Card Buddy Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.9% of reviews
Neutral3.6% of reviews
Negative experience12.5% of reviews

~ Based on 56 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Card Buddy

Is Card Buddy Safe?

Card Buddy - Index Cards appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Card Buddy is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 38 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

80.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 36 App Store ratings for Card Buddy.

Is Card Buddy Legit?

Card Buddy - Index Cards appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Card Buddy is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Pro license required to save changes

So you don’t even get to try it for a week or month or whatever to see if it fits your work flow, unless you’re willing to re-input everything everyday.

No Subscription

I will forever love this app, a one-time £20 payment that takes away the harsh commitment of a subscription.

Excellent, Neat & Simple (Perfect for ASD folks)

Love it. It’s so neat and refined and easy to use and I have been looking for something like this to help me organise my writing.

As an autistic person, I struggle a lot with technology and the internet as it is, so, finding such a simple app as this is a blessing. Thank you.

I’d love to be able to see a time-lining aspect added to this or… the storyboarding app you seem to have abandoned but are hopefully still working on.

Great work and well done.
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Exactly What I Needed for a Digital Holiday Index Card Writing Reference System!

I have been trying to create a digital reference system based on the Holiday index card system and there really are not a lot of apps out there designed for that purpose. This works perfectly and the files are localized on my own workstation instead of a cloud based web app I would love to be able to tag individual cards but other than that this is exactly what I needed.
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For Writing - My Go-to

For fiction writing, this has become my go-to, and I’ve tried a bunch of others (Scapple, Scrivener, Final Draft 12, etc).

Needs Apple Pencil support.

It’s not as useful to me for storyboarding without it. I don’t understand why this is so difficult to add. Going back to Cardflow+ for now until Apple Pencil is supported.

Kudos to the creators of this fantastic App!

I've been looking for a simple card app like this for a long time. It's great for plotting a novel and way easier to use then Plottr. Exporting the cards to Mardown or printing them is simple. I highly recommend it to writers.

Great App!

Card Buddy holds all of the stories that I am currently writing for later publication. I have come to heavily rely on Card Buddy for this purpose and honestly, I can’t see myself using any other MacBook app for this particular purpose. Needless to say, it’s a rather simple app. However, it’s also completely perfect for my specific needs.
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Good buddy

I especially like that I can add images to the cards. It’s simple and easy to use - exactly what I need. Perfect for plot and structure.

Simple & Robust

A unique and well-thought-out app.

The beauty in its design leads you to create without any added friction - there is enough control as well as flexibility, so that you are not spending your time with administrative busy-work. You can simply layout your storylines or information as you see fit, and efficiently adjust those items as required.

As soon as I discovered how well this app was put together, I searched Allen's other apps in hopes of finding something that I could use.

Brilliant software Allen!
Thanks
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Love it!

This is exactly what I have been looking for. So simple to use for structuring my screenwriting. I have also started using it for mood boards and social content releases and such. Highly recommend for the price!

Nice

Very nice, very simple. But there is still room for further development without losing it’s valued simplicity!

Simplicity RULES!

I am writing a story and have looked at numerous apps that claim to help with the organization of character development, story outline, plot development, notes, etc. As a privacy advocate I am appalled at how many apps require you to provide the developer with royalty-free rights to not only YOUR content within their app but beyond it so they can sell it and repurpose it as you wish. (I am one of “those” people who read EULAs.). Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that they’re feeding YOUR ideas into AI to generate stories that somehow are remarkably similar to your own. No thanks.

Card Buddy is a breath of fresh air, for many reasons. 1. It is not the privacy nightmare that others are. 2. Its simplicity is phenomenal. While it has a few bells and whistles, the simplicity keeps me on track. In very little time I was able to create and organize cards for all my story elements, bringing my project to life. 3. Card Buddy can be used for SO MANY different tasks/projects!! I’m a retired IT business analyst, and I can see this working very eloquently as a fantastic way to keep track of epics, features, and user stories. In the non-work realm Card Buddy could be used to manage so many personal projects - building a family photo archive, renovating a room in the house, keeping track of contractor quotes, house maintenance, financial planning, managing a home business, etc.

It took me only 30 minutes of use after I downloaded the free version to upgrade to the paid version. SO worth it!
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Good for screenwriting

Very good simple app for screenwriting structure. Could do with a few more keyboard shortcuts, but just what I needed and no unnecessary stuff.

Trial mode — just, you can’t save

So this is a program to allow you to capture an organize ideas, plans, projects. Stuff you want to capture and not lose. Trial mode could reasonably two weeks so you get to see it works for you and if not, lets you export to text file and turns off.

Really good and committed to getting better

This is a really solid app, that works across Apple platforms, follows Apple conventions, does most things really well. Do I want more? Yes. But the developer wisely focused on the fundamentals first and has a roadmap of features to add. For $20, well worth it. Support this developer. He knows what he's doing.
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Immediately Super Useful

Within minutes of first use it was helping me conceptualize more clearly. I didn't hesitate to purchase.

One feature I would love that it doesn't have yet would be support for multiple canvases within a single document.

so much potential

I have been going crazy looking for a way to organize ideas in a grid for a looooong time.
I would like to see more customized options for text formatting, fonts, and colors!

Perfect in it's simplicity

I really love this app. The simplicity is what drew me to it. A lot of other apps have way too many features and they end up making me feel overwhelmed.

I also found the pricing fair at $20. That’s about what a cork board and a couple packs of post it notes would have cost. And the app has the added benifit of taking up no real space.
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import export thanks!

Ive been wishing for this feature and its here. Absolutely loved this app but that was a big flaw for me. But its here, very very cool.