Lifecards vs Strobe
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
Strobe
Transform videos into dynamic action sequence photos with AI-powered frame selection and subject isolation. Create professional-looking composites of movement in one tap, with options for overlaying multiple poses or displaying frames side-by-side.
- Video to action sequence photo conversion
- AI-powered frame selection
- Subject isolation and compositing
- Overlay and sequence modes
- Manual frame control
- Professional output effects
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Strobe turns your videos into action sequence photos — automatically. Pick a video. Strobe extracts key frames, isolates the subject, and composites them into a single image. What used to take 30 minutes in Photoshop now takes one tap. ◆ OVERLAY MODE Moving actions (skateboarding, running, cycling) — multiple poses on one background. ◆ SEQUENCE MODE Stationary actions (golf swing, dance, batting) — side-by-side frame grid. ◆ SMART FRAME SELECTION AI-powered pose detection picks the most dynamic moments automatically. ◆ MANUAL CONTROL Timeline scrubber + frame gallery for precise selection. ◆ CLEAN RESULTS Edge feathering, overlap removal, and opacity gradients for professional output. — FREE — • Overlay & Sequence modes • Uniform & Smart frame selection • Up to 4 frames • Save with Strobe watermark — STROBE PRO ($3.99, one-time) — • Up to 12 frames • Manual frame selection • Crop • Subject position & size editing • No watermark Perfect for: • Skateboarders, surfers, BMX riders, parkour athletes • Golf coaches analyzing swing form • Sports coaches comparing athlete technique • Content creators & photographers • Anyone who loves motion photography
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Strobe at Free against Lifecards's $1.99. Strobe also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Lifecards's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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
Strobe is free to download; Lifecards costs $1.99 up front. Strobe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lifecards asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lifecards ships an update every 7 months, Strobe weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifecards | Strobe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vivid Apps | Jong Hyeck Choe |
Customer experience
Lifecards
Strobe
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
Strobe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lifecards
No in-app purchases
Strobe
- Strobe Pro$3.99









