 35% off in the shop, the deepest we go
  • Your allowances reset on your billing date each month, annual included

Carries at least 51 people on the free tier. A whole school.

On every plan, and on Free as well

Two more sizes sit between these three: Advocate at $25 a month, 17 songs, 17 games and 15% off in the shop, or $250 a year, and Patron at $100 a month, 75 songs, 75 games and 25% off in the shop, or $1,000 a year. Or, if a single gift is what you meant all along, instead.

Never seen one? Here they are

A real poster and a real song, right here on the page.

These are the same live cards the rest of KeepCalm.org renders. Click the poster to turn it over. The large button plays a whole song that KEEP CALM wrote and made with Suno, and nothing plays until you press it. The posters are free forever, on every plan. The songs are the thank you we send for supporting the work.

A song, about three minutes. Ten a month at Supporter.

A poster. Free, unlimited, always.

Paid for by members, free for everybody

What a month of membership holds open.

That is the shape of it. Your monthly support is what keeps all of that open to the person who cannot pay a cent, in every one of those languages, on the same day it is open to you.

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The whole pricing story, one rung at a time

Every rung up is a better price per song.

The volume climbs the whole way up, and so does the value. Every rung gives you more songs and more games than the one below it, and the price per song improves at every single step: $1.50 at Supporter, about $1.47 at Advocate, about $1.39 at Champion, about $1.33 at Patron and $1.25 at Benefactor. The biggest size is the best rate, so climbing always pays. It is a gentle slide rather than a cliff, 25 cents across the whole ladder, and the bigger sizes also carry a much larger Calm Coach allowance. Games run on the same numbers as songs, rung for rung. Nothing about the songs themselves changes on the way up: each one runs about three minutes and is written to your words.

  1. Supporter $15 a month 10 songs and 10 games a month. This is the rate the others are measured against. $1.50a song
  2. Advocate $25 a month 17 songs and 17 games a month, and 3 cents better a song than Supporter. $1.47a song, about
  3. Champion $50 a month 36 songs and 36 games a month, and 11 cents better a song than Supporter. Our pick. $1.39a song, about
  4. Patron $100 a month 75 songs and 75 games a month, and 17 cents better a song than Supporter. $1.33a song, about
  5. Benefactor $250 a month Up to 200 songs and 200 games a month, and 25 cents better a song than Supporter. The best price per song on the page. $1.25a song

The bar is the monthly song allowance, drawn against 200 as the full width, and the game allowance is the same number. $1.47, $1.39 and $1.33 are rounded to the cent, because $25 across 17 songs, $50 across 36 and $100 across 75 do not divide evenly. Only $1.50 and $1.25 are exact. Those counts are monthly ceilings rather than a queue held open for you, so read the top of the ladder as headroom rather than as a quota to finish. Your allowances reset on your billing date each month, on annual too, so it is never a yearly bucket to burn down.

The other half of what a membership makes

Everybody plays. Members invent.

There are 103 games at KeepCalm.org, and every one of them is free to play. Unlimited, no signup, no ads, no plan. That is true on Free, and it is true for a stranger who never signs in at all. Playing is not something anybody buys here.

Making a new one is what a plan buys. You describe the game you want in your own words, KEEP CALM builds it, it is translated into all 36 languages, and once a person has read it through, it joins the public library for everybody else to play for nothing. Your game allowance is the same number as your songs, on every size, and the two are counted separately, so inventing a game never costs you a song.

Every game you invent stays in the library after you make it, and stays free for everybody who finds it. That is the part members tell us they like best: a stranger in another language playing the thing you thought up on a Tuesday.

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The fourth thing that comes back

Your member discount is waiting in the shop.

Sign in and the shop applies your member price automatically. The discount belongs to your account rather than to a browser, so it is there on whichever device you shop from, and it climbs the same ladder the songs and the games climb: 5% for simply having an account, up to 35% at Benefactor. A one-time gift earns it too, for 30 days, at the same percentage as the size the amount matches. It comes off the items you buy rather than the shipping, and it does not stack on top of a sale price.

The shop is how a poster gets off the screen and onto a wall, a shirt or a mug. Making and downloading posters stays free and unlimited on every plan, exactly as it always has been. This is only about the printed thing that arrives in a box.

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Included on every plan, Free as well

Seventy Calm Coaches, each good at one thing.

They cover anger, anxiety, breathing, burnout, confidence, fitness, focus, grief, loneliness, meditation, relationships, sleep, stress and yoga. Every one of them stays on the single subject they know. Calm Coach chat is included on every plan, with a monthly message allowance set by your size.

Calm Coach live video is by invitation, and it is not open yet. Chat is what works, and it works on every plan today. The button below is deliberately unavailable, because it would be dishonest to make it look ready.

Meet all seventy Calm Coaches
A portrait of a woman at a kitchen table, smiling at her laptop mid conversation
Why monthly, and not only once

A free thing stays free only if somebody keeps paying for it.

Steady support is what keeps the whole library free. That is why the songs and the games are a thank-you rather than a product: you are backing the work, and the music and the games are what come back.

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Compare in full

Everything, side by side.

Free, Supporter, Champion and Benefactor compared
Plan Free$0 Supporter$15 a month Champion$50 a month Benefactor$250 a month
What arrives each month
Songs you can make 1 song10 songs36 songs200 songs
Games you can make 1 game10 games36 games200 games
Posters UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Calm Coach chat 10 messages40 messages150 messages600 messages
Playing games, free for everyone UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Shop discount, signed in 5% off items10% off items20% off items35% off items
Rate per song n/a$1.50 a song$1.39 a song, about$1.25 a song
Less per song than Supporter n/aThe baseline11 cents25 cents, the best we do
Allowance resets on your billing date Yes Yes Yes Yes
The library
Articles 400400400400
Languages 36363636
Games in the library, free to play 103 103 103 103
Signup needed to play a game NoneNoneNoneNone
Ads or paywall NoneNoneNoneNone
Everything open, never behind a form Yes Yes Yes Yes
Poster print quality 2400 by 32002400 by 32002400 by 32002400 by 3200
Calm Coaches
Coaches available All 70All 70All 70All 70
Specialties All 14All 14All 14All 14
Calm Coach live video By invitation, not open yet By invitation, not open yet By invitation, not open yet By invitation, not open yet
Billing
Monthly $0$15 a month$50 a month$250 a month
Annual, Ten months paid for twelve Free$150 a year$500 a year$2,500 a year
What the annual saves you n/a$30 a year$100 a year$500 a year
Renews until you cancel Nothing to renew Yes Yes Yes
Cancel any time, keep what you made Yes Yes Yes Yes

Advocate and Patron are not in this table to keep it readable. Advocate is $25 a month, 17 songs, 17 games, 70 messages, 15% off in the shop, or $250 a year. Patron is $100 a month, 75 songs, 75 games, 300 messages, 25% off in the shop, or $1,000 a year. Advocate works out at about $1.47 a song and Patron at about $1.33, so the rate improves at every step and the best on the page is Benefactor's $1.25. The full ladder, all five rungs, is drawn further up the page.

Questions people actually ask

Before you decide.

Is this a donation, or am I buying something?

Both things are true at once, and we would rather say so plainly. Your money supports a free library, which is the reason we exist. In return we send you something every month, which makes it a membership with benefits rather than a gift with nothing attached. If you want to give with nothing attached, that is a , and it is genuinely welcome. A gift unlocks the perks of the highest size at or below your amount for 30 days, and then it expires. It does not renew, so there is nothing to cancel. Under $15 it is a straight gift with no perks attached, and above $250 there are no extra perks, because Benefactor is the top size.

What does my money actually pay for?

Songs, games and coach conversations cost real money to make, so your own use is paid for first. What is left keeps 400 articles in 36 languages online with no ads and no paywall, keeps posters free and unlimited for everyone, keeps every game in the library free to play with no signup, and keeps Calm Coach chat open on the Free plan for people who cannot pay a cent.

Do I have to pay to play the games?

No. Playing is free for everybody, always. All 103 of them, unlimited, with no signup, no ads and no plan. What a plan buys is making a game: you describe the one you want in your own words, KEEP CALM builds it, it is translated into all 36 languages, and once a person has read it through it joins the public library for everybody else to play free. Your monthly game allowance is the same number as your songs, and the two are counted separately.

How does annual billing work?

You pay for ten months and you get twelve, so Supporter is $150 a year instead of $180, Champion is $500 instead of $600, and Benefactor is $2,500 instead of $3,000. Your song allowance still resets on your billing date each month. It is never a yearly bucket handed over at once and never a use-it-or-lose-it pile.

Does it renew, and can I cancel?

Yes, it renews automatically, and yes, you can cancel any time. Monthly renews each month on your billing date. Annual renews each year on your billing date, at the price you see on this page. We email you before every renewal. Cancel in Account at KeepCalm.org or by replying to any KEEP CALM email, and the songs and posters you already made stay yours.

Are posters really free?

Really free, unlimited, on every plan including Free, signed in or not. Any phrase, all 36 languages, print quality 2400 by 3200. Posters are never gated and never will be. They are the part of KEEP CALM that belongs to everybody.

How does the member discount in the shop work?

Sign in, and the shop shows you your member price. The discount is attached to your account rather than to a browser, so it travels with you. It is 5% for having an account, 10% at Supporter, 15% at Advocate, 20% at Champion, 25% at Patron and 35% at Benefactor. A earns the same percentage as the size it matches and holds it for 30 days. It comes off the items you buy, not the shipping, and it does not stack with a sale price.

What is a Calm Coach?

One of seventy, each one focused on a single subject. Between them they cover anger, anxiety, breathing, burnout, confidence, fitness, focus, grief, loneliness, meditation, relationships, sleep, stress and yoga. You chat, they answer, and they stay on their subject. Calm Coach live video is by invitation and is not open yet, so do not choose a plan expecting it.

Will anything arrive by phone?

No. KeepCalm.org has no SMS at all, so nothing reaches you by phone number. Everything comes by email or shows up in your account.

What if I can only give a little, or nothing at all?

Then use the Free plan and use it without any awkwardness. It is $0, it asks for no card, and it includes one song and one game a month, unlimited posters, unlimited play on every game in the library, and 10 Calm Coach chat messages. It exists because somebody else is paying, and that is exactly how it is supposed to work.

One more time, with feeling

KEEP CALM AND KEEP IT GOING.

Thank you for reading this far. A monthly membership is the best way to support KEEP CALM, it renews until you cancel, and every month we send songs back and hand you a stack of games to invent. If a single gift is what you meant, that door is open too.

Choose a tier

Every size renews until you cancel, you get an email before every renewal, and cancelling takes a couple of clicks in Account at KeepCalm.org.