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FatBooth

By Chad Sapieha, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Potentially mean-spirited app makes people look fat.

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age 13+

Based on 1 parent review

age 13+
its so funny and its great!! super fun and you can do anyone you want as long as you have a picture of them!!

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FATBOOTH is a one-joke app that transforms portrait subjects from normal size to fat size. It's simple to use; just frame a friend within an oval shown on your iPhone's screen, snap a picture, and then slide the markers for eyes, mouth, and chin over the appropriate areas of the subject. Then shake your phone to switch between normal and fat versions of the person in the photo. You can save the fat pictures and send them to others by tapping icons for email, Twitter, and Facebook at the bottom of the screen. It works well enough for what it is; subjects look authentically obese. However, most people will grow tired of in minutes, and those who don't will likely use it only to make fun of the people they morph into more obese versions of themselves. There's really not much to recommend it.

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