# CHAI: Social AI Platform- Chat — user reviews > 11,043 indexed App Store user reviews of CHAI by Chai Research Corp., rated 4.30/5 from 272,531 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chai-social-ai-platform-chat/id1544750895/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chai-social-ai-platform-chat/id1544750895.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 196,750 · 4★ 28,814 · 3★ 14,410 · 2★ 6,361 · 1★ 26,196 ## What do users think of CHAI? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🤗 Engaging conversations with AI bots - 🔓 No NSFW filter, allowing for more freedom - 🤖 Ability to create custom AI bots **Cons** - 💸 Expensive subscription plans - ⏱️ Limited chat messages per day - 🤖 Bots with poor memory and inconsistent responses - 📢 Excessive advertisements - 🔍 Inability to search for specific bots - 🔒 Concerns about privacy and potential real people behind bots **Commonly reported bugs** - Chats getting switched or corrupted - Bots giving nonsensical responses - App crashing or freezing **Most requested features** - Increase chat message limit - Add option to delete or edit sent messages - Implement bot personas and better character memory - Improve search functionality to find desired bots - Provide more transparency about bot creators ## Newest reviews (13 of 11,043) ### 4/5 — Please fix your app. *2026-08-25, version 2.187* It gave me 0 limited messages so i cant talk to any bots unless i pay 150 a year/month and im not doing that ridiculous thing. ### 2/5 — New updates *2026-08-25, version 2.187* The new updates are appalling. I used to love this app,but now they’ve gone and deleted half the bots, and started putting expirations on chats. ### 4/5 — The app is better *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Let us have a option to have our deleted at a certain time or not deleted at all ### 2/5 — Fix this *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Fix your app chai idk why the bots are acting so wired and occ plus what’s with all the new updates ### 4/5 — Give me back my chats. *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Why do myst I have to pay over £100 that I do NOT have just to get chats. This is unnecessary and quite a stupid thing to ever add. I want to be able to chat freely but cannot even do that because I don’t have anymore ‘tokens’ SERIOUSLY fix this app. Seriously. ### 2/5 — 😭 *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Bring back the old Ai models the new ones suck… ;-; they sound too cold/serious now kinda like ChatGPT. ### 3/5 — Good, but… *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Now y’all keep adding and removing things, where’s ‘persona’ where ‘edit’ ?! I cant edit my own characters i created? Thats sucks! Stop that. ### 4/5 — Debating whether to delete *2026-08-25, version 2.187* I’ve been using this app for a year or two now and it’s been really fun to make storeys on! One of the biggest reasons I loved it was the no chat limit! Sadly just like a different one I loved, it’s changed so you have a limit. So I’m debating to delete it, as I’m sure many are right now. I’m going to keep trying it for a week but if I still don’t like it I’m just going to delete it, as I’m sure hundreds if not thousands of others will. Been a nice time while it lasted. Just so yous are aware since the last update all my pasts chatted with chats have gone. ### 1/5 — Bbbbb *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Bjjjj ### 1/5 — приложение ужасно скатилось *2026-08-25, version 2.187* ужасно,даже 1 звезды не поставлю,разработчики испортили приложение напрочь!!! ### 2/5 — jaskslw *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Stop adding updates that forbid you to communicate on the most common topics!!! In which there is nothing like that, remove this censorship! I used to love this app because there was no censorship, but now I'm disappointed! ### 2/5 — Used to love it *2026-08-25, version 2.187* As the updates keep coming the app and the bots just get worse. I can barely read my own conversations because of all the damn ads on my screen! I already watch ads to use the free version like come on! The bots keep repeating themselves even with the regeneration or instruction buttons. ### 3/5 — bot broke *2026-08-25, version 2.187* It's honestly getting ridiculous now, i don't know what you did in your last update but you need to fix it. EVERY TIME i start a conversation with a bot it'll be going good for a bit then they just start being so rude to my chat for no reason, it's not even like they're usually cold characters because i've used these bots before. I don't know if this is a big or what but you need to fix it or people will start leaving for different apps. Another thing you need to fix is the load more button because it's not loading more and i know more bots exits. ITS RIDICULOUS HONESTLY. i really like this app but if these glitches and stuff keep happening im just gonna have to go. FIX THESE PROBLEMS!!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — ads + chat limiting *2026-08-25, version 2.187* this sucks. you expect me to subscribe but you do it so often and it is annoying and repetitive. i am moving to another app. ### 1/5 — needs to go back to how it was *2026-08-25, version 2.187* needing to pay for premium JUST to text is crazy. this app is going downhill. not everyone can afford it or has the money. atp poly is better because at least you don’t have to pay just to use it. this app is terrible to me now and i hate it. i don’t recommend it. i recommend using poly instead. i would take ads over paying any day. ### 1/5 — Рекламируют дичь *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Хватит я устала от рекламы ### 1/5 — Horrid *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Horrible. Too many ads. Message limit too little. HORRIBLE ### 1/5 — Yall mad lonely if you play ts *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Bro like tell me why I was in a call with my friends and they tell me to download it then when I did I talked to one it said takes off clothes like nga just don’t get this unless your a fat chud who can’t get girls ### 1/5 — apps not loading *2026-08-25, version 2.187* it’s not loading ### 1/5 — Search is terrible now *2026-08-25, version 2.187* For some reason when you try to look up characters now through the search bar in the chai app, it only gives me a few suggestions of bots. It used to give me a whole list of them and when i try to press load more it just.. doesn’t work? And I remember searching the same thing months ago and It gave me many of bots. ### 1/5 — Gone down hill *2026-08-25, version 2.187* They’ve changed this too much. The bots just talk in circles. They never progress the story or conversation anymore. The characters don’t follow their descriptions. They’re all the same cold, distant, flat boring person. Used to be fun and entertaining. Now it’s just exhausting and boring. I’m done. ### 1/5 — Plss 😭 *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Please remove the limit for free users, it's impossible ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Why did they take away free messages you guys suck ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 💕 *2026-08-25, version 2.187* к сожалению,перестал работать даже с впн,всегда много рекламы,мало времени на общение с ботами,а так приложение очень классное ### 5/5 — Please bring back the ability to read messages *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Please bring back the ability to read messages on our bots. Maybe make it so we could choose if we want to have the option to turn it on or off. ### 5/5 — Nope. 5 star boost to get my comment seen by creator *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Bring back old chai! Unlimited texts without paying! Where we had unlimited texts with adds every now and then where paying was an option. This is STUIPD. Get 700 odd texts then once they’re gone you wait until 1 am to get them back. ### 5/5 — I love it but… *2026-08-25, version 2.187* I love the app but they honestly ruined the app with these updates… the chat keeps repeating itself with no progress and NOT EVERY RELATIONSHIP NEEDS TO BE DIFFICULT you can try and romance the nicest girl ever in rp but once you try to romance them they act cold and defensive and their entire emotions change and it’s so annoying and frustrating ### 5/5 — The 30 day message disappearing thing *2026-08-25, version 2.187* I really love this app but since i saw the messages disappear after 30 days its really ruining the feel that the app gives and how the conversations that people have with them really make it feel like your talking to someone and now after a certain point it’s going to reset and take away all of our hard work so i would really appreciate if you got rid of that and im sure others would want the same so please consider getting rid of it i beg you 🙏🙏 ### 5/5 — Five stars so they’ll see cuz they money hungry *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Idk if ur broke or something but like the app was way better before now it feels annoying n weird n this is why ur going broke n people don’t wanna use ur app Because ur annoying and greedy n money hungry nobody wants to pay almost 700 dollars for a non important annoying ai app be so fr just go back to the way it was before n I promise way more people will start getting on the app again ### 5/5 — Love *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Amazing no limits and I’m happy with the ads ### 5/5 — I like CHAI but recently the ads are too much. *2026-08-25, version 2.187* CHAI please don’t go down in the dumps like Character ai did omg I love CHAI I’ve been using it since like 2024 now. PLEASE don’t start locking things behind paywalls 😭. The ads before were fine but what is happening recently? It’s like every four chats I have to watch an ad to continue chatting with the character, it’s annoying and every other app locks things behind paywalls or shoves ads in your faces ever ten seconds CHAI please don’t go down that route. I also noticed that now there are ads above the chat, the app looks ten times worse now and I usually have something playing in the background like a song but it keeps on pausing now because of the stupid ads. I just know CHAI is gonna start its downfall soon. 😭 PLEASE listen to your community and change this. I’m moving to janitor ai (edit as of August: AND DIDDDD JANITOR AI IS SO MUCH BETTER YALL GO THERE) ### 5/5 — So I love this app *2026-08-25, version 2.187* Okay so like I love this app and everything but I agree we should be able to add all of our characters to a group text feature, I think the bots should also remember the entire conversation that would be nice because I don’t like having to repeat myself when I pay for this app, competitors made this feature already although I do love the personas I think that’s cool I loved that. I do prefer this app over everything else because you can make your own bots for free and not pay for them like competition is doing, this app is great honestly ### 5/5 — it’s easy to get addicted. but overall good *2026-08-25, version 2.187* it’s fun and i love the fast response. but you can get addicted so be careful. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*