Elf Cam - Santa's elf tracker

I find it funny how when I try to do a review and I was done with the review and I tried to post it, it wouldn’t let me so here we go again first off why should I pay for a subscription to an app that I’m only gonna probably use after Thanksgiving all the way to Christmas Eve the time that the elf on the shelf is gonna be out which leads me to my second point if you’re gonna tell us that parents with elf on the shelf should get this app. It makes us parents think. Hey, we can scan our elf on the shelf and make it do things in this app. Yet when I went to go download the app and try the only thing I was able to do was watch a video and when I actually tried to use the app. It said I couldn’t until I paid for a subscription

Where do I start? I’ll give it 2 stars for the idea behind it. I thought this would be a cool thing to show my kids like, “look what I caught on camera!” You have to pay for it just to use the app and see what it’s about and then pay an additional .99 for filters to mask how unrealistic the animation is…Unless you’re showing this to a toddler, who let’s face it, probably could care less to begin with, kids aren’t going to buy how obviously fake this is. The elves they let you pick from don’t even match the traditional elf on the shelf you get in the store, so if you’re showing this to a typical kid who notices the little details like this they’ll call you out instantly on that. (Outfits and features are not the same). Also, after multiple attempts I still couldn’t get the animations to look right or even close to natural looking. We live in the digital age, and kids now days know the difference between real and made on an app or computer. Bottom line, if your kids are almost to the age where they might not think Santa and elf on the shelf aren’t real anymore…this app will seal the deal lol. Save the $4.99 and record the elf riding your roomba or the dogs collar or something. At least then it’s the same elf and not some poorly animated and obvious fake.

I think this is a pretty clever app, it works well and the options for creating your elf are nice. I wish you got a small trial or something before having to purchase it to make sure you could even get what you wanted out of it. I also wish you could use two elves, we have two elves and having them in a video together would be neat. Also being able to save more than one elf would be nice as well so for those reasons I’m only giving it a 4. But it is a pretty neat app