IMVU
High RiskIMVU is a 3D avatar-based social platform where users create characters and interact in virtual rooms. While marketed as creative, the platform contains sexually explicit user-created content, rooms where avatars engage in simulated sex acts, and has been used by predators to groom children through gradual exposure to sexual content.
Remove this app immediately if found on your child's device.
Documented Incidents
Predator ActivityJun 2020
IMVU Used to Groom 12-Year-Old
A predator used IMVU to gradually expose a 12-year-old to sexual content through avatar interactions before attempting to meet in person.
Source: Local News ReportApp Information
Age Rating
17+Platforms
iOSAndroidWindowsMac
Last updated: 7/20/2026
Key Risks
- •Sexually explicit user-created content
- •Virtual 'sex rooms' and adult avatars
- •Predators use platform to groom minors
- •Gradual desensitization through avatar interactions
- •Real money transactions
- •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
- ✓Discuss what content they may have seen
- ✓Block purchases
- ✓Monitor for similar virtual world platforms
Safer Alternatives
- →Roblox with parental controls
- →Minecraft