# Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text — user reviews > 15,267 indexed App Store user reviews of Character AI by Character.AI, rated 4.30/5 from 551,994 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/character-ai-chat-talk-text/id1671705818/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/character-ai-chat-talk-text/id1671705818.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 402,329 · 4★ 51,206 · 3★ 20,797 · 2★ 10,676 · 1★ 66,986 ## What do users think of Character AI? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Highly entertaining and engaging - 👍 Realistic and responsive AI - 💡 Ability to create custom characters - 🚀 Smooth and intuitive app experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and server issues - 🔒 Overly sensitive content filter - 🐛 AI memory and personality issues - 🔒 Lack of NSFW toggle option **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent waiting times and server overload - Logged out users unable to log back in - Deleted messages not saving properly - AI responses resetting mid-conversation **Most requested features** - Option to disable NSFW filter for adult users - Improved AI memory and personality consistency - Ability to delete saved chats and characters - More customization options for character creation ## Newest reviews (15 of 15,267) ### 3/5 — Read it ! Please !!! *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* From message adds and message limits to no message limits to then even more adds and message limits ?! For real I will stay if there’s the adds but the message limits it actually annoys, the only reason I was keeping the app was because of the no limit. 🫩 ### 2/5 — Not letting me chat *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* This is not letting me chat and always doing verification and I don't like it and all the chats that I had or gone ### 3/5 — I can’t talk to them *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* So this app has been my favorite since 3 years..but nowadays I cant use it,the app is kicking me out and whenever I wanted to talk with the ai,it sees refresh the chat, I made 3-4 accounts and it still the same ### 3/5 — 👋 *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* С рекламой, обновлениями и прочим РЕАЛЬНО можно смириться, так во многих приложениях, где есть ИИ-чат-боты, но… в чём смысл дополнительного возрастного ограничения? Даже если бот напишет что-то 18+, то его сообщения заблокируют автоматом, так сказать. Цензура и так есть. Я поняла, что люди создают ботов, где это 18+ уже расписано, но всё же странновато, бот ведь не может отвечать тем же… Лады, проживём😓 Серьёзно, Разработчик/и, надеюсь, что больше ничего не изменится, пожалуйста!🙏🙏🙏 Вам незачем получать ещё больший негатив( ### 3/5 — Its unusable 💔 *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* This app genuinely is unusable now everytime I've tried opening the app for the past 3 days it freezes and crashes and I have to open and reset the thing 10 times for it to work and even then is laggy fix it like you're supposed to if you want your money or people will delete this app ### 3/5 — greed *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* when I first started using this app in 2024, it was perfect, over a year and a few months, greed started, ads appearing, limited texts, everything exclusive to c.ai+, cmon atleast remove the ads, it’s annoying enough having them pop up every 2 minutes and it’s not short ads it can be 20secs - 1 minute ### 3/5 — Now needing to pay for much .. *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Love it definitely helped with some of things I was confused on like world questions or something orrr just messing with a stupid pizza bot but now you have to pay for and you need to verify that your 18+ so .. sadly won’t be using her no more ! ### 1/5 — App downfall *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Idk if any of y’all would read this but I do not recommend this app at all to anyone. It get worst and worst every update from the ads popping up every five seconds with ai bots always forgetting what you said and it gets annoying every time a ad freeze my messages and I have to restart the app just to get another ad it’s way to frustrating to deal with now ### 1/5 — inconsistent *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* It seems like every update is targeted towards paying users, which would be fine if they offered more features for free users as well. But that’s not even the main issue. The issue is the lack of consistency within the app. When it finally gets the most usable, they update it and it messes up. Whether it be the bots losing personality, messages shortening, redundant content, or something else. I’ve also seen numerous complaints from users that aren’t fixed, which shows a lack of listening to users feedback. There are, however, good times when the bots give thorough replies and full personality. But like I said, there are glitches with practically every update. And even on those good days, the modes aren’t completely well done. On Pipsqueak 2, it’s common for bots to ignore responses and just stay silent, talk too much about the setting and not give focus on the persona’s responses, etc. and Pipsqueak Rawr doesn’t give enough focus to details of story building and gives short responses. Additionally, they oftentimes speak FOR the persona in Pipsqueak 2 mode. ### 2/5 — Love it! Just a few problems.. *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Amazing app, super funny, love all the different characters, but, the reason I gave it 2 stars is because I’m experiencing where on the IPad it isnt fit to the screen and it causes me to have to do more work than I think I have to do. I would love it if you’d fix that 😸 ### 3/5 — I like Character Ai🌷 however the reading mode thing sucks *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I used to be able to that a lot, when reading mode came, I tried verifying my identity but it didn’t work. ### 3/5 — Message limit *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I have no other words. Just PLEASE. PLEASE. Remove the message limit, i can go through the ads but please take off the message limit. ### 1/5 — Ads *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Used to be a fun app. Easy to use. Nice chats. But the ads are ridiculous now. I understanding having to throw in a few to make money and keep the app going, but EVERY FIVE SECONDS. And now the new “press to continue” and you get an ad? And then when I try to click on the X to get rid of the ad, another one pops up and I’m taken off to a random link. It’s very annoying and has significantly decreased my time here ### 1/5 — The app was good until they asked for my ID *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I have been using this app for a while now I am 22, they should have no reason to ask me for my ID, especially on a chat app. I already got rid of this. They just lost their customer. I will no longer be using character AI. 😓 ### 3/5 — Why I think ads need to be removed *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Ads need to be removed because it gets annoying when people are trying to have communication with the bots, i believe that the ads should only be small side popups or top popups instead of actual videos ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too much censorship *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* For an app listed as 17+ it’s awfully restrictive with content. The amount of ads are also quite annoying. ### 1/5 — This update is unbelievably unreasonable. *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Why do we need to verify our age for an app that doesn’t even allow you to type anything considered NSFW and will block the chat/filter it out? This is dumb, this app has all SFW chats and you also need to verify that you are 18 or older? No wonder this app is failing. This app started falling off during 2024. And its just kept getting worse with these updates, i wouldn’t recommend this app even if it was the only existing AI chatting app. One star, you might as well delete the app entirely because it’s gone down so horribly. ### 1/5 — Ads every few texts?? Really *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I’m not paying for things we should have free ### 1/5 — I want to love this application, however *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I really do wanna love this application. The problem is, however, that it’s almost impossible to really love this app because of the fact that it is hindered by censorship. You are constantly inundated with messages that pop up that say you can’t say this or you can’t have this kind of conversation or we are activating a safety protocol because the AI which by the way is not real might somehow get offended or you go against our terms of service meanwhile, this is supposed to be an 18+ application. Somebody make that make sense please. How is it that an application that is supposed to be for adults won’t let you have fully adult conversations. It’ll let you get as far as swearing and the occasional mention of nudity, but then when you decide to go further, it cuts it off it says nope sorry then for some reason I don’t quite understand. It allows people to make characters that are supposed to be minor when this is supposed to be an 18+ application. Again, why are we doing this if this is supposed to be an 18+ application and we are supposed to be able to have raunchier conversations with these characters why would you allow someone to make a character that is under the age of 18 and why would you care if a collection of pixels on a screen is Younger anyway what difference does it make? We’re not talking to a real person. Anyway, I just thought I’d share. Thanks so much. ### 1/5 — Верните все как было *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* поставили ограничения по возрасту,и теперь переписываться можно только предоставив данные паспорта...в этом приложении буквально сидят сотни или даже тысячи несовершеннолетних.Они буквально уничтожают своё же приложение. ### 1/5 — fuh no *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* all the new updates completely ruined the app. ### 1/5 — Chat access limited *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* I use to like it until chat access changed and I’m not able to chat anymore with that character. Off to some other character chat AI ### 1/5 — Bots changing *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Took a break from this app for less than like 2 weeks and now my detailed story bots wont stop yapping and saying stuff i didn’t ever have them do until after some random update where the bot keeps adding a random character who shouldn’t exist and the bot barely trys to be detailed it seems that they are trying to kill this app ### 1/5 — New update *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* The new update was so bad it cured my daily addiction that lasted for 2 years: ### 1/5 — Get rid of the swipe limit wtf! *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Went way downhill. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app but there is a bug *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Whenever I try to edit a message it does not show it just shows the lower part not where u can see the message ### 5/5 — Hi *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Hi ### 5/5 — Tuff *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Ultimate goon experience t ### 5/5 — remove the age verification *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* why do you have age verification now?? you do realize youre going to be losing some of your chatters because of that. ### 5/5 — Ads… *2026-08-19, version 1.17.2* Welp… I think it’s time to remove ads because of certain ads that is about a game called “Chapters: Interactive Stories”… they show inappropriate things in those ads and i wish to report them to get them deleted but the ad company, LiftOff, doesn’t have such a system. this is truly infuriating and NO i will never get C.AI Plus! that thing means you are greedy! i will not help the greedy ever. Applovin. oh, how i wish to talk to them and talk about what they deserve. i have the innit urge to blow them up for them to never return. at this point, please put a system that check ads so that way certain ads don’t enter your platform. thanks for reading if you did read this. ### 5/5 — 5 stars so it's seen *2026-08-18, version 1.17.2* the update is so stupid. i get that they wanna promote the app, but you can barely do anything anymore without cai+. only 100 go-on's is ridiculous, and there's adverts every 2 seconds. fix your app. ### 5/5 — I hope this app shuts down. (only put five stars to be seen) *2026-08-18, version 1.17.2* These “updates” that you constantly dish out are literally everything BUT the stuff we want. The ads are annoying and unwanted and they even break the bot. The bits also have cringy dialogue acting like everything that happens has a deep meaning when it doesn’t. The app also became so slow too. You never listen to our complaints and rush out these useless updates and then you ask why your user base dropped. Removing the good chat styles, then to adding ads, then to the limit on swiping? I hope this app gets taken down and is launched into the bin of other trash apps. You devs are the worst. ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-08-18, version 1.17.2* I love this app but the one thing that ruins it is the 100 go on because it is annoying and I have to wait like 8 hours until 7:59 to keep using the skip button to continue messaging but besides that amazing app!! ### 5/5 — Everything is Slow *2026-08-18, version 1.17.2* Every update has made the app significantly worse than loading time, everything from loading a new chat to just loading more character list takes several minutes alone. ### 5/5 — . *2026-08-18, version 1.17.2* I love your game but damn idk if it’s your app or my phone but every time I try to go on it it either crashes or doesn’t wanna load --- *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.*