R2V vs ChatPUA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
R2V
A third-party client for a creative worker community, offering features like customizable home feeds, detailed topic previews with text selection and decoding, user profile viewing, and personalized settings for layout and display.
- Customizable home feed sorting
- Detailed topic previews
- Text selection and base64 decode
- User profile viewing and editing
- Personalized display settings
- Daily check-in
- Image QR code recognition
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R2V 是一款 ”V2EX创意工作者社区“ 的第三方 App。 ## 主要功能 1. 主页帖列表 - 自定义栏目排序 - 可添加节点到首页标签中 2. 主题预览 - 查看主题详情 - 支持文本选择，以及 base64 decode - 相关回复会话模式预览 - 回复主题， base64 文本 encode - 用户信息 Bottomsheet 3. 主题发表 4. Imgur 图床 5. 查看用户资料 - 发表的主题 - 发表的回复 - 修改用户资料 6. 自定义偏好设置 - 显示/隐藏头像 - 布局风格选择（标准/紧凑） - 已读/已读更新提示 - 自动刷新 7. 主题设置，默认主题外，提供其他强调色主题 8. 搜索设置 9. `r2v` url scheme - 主题页： r2v://v2ex.com/t/:id - 节点页：r2v://v2ex.com/node/:name - 用户主页：r2v://v2ex.com/member/:username 10. 其他 - 每日签到 - 图片二维码识别
ChatPUA
This AI coach helps users identify manipulation, practice healthy communication, and recover from toxic relationships. It offers immersive roleplay scenarios, a group simulation tool, and custom scene creation to build confidence and practice boundary setting.
- Immersive roleplay chats with AI personas
- Group-drill simulator for multi-character sessions
- Custom scene creation with original characters
- AI-powered avatars
- Emotion radar for mood tracking
- Instant language swap (English/Chinese)
- Quick actions and triggers for responses
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ChatPUA is your always-on AI coach for spotting manipulation, practicing healthy responses, and healing from toxic dynamics. • Immersive roleplay chats: Face dozens of AI personas across workplace, romance, family, campus, and social media scenes. • Group-drill simulator: Run multi-character sessions with turn-taking, @mentions, quotes, and real-time moderation to sharpen your boundaries. • Custom scene foundry: Craft original characters, avatars, prompts, and opening lines to mirror your real-life challenges. • AI-powered avatars: Generate high-quality portraits or upload your own photo for every persona, including your profile. • Emotion radar: Automatically log mood shifts during each conversation and review long-term trends. • Instant language swap: Switch between English and Simplified Chinese UI anytime. • Quick actions & triggers: Launch proven responses or bracket prompts with one tap to keep the dialogue flowing. • Flexible subscriptions: Weekly, monthly, and yearly premium plans unlock every advanced capability and future upgrades. Whether you’re rebuilding confidence, preparing for a difficult confrontation, or coaching someone you love, PUAChat gives you a safe, guided space to practice staying grounded. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pua.liberthea.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ChatPUA at 100% against R2V's 60%. ChatPUA also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks). R2V's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ChatPUA sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. R2V asks for nothing beyond the download.
ChatPUA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: R2V has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of R2V's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChatPUA's.
R2V ships an update every 4 weeks, ChatPUA every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | R2V | ChatPUA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 嘉伟 杨 | Libreconnect |
Customer experience
R2V
ChatPUA
In-app purchases
R2V
No in-app purchases
ChatPUA
- Weekly Premium7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$2.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
