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

Thanks for letting us know that 15.7 does not fix things. As for the releasing a compatible version they have been promising that for months now with no release yet.

Hallmark Card Studio seems to be running fine under macOS 26 Tahoe on my Mac Studio Max. Strange indeed.

I just loaded 15.7 and support Nancy's report that, no, 15.7 is not (yet) supporting Hallmark. I will have to download Tahoe and see if RetiredPapa and lkrupp's results aren't flukes, as I don't know why they'd tell Nancy it was yet to come otherwise.

I am curious that Hallmark has not told Mac users that Hallmark Card Studio for Mac v 22 has worked from beta to the final Tahoe 26. Hallmark has just released v23 for Windows. The post that Hallmark is no longer going to support the Mac maybe true!

I got the same email. It’s real. I did get a code for version 23. I also upgraded to Tahoe and the version that stopped working on Sequoia works with Tahoe. There are a few glitches with version 23 as an FYI.

Fred, Melinda, & others… just install Tahoe26. ;)

I tried it by upgrading to the latest Sequoia and it still wouldn’t work. Though I’m not nuts about Tahoe’s user desktop compared to the grand trees greeting us upon each start up, its overall functionality is not intimidating or unfamiliar.

If I were you, I’d just download and install Tahoe. You can leave your troubled Hallmark app in place; it will work out of the gate. Problem solved. And bonus: there may be other new features and tweaks to old ones that you’ll like.

Gosh, that is so nice of you, Hafcanadian - I live under a rock - I didn't know about Tahoe coming out. Looks like it was released on Sept 15, 2025. That is good news to hear that Hallmark Card Studio works with Tahoe26 MacOS. And it is very helpful to hear it still is not working with Sequoia. Thank you for taking the time...

The new V23 is here and free if you're a previous user. The older V22 version now works with the new OS Tahoe. Be careful though, Tahoe is still buggy. I can only see few differences between V22 and V23. I would keep V22.

How is the Hallmark Card Studio working for you? I was very close to downloading it, but after my last experience of having the program for only a year and then the iOS upgrade causing it to bomb. . . . I'm being cautious. My wife LOVES the program and she is anxious to get it back.

Thanks inadvance for your response!

Mjwilliusa-

mine worked fine on the half-fold I made after the Tahoe download, but like many I’ve not made a quarter fold for many years. I reckon the obvious is to avoid that option in favor of half’s until the fix. But thanks for raising the issue, and I’ll have to check my own software’s handling of quarter-folds, as well as stay tuned here for others’ experience with it.

Hallmark Card Studio for mac now working! At least for me. After installing OS 26 on my Mac I tried it & it worked as it did before OS 15. My Mac has the M-2 chip in it. I can't explain it but it works for those who kept the Hallmark software.

The best thing Hallmark can do to prevent a recurrence of this , it's happened before, is to give the task of rebuilding the app from scratch to someone capable. The only thing Hallmark has going for it is the premade cards, the rest (the app) is trash.

To save whatever the Hallmark brand name has left, Hallmark needs to hand the premade cards to a capable Apple software developer. There are plenty out there including some young entrepreneurs eager to do well. Avanquest the current Hallmark developer and its subsidiary are not the one to do that. They are Windows focused people porting windows stuff into Apple which results in not only bad software but lack the look and feel of true Apple products.

buggy as all get out? Nope. I’ve been running Tahoe since day one and it’s very stable. The few glitches are nowhere close to being showstoppers. Most of the buggy as all getup comments come from users who are upset about changes they don’t like or because options and commands have been relocated. Instead of learning to adapt they whine about changes.

What a mess Hallmark...not good for what used to be the top brand in the card business. At least they could have saved what little was left.

Sad, but at least it does work and the cards are more and better than anyone else has.

They just need to get a real Mac developer.

Not so fast...apparently it depends on what you have and what's running. V26.01 Tahoe flawless on my M2 MacBook Air, would not boot on iMac M1. The issue was (now corrected with V26.1) is it did not recognize ethernet right away and kept attempting to reboot. That's a showstopper. Tons of people had the same problem.

tbirdvet wrote:

You need to go through the next two screens to purchase and then it will show the reduced price. However, I now see it went from 19 to 29 dollars. What? It was $19.00 the other day!

Probably figured out that they can get more money out of Sequoia users.