Q: What is the best software for making business cards?
Death by a thousand paper cuts from business cards? Too many choices is no choice at all? At least it seems impossible to make a meaningful choice.
Problem background: I want to make a new business card. I searched in the App Store for "business card" and there are somewhere around 100 results. Searching on the Web is even worse, as expected. At least the App Store results are for programs that are probably still in existence.
Bad answer: The program you use. I'm going to dismiss you as a shill pretending to be a customer of the software you profit from selling. My apologies if I'm wrong, but I think you should blame the shills. (I don't blame the shills because at least I understand their motivations. Even if love of money is a bad motivation, it is still easy to understand. Side effect of reading about Amazon?)
Medium answer: A list of business-card-making programs you have tried with the positive and negative features of each one. I'm going to thank you for your effort, wonder why you went to such lengths, but still suspect the quality of your data, even if you are a really nice person.
Pretty good answer: A systematic comparison system for apps. (Perhaps sponsored by Apple with some incentives?) One way to approach it would be to ask users of a business-card program to try two other programs and compare them. Another approach might be to intercept people who initiated such queries as mine and ask them to test several programs. Again, incentives would help. The objective would be to create a kind of matrix of comparisons of large numbers of programs. Superior programs will consistently win in their small tests, and inferior programs will tend to lose. The key is to distribute the requests to cover the less well known programs...
Even better answers? Details available upon polite request, but I'm also curious about your motivations in asking. I just want to make some business cards without too much suffering.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.5), null
Posted on Aug 27, 2016 3:53 PM