Halloween Pumpkinizer

Michael (Admin) | Oct 16, 2008 Entertainment

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If going to the Hallmark store and paying $3 for a Halloween card to drop in the mail seems like a gross waste of time, money, and natural resources, Halloween Pumpkinizer was totally made with you in mind.

You start off with a pumpkin that has a hole in it, and you can choose a photo from your camera roll to insert into the pumpkin. Wanna make your friends and family look a little evil? Tap the smiley face icon at bottom left and you get a pumpkin with a jack-o-lantern mouth already built in.

Once you’ve chosen a photo, you can rotate it or adjust the width or height. All of these operations require two fingers which is to be expected, but width and height have to be adjusted separately. If you’ve ever played around with The Dark Knight: HaHaHa you’re already used to doing this kind of thing, but I really wish height and width could be scaled in one motion.

After you’ve positioned your photo to your liking, tap “Done” to get a preview and then tap “Save” to save it to your camera roll. From there you can use your iPhone’s email function to send your custom Halloween photo to whoever it was intended for.

This isn’t a bad idea for a seasonal app, and I’m sure plenty of similar apps will follow with Thanksgiving and Christmas looming on the calendar, but it feels like Mexircus could have done a better job on it.

Aside from width and height needing to be done separately (which I find kind of annoying), there’s only one jack-o-lantern mouth available. If this app were free I wouldn’t have a problem here, but I think it’s fair to expect more from a pay-for-me application.

If an update can be released before October 31, 2008 has come and gone, I’d like to see a couple more mouth options with different expressions, and it would also be nice if I could use the app to take a picture for immediate Pumpkinizing. Another absent element is instructions! To the developer this may sound dumb, but I installed Halloween Pumpkinizer and had to do a little guessing before I even knew what the end goal was. Ok, I confess that I didn’t read the app description before buying it, but I believe every app… especially paid ones… should include some kind of documentation.

For $.99 the Halloween Pumpkinizer provides a nice way to say “Happy Halloween” to your pals, but the demanding cynic in me thinks there’s plenty of room for improvement.