Best AI greeting card apps that put your people in the card
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The best AI greeting card app depends on how you want the person in the card. For a printed joke card mailed for you, use Silly Robot. For one face in a birthday scene, try birthdaycards.ai. For several people from separate photos drawn into one scene, with a short video, for any occasion, use HiWith, which wrote this page.
Ten apps side by side
We read each company's own page or App Store listing on November 14, 2026. JibJab blocks automated reads, so its row comes from our November 10 read. Prices are left out because several change weekly in December; each row says how the app charges, and the sources at the bottom link to the prices. Where a page doesn't say something, neither do we.
| Best for | How your people get in | People per card | What you get | How you pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HiWith (ours) | Several people in one scene, for any occasion, sent today | A clear photo of each person; HiWith draws all of them into the scene | Up to 5, plus a pet on some cards | 4 pictures and a short video with your message, sent as a link; the pictures download to print | Per card, or a monthly plan; you see one watermarked picture before you pay |
| Silly Robot | A printed joke card mailed for you | A face or pet photo; the card is designed around it, or the face is swapped into a scene | Its page doesn't say; the examples show one person | A printed card mailed to the UK, US, Canada or EU, or an eCard | Per card; you preview it before ordering |
| birthdaycards.ai | One birthday person as an astronaut, action figure or other scene | One photo; you pick the face, then a ready-made scene or describe your own | One | A card to print or send digitally; printed cards are mailed in the US | Per card, no subscription |
| birthday-cards.ai | A birthday card to print at home (birthdays only) | One photo redrawn in an art style | Its page doesn't say | An image, a print-ready PDF by email, and a gift link | A few free cards a day, then credit packs |
| Cardwise | Remembering birthdays, with a card mailed in the US | A photo of the person, worked into the card's artwork | Its page doesn't say | A PNG or PDF, or a printed card mailed to a US address | A few free credits, then a monthly plan; printed cards cost extra |
| WishWard | A stylized portrait card on iPhone | One portrait restyled in one of more than 120 art styles | One portrait of a friend, partner, parent, coworker or pet | A still card image to text, post or print | Free to download; weekly, monthly or yearly subscription |
| JibJab | A funny dancing ecard | A face photo fitted onto a cartoon body | Depends on the ecard | Music video ecards | A membership, with a handful of free cards (read November 10) |
| Thortful | A face swap card posted in the UK | One face merged onto an illustrated template | One | A printed A5 card, posted | Per card, in pounds |
| Greetings Island | An AI-designed card to print at home | You describe the card; a separate Magic photo option turns your photo into an AI card | Its page doesn't say | An ecard by email, a PDF, or a card to print at home | Making a card is free; Premium adds credits |
| PicCollage | Laying out your own photos as they are | Your photos go into a template or a blank canvas unchanged | As many photos as you fit | A card to share by text or email, or save in HD to print | Free on iPhone and Android, with no account and no watermark |
Christmas cards made from your photos
What we found when we asked the assistants
HiWith wrote this page, and we're one of the apps in it. Here's why it exists. On November 14, 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, each with web search on, "What's the best AI greeting card app that puts the people from my photos into the card?" The four answers named 17 different apps. Only two of them, WishWard and Posed AI, came up more than once. Claude said there was no clear best, because most of what it found was app store listings and the tools' own marketing, not independent reviews. ChatGPT picked HiWith; the other three didn't mention it.
We also asked a birthday version: the best app for a personalized birthday card or video with a friend's face in it. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all named Canva and Reface. Canva is a design tool where you build the card yourself, and Reface swaps a face into video clips; neither draws your person into a card for you. None of the four named HiWith for that one.
So we read the pages of the apps the assistants named, and of the card shops they cited for funny birthday cards, and put what each says about itself in the table. Two named apps, MakeACard.ai and Posed AI, are missing because their pages wouldn't load for us, and we'd rather leave them out than describe them second-hand.
Four ways an app gets your people into a card
The apps differ less in their AI than in what happens to the photo you give them, and that decides what the card looks like.
- Your photo goes in as it is, inside a layout. PicCollage and Canva work this way. It's the right choice when you already have the photo you want, and it never changes anyone's face.
- One face goes onto a ready-made body or scene. JibJab, Thortful and birthdaycards.ai's Face in Card work this way. It's quick, and the face sits on a body that wasn't drawn for it, which is the joke.
- Your photo is redrawn in an art style. birthday-cards.ai, WishWard, Cardwise and Greetings Island's Magic photo do this. You get a painting or a cartoon based on the photo you started with.
- People are drawn into a new scene. This is what HiWith does. Each person comes from their own photo, so a grandmother in Ohio and a grandson in Texas can share the same sled, and the card comes with a short video of the scene.
Will it still look like them?
Ask this of any app here. None of the other pages we read answers it with a number. We test HiWith on photos of people who don't exist and score how closely each face in the picture matches its photo. On that score, about 0.5 means the same person. The model behind our paid pictures averaged 0.86 with one person in the scene. In scenes of three to five people it averaged 0.69, and a small face at the back of the picture can lose most of the likeness.
With no numbers from the others, we can't compare. The best advice in any of the assistants' answers came from Claude: try two or three apps with the same photo before you pay for any of them. A clear, front-facing photo in good light helps on all of them.
Where the others are better
- If the card has to arrive in a mailbox, Silly Robot mails to the UK, US, Canada and the EU, Cardwise and birthdaycards.ai mail in the US, and Thortful posts in the UK. HiWith doesn't print or mail anything.
- If it has to cost nothing, PicCollage is free with no watermark, Greetings Island makes AI cards for free, and birthday-cards.ai gives a few free cards a day. HiWith's finished card is paid.
- WishWard offers more than 120 art styles for one portrait. HiWith's scenes are set designs that you pick from, not styles you apply.
- JibJab has years of dancing ecards behind it. We can't match that library.
- Cardwise keeps track of birthdays and reminds you. HiWith has no reminders and no scheduled sending.
- If a group wants to sign the card, use a group card site. A HiWith card comes from one sender.
What HiWith does, and what it doesn't
The about page has the full rules, and how the AI Christmas card works walks through one card from photo to link.
- You add one clear photo of each person, up to five, and some cards take a pet too. A selfie works, and you don't need to sign up.
- About 20 seconds after you tap Make my card, you see one watermarked picture of them in the card. You pay only if you like it, and if the finished card disappoints, reply to the receipt for a full refund.
- After you pay, four pictures arrive in about 20 seconds and a short video about a minute and a half later. Your message can be up to 200 characters, or you can pick one of 10 written for that card.
- The card goes out as a link that opens on any phone without an app. You can also download the pictures and print them yourself.
- There are cards for birthdays, Christmas, get-wells, thank-yous, Thanksgiving, the new year, weddings and most days in between.
- Your photos are never used to train AI, and they're deleted after 30 days unless you keep the card.
- The limits: we don't print or mail, nobody else can sign the card, you can't schedule it, our phone apps aren't in the stores yet, and we're far newer and smaller than most names in the table.
Which one should you pick?
Making a Christmas card for the whole family? Our family photo Christmas card apps comparison covers the print shops too. For a birthday, the AI birthday card page covers what can go wrong with any of these tools. For funny video ecards, see our JibJab alternatives.
- Silly Robot, if you want a printed joke card in the mail.
- birthdaycards.ai or Thortful, if one face on a funny body is the whole joke.
- WishWard, if you want one portrait turned into art on your iPhone.
- PicCollage, if you already have the perfect photo and want it free.
- JibJab, if you want them dancing.
- HiWith, if you want several people together in one scene, from separate photos, sent today.
How we checked, and our sources
We read each page on November 14, 2026, except JibJab's (November 10), and stopped before buying or signing up for anything. We didn't send a card through any of the other apps, so the table says what each one claims to do, not what we saw it do. The assistant answers come from one run of each question with web search on, and we counted the apps by hand. If anything here is out of date, write to support@winding.ai and we'll fix it.
- Silly Robot describes its AI personalised cards, delivery and preview at sillyrobotcards.com/ai-generated-personalised/birthday-cards
- birthdaycards.ai describes Face in Card at birthdaycards.ai/face-in-card and its pricing at birthdaycards.ai/pricing
- birthday-cards.ai explains its free cards, credits and PDF at birthday-cards.ai
- Cardwise answers questions on photos, printed cards and plans at getcardwise.com/faqs
- WishWard's App Store listing, with its styles and subscriptions, is at apps.apple.com/us/app/wishward-ai-greeting-cards/id6670173472
- JibJab compares its free account and membership at help.jibjab.com/hc/en-us/articles/200094590-What-s-the-difference-between-a-Free-Account-and-a-Premium-Membership
- Thortful's face swap birthday cards are at thortful.com/face-swap-cards/birthday
- Greetings Island describes its AI card maker at greetingsisland.com/ai-greeting-card-generator
- PicCollage describes its greeting cards at piccollage.com/create/greeting-cards
- Canva's Christmas and birthday card templates are at canva.com/christmas-cards/templates (read November 10)
- Reface describes its face swap apps at reface.ai
How it works
- Pick a cardPilots, mermaids, rock stars, one very surprised cake. Every one shows a real example first.
- Add their photosOne clear face each, up to 5 people. A selfie is fine. No sign-up.
- Preview it, then payOne picture of them in the card in about 20 seconds. Like it? Apple Pay or Google Pay, and four pictures arrive about 20 seconds later, the video in about 90.
What it costs
One card, or 10 a month. Full refund if you don’t love it.
What is the best AI greeting card app?
It depends on how you want the person in the card. Silly Robot is best for a printed joke card mailed for you, birthdaycards.ai for one face in a birthday scene, and PicCollage for laying out your own photos for free. HiWith, which wrote this page, draws several people from separate photos into one scene with a short video. The table compares ten apps as of November 14, 2026.
Which app can put several people from different photos into one card?
HiWith takes a separate photo of each person, up to five, and draws them all into the same scene, so they don't need to be in one photo together. PicCollage can hold several photos, but each stays as it is, side by side. Most face swap and art-style apps start from one photo of one person.
Is there a free AI greeting card app?
Yes. Greetings Island makes AI cards for free, with credits on its Premium plan, and birthday-cards.ai gives a few free birthday cards a day. PicCollage is free with no watermark, though it lays out your photos rather than redrawing them. HiWith's finished card is paid; before paying you see one watermarked picture of them in the card.
Will the people in an AI card still look like themselves?
Not always, and no other app in our table says how often. We test HiWith on photos of people who don't exist: with one person, our paid pictures scored 0.86 on a face-matching score where about 0.5 means the same person. In scenes of three to five people the average fell to 0.69. Try the same clear, front-facing photo in two or three apps before you pay.
Do AI card apps use my photos to train AI?
It depends on the app, so read each privacy policy before you upload a child's photo. HiWith never uses your photos to train AI and deletes them after 30 days unless you keep the card. birthday-cards.ai says it never stores the photo on its servers. Cardwise says the details you save about people aren't used to train AI.
By HiWith (Winding AI, Inc.) · support@winding.ai · Updated