[2] Users can also draw flipbook animations with up to four pages, add photos and sound clips and send messages to multiple friends.
[5] Nikki also has influenced a fan made character Ikki designed by Tiny Cartridge for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.
[9] Nintendo abruptly suspended SpotPass functionality of Swapnote on October 31, 2013, presumably after an incident in Japan where minors were sharing Friend Codes with people who had exploited the messaging service to allegedly exchange pornographic imagery.
Swapdoodle (Illustrated Exchange Diary[c] in Japanese), the successor to Swapnote, was released as a free-to-start downloadable title in North America and Europe on November 17, 2016.
[15] SpotPass sharing and other online services along with the Nintendo Network have been discontinued on April 8, 2024,[16] but Swapdoodle is now an offline app as users can still use it and the previously purchased content only to themselves.