Touchnote goes iPhone

by Dan Lane on 18th September 2009

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Touchnote make postcards from your cameraphone photos and deliver them worldwide, we recently caught up with Ed Hodges, Head of Mobile at Touchnote and someone you may remember from “a previous life” ;)

Touchnote is available right now, for free, from the iPhone app store and cards cost £1.49 delivered anywhere in the world, if that sounds expensive do keep in mind that competitor MoonPig costs twice as much!.

(Personally, I think the ultimate mashup involves the Hello Kitty Camera application and Touchnote)

Tagged as: app store, iphone, itunes, touchnote

  • chris_chris
    Why wouldn't they use Apple's in app billing? The PayPal bit looked really painful.
  • Apple don't allow physical products to be purchased using in-app billing.
  • I've been using the app Shoot It! on my iPhone to send real world postcards. I'm in the U.S. and it costs $.99 per card here, $1.29 to mail from the US to UK, and $1.49 to mail to Western Europe.

    It may not be ideal for iPhone owners outside the U.S., but it's a much cheaper alternative if you're in the States.

    https://www.shootit.com/faqs.aspx

    Disclosure: I am a satisfied customer only, and in no way am affiliated with them.
  • Mike42
    hmmm...at £0.91 to post a card in Europe, that's a *lot* cheaper than Touchnote.

    I love the smell of competition in the morning!
  • Mike42
    All well and good...until the PayPal bit. All of a sudden I felt my life draining away, had to resist the urge to crash headfirst into the keyboard in a button-fiddling coma of touchscreen tappyness.

    Why can't I pre-pay for a pack of 10? or 20? I want to be able to snap something and send it *right then*. If I have to type in my PayPal details every_time, my inclination to send a piccy just got about 2000% less. This is all about spur-of-the-moment sharing, leveraging the buzz. If you leave it, people will just send an email later on with said piccy attached for free. Or post to Facebook.

    Or why don't you bill via premium SMS?

    And if you want to take it to T9 devices, it gets even more critical.

    Answers on the back of a postcard pls ;-)


    Mike
  • Hey Mike,

    You make a fair point, unfortunately its not possible to use Apple's IAP so paypal is the next best thing. I hope you'd agree we've created a simple, smooth userflow to compensate for having to break out to paypal.

    Keep the feedback coming...

    Ed
  • Mike42
    Thought it might be some sort of crApple policy going on. I'm sure there are other apps in the store that have a premium side where the payment doesn't have to be via the mobile, rather by a website elsewhere. There must be. Surely?

    Just give me access to my TouchNote credits via the app and no-one gets hurt...
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