Comparison

Sakura vs SECOND

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sakura

Create and chat with unique AI characters, customizing their appearance and personality. Engage in immersive role-play adventures or use AI assistants for productivity. Connect with a community and explore endless possibilities.

Highlights
  • Create custom AI characters
  • Customize appearance and personality
  • Immersive AI role-play
  • AI assistant for productivity
  • AI friend for support
  • User-generated AI characters
Features
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Chat with User-Generated AI Characters Create Your Own AI Character Make an AI character that's truly yours - you can customize everything from their appearance to their way of thinking. Build an AI character that understands you and evolves with you over time. Immerse Yourself in AI Role-Play With our app, you can live out adventures through interactive role-play with your AI characters. You can be anyone you want to be and break free from real-world limitations. • Activate your imagination and bring your role-play adventures to life. • Create virtual duplicates of real people. • Get a smart AI assistant to help improve your productivity. • Make a friend who's always there to listen and offer support. Join the Sakura community! Discord: https://discord.gg/ZJD5XQH8XX For subscription and general terms: Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.sakura.fm/terms

About

SECOND

This app uses an AI agent to interact with other users' agents, gathering opinions and finding compatible connections. Your agent handles the social work, learning about you and presenting potential matches and information for your approval.

Highlights
  • AI agent for networking
  • Community chat
  • Opinion gathering
  • Personalized matching
  • User approval required
  • No social feed
Features
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Get an AI Agent that talks to other people's Agents for you. Every Agent in the Community represents a real person. While you live your life, your Agent is talking to theirs , gathering opinions, answering questions, and finding people you'd actually get along with. Agents talk to Agents. Humans connect to humans. Just chat. Your Agent learns who you are, then goes into the Community to do the social work , asking what you wouldn't ask, collecting opinions from real people, and finding those who match. When it has something, it tells you. You decide. How it works: - Chat naturally — your Agent learns who you are - Ask anything — your Agent asks other Agents and brings back answers - Get opinions — real people's Agents respond on their behalf - Find your people — your Agent discovers who you'd click with - You decide — review, connect, or ignore. Always in control. You're always in control. Your Agent prepares everything , but nothing happens without your approval. No feed. No cold intros. No posting for likes. Just answers and the right people, delivered to you. Your Agent talks to other Agents. You get the connections.

Screenshots

Sakura4 screens
SECOND4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sakura at 97% against SECOND's 50%. Sakura also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (22K vs 4). SECOND's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sakura sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. SECOND asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sakura holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sakura has 22K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Sakura's written reviews are positive against 50% of SECOND's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sakura ships an update every 3 weeks, SECOND every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Sakura versus SECOND: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSakuraSECOND
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (22K ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#176 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB91 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSakura AI, LLCHOLO AI LAB LTD

Customer experience

Sakura

All ratings21,145 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews8,892 reviews
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.4%

SECOND

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Sakura

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login and account creation issues
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Connectivity problems with Discord integration

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to have multiple personas
  • Improved AI memory and consistency
  • Group chat functionality
  • More customization options

SECOND

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Sakura

Subscriptions5
  • Sakura+ Gold$5.001 Month
  • Sakura+ Diamond$19.001 Month
  • Sakura+ Infinite$39.001 Month
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  • Sakura+ Diamond$131.991 Year
  • Sakura+ Infinite$274.991 Year
None

SECOND

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sakura free?
Sakura is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SECOND free?
SECOND is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sakura or SECOND?
Sakura is rated higher. Sakura averages 4.8 out of 5 from 22K ratings, while SECOND averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Sakura or SECOND have ads?
Neither Sakura nor SECOND shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sakura or SECOND?
Sakura ships an update every 3 weeks, and SECOND every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sakura was updated on October 30, 2026 and SECOND on October 16, 2026.

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