# Comic Relief introduces celebrity swear jar app

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/19/comic-relief-introduces-celebrity-swear-jar-app/
- Published: 2017-03-19T12:40:16+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**For Red Nose Day, Comic Relief has released a swear jar app that will donate 20p
of your money to the charity every time your phone hears you swear.**

The app, which is free to download, uses Google’s voice recognition technology to
spot choice epithets, blasphemies and potty mouth Anglo-Saxon expletives.

And you’ve only got yourself to blame. For the donations to flow, you have to pledge
a maximum pot of money from which the app will extract and donate 20p each time 
it hears your filth.

## Advertisement

There is even an element of gamification involved. You can compare your four-letter-
word creativeness (and it recognises more than that of course) with that of others,
including your friends, on the ‘Wall of Shame’.

The swear jar app features several of Comic Relief’s celebrity supporters, and several
more have demonstrated how it works in YouTube videos. We’ll let you find those 
as they are NSFW.

![Don't be a bell end. Advert: Grey, London](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/
2022/01/dont-be-a-bell-end-comic-relief-swear-jar-app.jpeg)

Don’t be a bell end. Advert: [Grey, London](https://sites.wpp.com/wppedcream/2017/advertising/promo_and_activation/swear-jar/)

## Turn the air blue for Red Nose Day

The app, developed with Grey Advertising, will track your swearing for a maximum
of 10 minutes at a time, and you can end the session before that if you wish. And
you get to initiate the listening session. The app isn’t listening to your speech
all the time.

The app is only available to those aged 18 or over. And it has a limited life-span:
it is **live between 17th March 2017 and 7th April 2017**. After that period, the
app will de-activate.

The terms and conditions state that “all donations are final”, so there’s no arguing
with Google and Comic Relief over what constitutes profanity.

> Poo bum arse tit – I LOVE to swear. This app hears you swear & pays 20p to [#rednoseday](https://twitter.com/hashtag/rednoseday?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> every time FFS! [#swearjar](https://twitter.com/hashtag/swearjar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [https://t.co/7uwOudUmCe](https://t.co/7uwOudUmCe)
> — Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) [March 17, 2017](https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/842550065415692288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## F in Fundraising

So, if you want to put the F in Fundraising (or effin’ fundraising), you can download
the app [for iOS](https://appsto.re/gb/E-Gmib.i) and [for Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swearjar.android).

## Other Comic Relief apps?

This year Comic Relief has created another app, [The Red Enojis](https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-red-enojis/id1211145471),
available for iOS users. It lets you insert and send Red Nose Day emoji (or an ‘
Enoji’)  in iMessages.
 

![Comic Relief's Red Enojis app](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/03/red-
enojis.jpg)

_Choose your Red Nose enoji…_

![Comic Relief's Red Enojis app](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2017/03/red-
enojis-imessage.jpg)

_… and share it in iMessage_