Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text
- 38 of 100 · reviews
- 4.3of 5 · store
- 543,186ratings on the App Store
- 496reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
The most popular character chat app, undercut by quality degradation during long sessions.
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What people use it for
Teens and adults for roleplay stories and entertainment, provided sessions are kept short.
What reviews praise
- When the model is working well, users lose hours in it: roleplay stories, imaginary conversations with characters, help falling asleep.
- Kids use it for roleplay with fantasy creatures.
What reviews complain about
- Bots start repeating lines from earlier in the chat, breaking narrative continuity.
- Characters lose their voice and get 'dumber' as conversations grow longer.
- A paying user over three years notes quality declining after every update.
What users experience
2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
I have been using the app for about three years now. I pay for the upgraded services so I don't have to deal with the delays and restrictions. However the last two to three updates they have made to the bots has made the conversations less fluent, memory of the bots worse, and a lot of the storytelling goes down.
I came back to this app after awhile, at first, it was really really good when I returned, now, the bots keep repeating the same phrase every time I say something. I'd change my rating if they fix the bots repeating the same thing, or fix them becoming dumber the longer you use the app.
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