The best flowers & gifts apps

TouchNote

TouchNote turns photos on your phone into real, personalised greeting cards, postcards, and gifts, printed and posted to the recipient anywhere in the world. The company handles printing, postage, and delivery, and prints locally in the destination country so a card sent from the US to the UK arrives in days rather than weeks. More than a million cards are sent through the service each year, spanning birthdays, anniversaries, thank-yous, and holidays, alongside photo gifts such as prints and mugs.

Funky Pigeon

Funky Pigeon is a British personalised card and gift business, printing customised greeting cards and posting them directly to the recipient, alongside personalised mugs, prints, and gifts. Owned by WHSmith, the brand built its name on irreverent, humorous designs and on rescuing people who have left a birthday to the last minute.

thortful

thortful is a British greeting card marketplace selling original designs by independent creatives from around the world, with around 70% of its range unavailable anywhere else. Cards are personalised, printed, and posted directly to the recipient, and the creators behind each design earn a commission on every sale.

Not On The High Street

Not On The High Street is a British marketplace home to more than 5,000 small UK businesses, selling personalised and original gifts you won't find in chain stores. The company curates its sellers rather than opening the platform to anyone, covering everything from milestone birthdays and weddings to housewarmings and, as it puts it, dog adoption days.

1-800-Flowers

1-800-Flowers is one of America's best-known floral and gifting businesses, delivering fresh flowers, plants, gift baskets, chocolates, and occasion gifts nationwide. The company anchors a wider family of gifting brands including Harry & David, Shari's Berries, and Cheryl's Cookies, and built its name on same-day and last-minute delivery for birthdays, sympathy, anniversaries, and holidays.

Personal Creations

Personal Creations sells customisable gifts, keepsakes, and home décor, with a catalogue of more than 10,000 items that can be personalised with names, dates, photos, and messages. Part of the 1-800-Flowers family, the brand covers weddings, new babies, anniversaries, and holidays, positioning personalisation as the point rather than an add-on.

Card Factory

Card Factory is the UK's largest specialist retailer of greeting cards, selling cards, gift wrap, balloons, and gifts through more than a thousand stores. The company designs and manufactures most of what it sells in-house, which is how it holds price points well below the rest of the high street.

Simply to Impress

Simply to Impress makes custom photo cards and stationery for life's milestones — birth announcements, holiday cards, graduations, weddings, and invitations — with thousands of designs to personalise. The American company positions itself at the premium end of photo stationery, emphasising paper quality and finish over the cheapest possible print.

Callie

Callie is a personalised gifting brand selling customised holiday and occasion products — decorations, keepsakes, and seasonal essentials made to order with names and messages. The business builds its range around specific occasions rather than a standing catalogue, with Halloween and Christmas among its biggest seasons.

Goody

Goody is an American gifting service built to remove the awkward part of sending a gift: you need only a name and a phone number. The recipient gets a text, sees the gift with a card and message in an unwrapping flow, and enters their own delivery address — so the sender never has to ask for it, and nothing is charged until the gift is accepted.

Gifts.com

Gifts.com sells premium personalised gifts across occasions, from weddings and new babies to corporate and holiday gifting. Part of PlanetArt, the business focuses on customisation — names, dates, photos, and monograms applied to keepsakes, drinkware, jewellery, and home pieces — rather than on a general gift catalogue.

Prsnt

Prsnt is a British e-gifting service built around sending a thoughtful, personalised gift in a few taps without needing the recipient's address. The recipient receives a digital notification, chooses or accepts the gift, and supplies their own delivery details — removing the awkward logistics that stop people sending gifts at all.

Harry & David

Harry & David is an American gourmet food and gift company founded in 1910 in Medford, Oregon, best known for its Royal Riviera pears and its gift towers and baskets. The business still operates its own orchards in Oregon, and sits within the 1-800-Flowers family whose shared Celebrations Passport membership covers free shipping across the group's brands.

Giftagram

Giftagram is a North American gifting platform for sending curated gifts to individuals or to many recipients at once, used heavily for corporate and client gifting. The service handles recipient address collection, delivery, and branding, letting a business send hundreds of gifts without managing any of the logistics.

Prestige Flowers

Prestige Flowers is one of the UK's largest online flower and gift retailers, having delivered more than ten million bouquets. The business covers birthdays, anniversaries, sympathy, and seasonal occasions, pairing flowers with chocolates, wine, and balloons for combined gifting, and has expanded into international delivery alongside its established UK next-day service.

French Florist

French Florist is an American flower delivery business operating its own shops rather than a relay network, with a focus on same-day delivery of arrangements designed in-house. Owning the florists rather than brokering orders lets the company control arrangement quality, which is the usual failure point in flower delivery.

Edible Arrangements

Edible Arrangements makes fresh fruit bouquets, chocolate-dipped fruit, and dessert platters, sold through a franchise network of stores across North America. The business created the sculpted fruit arrangement as a gifting category, and now covers same-day and one-hour delivery for occasions where flowers would traditionally have been sent.

Teleflora

Teleflora is a flower-delivery brand connecting customers with a network of local florists who hand-arrange and hand-deliver fresh bouquets, rather than shipping flowers in boxes. It offers a wide range of arrangements for every occasion with same-day local delivery.

The Mississippi Gift Company

The Mississippi Gift Company sells a curated collection of handcrafted foods, gifts, and home décor, all made in Mississippi. The business works with more than 150 local artisans and makers, with its buyers travelling the state to find pieces — every item is locally sourced rather than bought in from general suppliers.

Mobile Florist

Mobile Florist sends flowers and gifts through a network of more than 15,000 local FTD florists across the United States, with same-day delivery and a freshness guarantee. The service exists for last-minute sending — arrangements are made and delivered by a florist near the recipient rather than shipped in a box.

NIPYATA!

NIPYATA! makes boozy gifts — piñatas filled with miniature spirit bottles, drinkable greeting cards, advent calendars, and personalised alcohol gifts. The brand built a category of its own around the idea of a piñata for adults, and releases new products regularly rather than working to a fixed range.

bloomon

bloomon is an online florist selling seasonal bouquets and floral designs, founded in the Netherlands and trading across the UK and Europe. The business works directly with growers to shorten the chain between harvest and delivery, and offers both one-off bouquets and recurring flower subscriptions.