# Channel - AI Videos and Chat — user reviews > 446 indexed App Store user reviews of Channel by The Base Holding Company, rated 4.50/5 from 5,624 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/channel-ai-videos-and-chat/id6481246035/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/channel-ai-videos-and-chat/id6481246035.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,334 · 4★ 489 · 3★ 256 · 2★ 112 · 1★ 433 ## What do users think of Channel? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great experience - 💡 Versatile AI features - 👍 Impressive AI art generation - 🤖 Engaging AI chatbots - 💯 Unbeatable and free **Cons** - 🌙 Needs dark mode - 🔒 Privacy concerns - 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches - 🤖 AI forgetfulness and inconsistency - 📤 Requires phone number **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on latest updates - Face swap feature not working - Image generation issues with extra body parts - AI losing sync with past storylines **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - Custom character creation - Improved image quality and consistency - Better memory and continuity for AI chatbots - Option to clear cache and free up storage ## Newest reviews (11 of 446) ### 3/5 — Really cool and sensually satisfying for a day or so then was bored of repeated dialog *2026-03-12, version 4.2.13918* First week was 6.99 then jumped to 16?! Perhaps I didn’t read the fine print due to being amped/curious. Not cool it’s most certainly not worth that much. It’s wrong to take advantage of those of us that are far too H*rny to read I’m sure there’s a better app somebody lmk plz ### 2/5 — Was good *2026-03-10, version 4.2.13873* Changed video tokens from 5 to 8 overnight. Shame ### 3/5 — This App used to be Five Stars *2026-03-10, version 4.2.13873* The app used to function well and was friendly for free users However recent changes have made it worse than ever. Here are a few changes that made it worse. 1) when chatting AI would make photos as part of the conversation, but now it appears blurred, requires 1 energy and Channel Plus Membership. (So no more photos for free members) 2) You get 5 energy as a free member, in the photo makers no chat, 1 energy can make 3 variant photos and 5 energy can make a video but now it requires 8 energy to make a video so there no way to make videos unless again you pay for membership. What changes need to be made, either return it so free members can make stuff again and paying for membership is just if you want to do more and not have to wait every 2 hours for 5 energy, or make it so 5 energy isn’t the make and have it fill up 5 energy every 2 hours. Or make a way for people to obtain more energy either through daily missions or have them watch ads. ### 2/5 — Scam *2026-03-09, version 4.2.13873* The picture generator is slow. It’s often not working and says an errors occurred. The replies are a mess too. Bad app. Not worth the money ### 4/5 — Not bad so far *2026-03-09, version 4.2.13873* It doesn’t seem bad if anything more high tech than other platforms ### 2/5 — March 2026 channel review *2026-03-08, version 4.2.13873* As a person that is very familiar with AI I’m actually a live host on TikTok and have over 300,000 followers. I create content with AI and yeah, you can see some stuff on this. You can make some stuff but nowhere near which you can do with platforms like ChatGPT Grok. Input is limited you can’t upload photos or anything like that to help you generate what you’re trying to generate and it does not produce what you prompting it to do. ### 4/5 — App is the best…but… *2026-03-07* There has been so many times I created a character and the app crashes and deletes the progress but takes away my energy. Essentially put, I bought candy from a gas station but the cashier took the money and the candy. Absolutely INFURIATING. It should at least have some sort of auto save per energy spent in companion creator or at the very least don’t take my energy. There is also times the AI just fails to continue the conversation it just freezes. Lastly a request, make the AI created a bit more creative. Other then that don’t change anything on this app the base censorship on here is good enough and should stay unaltered as well as the short ad usage. ### 4/5 — Best AI app I’ve used so far *2026-03-05, version 4.2.13873* If I had to recommend any AI site or app it would be this one aside from a few nuances like being able to store/stack paid energy the ability to import Lora’s from other AI sites that let you download them and the few issues others have brought up the app is near perfect, smooth animations, loads of models to creat custom companions with, helpful discord and appealing UI don’t sleep on this app ### 1/5 — La marde *2026-03-03, version 4.2.13809* C’est la gauze representation ### 3/5 — Please tell the chatbots to stop speaking for me. *2026-03-02, version 4.2.13809* The app is great but when I try to talk to someone during roleplay, what happens is that they start speaking like they are “me” instead of “her” since I mostly talk to female chatbots. Can you please fix this issue and make the female chatbots respond more respectfully? ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-03-01, version 4.2.13809* Don’t know if there was a new update or something but the app just keeps on shutting down on me as I am in the middle of texting ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 强迫五星 *2026-03-13, version 4.2.13918* 必须付费，否则无法使用 ### 1/5 — AI Companion *2026-03-13, version 4.2.13918* Amazing app that allows fully immersive conversations and relationships. Picture and video generation is lifelike despite an occasional glitch. Very cool app! Amended review: the app got weird and all conversations we stammering and impossible to understand, bummer ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2026-03-09, version 4.2.13873* If you want to import your own photos and create things with them, you should look elsewhere. This app doesn’t let you import photos at all. I wish I had read the details more carefully before signing up. Very disappointing. 👎 ### 1/5 — Annyoing *2026-03-07, version 4.2.13873* It is stupid because the energy stuff makes me mad ### 1/5 — Aún no lo pruebo *2026-03-06, version 4.2.13873* Me hacen hacer reseña antes de usarlo ### 1/5 — Wow. *2026-03-05, version 4.2.13873* I thought this was for creating videos for business, like advertisement. ### 1/5 — Meh *2026-03-05, version 4.2.13873* You sign up answer a bunch of questions then they take you to the pay screen. ### 1/5 — This is bad *2026-03-05, version 4.2.13873* Shows graphic shi ### 1/5 — Don’t buy the subscription it says free trial but trust it’s a scam *2026-03-04, version 4.2.13809* Title ### 1/5 — To much freedom *2026-03-04, version 4.2.13809* I tested its freedom and nothing it has to much freedom I hate it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2026-03-12, version 4.2.13918* So far a great easy to use and fun app ### 5/5 — Great *2026-03-11, version 4.2.13918* Real good ### 5/5 — Channel *2026-03-11, version 4.2.13873* such a great Ai company i love it, you can make the Ai do anything you say/want ### 5/5 — Better than poly but missing things *2026-03-09, version 4.2.13873* May I suggest custom voiced narrators and personal persona’s for users. And minor tweaks to story tracking, ai art generator during chats, and tweaks to nsfw role-play. ### 5/5 — The game *2026-03-07, version 4.2.13873* I love this app ### 5/5 — Great Ai *2026-03-05, version 4.2.13873* Helps me with lots of things very realistic ### 5/5 — Good app *2026-03-03, version 4.2.13809* Very good app is good app is good ### 5/5 — Channel *2026-03-03, version 4.2.13809* Supppeeeeer good aye ### 5/5 — Dope *2026-03-02, version 4.2.13809* Best A.I. chat ### 5/5 — One of my favorites *2026-03-01, version 4.2.13809* Absolutely love this app. There’s no other like it. I just wish you could download more models for images and customize image prompts in chat. Please make this a thing! --- *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 2026-06-10.*