My daughter gets very limited monitored phone time on the weekends or long trips to play art and learning games. She loves to play with filters, too, but I don’t want to grant her access to something like Snapchat that overly-beautifies her image and will wind up giving her a complex.

Does anyone know of any kid-friendly filter apps that will turn them into animals or make their faces look funny, without all the weird filters that are unnecessarily adult or sexy?

  • Like the wind...English
    5•1 day ago

    Yeah, you probably won’t find any. My phone has a stupid AI “beauty” filter that makes me look exactly like Kim Kardashian and I hate it. While I hate my appearance, I do not want someone else’s. And I hate how one person is considered “pretty” and you need to be her to be pretty. Annoying as hell. Unrelated, no one asked.

    I’d honestly just recommend online-image-editor.com but it’s a website not an app, and is very vintage internet. Of course one of the best photo editors is made during a time when the internet was about fun and not competing and money.

    Tl;Dr online-image-editor.com, make your child a bit more tech savvy.

  • @neatcheeEnglish
    3•1 day ago

    Unfortunately most, if not all, of these AI filter apps offer some sort of beautification, as it’s very popular and a good source of user acquisition

    It looks like the best you’ll find is something like B612

  • toofpicEnglish
    0•1 day ago

    On Android it’s Family link. You can:

    • make a schedule like “1h max mo-fr, 2h max sa-su”
    • add time or lock the device manually (that’s our usual bargain point with kids - do stuff, get 30 mins)
    • lock some apps completely, or unlock to ignore all limits except nighttime (can be also set up)