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Igeret.A card that looks printed, not forwarded.
The illustration is the app's; everything else on the card is yours. Eleven occasions cover the Hebrew year, from the weekly Shabbat to the festivals, and the opening screen already knows which one is today.
Free to download, with one Pro purchase inside the app.
The problem
The same greeting image, forwarded again
Holiday greetings travel by WhatsApp as images somebody else made, passed from phone to phone until everyone has sent and received the same one. The second half of that is what Igeret is for.
The solution
From an occasion to a sent card, in three steps
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Pick an occasion
The opening screen already shows today's.
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Write a personal greeting on every card
Every card already carries a greeting, and you can replace it with your own words. Pro adds your own photograph and your handwritten signature.
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Send it
The card leaves finished, to WhatsApp, Messages, or anywhere else the device offers.
- 11occasions
- 69designs
- 4languages
- 0permissions
Screenshots
The opening screen, a finished card, your photograph and your signature
Igeret Pro
One payment, not a subscription
$6.99
Every occasion ships designs you can send without paying, and the free cards are not a demo. Pro unlocks the rest of the sixty-nine and adds three things for one payment: your own photograph in the card, your own handwriting on it, and a print-resolution PDF.
A card carrying your own photograph
Your picture is set into the card's frame and the layout reflows around it. The title moves below it and the greeting keeps its measure. The system picker hands over only the image you choose, so no photo-library permission is asked for.
A signature drawn with a finger
Sign on the screen and it appears in the card's own gold, in place of the typed name. It is drawn at the card's resolution, so it stays a signature at print size rather than a blurred line.
A PDF a printer can use
The card exports at 2160×2700 on a 5×6.25in page — 432 dots per inch, where a print shop asks for 300. The file comes from the same drawing you saw on screen, so the printed card is the one you approved.
Features
What it does, and what it knows about the year
A card for every occasion in the year
Shabbat Shalom, Shana Tova, Gmar Chatima Tova, Sukkot, Chanukah, Purim, Passover and Shavuot — plus Mazal Tov, Refuah Shlema and condolences, which stay open all year.
It opens on a card you have not sent
Shabbat comes round fifty-two times a year. The app remembers what you have sent, and orders the designs by which has rested longest. Shabbat alone has fourteen designs.
Sixty-nine designs, each one drawn
Every design has its own layout, palette and illustration. The sixty-eight illustrations were drawn for these cards; this is not a library of ready-made images.
The card is yours
To, the greeting, and From, each with a default you can replace. Your text is drawn into the artwork at full resolution, not laid over a finished picture as a caption. The card's language is set separately from the app's, so you can send a Hebrew card from an English interface.
The opening screen knows the date
Occasions are ordered by the Hebrew calendar, and today's leads at full width as a card rather than a name in a list. The app works the dates out itself, so a leap-year Purim and a festival that starts the night before both land where they belong. The calculation was compared against hebcal across 109,938 days, from 1900 to 2200, with no disagreements.
No account, no tracking, no permissions
There is no sign-up, no server and no analytics, and the app works offline. iOS makes every app declare in advance the permissions it asks for, and for Igeret that list is empty. The Pro photo card goes through the system picker, which hands over one image and not the library. The finished card is passed to the share sheet and dropped afterwards.
Questions
Questions that come up
What does it cost?
The app is free, and every occasion ships designs you can send without paying. Pro is one $6.99 purchase inside the app.
Is there an Android version?
Yes. Igeret is on Google Play as well as the App Store, for Android 7.0 and later.
Does it work on iPad?
Yes, on the same purchase. On iPad the occasion list opens into two columns of whole cards instead of a strip of thumbnails.
Can the card be printed?
Pro exports a PDF at 432 dots per inch, above what a print shop asks for.
What happens to a photograph I add?
It stays with you. The system picker hands the app one image and no access to the library, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Can I send a Hebrew card from an English interface?
Yes. The card's language is chosen separately from the app's, and both come from Hebrew, English, French and Spanish.
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