PaperFriend

Photograph a drawing your child made on white paper. PaperFriend cuts it out and turns it into a 3D paper doll you can stand up in your room with AR. Then your paper friends come alive on the Play Stage. Made for little ones aged 2 to 5 to play with a parent.

On-device drawing to 3D paper doll

The app finds the paper, flattens it, traces the outline of the drawing, and gives that shape thickness so it stands like a real paper doll. No AI redraws it — your child's lines and colours stay exactly as they were, because the drawing itself becomes the texture.

PLAY STAGE — FRIENDS COME ALIVE

Put your paper friends on the stage and tap one: it wiggles, jumps, spins or plays peekaboo, with happy sounds. Tap "All together!" and everyone dances at once. No reading needed — just tap and laugh.

Drawings stay on this device

Photos of drawings are never uploaded. Cutting out and 3D conversion run here on your device, and the results are stored only inside the app. There are no ads in the app.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

• Photograph a drawing — one photo is the whole setup
• Stand it in your room in AR, move it around, resize and turn it
• Put your friends on the Play Stage and make them dance
• Keep the moment as a photo or video
• Come back to the characters you made and stand them up again

DRAWINGS THAT CUT OUT WELL

White paper, dark unbroken lines, good light. Keep the whole sheet in frame, roughly straight on. If there are several drawings, the largest one is used.

MADE FOR LITTLE ONES AND PARENTS

Three big crayon buttons — Draw, Friends, Stage — and pictures and sounds instead of text. Settings and the purchase sit in the Parents' corner behind a grown-up check, where you can also turn sounds and vibration on or off. Free to try with up to 3 paper dolls; one purchase (Unlimited friends) removes the limit — no subscription, no account, no ads.

AR NEEDS A SUPPORTED DEVICE

Standing a doll in your room uses ARCore, which not every Android device supports. Making, keeping and viewing paper dolls works on any device.

TEN PAPER FRIENDS INCLUDED

A cat, a dog, a dinosaur and seven more come with the app, so you can stand one in your room before you draw anything. They were made by this app from crayon drawings, not by a designer.