Postcards: Close Friends
Aarish Adeel Social Networking iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Postcards: Close Friends is a free Social Networking app for iPhone and iPad by Aarish Adeel. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated July 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 85 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Jul 1
- 2026 · v0.8.4
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About Postcards: Close Friends
Postcards is the simplest way to stay close to the people you care about. Each day, a small idea for what to say to someone in particular. A few lines, a photo if you like, and send it on. How it works. - Add the people who matter. The handful you want to stay close to. The ones you've been meaning to text, want to get to know better, or simply share moments with. - Daily postcards to send. Ways to spark a conversation, each one picked just for you and your relationships. Add a few lines, a photo if you like, and send it on. - Shared moments to rediscover. Look back at the moments that build your shared story. What we believe. - A small circle, tended with attention, is a full life. - One real note outweighs a thousand likes. - Reaching out, deliberately, compounds. --- We're living through something we don't have a great name for yet. Loneliness isn't quite right. Most of us are surrounded by people. Disconnection is closer. We have more ways to reach out than ever, yet somehow our relationships become an afterthought. Social media promised connection. What it delivered was something else: attention. Platforms built not to bring us closer to the people we love, but to keep us scrolling. We used to send postcards. A postcard wasn't sent on a whim. You chose one person. You thought about what to say. You took time. Receiving one meant you were thought of. Just you. We want to bring it back. We hope you do too.
What’s new
Version 0.8.4 · Updated July 1, 2026
We rebuilt Postcards around the daily postcard. • A redesigned home, with your people up top and today's postcard front and center • Daily delivery: postcards arrive once a day, and a mailbag holds everything waiting for you • New postcard templates and one composer for notes, captures, and scrapbook photos • Memories: look back on every postcard you've sent and received, by date or by type • Group invites: one link brings a whole group in • Photo suggestions to help you find the right moment for a scrapbook postcard • Faster throughout, plus a lot of small fixes
App privacy
The developer, Aarish Adeel, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Name, Phone Number
- Contacts: Contacts
- User Content: Emails or Text Messages, Photos or Videos
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Other Data: Other Data Types
Used for: Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics
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