Comparison

Lifecards vs Trip Postcards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Trip Postcards

Features
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Come home from a trip. Mail arrives. Trip Postcards turns your trip photos into painted postcards — and everything happens on your iPhone. No account. No upload. No cloud. Your photos never leave your hands. A bundle is waiting Point the app at a window of time — recent trips, a date range, or photos you hand-pick. On-device intelligence finds your trips, chooses the keepers (sharp shots, real smiles, the money shot at the landmark), and skips the near-duplicates. Painted on the phone An AI art model that runs entirely on your iPhone paints a travel-poster world for every card — six moods, from vintage poster to golden hour to watercolor. After a one-time download, it works completely offline, in seconds. Written from the moment Flip a card and the back carries a note grounded in what actually happened — the place, the day of the trip, what's really in the photo. Edit it, or let the on-device writer take a pass. The whole trip on one card Collages that think: spreads, mosaics, one collage per city — with smart rotation so every photo gets its turn, and painted backdrops when you want them. Forward Share the front, the front with its note, a flip animation, or straight to Instagram Stories. Private by architecture, not by promise There is no server that ever sees a photo. No account, no analytics, no ads. The privacy policy is short because there's nothing to disclose. The AI features — painting your postcards and Write with AI — work best on iPhone 15 Pro and newer. On earlier iPhones, you can still turn your trips into real-photo postcards and collages; the AI painting and AI writing simply stay off.

Screenshots

Lifecards4 screens
Trip Postcards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trip Postcards at Free against Lifecards's $1.99. Lifecards's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Trip Postcards is free to download; Lifecards costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lifecards versus Trip Postcards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifecardsTrip Postcards
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB29 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperVivid AppsXperience Labs

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

Trip Postcards

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Lifecards

No in-app purchases

None

Trip Postcards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lifecards free?
Lifecards costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trip Postcards free?
Trip Postcards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lifecards or Trip Postcards have ads?
Neither Lifecards nor Trip Postcards shows ads.

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