A father waving at his desktop computer during a video call
A girl lying on a sofa, smiling at a tablet

Video calls for dads and kids who live apart

iZiViD is a video-call app that lets you easily plan your child’s favorite stories, games, drawing and videos for the next call and enjoy them together live.

Stay part of their world.

Free plan, no credit card needed.

An iZiViD call opening on a greeting theme, on a monitor and a tablet at once

Greeting

How do I make each call feel special?

Start and end your call with a personalized theme for your child. Connect visually before the call even starts. Create one yourself or choose one from the community.

Personal video content playing on both screens during an iZiViD call

Watching

How do I bond with my child in a video call?

Share experiences by watching photos, videos and YouTube together.

A picture book open on both screens during an iZiViD call

Storytime

How can I help my child read from afar?

Teach your child new words, help them learn to read in your native language, or introduce a new language together.

A colouring page being drawn on both screens during an iZiViD call

Drawing

How do I talk naturally with my child in a video call?

Start a drawing together and the conversation will follow naturally.

A game board on both screens during an iZiViD call

Gaming

How do I bond through a video call?

Adapt to your child’s playfulness and play personalized games together.

A Goals and Rewards activity on both screens during an iZiViD call

Parenting

How do I stay involved as a dad from afar?

Set clear parenting goals and let your child play to earn rewards you would have given anyway.

A learning set on both screens during an iZiViD call

Learning

How do I share my knowledge with my child in a video call?

Use filters to teach your child about any topic you like.

See for yourself how your next call can look.

  1. The simulator’s Appointment screen: your next call with Sam, today at 19:00, with a session plan of Greeting, Watching, Gaming, Drawing, Storytelling, Parenting, Learning and Goodbye.
    Plan Plan your next call: choose what you will do together and put it in order.
  2. The simulator’s Lobby: frames to choose from, the camera preview, microphone, speaker and camera settings, the session timeline and a Join now button.
    Lobby Get ready for the call: check your camera and sound, choose a frame, and see what is coming up.
  3. The simulator’s In-call screen: the child on the main stage during Greeting, with the session timeline of activities below.
    Call Move through the plan together while both screens stay in sync.
  4. The phone simulator’s Lobby, in landscape: frames, a Gaming preview, device settings, the session timeline and a Join call button.
    Lobby Get ready for the call: check your camera and sound, choose a frame, and see what is coming up.
  5. The phone simulator’s In-call screen, in landscape: the child on one side and a Gaming activity on the other, with the session timeline below.
    Call Move through the plan together while both screens stay in sync.

Your turn This is the live simulator. Click around, then scroll on when you are done.

How it works

Three steps. Most of it happens before the call.

01

Schedule your next video call.

Your kid gets the invitation link by email, and can safely login with the 4-digit PIN, which you have provided separately.

02

Prepare your call

Line up what you will do together and save precious time.

03

Run it together

During the call, your Session Timeline becomes the shared flow.

Move from one activity to the next while both screens stay in sync.

Media Selector
GreetingWatchingGamingDrawingStorytellingParentingLearning
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Sleepless

Why can’t I sleep?

The room was quiet, but Sam kept thinking about tomorrow. Dad read slowly, one page at a time.

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Reward unlocked
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The Hearts frame around your hello

Session Timeline Target Duration:65 min
  1. GreetingHearts
  2. WatchingFunny animal videos
  3. GamingMemory Game
  4. DrawingCat Running
  5. StorytellingSleepless
  6. ParentingExplorer
  7. LearningAlphabet

How do I start preparing a video call?

A community of dads just like you.

Save time. Find out what works best for other dads.

Personalise media and activities to your kid's interests and tastes.

Browse Community
Frames
Filters
Images
Videos
Music
YouTube
Games
Drawings
Books / Stories
Goals & Rewards

Try one of the Community items

Pick any item on the left to see how it works.

Teaching pointer
My Hands Children
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‹Animal House›
  1. Frames — Hearts
  2. Filters — Alphabet
  3. Images — Allosaurus And Velociraptor
  4. Videos — Cartoon Frog Sitting In Garden Pond
  5. Music — My Hands Children
  6. YouTube — Wheels on the Bus | @CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs
  7. Games — Memory — Animals
  8. Drawings — Grumpy Bear
  9. Books / Stories — Animal House
  10. Goals & Rewards — Explorer avatars

Create it your way

Make it personal.
Save hours of prep.

Adapt to what they love. Turn it into something you can do together.

Add Media: Frames

Source

Frame(s)

A birthday party with balloons, bunting and confetti. Bright, playful cartoon style.
How many?4

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 frames created

Add Media: Filters

Source

Filter(s)

Learning filters for world animals, vehicles, numbers and the alphabet. Clear and colourful.
How many?4

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 filters created

Add Media: Images

Source

Image(s)

Pictures for Sam’s dinosaur week: friendly dinosaurs in sunny scenes. Colourful picture-book style.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 images created

Add Media: Videos

Source

Video(s)

Short, funny clips: a pig riding a scooter, a dancing cartoon and a curious squirrel.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

3 videos created

Add Media: Music

Source

Audio track(s)

Cheerful songs for Sam’s beach holiday: sandcastles, kites and birds. Ukulele and handclaps, with vocals.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 tracks created

Build A Sandcastle2:34
My Kite1:42
Bird On A Branch2:05
My Hands0:58
Add Media: Drawings

Source

Drawings

Colouring pages of friendly animals with bold, clean outlines.
How many?4

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 drawings created

Add images to your story

Prompt set detailsSleepless · 7 pages in this Story

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Create AI prompts for all pages in this Story

I am illustrating the Story “Sleepless”. Please create 7 illustrations, one for each page, in the order listed below. SERIES STYLE — Sleepless Every image in this set must follow this style exactly. Medium: soft gouache, gentle night-time palette of deep blues and warm moonlight.
Generate✓ Created

7 page illustrations created

7 of 7 images readyFinish import
Journey & theme

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Upload character set

AI character set

Describe the character set

Three friendly pirate crew members in one consistent, colourful cartoon style.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

3 characters created

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Goals & steps

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Goals and images set

AI goal set

Describe the goal set

Brush teeth, drink water and be polite. Bright, friendly pictures a young child recognises.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

3 goals created

Brush teeth
Drink water
Be polite
BackContinue to milestone rewards
Milestone rewards

‹ Sources

Pictures for all 3 rewards

AI reward set

Describe the reward set

Small surprises for each milestone: a sticker, a balloon and a bubble wand.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

3 rewards created

Sticker
Balloon
Bubble wand
BackContinue to final treasure
Generate full AI prompts

Prompt set details4 active pairs · 4 source images for identical matching

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Describe the complete set

Image direction

Space adventure: rockets, astronauts, the moon and planet Earth. Friendly and colourful.

Generate using

iZiViD AI
Generate✓ Created

4 matching pairs created

CancelUse in Memory

Frames

Generate frames for holidays, special occasions, or your kid’s favourite animals.

Filters

Visualise almost anything you want to teach or explore together.

Images

Create personal image sets or an animated holiday slideshow.

Videos

Create short, funny clips around subjects your child loves.

Music

Generate a personal song or soundtrack for your child.

Drawings

Create drawing templates of almost anything your child likes.

Storytelling

Create personal illustrated stories, or import an EPUB and add illustrations.

Characters & Avatars

Create personal characters, avatars and card sets for games and activities.

Goals & Rewards

Create goals, steps and rewards that motivate your child.

Memory

Turn a generated image set into a personal game you can immediately play together.

Memory
Parent 2Child 1
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Safety

You stay in control of your child’s call.

The same Account controls used in iZiViD keep family access visible in one place.

Trusted adults

Adults you invite and approve.

You choose which adults are part of your family group, and you approve every invitation they send.

Permissions

You decide what each trusted adult can use.

Calls, messages and every activity permission can be set for the individual adult.

Call content

You choose what enters your child’s call.

Images, videos, books, games, YouTube and Goals & Rewards stay under the permissions you set.

Trust built in

No public messaging. Public messaging and open chat are switched off. No ads. No data sold. iZiViD shows no ads of its own, and we do not sell your personal data.

YouTube content remains subject to YouTube’s rules.

European privacy protectioniZiViD B.V. is based in Amsterdam and operates under the GDPR and Dutch data-protection law.

Research

“The key conclusion is that the effect of the video call is determined by what is happening during the call and not by the platform itself.”

Click, Call, ConnectStudent research project · University of Amsterdam (UvA)

The project investigated how structured video calls can help long-distance parents maintain emotional closeness with their children.

Read the research →

AI-assisted explainer based on the original research report

Start for free

Your next video call can bring you closer than ever.

As easy as any video call tool you know, with powerful extras that keep conversations flowing and awkward silences away.

  • Call as often as you want.
  • Build your reusable Session Timeline.Plan the call once, then adapt it again and again.
  • Use activities from the Community.Games, frames, filters, stories, videos, drawings and more.
  • Make it personal.Use AI-assisted prompts to create content around what your child loves.
Start your next video call for free
Session Timeline8 activities · 70 min
  1. 15 minGreetingHearts
  2. 210 minWatchingFunny animal videos
  3. 310 minGamingMemory Game
  4. 410 minDrawingCat Running
  5. 510 minStorytellingSleepless
  6. 610 minParentingExplorer
  7. 710 minLearningAlphabet
  8. 85 minGoodbyeButterflies

Ready-made Community collections

  • Frames for every occasion12 frames
  • Letters, numbers & animals6 filters
  • Dinosaurs8 images
  • Animal clips6 videos
  • Space Memory4 card pairs
  • Colouring pages9 drawings
  • Picture books3 books
  • Explorer Goals & RewardsAvatars, goals & rewards
  • Kids songs6 tracks

Questions dads ask

Anything else before you start?

FaceTime, WhatsApp and Google Meet are mainly built to help you see and talk to each other. iZiViD is built to help you spend time together.

Prepare a Session Timeline, watch videos, play games, draw, read stories, work on Goals & Rewards or use content your child already loves.

The call no longer has to depend on conversation alone. There is always something you can experience together.

If your current video calls already give you the connection you want, you may not need to change them.

iZiViD is for the calls that have become repetitive, too short or difficult to keep going. Instead of searching for another question to ask, you can simply move on to something you planned to do together.

It takes the pressure off the conversation and gives both of you more reasons to stay in the call.

During a real visit, you do not sit opposite each other talking every second. You watch something, play, draw, read, learn, laugh or simply spend time together.

iZiViD brings that same idea into a video call. Instead of forcing conversation, you can be together and share experiences.

No. It works as easily as the video call tools you already know, with powerful extras built around the call.

You can prepare as much or as little as you want. Build a Session Timeline beforehand, choose something from the Community, or simply start the call and use activities when you need them.

Using the Session Timeline in Support →

You can start for free. Your child never needs a paid account to join your calls.

If you later want more, additional options are available and you will always see your local price before you pay.

Membership & pricing in Support →

Children from about 2 to 12. Different children enjoy different ways of connecting, so iZiViD is built around activities rather than one fixed age group.

Choose games, stories, drawing, videos, learning activities and other content that matches your child’s age, interests and attention span. The interface adapts to the age you set, and you decide which tools are unlocked for each child.

Age settings in Support →

A laptop, desktop, tablet or phone with a camera, a microphone and a stable internet connection — we recommend at least 5 Mbps. Current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari are supported. A working camera is required on both sides: if you switch your video off, your child’s feed pauses too.

You can prepare the Session Timeline and activities beforehand, so your child does not need to organise the call or prepare content themselves.

Devices & browsers in Support →

Not necessarily. You schedule the call, and your child joins with the link and PIN you gave them. How much another parent or trusted adult is involved depends on your child’s age, device access and family situation.

If another adult needs access or needs to help your child join, you can invite your child’s other parent or another trusted adult. Every invitation they send your child comes back to you for approval.

Trusted adults in Support →

Yes. You can use your own photos and videos alongside iZiViD content — add them from your device or your cloud storage, or prepare a YouTube playlist to watch together in real time.

That makes it easier to build activities around memories, interests and things that matter specifically to your child. Netflix and similar subscriptions are not supported yet.

Sharing photos & videos in Support →

Yes. Everything you create starts private to your family. Personal media and activities do not have to be shared with the Community.

You choose per item, and only share something when you deliberately decide to.

Safety & privacy in Support →

iZiViD is built for one-on-one calls, because that is where the relationship is. Two children can sit together at the same device, but two child accounts cannot join the same call from different places.

Multiple children in Support →

iZiViD works in most languages, and the community library can be filtered by language so you find content your child can actually read.

From the Calendar in the right-hand menu: pick a date and time and confirm the session. On desktop you can add it to your own calendar in one click.

Scheduling in Support →

Only for a planned call, and only from ten minutes before it starts. Until you begin the call, the rest of the app stays closed to them.

Child log-in in Support →

Not covered here? View all Support questions →

Your next call can already be different.

Free plan, no credit card.