IMVU
High RiskIMVU is a 3D avatar-based social platform where users create characters, chat by text and voice, and hang out in user-made rooms. The App Store lists frequent mature or suggestive themes and occasional sexual content or nudity, and its catalog of user-made items and rooms puts kids in the same spaces as adult strangers. Police have traced child exploitation cases back to IMVU accounts.
Remove this app immediately if found on your child's device.
Documented Incidents
Predator ActivityOct 2024
IMVU Tip Leads to Arrest of Man Messaging a 13-Year-Old
Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, arrested a man after a CyberTipline report from NCMEC flagged an IMVU account sending sexually explicit messages to a 13-year-old girl's account. He was charged with unlawful contact with a minor and other offenses.
Source: Lower Bucks SourceApp Information
Age Rating
16+Platforms
iOSAndroidWindowsMac
Checked October 2026
Key Risks
- •Mature and suggestive user-created content
- •Rooms and avatars designed for adult role-play
- •Text and voice chat with strangers
- •Gradual desensitization through avatar interactions
- •Real money purchases of virtual items
- •Private rooms with strangers
Warning Signs
- •App/program with 3D cartoon avatars
- •Child spending money on virtual items
- •Secretive about what 'rooms' they visit
- •Avatar dressed provocatively
What Parents Can Do
- ✓Remove from devices
- ✓Talk about what content they may have seen
- ✓Block in-app purchases
- ✓Watch for similar virtual world platforms
Safer Alternatives
- →Roblox with parental controls
- →Minecraft