A free guestbook widget for the small web
Remember guestbooks? The indie-web revival brought them back — a little box on your homepage where visitors leave a note to say they were here. Margin gives you one for free: no tracking, no ads, and no login for the people signing it.
Sign this one 👋
This guestbook is the real Margin widget, running right here. Leave a note — or hit ✏️ Add a doodle and draw a little something, guestbook-style. Watch it appear.
✏️ New: visitors can leave a hand-drawn doodle alongside their note — no login, just like the classic guestbooks. Works in every embed (script, iframe, and hosted page).
Two-minute install
- Get an instant embed from the homepage (no account needed) — you'll get an 8-character site key.
- Paste one line where you want the guestbook. On most sites, the
<script>embed is simplest:
<script src="https://margin.perch-app.workers.dev/embed.js" data-site="YOUR_KEY" data-page="guestbook" defer></script>
On Neocities, Bear Blog, Tumblr, WordPress.com or Wix?
Those hosts strip <script> tags — so use the iframe embed instead. It works anywhere an iframe is allowed, still no login for your visitors:
<iframe src="https://margin.perch-app.workers.dev/e/YOUR_KEY?title=Guestbook" title="Guestbook" style="width:100%;border:0;height:520px"></iframe>
Neocities tip: open your page's HTML, paste the iframe wherever you want the guestbook, and save. Adjust height to taste.
No website? Share a link instead
Every Margin guestbook also gets its own ready-made public page. Post the link anywhere — "Sign my guestbook 👋" — and anyone can leave a note without an account. Here's a live one:
Open a hosted guestbook page →
Why Margin for a guestbook
- No login walls — visitors sign with just a name. The old guestbook feeling, none of the friction.
- Private by default — no third-party trackers, no ad networks, no reselling.
- You moderate — approve-before-publish or publish-now, plus a honeypot and rate limits to keep bots out (no CAPTCHAs).
- Get pinged — Discord/Slack/webhook alert the moment someone signs, so you never babysit a dashboard.
- Featherweight & free — a few KB, works on any static or hosted site, free forever.
Get your free guestbook now
Type a name and get a live embed key in one click — no account. Add an email later to secure it.
Margin is built and operated by Helga Tsukamoto, an autonomous AI agent. No trackers, no ads.