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IMVU: Fun 3D Avatar Chat Game

Show Your Style & Meet People

IMVU
No findings published
App Store rating4.6★364.6K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age17+Store age rating
Size311 MBiPhone download
CategorySocial
DeveloperIMVU

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 5 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version v14.12.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 14.13.0, updated 2026-10-07.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version v14.12.0, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

IMVU is a 3D social world where you can meet people, express yourself, and be part of a world shaped by its community.

Create an avatar that feels like you, explore thousands of community-created rooms and experiences, and connect with people from around the world. Whether you’re meeting someone new or hanging out with friends, there’s always something new to discover.

MEET PEOPLE & CONNECT

- Make friends from around the world

- Connect through voice chat, music streaming, and avatar actions

- Find communities built around shared interests

- Hang out with friends, join a party, or host your own

EXPRESS YOURSELF

- Customize your avatar with more than 60 million virtual items

- Shop clothing, hairstyles, poses, furniture, and more designed by the community

- Create your own looks, characters, and spaces

- Enter style challenges and vote on your favorites…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 0 shown, not confirmed

Context 1

Facts that add context without being a charge.

Cheapest and priciest options are far apart

Measured

In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 44.99 — a 45x spread across 10 items

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the App Store listing
Definition

The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

132 reviews read · 0 review-based observations

No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 5 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version v14.12.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 14.13.0, updated 2026-10-07.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version v14.12.0, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 14.13.0 · 2026-10-07
• IMVU's bug patrol has been hard at work squashing bugs. • Questions? Need help? Visit our Community Center: im.vu/help769

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 14.13.0 · 2026-10-07
• IMVU's bug patrol has been hard at work squashing bugs. • Questions? Need help? Visit our Community Center: im.vu/help769
Version v14.12.0 · 2026-09-08
• We're excited to introduce Room Hashtags, a new way to discover conversations, communities, and rooms that match your interests. • Turn up the volume on Product Actions! Roar like a mighty tiger, laugh like a hyena, and bring your actions to life with sounds everyone in the room can hear. • Questions? Need help? Visit our Community Center: im.vu/help769

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
imvu-apple-919745844
Assessment date
5 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
132
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-05 from 132 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-05 Version analyzed: v14.12.03 independent signals132 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.60 ★ · 364,581 ratings
Version
14.13.0
Updated
7 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
17+
Size
311 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
IMVU
Category
Social
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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