So, I might not be reaching a target demographic here, it’s likely my readers do not care about girlie ‘Print Club’ photo Apps, but they are serious fun, and I want to share with you my experience with one of the most popular ‘Photobooth Sticker’ Apps.

I get a lot of Google Traffic for people looking for iPad Apps for Girls, so I thought I’d actually do a review for an App that I think fits that search result. This is a really fun App, and although I don’t subscribe to gender stereotypes in general, I figure that most of the users of this App will be female.

If you don’t know what Purikura (aka Print Club) are, you’re missing out. Simply they’re photos that have been decorated with lots of awesome/adorable images, borders, speech bubbles or anything else. In Japan, they’re crazy-popular, for sticker collecting and trading, etc. Honestly, I’m not going to lie, I probably spent several tens of dollars on Purikura during my visits to Japan, so finding an App that does this was pretty exciting. In case you’re still wondering basically what this App does is this:

Before & After

Puri offers two versions. Puri! Lite & the Paid version. For the purposes of this review, I’m going to focus on the Lite version, and then briefly compare to the paid one.

I was instantly impressed with Puri! Lite, I was honestly shocked that there were so many choices when it came to borders & stamps. The features for this free app are astounding, as the iTunes Description boasts, over 80 Frames, over 100 Stamps, and the ability to add speech bubbles & more. You can obviously save to your Phone, but you can also email from within the App, or Export to Facebook. And to top it off, if you really do want physical Stickers of the photo you’ve made, you can order it right through Puri (although I was never able to connect to the server to check on costs).

I was so impressed with this Free App, in fact, that I specifically sought out the developers to let them I know I wanted to review the full version. Before I talk about the differences, I want to state that Puri! Lite has quickly become one of my favorite Apps, hands down, a tonne of fun. Download it.

Puri (Full Version), however, sigh… Not. It’s a not because it’s not a great App, but because it doesn’t really compare as a paid version of Puri Lite. Lite is so feature-rich and includes most of the frames/stamps that are available in the full version, in fact, I don’t even think the options doubled. The problem here is this. They made the Free App *too good*, however I can’t really fault them for that, because it’s still a lot of fun. Basically what it boils down to is this, if you’re love Puri Lite and are buying the full version, don’t expect too much of an upgrade – but think of it like this – you’re giving the company a $2.99 donation for a few more stamps/frames, but really, you’re thanking them for making Puri Lite so awesome.

One last one, for the road: