Cheddar: Creative Kids Camera

Tay Boy

About this app

A safe, ad-free camera app for kids ages 3 and up — a playful first camera for toddlers and preschoolers, full of creative fun they can do all on their own.

Say Cheese!
Take photos with your voice — just long-press the big yellow button and say "cheese!" Cheddar listens right on the phone, and nothing you say is sent anywhere. Made for wobbly little hands.

Photos that talk back.
Tap any picture and Cheddar describes it out loud in a silly character voice — Santa, Robot, Pirate, Wizard, Alien and more. Every photo becomes a tiny adventure.

Tell stories.
Kids record their own narration, then watch it replay with a slow, cinematic zoom — like a tiny movie of their day.

Go exploring.
Cheddar sends them on a real-world scavenger hunt ("find 3 wheels!"). Snap each one and finish to win a little celebration — no reading needed.

Play with your photos.
Their own pictures become the games: Peekaboo, Match Up, What's Missing, Spot the Difference, Where's Cheddar, a jigsaw, a photo booth with silly faces, and a rainbow to fill one colour at a time. Every one is spoken, so a three-year-old plays alone.

Share a memory.
Turn a favorite photo, or a whole story, into a little video with narration to send to Grandma. Nothing leaves the phone unless you choose to share it.

Made for little hands.
Giant color-coded buttons, goofy sounds, and zero reading — everything is spoken and pictured, so even a three-year-old is fully independent.

You set the limits.
Hand it over and relax. A grown-up toolkit lives behind a quick math gate:
- Per-hour photo caps
- Break timers that lock every screen
- Selfie lock (back camera only)
- Camera-only mode
- Delete protection

Private by design.
A walled garden — no internet to wander onto, no ads to tap, nothing to buy. Photos are never uploaded and no data is collected. Cheddar ships with no internet permission at all, so every feature works offline.

WHO IT'S FOR

A first camera for a 3, 4 or 5 year old. If your toddler keeps asking to borrow your phone to take pictures, this is the app to hand them. Big targets, no menus to get lost in, and nothing they can accidentally buy or wander into.

A kids camera app with no ads and no tracking. Cheddar has no internet permission at all, so there is no way for a photo to be uploaded and no data to collect. The voices, the descriptions and the photo hunts all run on the phone itself.

An offline camera app for road trips and flights. No wifi, no signal, no problem. Every feature works in airplane mode, which makes Cheddar a quiet-time app for long drives, waiting rooms and grandparents' houses.

Creative screen time you don't have to feel bad about. No streaks, no notifications, no autoplay, no "just one more." Cheddar sends kids looking up and around at the real world, then back to share what they found.

An old phone, made useful again. Cheddar runs on Android 8 and up. Wipe that drawer phone, install Cheddar, and it becomes a dedicated kids camera — no SIM card needed.

Cheddar is a kid-safe, offline kids camera and photo app for toddlers, preschoolers and creative kids ages 3 and up. Made by a parent, calm by design — no streaks, no notifications, no "just one more" tricks.

What’s new

New Night background, plus Follow Dark Mode to switch to it automatically when your phone is in dark mode. Kids can now delete their own photos, and anything deleted waits 30 days in Settings → Recently Deleted. Plus lots of fixes and polish across the camera, games and settings.