Personalized Postcards App Arrives in Time for Holiday Season

LONDON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchnote, the pioneer in the mobile postcards market, today launched an iPad application which reinvents the postcard again ... just in time for the holiday season. The new app has a suite of new features to make sharing photos as real postcards more personal than ever before:

Doodle: New 'draw' option allows customers to get creative with their postcards - the new feature can be used to add a bit of festive fun to postcard images using a range of colors and brushes

Signatures: Personalize your postcard by signing off your message freehand with a signature, hearts, kisses or whatever you like

Filters: Transforms digital photos into printed classics with a range of filters (Black & White, Sepia and Vibrant Colors)

Full screen: Intuitive interface built from the ground up, optimized for the iPad experience

Languages: Now available in Spanish and Italian in addition to existing English, French and German

"With Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year fast approaching, we wanted to help customers take care of their holiday cards. Our new iPad app has tons of new features to print and send gorgeous cards, and we're quietly confident that these cards will stay on your family and friends' mantelpieces for a lot longer than the generic greeting cards of the past. Suffice to say we are incredibly proud to add this to the ever-growing suite of Touchnote applications," says Raam Thakrar, co-founder, Touchnote. The launch of the iPad app means Touchnote's fun, personalized postcards are now available across all iOS devices in addition to all Android phones and tablets.

The company also announced a holiday promotion, reducing the price of each postcard to 99c when purchasing a 15-credit pack. Price includes postage, delivery and 100% money back guarantee.

Touchnote Postcards was the first mobile application that enabled customers to create and send a personalized, physical postcard directly from the mobile phone. To date, Touchnote has delivered postcards to over 200 countries and territories.

New iPad app also includes preexisting Touchnote features:

• Facebook Connect enables users to select images from all photo albums
• Zoom, rotate and crop photos with a single touch
• Use new photos or pick from your existing photo library
• Postcards can be created when offline, and send when connected to Wi-Fi
• App can be used in both landscape and portrait formats
• Postcard pack options allows for even cheaper postcards when buying in bulk
• Use Touchnote in French and German
• See full postcard sending history
• Feedback directly from the app itself

For more information, please visit http://www.touchnote.com. Test accounts available on request.

* Touchnote spokesperson/co-founder, Raam Thakrar, available on request
** Hi-res Touchnote on iPad screenshots available for media

About Touchnote.com

Touchnote is a fun and simple mobile and web app that allows you to create your own postcards from your smartphone, Facebook and iPad photos and send them in the post. Touchnote Postcards was the first mobile application that enabled customers to create and send a personalized, physical postcard directly from the mobile phone.  

Touchnote was built on one principal and that was to bring the printed photograph back albeit with a little help from 21st century technology. Touchnote allows you to convert your own pics and send them to all your nearest and dearest within a few clicks. Whatever personalization is lost by them not being hand-written is made up for by the personal, one-of-a-kind image on the front.

Key partnerships to date have included Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Microsoft and the Post Office.

The fast facts

• Based not far from the trendy London suburb of Camden, Touchnote boasts a talented team of 15 employees
• Printing and posting of Touchnote postcards takes place from the US, UK and Germany to ensure speedy delivery
• Touchnote is currently available across all iOS devices and Android (phone and tablets)
• The Touchnote application is pre-installed on multiple Sony Ericsson devices - including the X8, X10, Arc, Neo, Play and Ray
• Price point is simple. $1.49. That's it, unless you buy packs, which lowers the individual postcard price considerably
• Touchnote has sent postcards to over 200 countries and territories

Media Contact:

Raam Thakrar
+44 203 355 2333
Mobile: +44 7930 390 072
raam@touchnote.com

SOURCE Touchnote