# Tavo - AI Roleplay Frontend — user reviews > 82 indexed App Store user reviews of Tavo by Bitbear Limited, rated 4.77/5 from 324 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tavo-ai-roleplay-frontend/id6744438897/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tavo-ai-roleplay-frontend/id6744438897.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 211 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Tavo? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Completely free to use - 💡 Supports memory function - 👍 Convenient and easy to use **Cons** - 🐛 Issues with network connectivity - 🐛 API key setup can be tricky **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent 429 errors when using the API - Compatibility issues with certain devices **Most requested features** - Add voice input functionality - Improve performance to reduce device heating ## Newest reviews (14 of 82) ### 4/5 — 应用商店更新版本太慢了 *2026-07-26, version 0.89.2* 官网更新版本应用商店要延迟一个月多，太慢了 希望同步更新一下 ### 3/5 — Can’t restore chats because restore files must match the app version it was made. *2026-07-19, version 0.89.2* Please make a fix for this. It kind of gets rid of the confidence in restoring back up versions which means you only can restore currents so you’ll lose chat. Be very careful, if app versions aren’t a match then you can’t restore anymore. I think I have to wait until the App Store version matches the android version or chats will be lost. Other than that great app’ ### 3/5 — No transparency about the pricing model, it's free now, may not be in the future *2026-07-17, version 0.89.2* Hopefully they stick to partnerships with API companies instead of charging for this frontend. It's really easy to throw a couple bucks in openrouter and get this set up, chat and story quality using deepseek 3.2 is higher than most paid platforms and youd have to use it all day and night to hit 1 dollar a day, cheaper than most montly subs if you play 3-5 hours a day everyday or just ocasionally. My subs would always expire with me having played a day or two so I definitely prefer using an API myself and save money this way. You can optimize to make it cheaper or more expensive/advanced. ### 3/5 — would be 5 stars *2026-06-04, version 0.85.0* this app is definitely the best ai app i’ve ever encountered and this would %100 be 5 stars if i was currently not bawling my eyes out, there were some glitches in the app, for some reason the bot decided to get stuck in thinking, i would completely exit out of the app but it didn’t fix the issue, so i decided to delete the app, i didn’t know that i had to back it up first, i’m sure you could guess what happened, had to completely reset my phone to the latest backup, which sadly was a couple days ago, meaning i lost a lot of bots, chats and personas i’ve been working hard on… could you at least have a log in, like google for us stupid users who some how miss the memo. It's really traumatizing to lose data as a CHAI AI escapee. Not to mention the money that just got wasted in those chats. Probably lost 30 dollars of chats. ### 5/5 — 希望能有一个存放角色头像图片的文件夹，还有角色/世界书/正则之类的分组存储 *2026-05-01, version 0.80.1* 我在做一个随着对话角色而改变背景图片的功能，但是没办法在charaCard里面存储图片，更不能改图片，我想到的办法是一个个创建角色然后调用，但是会多出来很多实际不使用的角色，好麻烦，当然也可能是我没想出来好办法。可以给一个文件夹让用户上传图片和编辑吗？我个人真的很需要。 还有玩的久了世界书和角色之类的会很多很乱，如果能有分组存放的文件夹机制就太好了。 ### 5/5 — very very nice *2026-04-29, version 0.80.1* It gave me so many wonderful experiences! ### 4/5 — Silly Tavern: But Phone *2026-04-13, version 0.78.2* Got the app because I've been using ST on my laptop for months and the process of downloading it on IOS confused me terribly, so this was definitely an amazing find. It's essentially the same as ST (if you're coming from it like I did) but it does lack some QOL features that ST had (which is also why I've removed a star). Small things that I'm not the biggest fan of: the message display. Like with other programs, you can generate multiple responses to the message you sent and look through them. However, Tavo will not let you look through responses before the current one (e.g. if you genned 5 responses, you're on response 4 and you want to go to response 3, you can't go directly from 4 to 3, you have to go 4-5-1-2-3 to get to the third message.) It's more a personal peeve with the app than anything, but it is quite annoying. Especially because the buttons to reroll a message, shuffle through messages, continue the latest message, and write for user are ALL right next to each each and quite tiny. I've fatfingerd to continue instead of re-roll many many times. Another thing is the ability to tag bots. On ST, I was a very heavy tagger because I had 300+ bots and it's nearly impossible to keep up with that. From my experience with Tavo, tags essentially do nothing? Or at least nothing I've noticed. They don't show up when searching through bots, and they seem to be little more than flavor text. Even then, those are my only true issues with the app. It's amazing in every other way. Perfect for whenever you need it and convenient to use anywhere! Love it. ### 5/5 — 用的开心 *2026-04-12, version 0.78.2* 非常好，从来没有见过这么朴实的app ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-04-10, version 0.78.2* So this app is great let’s start there; great API tuning and has great memory. One of the better AI apps for sure. Please keep the app as is I don’t have any complaints so far. If you must start the ads and subscriptions please remember your day ones!. ### 5/5 — Simply Exceptional. *2026-03-25, version 0.76.0* Highly customizable, easy connection settings, TTS, beautiful chat windows. Outstanding. My only request? Slightly more feedback for TSS loading/ready. ### 5/5 — （已解决）更新 7.5 之后 token 一直爆啊 *2026-03-20, version 0.75.2* 问题解决，是情景设定被反复引用跑了28万token出来 官方回复很快，第一次遇到这样有问必答一天解决问题的官方 好评好评五星好评👍👍👍👍👍 把世界书删了聊天记录清空了 API 换了，一发还是立刻爆 ### 5/5 — the best ever app for rp *2026-03-18, version 0.73.2* the idiots who ruin the rating by giving one star have obviously confused this app with character.ai, cause this is a fronted app for comfy roleplay with a bunch of functions for those who know at least a lil abt api, css, scripts and etc. this is a simpler analogue of sillytavern, which, btw, doesn’t have ‘free keys’ and characters cards. all the character cards need to be dragged from other sites. nothing can be free forever under capitalism. even deepseek isn’t free anymore. so whiners who want everything for free can safely turn back to character.ai and it use ‘for free’. me personally adore this app. very user-friendly and intuitive interface. 🫶 ### 5/5 — Enhancing feature idea: Assets *2026-03-11, version 0.73.2* Tavo is a fun AI RP chat app with a clean UI and very responsive system, but it’s missing the feature that would push it into “must-use” territory: asset support. Please add emotion assets (expressions/mood states the character can reliably use) and image assets (character/scene images the chat can reference or trigger). For context, another RP app/community tool called Risu.ai does this by letting creators attach modular “asset support cards” (think: plug-in packs) and character modules (their newer “V3” approach) so a character can ship with bundled emotions + images in a structured format (they use something called charx to package character data). You don’t need to copy them, but the idea is proven: treat assets as first-class, shareable modules. If Tavo adds something like this, roleplay quality and character consistency jump immediately. Thank you for your time and consideration. I’m a big fan of Tavo and I can’t wait to see how it improves from now on! ### 5/5 — So much custom *2026-02-28, version 0.71.0* Been quite enjoying this, both from a character design place and an AI understanding place. I like how switching APIs work, I like the preset sysprompts you can setup and how easy it is to switch. Give me Markdown support, a locally syncing desktop version, and more modes beyond characters and I’d probably exclusively use this. Favorite app I’ve found on a min. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Complex setup process and unstable Gemini integration *2026-06-27, version 0.88.1* The app only provides free access via a Gemini API key, with no option to connect to other AI models for free. Furthermore, the initial setup process and connecting the API keys is quite complicated and unintuitive. The app clearly does not meet its '4+' age rating: a four-year-old child could not handle this independently, and most parents would likely struggle to understand how to set it up as well. Beyond that, using the app whenever you want is nearly impossible, as Gemini is almost constantly overloaded with requests, regardless of the time of day. If the bot encounters an error during generation due to server load, it still counts against your message limit, and since the response is often left incomplete, you are forced to regenerate it. Occasionally, the bot also triggers a 'censorship' error over completely harmless words. While this is rare, it is extremely frustrating—especially with long prompts—because the bot doesn't specify which word caused the issue, making it difficult to figure out what went wrong. 😔 ### 1/5 — 咋充值啊每次都失败 *2026-05-29, version 0.85.0* 🙈 ### 1/5 — Not free *2026-05-08, version 0.81.3* Too complicated, seems like I need to pay to setup anything ### 1/5 — 新版数据隐私提示无法关闭 *2026-05-01, version 0.80.1* 在小平机上面无法关闭 ### 1/5 — regarding the "free" features *2026-02-24, version 0.71.0* none of the features are free you have to get an api key which eventually will cost money nothing in the app may cost anything but you do have to pay to talk to it ### 1/5 — Trash CN *2026-02-24* The app and communication is running by kiddos moderators who though themselves are God's with morons and bad behaviors. If it not front end but chat site, they gonna censored everything. Try to delete this review. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-01-29, version 0.69.1* Byfar an HORRIBLE app. Will not let me chat, and saying stupid stuff abt an api key? This is an horrible app why do people like it so much?? I only rated it 5 stars js for it to go up so ppl can see this. ### 1/5 — Literally worst app ever *2025-12-27, version 0.63.1* What the actual f is that? You should literally find some key that is not free and make characters yourself just to chat a little. All other apps gives you option to chat limitless with other creators’ bots but this just is trash ### 1/5 — 🥲 *2025-09-02, version 0.29.2* 金鑰匙到底是什麼 ### 1/5 — 不好用 *2025-07-21, version 0.29.2* 聊一聊就一直發生錯誤根本沒法培養 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 超好用！！！ *2026-07-18, version 0.89.2* 可以自己捏角色，自己导入角色卡正则什么的有很多老师免费投喂而且是存在本地的完全没有安全隐患 ### 5/5 — This app is 10/10 *2026-07-06, version 0.89.2* I love it, is my replacement for silly tavern. Please devs keep working on it, this app is a masterpiece. Also a suggestion, please work on a weird bug that it makes the app close itself while changing ai models with open ai providers option. Besides that, this app is perfect. Love the privacy and respect for the users. ### 5/5 — Love this app, and I’m enjoying watching its evolution *2026-07-02, version 0.89.2* There’s a lot of great features, and I do think it’s very close to SillyTavern performance without the headache of a complicated setup and overly complex customizations. This is very beginner friendly—There’s just one thing I’d really like to see added alongside the Impersonate feature: An Enhance Response feature, so the LLMs can enhance and improve upon the users response before we send it. I only know of two sites with a feature like this, and it’s the best thing on those sites, neither one allows the level of customization a proper frontend does. ### 5/5 — Absolutely amazing! *2026-06-23, version 0.88.1* I decided to give Tavo a try, as it's my first time using AI for chatting/roleplay. The tutorials for setting up an API connection, making characters and such were really helpful and it works perfectly! Even chat themes are customizable, only thing I wish was more explained is how, and where, to find Tavo JSON chat themes to import, as I can't seem to find any when searching online... ### 5/5 — This app is 10/10 *2026-06-07* I love it, is my replacement for silly tavern. Please devs keep working on it, this app is a masterpiece. Also a suggestion, please work on a weird bug that it makes the app close itself while changing ai models with open ai providers option. Besides that, this app is perfect. Love the privacy and respect for the users. ### 5/5 — Suprisingly really good *2026-06-05* Hope they don't start trying to extract money out of ppl, then id just host sillytavern but id prefer to keep using this since I only use AI on my phone. It's really easy to throw a couple bucks in openrouter and get this set up, chat and story quality using deepseek 3.2 is higher than most paid platforms and youd have to use it all day and night to hit 1 dollar a day, cheaper than most montly subs if you play 3-5 hours a day everyday or just ocasionally. My subs would always expire with me having played a day or two so I definitely prefer using an API myself and save money this way. You can optimize to make it cheaper or more expensive/advanced. ### 5/5 — Really good *2026-05-26, version 0.83.2* Unlike other platforms, this app lets you customize how you want you to roleplay freely and super easily. It’s been amazing so far. It’s really easy importing characters, you just have to copy a link from a character from a different platform and then paste it into tavo and boom. It’s done. Just really well done. This app is my favorite so far. ### 5/5 — It’s perfect *2026-05-23, version 0.83.2* It’s what I been looking for that’s just like sillytavern took a lot of work to get set up and running and had a lot of help now I don’t need their other apps This lets me manage my own bots and and chats on my own server it let me be in control of it all unlike other ones. ### 5/5 — Good mobile alternative to SillyTavern *2026-05-19, version 0.82.1* While nowhere near as complex as SillyTavern, it has the core stuff you need to have an enjoyable experience. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-05-09, version 0.81.3* Perfect for roleplaying, including group chats and importing characters with ease. My one and only little complaint is that when I receive a long response that fills up the screen, I can’t type a reply and look at the top of the message at the same time because it forces me to the bottom of the response and closes the text box if that makes sense. Would be very grateful if you could fix! ❤️ --- *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 2026-09-02.*