Review: Modern Postcard

Modern Postcard is an Android port that allows you to design fancy postcards or greeting cards to send to your friends and family. Or your enemies and strangers if that's your thing.

You begin by choosing one of dozens of colourful backgrounds, then you can add text and clip art, and email it to whoever you want.

UI
Seven large, bright icons on the bottom of the screen make up the UI. They're responsive, although they don't give you any indication that you've successfully clicked them. As an Android port, it requires you to click the soft Back button that the PlayBook lacks, which can be a bit annoying.

When you add text, there are buttons to enlarge and shrink the font, and you can change the text box size with a multi-touch gesture.

Scrolling through the list of backgrounds and images is relatively smooth, but can take a long time since there are quite a few.

Usefulness:
The postcards it creates are fairly nice, and there are dozens of options to choose from, so if you're into making cards, or if you need to bang something out quickly for a friend whose birthday you forgot, then this app is perfect.

Reusability:
With backgrounds for a variety of holidays and occasions, you'll be able to use Modern Postcard over and over again.

What I Liked
-Plenty of variety to the backgrounds and clip art.
-Ads are fairly unobtrusive.
-Direct way to send your work to the recipient.

What I Hated
-The list of clip art images isn't organized for quick and easy access.
-Resizing the text boxes requires a two-finger touch, and regardless of positioning, the second finger resizes the box from the bottom left corner.
-There doesn't seem to be a way to change the font.
-One of the icons doesn't seem to actually do anything, and another just gives you a slightly smaller view of the card you just created.
-No clear way to save your work.
-Only works in portrait orientation, when most postcards tend to be in landscape.

Final Verdict:
It's far from perfect, but Modern Postcard is a pretty good way to make a quick card when you need one.

Modern Postcard is ad-supported and available for free from kidgames on BlackBerry App World.
Reviewed version 1.0.0.1