Design Send Real Life Birthday Cards To Facebook Friends From Your iPhone
Apple’s own Cards service and Ink Cards for iOS and Android provide an excellent way to let your friends and family know you’re thinking of them without having to leave your house to buy or mail post cards. These apps let you design and send real-life greeting cards to your contacts, all from your mobile device. Recently, some other developers have started venturing into this genre of apps, Cleverbug for iOS being the hottest new entrant. The app’s main focus is birthday cards, and it doubles as a reminder app for upcoming birthdays of your Facebook friends. The thing that makes Cleverbug stand out from among other similar apps is its ability to automatically incorporate photos of your friends into the cards you are making for them. It is also possible to put pictures into templates manually, and of course, to enter personalized text into cards before you place an order for their printing and postage.
Since Cleverbug is all about Facebook friends, it makes sense that users have to link their Facebook ID with the app before they can create any cards. If you wan to be able to send cards to your friends discreetly, request them to share their postal address with you well before their birthday. The ‘Invite Friends’ option in the Cleverbug menu is useful if you want to stay in touch with other friends using the app. The main screen of Cleverbug lists all your Facebook friends according to their birthdays. The age of everyone who has kept his or her year of birth public is displayed over their DP.
To start making a birthday card for a particular contact, simply search for them on the main page and hit the arrow button next to their name. Cleverbug offers a lot of templates, sorted into various categories and genres. Simply swipe across the bottom bar to choose a suitable category (like friend, lover, cards for particular age groups, etc.) and you will be presented with several personalized cards. Most of the cards contain one or more photos taken from your friend’s albums. To change this photo, enter editing mode and tap on the picture to load a new one. You can go to your friend’s Facebook wall to pick a new image, or add one from the camera roll of your device. The text written inside the card can be changed too.
Cleverbug cards cost $2.99 for printing (the first card is free) but you have pay all the postage charges. The cards can be sent to any place in the world, which is quite a big plus. The app itself is free and optimized for iPhone/iPod touch. Grab it if you want an easy and inexpensive way of making the special day of your friends even more special.
Download Cleverbug For iOS
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Since Cleverbug is all about Facebook friends, it makes sense that users have to link their Facebook ID with the app before they can create any cards. If you wan to be able to send cards to your friends discreetly, request them to share their postal address with you well before their birthday. The ‘Invite Friends’ option in the Cleverbug menu is useful if you want to stay in touch with other friends using the app. The main screen of Cleverbug lists all your Facebook friends according to their birthdays. The age of everyone who has kept his or her year of birth public is displayed over their DP.
To start making a birthday card for a particular contact, simply search for them on the main page and hit the arrow button next to their name. Cleverbug offers a lot of templates, sorted into various categories and genres. Simply swipe across the bottom bar to choose a suitable category (like friend, lover, cards for particular age groups, etc.) and you will be presented with several personalized cards. Most of the cards contain one or more photos taken from your friend’s albums. To change this photo, enter editing mode and tap on the picture to load a new one. You can go to your friend’s Facebook wall to pick a new image, or add one from the camera roll of your device. The text written inside the card can be changed too.
Cleverbug cards cost $2.99 for printing (the first card is free) but you have pay all the postage charges. The cards can be sent to any place in the world, which is quite a big plus. The app itself is free and optimized for iPhone/iPod touch. Grab it if you want an easy and inexpensive way of making the special day of your friends even more special.
Download Cleverbug For iOS
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