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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.

Inkly

Created by London-based app development firm Megaphone, Inkly is a sleek card-making app that lets users create and send real printed greetings with users’ own handwriting straight from their smartphones or tablets. Featuring more than 1,000 uniquely designed card templates for all occasions, users can design beautiful photo collages and have them printed in three different sizes. Additional typography, artwork and effects can be added to photo cards, with same day printing and shipping for orders received before 12 PM GMT. While the service is based in the U.K., printing and shipping costs are affordable, even for international orders, ranging from about $1.25 to $9.75.

Free app for iOS and Android