# Lifecards - Postcards — Design your own Postcards

> Mobile app for designing and sharing custom photo postcards. (iPhone/iPad app by Vivid Apps.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifecards-postcards/id304401787 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vivid Apps](https://appshunter.io/developer/291793754)
- Category: Photo & Video, Travel
- Price: $1.99
- Rating: 3.80/5 from 4 App Store ratings · 122 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 104 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2009-02-16
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifecards-postcards/id304401787/reviews.md

## What is Lifecards?

With Lifecards you can use up to 7 of your photos to design your own imaginative postcard directly on your phone. Share with friends and family using Facebook and other social networks.

Freely zoom and pan to get the important details right while you edit. Insert, move, scale, and rotate photos from your photo-album or directly from you camera. Insert texts, balloons, and stickers to personalize your photos.

Features:

• Select from more than 350 templates
• Add up-to 7 photos on one card
• Add text and speech balloons
• Add stickers
• Sign with your finger
• Control scale, position, and rotation of photos
• Control alignment, color, size, and font of text
• Freely pan and zoom while creating card
• Apply filters to your photos
• Email or submit to Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr
• Automatically adapts to landscape and portrait mode
• Cards are automatically saved
• Advanced text settings (perspective and warp)
• Install fonts
• PDF, JPEG and PNG export
• Advanced blend modes for stickers and images

• "Snail mail" cards with Kite.ly

---- What the review sites say ----

"I was really impressed with the feature set and the attention to detail. If you are looking for a post card app, this is the one!" - Epic iPhone apps:

"The entire interface from creation to completion of the card is very well thought and implemented. Lifecards will certainly make your friends feel jealous of your iPhone/iPod touch." -Touch Reviews

## Key features

- Design postcards with up to 7 photos
- Insert text, balloons, and stickers
- Personalize with filters and blend modes
- Sign with your finger
- Export as PDF, JPEG, and PNG
- Share via social media or email
- Over 350 templates available

## What do users think of Lifecards?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Creative and fun
- 🚀 Fast creation and sending
- 🖼️ Great templates and designs
- ✉️ Excellent for e-cards
- 📸 Good for photo collages
- 💰 Worth the price
- ✨ Professional looking results
- 📱 Well integrated with iPhone
- 🛠️ Good update history
- 💬 Responsive developers

**Cons**

- 👴 Old-fashioned borders
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🖨️ Poor printing quality
- ❓ Some features unclear
- 🌐 Limited language support
- 🖼️ Limited border customization
- ↔️ Fixed background issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- Pictures not showing up
- Cannot resize postcards
- Text function is buggy
- Text size changes put spaces
- Left side of text cut off when printing
- Poor quality and blurry when printing
- Facebook posting issues
- Program shuts down when trying to put on Facebook
- Non-English text prints garbled
- Crashes with some font changes
- Crashes when changing fonts
- Text display terrible at any resolution
- Program crashed when looking at font options
- Interface with Facebook issues
- Non-functional since OS 3.0 update
- Pan/zoom button awkward

**Most requested features**

- New and modern borders
- Ability to add/use custom borders
- More card variety
- Option to move frames
- Option to move text
- More stickers
- More professional templates
- Ability to change backgrounds
- GPS location maps as option
- HDR support
- Option to choose number of photos per template
- More templates
- Ability to delete templates
- Create own layouts
- Choice of stamps
- Ability to design own templates
- Modify existing templates with backgrounds
- Cropping area for text
- More frames (pet type)
- Sell frame packs
- Free version with limited frames
- More card designs
- Ability to move around pictures
- Ability to move text
- More templates for children's section
- Option to print & mail
- More calendar templates
- Tap on date to enter text
- Add small cliparts
- Small photo on special dates
- Send small music file
- More professional templates
- Allow different fonts in same text box
- Creation of custom templates
- Email directly from app (hi-res)
- Make cards larger (hi-res)
- Ability to transfer e-card to actual postcard
- Add stamp with place and date
- More catagories
- More portrait orientation options
- Option to freely position and layer pasted images
- Stamps
- Send button to transfer card to email app
- Float text anywhere
- Background colors (with or in place of a photo)
- No photo templates
- More styles
- Indentation for text
- In-place text typing
- Larger template previews
- Separate text input for areas right/left of center-line
- Single-picture with postcard back options
- Text improvements
- More backgrounds/choices
- More catagories
- More portrait orientation options
- Option to freely position and layer pasted images
- Stamps
- Send button to transfer card to email app
- Float text anywhere
- Background colors (with or in place of a photo)
- No photo templates
- More styles
- Indentation for text
- In-place text typing
- Larger template previews
- Separate text input for areas right/left of center-line
- Single-picture with postcard back options
- Text improvements
- More backgrounds/choices
- More catagories
- More portrait orientation options
- Option to freely position and layer pasted images
- Stamps
- Send button to transfer card to email app
- Float text anywhere
- Background colors (with or in place of a photo)
- No photo templates
- More styles
- Indentation for text
- In-place text typing
- Larger template previews
- Separate text input for areas right/left of center-line
- Single-picture with postcard back options
- Text improvements
- More backgrounds/choices
- More catagories
- More portrait orientation options
- Option to freely position and layer pasted images
- Stamps
- Send button to transfer card to email app
- Float text anywhere
- Background colors (with or in place of a photo)
- No photo templates
- More styles
- Indentation for text
- In-place text typing
- Larger template previews
- Separate text input for areas right/left of center-line
- Single-picture with postcard back options
- Text improvements
- More backgrounds/choices

## Recent user reviews (10 of 122)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifecards-postcards/id304401787/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Love it!

*2022-10-13, version 1.22.1*

Use it daily.

### 5/5 — Still great after 10 years

*2022-01-28, version 1.19.1*

I love this app for quick posts and interesting photo messages.

Please update and keep supporting.  I’ve been using it since the first 16 gig iPhone. iPad didn’t exist yet!

What I’d like to see:
Some new and modern borders
The ability to add/use custom borders

That’s it, the only changes I’d like to see.

### 4/5 — Still a good app esp. newspaper page layout

*2020-02-10, version 1.19.1*

The apps designs for borders are a little old fashioned or silly. Things like the newspaper or other papers where you can send groups shots turn into something a little more creative. They have fixed some issue as far as sizing the fonts . Since there are so few Apps of just send an interesting ecard (I don’t want to mail hard copies most of the time). I left off one star for not really updating those borders. Strip designer is so cool this deserves coolness.

### 5/5 — Ich nutzte diese App seit vielen Jahren

*2019-11-19*

Tolle App, bin noch immer sehr zufrieden!

### 5/5 — Gute Postkartenapp

*2018-05-13*

Wir haben auf unseren Reisen schon viele schöne Karten gestaltet und verschickt. Kenne keine bessere Postkartenapp.

### 5/5 — Great Update

*2014-05-17, version 1.9.5*

I use this app to make trivia cards for my 8th grade History class and to Market for the High School Wrestling Team. The app is just perfect for any occasion. Great Update.

### 1/5 — Extrem kompliziert

*2013-10-14*

Unverständliche Bedienung.

### 4/5 — Fantastic app, well designed, easy to use, endless creativity!

*2013-09-10, version 1.8.2*

This is one of the best I use on my iPad to have fun with photos

### 5/5 — No more stamps to buy!

*2012-11-13, version 1.8.1*

Really liked this app when I got it. Thought of a couple of things that would make it even better and pleased to see the developers have now included them!

### 4/5 — Muito bom e profissional mas não está funcionando no IOS 6 no iPad.

*2012-09-23*

Depois que instalei o IOS 6 no iPad, o Lifecards parou de funcionar. Espero uma solução do desenvolvedores, pois o programa era muito bom, profissional, servindo de base para a divulgação de meus trabalhos.

## Frequently asked questions about Lifecards

### What can I do with Lifecards?

Lifecards allows you to design your own imaginative postcards directly on your phone. You can use up to seven of your photos, add text, speech balloons, and stickers to personalize your creations. The app also offers features like applying filters, signing with your finger, and advanced text settings.

### How can I share my created postcards?

Once you've designed your postcard, you can easily share it with friends and family. The app allows you to submit your creations directly to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, or send them via email.

### What are the export options for my postcards?

Lifecards provides flexible export options for your finished postcards. You can export your designs as PDF, JPEG, and PNG files. This allows you to save them for personal use, print them, or use them in other digital projects.

### Is Lifecards free to use?

Yes, Lifecards is a free application. Based on the provided information, there are no indications of in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a completely free user experience.

### What kind of customization options are available for text?

The app offers extensive control over text elements. You can adjust alignment, color, size, and font. Additionally, advanced text settings include perspective and warp effects, allowing for highly customized text designs on your postcards.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.26.1 — 2026-01-05

• Updated for iOS26

### 1.25.1 — 2025-02-11

• Minor UI adjustments
• Fixed some crash issues

### 1.24.1 — 2024-11-27

• Shapes
• Additional drawing tools and auto-mask
• Radial and custom gradient options
• Minor fixes

### 1.22.1 — 2022-04-30

• Fixes for newer version of iOS and devices

### 1.19.1 — 2019-02-12

• Fixes for newer iOS devices and latest iOS

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