Lifecards vs Postcard Creator
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
Postcard Creator
Easily create personalized digital postcards using your photos. Automatically customize layouts, captions, and fonts to share with friends via email or social media. Offers a beautiful, traditional aesthetic without kitschy additions.
- Automatic photo analysis for layout customization
- Location-based caption suggestions
- Choice of 6 filters for a vintage look
- Multiple font styles including traditional and minimal
- Black & White and Vintage Color options
- Share via email, Facebook, Weibo, Twitter, or print
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Postcard Creator is cheaper than a paper postcard, and arguably more fun and personal. Simply take a photo, quickly swipe through captions and frames, then share it with your friends as a personalized postcard. Postcard Creator even uses your current location and analyses your photo to customize the layout automatically. That means less time fiddling with your phone, and more time enjoying the scenery. You can also change the text, font, and layout. However, there are no kitschy stickers, glitter and starbursts here: just beautiful, traditional-looking postcards you'll be proud to send to anybody. Features - Automatically chooses the correct text size and colors for your photo - Automatically detects your current city and uses it in the caption - Choose from 6 different filters to make your postcards look like they really have traveled around the world by post - Use your iPhone's camera or photo reel to choose a picture - Choose from 3 fonts: "Cheesy" traditional, "RetroTyper" minimal, or "Meme" style - Set different color qualities: Black & White and Vintage Color for an authentic look - Quickly try out preset captions, or write your own - German captions for your German-speaking friends! - Share your masterpieces via email, Facebook, Weibo, or Twitter. You can even print out your postcards yourself and post them the old-fashioned way - helpful and fast support from the developer If you have a suggestion for new filters, features or have some feedback or problems, please contact support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Postcard Creator at Free against Lifecards's $1.99. Postcard Creator also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Lifecards's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume 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
Postcard Creator is free to download; Lifecards costs $1.99 up front. Postcard Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lifecards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lifecards holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Lifecards's written reviews are positive against 50% of Postcard Creator's.
Lifecards ships an update every 7 months, Postcard Creator every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifecards | Postcard Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vivid Apps | James Hudson |
Customer experience
Lifecards
Postcard Creator
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
Postcard Creator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lifecards
No in-app purchases
Postcard Creator
- Color Style Setting Add-on$0.99









