Show some love: Apps for digital greeting cards

Whether you want to send holiday cheer or express appreciation, encouragement, or sympathy, a digital or paper greeting card is a great way to show someone you care. Use these apps to browse thoughtful or funny cards that you can personalize and send from wherever you are.

Create everything from postcards and thank-you notes to holiday, birthday, or anniversary greetings. Just choose a template, add photos, stickers, text, and other elements, or build your own unique design from scratch – then TouchNote will print and mail your special greetings (or even gifts) to selected recipients from your in-app address book.

Choose from a wide range of customizable invites or e-cards organized by categories like Wedding, Baby, Thank You, and Workplace. Share event details or special greetings immediately or on specified dates in messages that emerge from digital envelopes and flip open when recipients click them to reveal what’s inside.

Share bite-sized mobile greetings featuring animation and music plus text, photos, recorded messages, and other personalized options. Or make someone’s day even more special by including electronic gift cards from 100s of retailers and restaurants from Macy’s and Lyft to Applebee’s and Starbucks.

Send video greetings with special messages, songs, animation, digital gift cards, or tailored celebrity “Smashups” (like Dolly Parton calling out birthday greetings to your loved ones by name)! Blue Mountain also makes it easy to create reminders for upcoming events and generate, preview, schedule, or send e-cards via email, text, and social media.

Produce digital cards, invitations, and collages for every major or minor moment with Invitation Maker’s suite of graphic tools and layouts. View trending templates, search by style or category, add your own special touches, and print out or share the results online. You can also go premium to unlock 5,000+ additional templates while removing ads and watermarks.