Hallmark Studio Greeting Card program not working on my iMac after updating to Sequoia 15.3

That is great news to hear! Thanks for posting.

It’s more than “a couple of bucks” to buy Parallels and a Windows license, especially with Apple Silicon in the mix. You’re not recommending pirating are you?

I broke down and bought a 2022 MacBook Air the macOS version in it allowed me to install Hallmark and it prints cards just fine. I’m still hoping that Hallmark is going to come up with a fix but in the meantime, I’m using this MacBook to print my cards and it is doing a great job. Maybe some of you would want to pursue this avenue a little tough way to go, but it’s my solution for now good luck. Just don’t allow it to upgrade the OS.

Cardia works, but it does not have any templates. Definitely not as polished as Hallmark but you can download graphics and insert text with no issues. You can build up your cards again if need be. So you have to start from scratch. I had to play around with it a bit but I got it to work. Theirs is a 100% MAC product and goes for about $30.

I did write to hallmark and here is their answer. I noticed they did not state they were working on a fix or update so I believe they have dropped MAC for now now at least.

Thank you for contacting Hallmark Software Technical Support.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Hallmark Card Studio for Mac v22 is not compatible with Mac OS Sequoia. It will only work with older versions of Mac OS. 

If you have any further questions, please write back to us.

I agree completely. I wrote to avanquest (email). Their reply was that a new version for sequioa is coming but it may be a few months. April 2025 is when I am writing this, and I believe their response was in march 2025

I agree, the program is invaluable to my wife and i. I feel confident they will not turn their back on us, the mac users. Perhaps if everyone emails them, it may happen sooner than later

Hello,

I'm just getting back on this. I had purchased Hallmark for Mac like you and it stopped working with Mac 15. They can't sell a software that is said to be compatible with Mac when it is not. I will reach back out to them.

Adam

agholler wrote:

Hello,

I'm just getting back on this. I had purchased Hallmark for Mac like you and it stopped working with Mac 15. They can't sell a software that is said to be compatible with Mac when it is not. I will reach back out to them.

Adam

Oh yes they can as long as they specify which versions of macOS it IS compatible with. They are not required to make their product compatible with macOS 15.5 especially if they intend to abandon the Mac platform. And why would they abandon the Mac platform? Lack of sales, increased development costs to keep it up to date with MacOS, etc. If sales to Mac owners are trivial compared to sales to Windows users they could decide it’s not worth it.

I agree with you. First, I hadn’t seen that their website says they are working on compatibility with the current version. Totally understand that this hasn’t been touched and it’s an afterthought port of a product. I was saying in general you can’t sell a product for Mac that doesn’t work, but now they at least say it’s not compatible. When I first ran into this issue, I believe I didn’t see any compatibility warnings so that’s what ticked me off.

I don’t really care about the sales and what drives it, it’s a simple port that should be fixed as it is sold as “Hallmark for Mac”

After several years of being tempted by Hallmark's E-ads, just last fall I upgraded my old Card Studio 2010 to their latest offering. I think I used it only once or twice since, but that's why I have it... so it's there when I need to make a card that I don't have time to go to a store for. So yesterday a great grandniece sent a graduation announcement, and due to medical issues keeping me home, and wanting to create a more personal congrats card for her, I went to my trusty new Card Studio version. Nope. Virtually brand new and it won't open either "Choose a Design" or "Design From Scratch".

I wasted an hour trying to figure out what was wrong, then noticed the complaints here. But that update page at Hallmark that Servant of Cats displayed is not new. As far as I can tell their idea of "soon" is many months. If they don't care enough about customers to fix such issues, or aren't connected enough with Apple to help their efforts, then maybe a bunch of us should demand our money back.

For now I'll see if my old Card Studio program is still languishing and functional on one of my older Windows machines with Vista and Windows 10, although they are slow and Vista won't talk to my current printers or even hook to our modern WiFi network. Maybe I can ferret a way around it, such as an ethernet hookup.

Retiredpapa wrote: “I still use it on a MacBook running Sonoma”.

Understand that most people update their operating systems upon availability, to maximize security, features, and functionality. We count on App developers to stay on top of such updates and adjust their own updating parameters accordingly. This irresponsible lack of attention by the developer of Card Studio, especially for those of us who only relatively recently upgraded our old-but-goody program, followed a few months later by a new O.S. is highly aggravating. In my case the one or two cards I made since were hardly worth the dozens+ dollars I spent for the Hallmark software and backup disks.

In this instance you are fortunate that you paid no attention to Apple’s upgrade notices. But neither have you available the advantages the newer system(s) provide.

Great news. Although I spent a lot of precious time dealing with the problem already. Last night I finally managed to create a card and envelope for a graduating great grandniece, but had to use my old 2009 $200 Windows10 laptop and 2010 Card Studio. It was agonizingly slow, choked by the limitations of the 4GB Pentium 2GHz laptop and its ability to communicate with a newer printer (Epson 8500). But the job got done.

Hopefully future OS upgrades won't be such an issue or take so long to resolve.

Do you not comprehend? This has nothing to do with macOS updates/upgrades. It has ALL to do with Hallmark deciding not to support macOS any longer. It is NOT Apple’s duty to make sure every piece of software out there works. It’s up to the developer to keep their software compatible with macOS, Windows, Linux, and other operating systems.

So get off the “Its all Apple’s fault” bandwagon because you simply don’t understand what’s going in software development.

hallmark are saying on their site that they only sell the software programmes into the USA and Canada,, but if I click on the box on that page that says I am American or Canadian I am taken to the payment page that is in £ sterling I am wondering if I pay would I then be able to download the software.

I use print master and and find my cards on Pinterest and download the then open PM create from scratch the click on the camera icon on the top of the page it opens the downloads double click on the download you you got from Pinterest and it opens on you created page .

Hallmark Card Studio program for macOS, in particular Sequoia will be available in early May and back to being able to be used for all MAC users.

From The update is expected in early May 2025