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What are the best handwritten card services?

The best handwritten card service depends on what you want the card to carry: real pen ink written by a pen machine, a person’s own hand-lettering, a printed handwriting font, or your own handwriting written on a phone. This roundup is written by Be Thoughtful, which is one of the services, so we link to sourced side-by-side comparisons and say where each one is better.

The four kinds of service

  • Real pen, written by a pen-guided machine: the message and envelope are written in real ink in a handwriting style. Several business-focused services and Be Thoughtful work this way.
  • Hand-lettered by a person: artists write each card by hand, so every card is a little different and no style is repeated exactly.
  • Printed in a handwriting-style font: often cheaper at volume and with a big stationery range, but the ink is printed, not written.
  • Your own handwriting on a phone: you write with a finger or stylus and the service prints and mails it.

Where Be Thoughtful fits (written by Be Thoughtful)

We write in real pen ink, like the other pen-machine services. What we add is a personal letter drafted by AI for you to edit, a one-of-a-kind painted cover for each card, free birthday reminders with a phone calendar, letters from Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, and guest checkout with no plan. A card is $8.95 with the US stamp included.

We are not the best choice for everything: business services with large plans and many CRM integrations, artist-lettered cards, wedding stationery shops and apps for your own handwriting each do something we don’t. Our comparison pages say so, with sources.

How to choose

  • Want real pen ink and help with the words: a pen-machine service with a message writer.
  • Want a human hand: an artist-lettered service.
  • Sending hundreds of business mailers: a business service with plans, lists and integrations.
  • Want matching wedding stationery: a stationery shop that prints and mails.
  • Want your own handwriting: an app that prints what you write on screen, or write it yourself.
A sample thank-you card front in our hand-drawn style
A sample card front in our hand-drawn style.

Questions

No. It is written by Be Thoughtful, one of the services. That’s why every comparison page lists its sources and says where the other service is better.

Pen-machine services (including Be Thoughtful) write with a real pen, and artist-lettered services have a person write each card. Services that print a handwriting-style font don’t use a pen.

The total per card: the card, the writing, the stamp and any plan or subscription fee. Our prices include the US stamp and there is no plan.

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