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Honestly I was so excited to try this because I’ve already been doing this same thing myself. I would create a digital version of a card, and email/text it to the recipient for the occasion, but sending a gift had to be done separately, and that is a bit of a pain. I thought I would at least be able to try out this app, which claims to have a free version, but none of the quality designs are free, and it seems you have to pay to customize any design, which just…really defeats the purpose. There also I believe is a fee on top of the gift cards, which I’m not sure is necessary. I am also irritated that they require a phone number to use it. Not that my phone number is so private anymore, but they’re lying about why they collect that data. If you read their Privacy Policy, you realize that isn’t collected to prevent spam, but actually to connect your app data to your other ad profiles. They are selling off your data profile to third parties, and that’s going to be their biggest profit, which makes it further annoying that none of the app is truly free.

Not sure if it can’t handle high volume and load, but I tried sending 2 cards this morning. For the first, I made it through to end hit send and paid for my gift card. I showed a confirmation that I paid in my Apple wallet but never saw a confirmation in the app. It just sat there asking me to send again. That’s the only way out of the screen. If you send, you get charges again. Finally i had no choice but to quit the app. When I tried to enter, it just sat there on the launch screen. Finally it reloaded. And I tried another thinking it may be me. Maybe my internet. Again, I made it to the end, hit send and I am waiting at the end with no choice on where to go. I can’t get back into the app now. It’s still sticks on the launch screen. I was kind of excited about this. I work in the loyalty and rewards industry as a product manager. We are always looking for partner companies and this concept was cool from a personalization standpoint. The app is well designed too but if it doesn’t work. 🤨

This app looks awesome and like something I’d use regularly to send friends and family gifts. I love the concept and the design of the app. Unfortunately the app seems to require a phone number in order to sign up. And when I use a Google Voice-type number, it doesn’t work. That raises a red flag for me considering that I’ve used many apps and websites to purchase things where I’ve not ran into that problem. I’ve also read that it can be a privacy and security risk to share a cell phone number with businesses, so I’m not going to do it for this app. My privacy concerns seem to be confirmed when I spotted this in the app’s privacy policy: “From time to time we may disclose certain information (names, phone numbers, email addresses, and non-sensitive transactional information such as your purchase history, amounts paid and products ordered) to direct marketing companies for trade or rental purposes.”