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Get Carded: The Best Apps for Sending Paper Greetings

These pixels-to-paper apps will help you create and send personalized snail mail cards that are anything but fuddy-duddy.

By Kipp Jarecke-Cheng November 2, 2016

E-cards are fine, of course, but nothing compares to the delight and surprise of receiving good-old-fashioned paper cards in the mail. There’s something about printed postcards and letters that just feel more personal, more thoughtful, and more real than digital greetings. Luckily, there’s a growing crop of smart, well-designed pixels-to-paper apps to help create and send personalized snail mail cards that show how much you really care. Flip through our picks of the best printed card apps that are anything but fuddy-duddy.

Tiny Prints

Custom-card connoisseurs have long-counted on the quality and attention to detail that Tiny Prints’ web service provides. The Redwood City, California-based company—a subsidiary of online photo giant Shutterfly—ups the ante with its recently updated, easy-to-use iPad app, which includes all of the features that has made Tiny Prints the go-to place for creating and sending customized photo announcements, invitations, holiday and birthday cards, stationery, photo gifts and more. With its lovely, modern interface, users can easily upload photos from their iPad camera rolls or directly from their Facebook, Instagram or Shutterfly accounts. Prices per card range from $0.99 for basic designs to $2.99 for more ornate styles.

Bonus: Email us at codes@tinybeans.go-vip.net for a Tiny Prints $30 discount code.

Free app for iOS