Persona Chat - AI Characters

Persona Chat - AI Characters

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42 ratings
27 reviews
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  • Released
  • Updated
  • June 17, 2024
  • September 5, 2026

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Create and interact with custom AI characters for immersive storytelling. Design unique personalities, backstories, and engage in dynamic conversations across various genres. Experience multi-character adventures and personalize your digital avatar.

Create custom AI characters
Design unique personalities and backstories
Engage in dynamic, context-aware conversations
Group chat mode with multiple AI characters
Design a digital avatar
Import characters from venus.chub.ai
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What's New in Persona Chat

2.4.0

September 5, 2026

Arc, Visual References & Chat Controls Two new ways to shape a scene — and everything you need is now one tap away. PersonaChat Arc — a model that follows the scene • Arc is a new choice in the model list. Everyday replies stay quick and light. • When a scene reaches a difficult character moment or a real turning point, Arc can hand that message to a model better suited to it, then settle back down again. • There is nothing to set up and nothing to tune. Arc reads the moment for you. • Choose Arc when you begin a story and it stays with that story. A conversation already under way can't be moved onto it, so start a new one to try it. Arc works in one-to-one chats on the built-in models. Visual References — show them something • Attach a photo from your camera or your library, and the character answers what is actually in it — a room, an outfit, a place, a look on someone's face. • GIFs work too. The first frame is used. • The picture is read and described so the character can respond to it inside the story. • Leave a couple of ordinary exchanges between pictures, so a scene stays a scene rather than a slideshow. Chat Controls — everything in one place • A new controls panel inside the chat holds your AI model, your Lorebook, your Living memories, and the last summary. • Last summary is on the start screen as well, so you can read the rolling summary of earlier messages before picking up where you left off. • No more leaving the conversation to change one thing and then hunting for your place again. Models • Qwen 3.5 Flash has been replaced by Qwen 3.7 Flash. • Mistral NeMo has been retired. • Sampler defaults are retuned across the built-in models, and Top K now starts at 0 — set it to 0 to consider every token, or 1 to keep only the most likely one. It's hidden for the models that don't use it. Also • Ads now come round less often — every 5 messages in one-to-one chats instead of 4, and every 8 in group chats instead of 7. Premium removes them altogether. • A new app icon. It no longer changes with your theme — one icon, all the time. • Lore drafts now behave consistently when you're using your own OpenRouter key. Thanks for the reviews and feedback!

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1-Year All-Access Premium Plan

Unlimited daily messages & ad-free experience

$59.991 Year
Price Updates
September 8, 2026$59.99
January 11, 2026$49.99
October 20, 2025$24.99
August 3, 2025$69.99
December 11, 2024$89.99
August 31, 2024$89.99
August 8, 2024$69.99
July 6, 2024$99.99
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User reviews

Not Anymore

Read the privacy policy- this app is no longer private and usage data and dialogue is now transmitted and recorded. A universally unique identifier is used to track users and persists constantly. This application just plain does not support “Do Not Track” requests plain as day in their policy. The app used to have fantastic privacy and freedom, advertising how your chats and your content never leaves your device. It seems to have all changed as now when you read the privacy policy, so much leaves your device, is retained, and a unique IDs for your device are also retained for “analytics” by the owner and potentially third parties. Usages data and dialogue is now recorded through “VenusCloud” and “Downstream providers” so it seems like there is little to no privacy left. Cleaning the living memory removed it from your device but not from their “records”which they don’t explain how long they retain or who can view it, only using the excuse that it’s for abuse monitoring, security, or just straight up “other purposes”. EU users are able to opt-out of a few of these, while other global users do not get the same protection but are subject to the same invasions of privacy and asinine rules set in place by the UK since Venus cloud is UK based- notoriously awful for privacy and notoriously crazy laws there.

I used to really love this app for its speed, privacy, freedom, and laid back nature of just being able to start and explore any story. Now it’s just as corporate, privacy disrespecting, invasive, and tracker heavy as any of the others. I can’t recommend it to anyone. If these policies have changed so much in only a few months, then I have no reason to believe they won’t change even further to scrape even more private data from users, give it to even more companies and third parties, and restrict both normal and premium users even more.

Edit after dev response:
The response was a platitude of half truths that address the local storage and marketing but not the central issues: conversations and memories still LEAVE the device even if stored long term on device, third parties still access the data without mention of how they retain, log, view, or use them, and still the persistent UUID. Saying memories are “stored on your device” doesn’t mean they’re only processed there which is the whole point. The response just feels so silicon-valley like a half apology trying to argue the differences in “stored” and “processed” without actually denying the valid privacy concerns because they’re still being sent off, processed by third parties, and potentially retained by them. Just like other privacy-invasive parties, they also keep all of the processing under the guise of “Abuse” and “Security” or legal. This is a UK company, the same UK that has arrested over 50,000 people in the last five years for social media posts. Regardless of intent- I no longer consider this app meaningfully private especially when they used to so heavily offer that everything is, and have since changed the advertising as a regular of those changes. If I could give a zero I would.
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Response from developer

This review was genuinely disheartening for our small team to read. We’ve put a lot of care into PersonaChat, including its privacy, and we want to address the claims directly. We do not store your conversations on our servers or keep logs of their content. Your conversation history and memories are stored on your device. Relevant text is sent through our service to open-source models accessed through OpenRouter to generate responses. Prompts sent are not used for training. An installation identifier helps us protect the service against abuse. Its persistence across app launches does not mean we are constantly monitoring you. We do not use your conversations for marketing or sales. We accept that parts of our privacy policy were overly technical and confusing. We’ve revised the wording to explain our practices more clearly. But describing PersonaChat as having “little to no privacy” misrepresents the distinction between processing a request and storing your conversation history. We’re happy to answer specific questions. We care about getting this right, and we take your privacy seriously.

Good but

Good app but too many ads

Response from developer

Thanks for the four stars! We hear you, and we’ve reduced the ads slightly in the latest release. Running the AI behind each conversation is expensive, and as a very small team, we can’t cover unlimited free usage ourselves. Ads help pay part of those costs and keep the lights on so we can continue improving PersonaChat. We don’t love the interruptions either, and we’re working to find a better balance. Thanks for supporting us!

Broke/adds

For one, there’s literally way to many adds, after every 3 messages an add. And then the add messes up the actual conversation. It deletes messages, restarts the chat, or makes it so the bot is broken and keeps repeating itself , it’s ridiculous . And even giving a character/ OC ad detailed description. They all act the same. The only difference is if you add lore information
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Response from developer

Hi Teresa, we’re sorry the ads have been disrupting your chats. We’ve reduced them slightly in the latest release. AI responses are expensive to run, and ads help our small team cover those costs, but they shouldn’t cause messages to disappear or chats to restart. Were you returning from an ad, or had you closed and reopened the app? Also, were the missing messages unsent drafts or messages already in the conversation? Those details would help us investigate. For characters sounding alike, the setup may be missing some context, especially in the Scenario section. A detailed description explains who a character is; the scenario establishes their situation and how they relate to you. That could explain why adding Lore helped. Try opening an existing built-in character in the editor to see how each section is written. Please join our Discord community. We’d be happy to help you build your characters and look into the chat issues with you!

REVOLUTIONARY

This is the Greatest Advancement in writing in the last 20 yrs!!! Do you have problems with dialogue sounding like all your characters are you? This doesn’t do that. They stay in character. Yes, I admit I must use ChatGPT for the initial prompts for the scenario and character etc to create exactly the scene I want to play out but wow. This. This does it beautifully. It is glorious.

*For the Dev: Please never NEVER stop updating this app. Your work is near flawless. You must know how brilliant this is! Thank you so much for this. Premium Customer for Life! ❤️
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Response from developer

Thank you so much, Ellsbeth! ❤️ Reading this means a lot to our small team. Hearing that your characters have their own voices and that PersonaChat helps bring your scenes to life is exactly why we keep working on it. Your Premium support helps make that work possible, and your enthusiasm gives us a real boost. We have more improvements planned, and we’re so happy to be part of your writing process!

Can’t even use the app

How was UI so damn big you can’t even get past the first agreement

Response from developer

Hey Phillyman09, sorry for the slow reply. That sounds like the big text / Display Zoom setting blowing up the UI and pushing the button off-screen. What device and iOS version are you on, and do you have Display Zoom or larger text turned on (Settings → Display & Brightness)? That'd help us reproduce it and fix it fast. Easiest way to sort it out is to reach us directly — email support@venuscloud.com or hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/P2zfv65A9U

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FAQ

What is Persona Chat?

Persona Chat is an AI roleplay companion that allows you to create your own AI characters with unique personalities and backstories. You can then engage in captivating conversations and dive into various story genres like fantasy, romance, or adventure.

What are the key features of Persona Chat?

Key features include the ability to create custom AI characters in a Character Workshop, design their personalities and backstories, and set conversation styles. It also offers a Group Chat Mode for multi-character adventures and the option to design a digital avatar.

How much does Persona Chat cost?

The app is free to download and use, but it offers premium features through in-app purchases. These premium features include an ad-free experience, unlimited conversations, message editing, and response regeneration.

Is Persona Chat available on all devices?

While the description doesn't explicitly state compatibility, it is presented as a mobile application. Users can typically find such apps on both iOS and Android app stores, though specific device compatibility should be checked on the respective store page.

What are some common use cases for Persona Chat?

Common use cases include immersive roleplaying in fantasy or adventure settings, exploring romantic storylines, creating and interacting with original characters, and engaging in collaborative storytelling with AI characters that interact with each other.