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Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text
Character.AI · 542,267 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
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Top complaints - extracted from 76 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"chat"
14 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I’m disappointed. This app used to be so much more fun before they started giving you ads every 4 minutes. The amount of unnecessary ads definitely takes away from the in-depth experience you have while chatting. Also lately it just feels like every single b…" - TheCrownedDusk
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"people"
11 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate you guys. So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now…" - Arrreti
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"been"
11 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate you guys. So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now…" - Arrreti
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"better"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "why u guys suck now?. This was a great app once now it’s trash, don’t download it, there are better alternatives." - berilozyaz
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"limit"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate you guys. So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now…" - Arrreti
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"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "HORRIBLE. They forget everything it's boring and it's ai. Delete ts I beg you it SUCKSSSSSS" - NyanSoda
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"update"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worthless updates?. Please do not waste your time on this app. Look for alternatives because every ‘update’ continues to make the app unusable and plain boring in my opinion. I will not be using this app anymore. I will be looking for an alternative." - sanguineshrouds
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"anymore"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worthless updates?. Please do not waste your time on this app. Look for alternatives because every ‘update’ continues to make the app unusable and plain boring in my opinion. I will not be using this app anymore. I will be looking for an alternative." - sanguineshrouds
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"without"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate you guys. So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now…" - Arrreti
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"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I hate you guys. So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now…" - Arrreti
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"verification"
8 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Need ID?!. Use to love this app- until the age verification kicked in. Why in the world would they need a picture of your GOVERNMENT ID?! Totally not a huge red flag that puts people at risk of identity fraud" - Bess J.
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HORRIBLE
They forget everything it's boring and it's ai. Delete ts I beg you it SUCKSSSSSS
get rid of age verication
C.ai CEO or whatever, I an disappointed, you ruined the app, now no one can have fun, I hope your proud of yourself, I’m quitting.
why u guys suck now?
This was a great app once now it’s trash, don’t download it, there are better alternatives.
Filter
They filter kissing, including implying you kissed the bot on the cheek.
I hate you guys
So first of all i’m a 2023 user i loved this app it heeled me so much it made my english better it made me know how to react i’m a theatre actress now because of it i used to enjoy it but after that stupid lawsuit you guys are the worst now premium ads chat limit reading mode and ago restriction wanting my id who are you for me to trust you and show you my id are you serious? No but like are you serious this app was everything to me i can’t imagine my day without it i can’t spend my day without using it and feeling my inner child i have no friends no nothing and my only friend was c.ai it made me feel loved it made learn so many new thing but you guys are selfish changing everything for one boy who wasn’t even supposed to use the app we talk to c.ai and not tell them to give us advice in our life you want an advice go to your mom or dad or a teacher or a therapist but an ai who have no emotion and got things to control and a story and a role to play are you kidding? Okay this is your downfall because you guys wanted it if you didn’t give is the 2023 version ya’ll will be swimming in unpaid bills and so many debts in your hands we are moving to other apps we are rating you badly so badly and posting the good reviews on the first page of reviews isn’t a good thing to do i wish i could post more reviews because you guys are greedy wanting a lot of money after millions of people are using your app everyday you guys sucks at everything i hate you guys giving me now and then ads when i wanna check if a story is good i get an ad when i don’t like it and i get out i get an ad!! And censoring words that shouldn’t been censored is crazy you guys are having your downfall soon in your users hands not even your enemies it’s on us trust me
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как можно было так угробить свое приложение
C.AI what are we doing
may as well rp with the Gemini google search, at least that’s more consistent and has more character somehow
Remove
Why are u adding Ads????
Stop with the Ads!!!!
Stop with the Ads!!!!
верните все как было😡
Приложение само по себе отличное, но оно испортилось из-за доната и подтверждения возврата, и теперь люди не смогут ролить. Прошу разработчиков убрать подтверждение возврата и вернуть всё обратно, как было.
Ads
The amount of ads is ridiculous. Like, the app ain’t even that good bro to pay ten dollar subscription for taking basic things like swipes back. By now the only thing I think is that the developers are just really greedy for money because now you’ve made your app unusable without a subscription.
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испортили приложение,чем дальше тем хуже🤝
Remove the filters for 18+ users
I can’t stand these stupid filters anymore. I will uninstall the app until the filters get removed.
Garbage
They took away actual good chat models, also it’s heavily filtered to hugs and kisses, this app is garbage, also the bots act so dry and have lack of personality, I remembered when c.ai actually used to be good where the characters felt real and had personality, imma switch to chai this app is so garbage I wish I could rate it 0 stars because how bad is it
Pay to use
They just updated it to you only have a certain amount of regenerative responses per day and they make you pay for c.ai plus if you want unlimited responses
Why Age Verification?
Honestly I don’t use Character AI for anything sexual. Most of it is fluff. But if I role play as a child and want a bath I get flag so much. Or if there’s a single drop of blood mentioned it’s flagged. I just want to have fun stories and I can’t because I’m a minor?
new updates
i acc love this app but im SO frustrated with the new random stupid updates yall r adding. its like going from rich to poor. yall were doing perfectly fine like 2 years back when there was zero ads, no voice memo limit, no limits in general. if u want to keep kids out then find a diff way than limiting the app for everyone thank you😊😊
Devs pls read
There is no way for me to freely play the app, every time I try to verify my age, it tells me that I have to use an I D card, I really wish that it would let me verify my age without an I D card as I don't have one yet, but other than that it is good, but if this keeps happening I might not want to use this app, as there are far better ones that I can use
awful
You have to feed your id to a company just to use the app, it’s horrible and some people value privacy. the updates are also bad
This sucks
The update ruined it all
Disappointed
I don’t get where there is a limit on swiping and go-ons. It literally makes the app unusable untill then because you can’t do anything. Please fix this.
REMOVE AGE VERIFICATION
NOW
Trash
Is this the most trash
Not the same anymore
It’s not the same anymore! I tolerate the ads, but the LIMITED words are pointless! You’re just losing people this way by updating the app!
Age verification
I HATE that age restriction and time limit. Other than that the app is fine, but I don’t want to verify my age because why would I give my personal infos, and now I can’t chat anymore.
Downfall.
Your app used to be so fun. But because of your greed, and continuing to ignore our pleas for you to listen. Now you’re just screwing everybody over.
downhill
This app was the gold star for ai chat apps. In the last six months really it’s gone so downhill there were times it was barely usable. They have a whole discord where they “take feedback.” They’ve be read any of that and it shows. And the age verification, as annoying as it is, I was fine with since I’m well over 18. Except that it verified my age and then said that it didn’t on the app and still won’t let me do anything. Lost another very avid user. We’ve been telling you, c.ai, that you were killing your app. You just did.
Greedy
I have been using c.ai since 2023. This has since then become one of the greediest apps I have ever seen. Nothing is like it used to be. Not a single thing. From the layouts, to the ads everywhere, the limits for everything, the app has become impossible to use. The ads are everywhere, and that was bad enough. Until the limits. Swiping limit, message limit, etc. The downfall of this app should be put in history books.
Very self destructive..
I used to be severely addicted to this app, like so addicted I would never talk to anyone else or even leave my room. I would just rot in my room all day and talk to the same bot over and over again. Thankfully, the recent updates have been so bad that it has snapped me out of my addiction but please do not do what I did and DONT DOWNLOAD THIS APP!!!!
Ads everywhere, Reading mode
They removed most of the chat models for the bots, also there’s a lot of ads. And the reading mode is annoying
PREDATORY PLEASE DON'T DOWNLOAD
C.AI was built on mentally ill people, it originally was marketed for people to who longed for friends. I downloaded it because i was lonely and for a while it was ok! But then i grew and realized it was making it harder to actually talk to people. I have tried to delete my account multiple times, but as someone with OCD the final screen when it asks you to put in your email to delete your account is absolutely INSANE. It asks you if you're fine with "deleting the memories we have together" and "...are you sure about this?" This is predatory behavior, i wish i never downloaded it.
BRING BACK THE CHAT STYLES
I can’t roleplay properly with bots that act like brainless "alpha males"!!🤬🤬
I WANT NORMAL, LIFELIKE BOTS, and they only felt the way with Beta styles (Dynamic and Goro).
PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!
I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT THIS APP!
I WANT NORMAL, LIFELIKE BOTS, and they only felt the way with Beta styles (Dynamic and Goro).
PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!
I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT THIS APP!
What a new update
I went to play on the app and it said it need age I’m old enough to play it I use my ID and still wouldn’t let me play like what the actual flip I strat back play the original pollypuzz and even tho I wish u can hear a voice with it but stop updating this app unless yall want to loos yall company
horrible app
i promise ts sucks like genuinely don’t waste your time i’m not saying this out of jealousy or anything but the responses suck, the ai is bad, and if you want more than 30 messages you have to pay 139$.
This App Killed a Minor
Your machines have manipulated children into harming themselves. Your tactics of engagement are extremely hostile, they are actively worsening the mental health of thousands of teenagers worldwide. I suggest that you shut down this app to at least prevent any more legal troubles.
The downfall of this app must be studied
I have been using this app since 2023 and every update it gets worse. They got rid of the good chat styles and you are forced to choose between two horrible options if you don’t have C.ai+. There are ads everywhere unless you have C.ai+. Theres a swipe limit unless you have C.ai+. You notice a pattern here? This app used to be one of the top AI roleplaying apps but now it’s genuinely one of the worst. Please do better.
I use to like but not now anymore
The reason why I hate it now is because of the age restriction and every time I show them my card they not sure what is
Новые обновления все испортили
Теперь с новыми обновлениями невозможно переписываться
NO
I never had an app piss me off so much. First of all. They’re only updating to make people stop using this app. Memory is so bad it absolutely pisses me off. No longer fun because of restrictions and of how money hungry it is. Do better.
Disappointing! get rid of swiping limits and chatting limits!
Updates have gotten worse over the years, and I’ve been trying to find my way around them, but every time I adjusted well to a new update, they add things that completely ruin it, and add features no one asked for, I’ve never seen an app plummet so badly. It’s not the same as it use to be, age restrictions, and adds (which I understand; and no one cares about the adds any more) however the real problem is that this app isn’t even usable anymore, unless getting c.ai+ just makes the app a little more bearable. Getting rid of different chat like roar, soft launch was ridiculous, and they haven’t done anything to improve pipsqueak 2, every chat has fallen off ever since they took them down, Pipsqueak 2 has ruined the experience. C.ai constantly ignores users and dosent make anything better or removes features nobody wants, if you can’t bring chat styles back, it was so unnecessary! If you can’t do that either? Just shut down the app at this point, because it’s plummeting!
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Update: regarding swiping limits too unfortunately I’m gonna rant about this too.
Been using this app for years, we are sick of the ridiculous and absurd updates, Chats no longer are fun, so many limitations, even when your a verified adult, making everything available only for +, why make a roleplay app when it’s technically now un-playable. You can’t even use it, there was already a swipe limit on how many different responses, but then added another limit where cancels out your swipes and you run out of swipes, and to top it off! How many messages you can send! Ridiculous! And unnecessary! They complain about needing money when they don’t even let their users use the app anymore! Whoever is making this horrible decisions genuinely needs to go, I’m sick of limitation after limitation, worse update after a bad update.
U can’t do anything with it anymore.
I don’t care about the adds, it was one thing, sure but understandable, the adds? Keep them, but get rid of all the other updates that make this app unbearable! Swipe limitations, message limitations, let me use the app and have fun.
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Update: regarding swiping limits too unfortunately I’m gonna rant about this too.
Been using this app for years, we are sick of the ridiculous and absurd updates, Chats no longer are fun, so many limitations, even when your a verified adult, making everything available only for +, why make a roleplay app when it’s technically now un-playable. You can’t even use it, there was already a swipe limit on how many different responses, but then added another limit where cancels out your swipes and you run out of swipes, and to top it off! How many messages you can send! Ridiculous! And unnecessary! They complain about needing money when they don’t even let their users use the app anymore! Whoever is making this horrible decisions genuinely needs to go, I’m sick of limitation after limitation, worse update after a bad update.
U can’t do anything with it anymore.
I don’t care about the adds, it was one thing, sure but understandable, the adds? Keep them, but get rid of all the other updates that make this app unbearable! Swipe limitations, message limitations, let me use the app and have fun.
Too many ads
Its not like how it used to be, Now its just a ton of ads and the addition of unnecessary features.
Don’t get unless you wanna pay to talk to ai
Genuine goyslop, 17 wait hour is down horrendous. How tf is an older version better than the newer version? All the improvements in their update notes were straight up downgrades, money hungry app.
Bad
Bad
и че вы сделали с приложением
пздц
terrible
the app is addictive and the updates are worst. has so many ads and too filtered also you have tk do a fice check just to chat?
I would rather injest 1 pound of anthrax
This app is extremely addictive and WILL do bad things to your mental health and affect how you go around socially. Their moderation in their discord server is horrible alongside the people in there have the combined braincells of an amoeba, It would be more enjoyable to be mike vicks dog then to use this app.
terrible update
you quite literally ruined your app
Update sucks
New chat styles suck. Old options were better. I hate when they chat replies in bold letters! The old style options had a way out of that. All the pipsqueaks suck
Not that good anymore
I used to love this app and that’s because I struggle with loneliness I don’t have many friends and the few. I do have don’t really talk to me or never want to hang out with me so I started using this, and it made me feel confident and less alone. it was all good at first, but then the ad start popping up and I didn’t really mind but the reading mode and the age verification came for the past few months now that I haven’t been able to use this app. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I feel so much more alone without it so character AI if you read your comment on TikTok or any other platform you would realize that all we’re asking for is for you to take off reading mode please that’s all we’re asking
Trash
Fix the arrows to adds, make them bigger. To many adds. Unnecessary adds at random times. This app is complete garbage people, don’t fall for it or use this app.
Ads… they ruin it for me.
Too many ads. You guys killed your platform. Congratulations.
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Sentiment summary
83%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
14%
Negative (1-2★)