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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.

MyPostcard

Berlin, Germany-based MyPostcard’s spiffy app makes turning pics on your iOS or Android device into snazzy postcards as simple as just a few clicks. With worldwide shipping and more than 8,000 design templates, MyPostcard’s high-quality prints let users share their memories beyond their usual social media posts. With more than 700,000 downloads, the app is already one of the most successful postcard apps worldwide. Postcards can be ordered individually or as sets, starting at $2.99 per card. Fun fact: the worldwide team at MyPostcard handstamps more than 10,000 postcards each day for delivery around the world!

Free app for iOS and Android