Sakura vs PerChat AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create custom AI characters
- Customize appearance and personality
- Immersive AI role-play
- AI assistant for productivity
- AI friend for support
- User-generated AI characters
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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
PerChat AI
Engage in private AI conversations powered by your own device. Create detailed characters and enjoy offline chat experiences. Enhance chats by using a Mac or Windows PC as a remote server for more complex interactions.
- On-device AI processing for privacy
- Offline chat functionality
- Create detailed AI characters
- Role-play with various personas
- Use Mac/Windows PC as remote server
- Curated LLM model selection
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PerChat AI, the chatbot app powered by your own devices. Unlike other AI chatbot apps, all Characters, Chats, and data remains on your iPhone at all times and no data is shared. This app can run AI chats all on your iPhone if you wish, no internet required! It supports a wide range of iPhones, starting from the iPhone XS and up. 4GB of RAM is recommended but the more RAM you have, the better! If you happen to have a Mac or Windows PC lying around, you can have more complex and interesting chats by using that machine as a remote server for this app. Note that remote chatting is only supported on your own home network, or with the use of a VPN to access outside your home. You can run the PerChat AI server on your Mac or Windows PC with some hand-picked models, or you can run your own server such as LM Studio or Ollama, and have character chats using those tools. Features: - create richly detailed Characters to chat with, and Personas to chat with - partake in epic conversations with dungeon masters, real celebrities, or any character you can imagine - choose from a curated list of LLM models that will run well on your iPhone to change the flavor of your chats - run a vast number of LLMs on your own Mac or Windows PC to offload computing, and improve chat quality
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PerChat AI at none against Sakura's 5. PerChat AI also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Sakura's advantage is ratings volume (22K vs 4) and chart position (#169 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Sakura sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. PerChat AI asks for nothing beyond the download.
PerChat AI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. 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 100% of PerChat AI's.
Sakura ships an update every 3 weeks, PerChat AI every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sakura | PerChat AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (22K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #169 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Sakura AI, LLC | Ryan Laseter |
Customer experience
Sakura
PerChat AI
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
PerChat AI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sakura
- 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
PerChat AI
No in-app purchases
