Greeting Cards with an Attitude

Pick a card, add their name, and send it as a link in a text or email. When they tap it, a paper scene folds open and a character pops out to say hello in its own recorded voice. The character is theirs to keep. It moves into their Pop-Up Mall and chills with the others, unimpressed.

There are twenty characters to start, in four sets: Halloween, Día de los Muertos, Election Day, and Moments, for everyday things like birthdays, thank-yous, get well soon and congratulations. Thanksgiving and Christmas are on the way, and new sets show up in the app without an update.

Harrumphs is a free download for iPhone and iPad. Your first card is free, any one you pick. Every other card is $0.99, bought once and sent to as many people as you like. Sets are $2.99 to $3.99. Opening a card is always free, and passing on a card you were given costs nothing, though the character goes with it. No account, no subscription, no ads.

It came out October 28, 2026, on the App Store in the United States.

The story

Harrumphs is made by one person, Norman Praught, in San Francisco. It started with the holiday objects everyone already owns, a candy corn, a pumpkin, an office mug, a tissue box, and the question of what they’d be like if they’d grown up in the 80s and 90s. The answer was a valley girl, a mall rat, a grunge kid and a mug whose whole position is “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had me.”

Everything in the app is drawn as cut paper in vector, lit from one lamp, with a shader that puts grain and a cut edge on every piece. The cards fold the way paper folds. The characters are rigged in code and animated with anticipation and overshoot, so nothing moves in a straight line. The voices are recorded, and the mouths move to the words.

It’s for grown-ups who grew up with these jokes and still send cards, or would if cards were funnier.