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Get Carded: The Best Apps for Sending Paper Greetings

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.

Snapfish

Snapfish can easily be described as the Mack Daddy of digital-to-print photo apps. In addition to ordering printed cards from your mobile device (available for iOS, Android and Windows), the Snapfish app lets users order other personalized photo gifts such as canvases, mugs, blankets and more. The powerful photo editor lets users personalize prints by panning cropped areas, changing quantity and size of each print, and choosing paper finish (matte or glossy) for each order. As an added bonus, Snapfish provides unlimited secure photo storage and 100 free prints per month to registered users.

Free app for iOS, Android and Windows

What’s your favorite pixel-to-print photo app? Tell us in the comments below!

—Kipp Jarecke-Cheng