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The Paper Camera app is a photography app created to make your photos look and feel like drawings or paintings. This app can be found in both the App Store for $2.99 and the Google Play Store for free. It is rated for users of all ages and offers in-app purchases. It is safe for kids.
What is Paper Camera?
The Paper Camera app is a photography app created to make your photos look and feel like drawings or paintings.
This app can be found in both the App Store for $2.99 and the Google Play Store for free. It is rated for users of all ages and offers in-app purchases.
This app lets users "see the world through a cartoon lens!", as this app takes real-time photos and displays them as cartoons and paintings. Meaning that when you use this app, your camera will display the view through your lens as a cartoon or painting.
This is different from most apps on the market as typically you would need to take your photo through your camera, save it to your photo roll, and then apply a filter through the app. The Paper Camera app does all that and more in real time and not only can you take photos with this app, you can also take real time videos as well.
In-app purchases allow users access to the video importer as well as to remove the watermark from their images and video. In addition to taking real time photos, users will be able to import photos and videos from their camera roll just like in any other app.
Common complaints for this app relate to the fact that this app has not been recently updated and has been giving some users issues. Some complain that this app is outdated, that there are bugs, and that this app often crashes while others praise the fun nature of this app, even though its features are limited.
Is Paper Camera safe for my kids?
The Paper Camera app is safe for kids, but there are better options out there.
Users should know that the developer of this app no longer is updating their website and that includes their privacy policy. Parents should consider one of the many other photography apps in the app store instead of this one. There are many free apps that will do what this app does and more, albeit, maybe not in real time.
Otherwise, parents do not have much to worry about when it comes to this app. It is essentially an extension of the camera that is already built in your child device.
Parents will want to discuss spending habits with their child before purchasing this app even though the two in-app purchases offered are only one time purchases. Parents may also want to use this app as an opportunity to discuss appropriate photo taking and use with their children.
Parents should know that Paper Camera can connect directly to user's Facebook accounts to pull both contacts and photos, and features multiple sharing options directly from the app (social media, email).
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