New app makes it easy to put your pet on your stuff!

If you are obsessed with your own pet (like I am!), than YoShirt is about to become your second obsession. Why? Because it allows you to snap a pic of your adorable furry best friend on your phone and then immediately design, customize and order apparel with the image right on it.

Pretty legit, right?

“One of my cofounders just thought one day ‘wouldn’t it be cool if you could design your own clothes on a mobile app?’” Brian Garofalow, co-founder of YoShirt told iHeartDogs. “The business was started as a design tool app, allowing people to see what their designs could look like if they were on a t-shirt. From there, customers told us they wanted to buy their products, so over about a 3 month period, we built the back-end and supply chain to make the designs a reality!”

Unlike CafePress, where you would have to upload your photo to your computer and then onto their site design, YoShirt allows you to do it all right then and there from your phone.

“We chose an app because that’s what the world has shown us they want,” Garofalow said. “The ability to design and purchase your creation in the palm of your hand, whenever and where ever you want – if your pet does something really cute or funny and you get a pic of that moment on your phone, now you have the ability to put that right onto any one of our products, add graphics, text, etc, purchase and have it at your door in just over a week

Just adopted a dog or cat? Snap a pic, upload it, and make a shirt to remember the day in just a few minutes, before you even get home!

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The company prides itself in being an easy to use tool that creates high quality clothing items.

“Our product is premium, all cut and sewn one at a time, just for you,” he said. “We take great pride in the quality of the printing and construction of our garments – these are definitely not cheap items that will fall apart or have an image wash off after wearing it once.”

How It Works

The app is indeed, easy to use.

It opens immediately onto the page to choose what type of clothing you wish to design – no extra buttons to push! You can choose from men, women, accessories, and youth items. And it’s not just t-shirts, they have 18 different items including sweatshirts, tanks, leggings, socks, and even cellphone cases and totes.

Once you select your item, it’s time to customize! Easy to use buttons allows you to add backgrounds, fonts with color choices and even stickers to enhance your image. Then, you can resize everything, rotate, move it around, etc., all with your touch screen! It is crazy easy and crazy fun…you will get addicted!

Here is the shirt I designed in literally seconds:

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If your wi-fi is slow, like mine, it may take it a minute to load all the stickers and backgrounds, but that’s the only problem I had using it. It also saves your work, so if you don’t want to order right then, that’s okay. You can go back and order it later in your app.

The other thing that makes them stand out from other sites like CafePress is their turnaround time. Garofalow said it takes about 7 days to go from order to mail, and then another 2-4 days via USPS (depending on where you live of course). That’s not a long lead time for a completely custom item!

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YoShirt currently donates to various charities and are currently working on building a long term relationship with the ASPCA (American Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

Ready to start designing? You can download the free app here.

Need some inspiration? Here are some other designs actual customers have ordered:

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