Comparison

Lifecards vs TriMeshImager

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

TriMeshImager

Transform your photos into unique digital art using triangular mesh generation. Choose from various patterns, shapes, and color schemes to create intricate designs, from simple meshes to complex floral and dot patterns. It can also be used to decorate existing photos.

Highlights
  • Generates triangular mesh from photos
  • Converts images to vector drawings
  • Multiple mesh types: Grid, Circles, Painting, Stained Glass, Contour
  • Customizable patch and node shapes
  • Coloring based on image intensity or user specification
  • Wave deformation for edges
  • Use as a photo decorator
Features
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TriMeshImager generates a triangular mesh from a photo, and converts it to a vector image (drawing art). You can easily experience a digital art that converts to triangle, flower or heart pattern from photo. As mesh converter, one of the five types - "Grid", "Concentric Circles", "Painting", "Stained Glass", or "Contour" can be selected. The patches(triangles) and nodes(vertexes of triangle) of triangular mesh are drawn with color decided by user specified method. Voronoi diagram (polygon with vertices at circumcenter of triangle) can be displayed. You can get geometric pattern like turtle's shell. As patch shape, there are triangle, petal, heart, clover and gear. As node shape, circle, diamond, heart, gear and text can be selected. The color of inside and edge of patch or node, is decided with specified color, image color, or gradation derived from image intensity. Moreover, from Ver.3.2, edges of triangle or Voronoi cell can be deformed like wave shape. From these combination, you can get not only simple triangular mesh but also more complex flower pattern or dot pattern. Because the original image can be specified as a background image, this app can be also used as a photo decorator.

Screenshots

Lifecards4 screens
TriMeshImager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lifecards at none against TriMeshImager's 5. Lifecards also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (81% vs 56%). TriMeshImager's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lifecards costs $1.99 and TriMeshImager $1.99 up front. TriMeshImager sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Lifecards asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lifecards holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Lifecards's written reviews are positive against 56% of TriMeshImager's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lifecards ships an update every 7 months, TriMeshImager every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Lifecards versus TriMeshImager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifecardsTriMeshImager
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better3.4 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings48 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB46 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperVivid AppsNOBORU IMAI

Customer experience

Lifecards

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive81.1%
Neutral11.5%
Negative7.4%

TriMeshImager

All ratings8 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral22.2%
Negative22.2%

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

TriMeshImager

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Lifecards

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

TriMeshImager

One-time5
  • High Quality Bitmap Export$0.99
  • Patch Shape Option$0.99
  • Node Shape Option$0.99
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  • Maze Pattern Option$0.99
  • Vector Image Export$2.99

Questions

Is Lifecards free?
Lifecards costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TriMeshImager free?
TriMeshImager costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lifecards or TriMeshImager?
Lifecards is rated higher. Lifecards averages 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while TriMeshImager averages 3.4 from 8 ratings.
Do Lifecards or TriMeshImager have ads?
Neither Lifecards nor TriMeshImager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lifecards or TriMeshImager?
Lifecards ships an update every 7 months, and TriMeshImager every 6 weeks. Most recently, Lifecards was updated on October 16, 2026 and TriMeshImager on October 13, 2026.

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