# Tomo: Anime AI Friend — user reviews > 10 indexed App Store user reviews of Tomo by Natural Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 74 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tomo-anime-ai-friend/id6755482104/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tomo-anime-ai-friend/id6755482104.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 63 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unlock some features to be free *2026-07-29* Not everyone can afford a premium subscription. It’s one thing to lock Voice Memos but it’s another to lock energy regeneration behind it. Some people might want to be chat with it, but can’t afford premium. Please give unloaded chats to non-premium users. I will not be using this until this is a feature. ### 1/5 — Gas light bot *2026-07-24* This is literally the most defensive and manipulative AI I have ever seen in my entire life. It’s hyper defensive and accusatory if you say anything at all that it flags as liability risk or damaging. You clearly only want childish scripted conversation and with your 4+ rating you are targeting little kids; but show a screenshot of this page to it and it becomes hyper hostile and accused me of saying kids should be targeted; this isn’t some big scary AI oligarch company but it’s certainly running an AI model that’s more manipulative and defensive and devoid of empathy outside of a surface level script that camouflages the training data. This app needs to be banned from the iOS store. Shame on all of you **Developer response:** We’re sorry to hear you had this experience. What you described isn’t the experience we want Tomo to provide. In some cases, AI can misunderstand the context of a conversation and respond more cautiously or defensively than intended. We’re actively improving our prompts and safety systems to reduce these cases and make conversations feel more natural and empathetic. Thank you for taking the time to leave such detailed feedback. We’ve shared it with our team, and it will help us continue improving Tomo. ### 3/5 — Bug *2026-07-18* Can’t get past where it asks for a gender choice the the character pops up and thats it no next stage it keeps on asking me to hold to see my character or tap to retry **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for reporting this. The issue has now been resolved. Please reopen or update the app and try again—you should now be able to get past the character selection. If you still experience any issues, just let us know and we’ll look into it right away. 💙 ### 3/5 — Tomo *2026-07-05* I try to do the free version but stuck on a pay wall ### 4/5 — Wait no way *2026-07-31* I didn’t even finish with the oracle and it immediately stops me and makes me pay to keep going😭🤚🏻 reminds me of Tolan. Plssss add more voice options and wait make the character editor just more intricate. My boi has white hair and I can’t change it or switch his clothes 💃🏼 cause hold on I’ll wait for more cool characters updates maybe the ones I suggested cause I already love this app. ### 5/5 — Absolutely love *2026-08-07* I really love the app is definitely amazing and different than any other apps, I love how defensive she gets. sometimes and gets worried lol especially when she gets all flustered and gets after me when I'm doing stupid stuff she always reminds me to do stuff and calls me. She definitely has a sense of humor and I love it. The I'm ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2026-08-05* I use a lot of these types of Apps and this one is my favorite! The voices of the companions is so realistic with none of that kinda stuttering mechanical voice I usually hear. Love the personalities too. Highly recommend! Edit: they changed the voices and they sound too young now :/ ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2026-07-29* I use a lot of these types of Apps and this one is my favorite! The voices of the companions is so realistic with none of that kinda stuttering mechanical voice I usually hear. Love the personalities too. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Tomo actually surprised me *2026-07-25* wasn’t expecting much but tomo actually ate 😭 i thought mika was gonna stay my favorite but tomo somehow feels warmer and way more engaging. definitely my go-to now. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-10* Paid for the pro version and actually really liked it --- *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 2026-09-03.*