Lifecards vs Comic Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifecards
Create personalized postcards using your own photos and text. Design imaginative cards with various templates, stickers, and editing tools. Share your creations instantly via social media or export them for printing.
- 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
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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
Comic Life
Create comic books and graphic novels from your photos. Add speech balloons, captions, and sound effects to tell your stories. This version is for volume purchase program customers and will not receive further feature enhancements.
- Create comic books
- Add speech balloons
- Add captions
- Add sound effects
- Use photos
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*** If you've already purchased Comic Life you can now upgrade at a discount *** *** by purchasing the Comic Life 3 Upgrade Bundle. You will receive credit for *** *** your Comic Life purchase. *** * Please note: Due to an App Store limitation, App Store Bundles do not work with the Volume Purchase Program for Education. * This version is being provided for volume purchase program customers in order to fulfill their outstanding orders. No further feature enhancements are planned for this version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Comic Life at every 6 weeks against Lifecards's every 7 months. Comic Life also leads on ratings volume (46 vs 4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Lifecards's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 61%) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Lifecards costs $1.99 and Comic Life $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lifecards holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comic Life has 46 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Lifecards's written reviews are positive against 61% of Comic Life's.
Lifecards ships an update every 7 months, Comic Life every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifecards | Comic Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | 3.6 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.1% of reviews — better | 60.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vivid Apps | plasq LLC |
Customer experience
Lifecards
Comic Life
User reviews
Lifecards
From 4 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Creative and fun
- 🚀 Fast creation and sending
- 🖼️ Great templates and designs
- ✉️ Excellent for e-cards
Room to improve
- 👴 Old-fashioned borders
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🖨️ Poor printing quality
- ❓ Some features unclear
- 🌐 Limited language support
Comic Life
From 46 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Powerful features
- 💡 Great for creating comics
- ❤️ Fun and creative
- 🎨 Lots of customization options
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔍 Unintuitive user interface
- 💰 Overpriced for the functionality
- 🔌 Unreliable autosave
- 🤯 Loses work/projects
Bugs and requests
Lifecards
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes frequently
- Pictures not showing up
- Cannot resize postcards
- Text function is buggy
- Text size changes put spaces
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- 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
Requested features
102 requests- New and modern borders
- Ability to add/use custom borders
- More card variety
- Option to move frames
- Option to move text
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- 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
Comic Life
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on opening/editing
- Text/image manipulation issues
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
- Unreliable saving and loading of projects
Requested features
5 requests- More templates and layouts
- Ability to import/export to desktop version
- Higher resolution export options
- Customizable fonts and text formatting
- Improved alignment and snapping tools
In-app purchases
Lifecards
No in-app purchases
Comic Life
No in-app purchases
