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YourCards app review: send a message with style

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Introduction

Rather than just calling up someone to wish a happy birthday, offer congratulations on a graduation, or wish a loved one a happy anniversary, why not do it with a card instead? Cards offer a personal touch and the YourCards app allows you to create these customized greetings in a quick and fun way. You will be able to browse through a library of animated cards that you can then personalize and send in various ways.

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Focus on Ease of Use

It feels like with this app there is a big focus on ease-of-use which is always a welcome trait to have. You can browse through all the fun animated cards and then add a message. Send your creation by Twitter, Facebook, email, or text. It really is that simple and fast.

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The YourCards app also has a fun message of its own that it likes to promote in that this is a 100 percent environmentally friendly way to send and enjoy greeting cards.

Some of the categories in which you'll find cards to send include birthdays, anniversaries, thank you, friendship, and get well. Of course there are many more categories on top of these. They are meant to be mini-clip greeting cards which add a whole new element of fun to your basic greeting.

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Making Your Masterpiece

So when it comes to making your personalized greeting card, the process is actually quite fun. You’re going to find that the hardest thing in the process is narrowing it down to just one card to send. The graphics and sounds are both good-quality, with each and every card offering an animation.

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As you browse through the offerings you can tap on the ones that catch your eye to watch a preview of the animation. If this is the one you want to use, just tap on personalize to enter in your greeting. You can use up to 140 characters in your message.

To make the browsing process easier you can view the Most Popular cards, which allows you to discover the hot trending cards at the moment. Use the “Reminders” feature to import the birthdays of all your friends from Facebook or your Address Book contacts. You won’t forget a birthday ever again thanks to this reminder!

Unfortunately when it comes to actually sending and receiving the cards users have complained of issues and I have to say I have encountered the same ones. I have sent a couple of cards that just never did reach the recipient.

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Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Customize animated cards in all categories
  • Free to send
  • Preview your card before sending it

Cons

  • There seems to be some bugs with the app as far as people actually receiving the cards

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Final Thoughts

While I had a whole lot of fun browsing through the selection and then actually making cards to send to friends and family, the fact my cards never arrived are obviously a big downfall here.

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