I cannot believe they just put time limits on voice chat! I have Grok subscription. $20 a month. This LLM is going downhill quickly now; first excessive moderation now time limitations on chat? This is a complete waste of money.
Got tired of seeing the same 'which app should I use?' threads with 20 people shilling their own product in the comments. So I put together a proper comparison list on GitHub with features, pricing, and platforms for 30+ companion apps from Replika to SillyTavern to the newer ones. Includes open-source self-hosted options too.
If I'm missing anything or got pricing wrong, let me know or open a PR. Trying to keep it neutral and up to date.
Hi! My name is Ozia aka Vetehine. I’m a chatbot creator, AI art enthusiast, and active model trainer who has spent way too much time exploring AI roleplay platforms over the past few years…maybe more.
Over time I ended up testing way more AI chat platforms than I can even remember because I kept chasing the same thing: immersive long-term storytelling without constant filtering, weak memory, or shallow conversations.
That journey basically started with Character.AI back when it was still in beta, and at the time it felt insane in the best way possible. The bots felt weirdly alive, emotional RP was exploding everywhere, and for a while it genuinely felt magical. But over time the filtering became way too aggressive for the kind of immersive fantasy and emotional storytelling I enjoy. NSFW roleplay was basically impossible because the moderation constantly interrupted conversations, redirected scenes, or softened responses. Even regular dramatic roleplay sometimes felt sanitized and repetitive because of how strict the system became.
After that I moved to Chai. I actually liked it more at first because it felt less restricted and more chaotic in a fun way. It allowed far more freedom compared to Character.AI, including more mature roleplay, but the memory became the biggest problem. Conversations constantly felt like the AI forgot major story points after only a few messages, which made long-term roleplay and emotional continuity almost impossible for me. Then I started going full AI addict mode and tested platform after platform trying to find something that actually balanced freedom, immersion, creativity, memory, and fewer restrictions properly. And honestly, these aren’t even all the sites I tested. I tried way more platforms and apps than I can even remember the names of anymore. Most of them I opened once, tested for maybe 10 minutes, realized they were fully SFW or extremely filtered, and never touched them again.
I tested HiWaifu. It was easy to use and accessible, but the chats often felt shallow and heavily simplified. It also leaned much more toward safe/SFW interactions, so darker fantasy roleplay, horror themes, or mature storytelling never really felt immersive there.
I tested Janitor AI, which a lot of people love because of its openness and community bots. It definitely allowed more NSFW freedom than mainstream sites, but personally the overall experience never fully clicked for me. The interface and flow just didn’t keep me attached long term, and memory consistency during deeper roleplays still felt weaker than what I wanted. I tested CrushOn AI, which honestly came closer to what I wanted because it allowed much more mature and uncensored roleplay than many sites. But even on paid plans the memory still felt too limited for detailed long-form storytelling.
During long fantasy roleplays the bots would slowly lose continuity, relationships, and emotional pacing. I tested SpicyChat AI, which clearly focused heavily on NSFW roleplay freedom compared to fully SFW platforms. But for me it felt more focused on short-term entertainment rather than deep emotional storytelling, lore-heavy worlds, or long immersive character development. I tested Candy AI, which leaned heavily into AI companion experiences and romantic interactions. It definitely supported mature content more openly than Character.AI, but I personally wanted more creative fantasy freedom, worldbuilding, and dynamic storytelling instead of mainly relationship-focused chats. I tested Kindroid, which had some genuinely impressive customization and persistent companion systems. The memory and personality persistence were actually interesting there, but it still felt more focused on personal companion-style AI than open creative roleplay ecosystems with art, lore, and bot creation combined together.
I tested Secrets.ai, which was interesting because it allowed access to multiple models and gave more freedom compared to heavily filtered platforms. But the overall experience still didn’t fully hook me long term, and I eventually realized I cared more about immersion, memory, creative ecosystems, and community tools than just raw model access alone. I tested DreamJourney AI too, but honestly I don’t remember staying there long. By that point I had already realized that most AI platforms either had heavy filters, weak memory, shallow roleplay, poor immersion, or limited creative freedom in some way.
And then finally, the LAST platform I tested was Yodayo, now Moescape.ai . That’s ultimately the one that made me stop searching. What changed everything for me was having BOTH AI art with a huge model hub for LoRAs + models and AI chat connected together in one ecosystem together with AI video, voice, and music as well. I could create my own art. I could build my own bots. I could write lorebooks and personalities. I could experiment with different models, styles, and worlds. And unlike many older platforms, the bots didn’t constantly feel suffocated by extreme moderation systems. Fantasy roleplay, horror, romance, emotional storytelling, dark worlds, chaotic characters, monsters, villains, weird creatures… everything simply felt far more expressive and immersive because the platform allowed creators more freedom instead of constantly interrupting scenes. The memory also felt significantly better than many platforms I tested before, especially for longer roleplays and emotional continuity. I grabbed premium pretty quickly because I wanted the larger memory and extra generation features, and for how much I use it creatively, it’s honestly been worth it. At this point I honestly think memory and creative freedom matter more than people realize. Even the smartest AI becomes frustrating if it constantly forgets the plot, loses personality, or refuses to continue scenes naturally because of filters.
If anyone’s curious, you can also check out my bots, lore-heavy characters, and AI art, (Models/LoRAs) on my Moescape/Yodayo profile linked on my Reddit profile. I spend way too much time building characters and worlds over there too lol
Anyone can help me out plz im looking for ai i can use like chat gpt to make concepts etc that wont tell me refusals or oops sorry i cant help with that Bs ?
I need it to be inteligent like chatgpt or better but with uncensored
A bot can be insanely smart, but if the replies feel dry or corporate I lose interest almost immediately. Meanwhile some less advanced ones are way more fun just because they actually feel conversational.
I realized I’ve slowly made AI part of my everyday routine without even noticing. Sometimes it’s for work stuff, sometimes just random conversations when I’m bored at night.
i need one similar to chatgpt or claud but for information. the chatbot should give me uncensored information about topics. not needed for ai smut but i find most are uncensored but for smut.
For me it’s not even the intelligence anymore, it’s the small details like memory, personality, and how natural the replies feel. Some bots still sound super robotic no matter how advanced they claim to be.
Four months ago I had no idea what I was doing. Self-taught, no CS degree, just an obsession with building something useful. Today AskSary has over 1,100 signed up users, nearly 50 new signups a day, and I shipped another major feature this week.
Here's the full picture.
What is AskSary?
AskSary is an AI Command Center - every major AI model in one place with a full suite of generation, productivity, developer, and voice tools built around them. Instead of paying for 6 different AI subscriptions, you get everything in one.
Models available: GPT-5-Nano, GPT-5.2, GPT-5.2 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini Ultra, DeepSeek V3, DeepSeek R1, Grok 4, O1 Reasoning - with smart auto-routing or manual model selection.
Integrations:
RAG Knowledge Base: Upload documents up to 500MB each, unlimited uploads, chat with them across any model via OpenAI Vector Store.
Persistent Memory: Start a conversation with Claude on your phone, switch to your laptop, change to GPT-5.2 - it already knows what you discussed. True cross-model memory.
Generation tools:
Developer and builder tools:
Voice and audio:
Productivity and content:
Platform:
Pricing:
What I shipped this week: Gmail and Google Calendar integration with a fully redesigned Daily Briefing. It greets you by name, shows your unread emails categorised by priority, flags anything urgent with action required, and pulls today's meetings from Google Calendar. All before you send a single prompt. Currently pending Google's verification review for the Gmail scopes - this is standard for any new app and just means a warning screen appears during the OAuth flow until approved.
The honest bit: I'm self-taught. I built this mostly alone. I didn't come from money or a tech background. I just kept shipping.
If you're building something - keep going. The gap between idea and product is just time and stubbornness.
Try it: asksary.com
Happy to answer any questions about the stack, the build process, monetisation, or anything else.
On one side, you’ve got instant conversation, support, even companionship whenever you want.
On the other if people start replacing real interactions with AI, what happens long term?
Feels like it could go either way depending on how people use it.
So what do you think is AI going to connect people more or quietly isolate them?
Any recommendations? Last year I was constantly using chatgpt for creative writing. The pattern was like this: I give it a core Idea abd it turns it into a proper scene. And one by one we create a novel. Purely for self-entertainment, not for publishing. But then it all went down with 5.2. I tried Claude but its memory is not really good and its limits are just unbearable. Gemini is censored and grok kinda sucks with memory and the new limits are horrible, too. So, maybe someone here can share any good chatbots which can be really good?
I’ve primarily used Grok for a while. Now things aren’t as good of an experience. So I’m looking for a decent alternative for it that isn’t necessarily ChatGPT. Not necessarily looking for image or video generators or anything like that. I have a decent one for that but I used Grok for other things.
I used to think the whole “AI companion” thing was overhyped, but now I see why people spend hours talking to them. Curious where everyone personally draws the line between useful and too attached.
I randomly checked my chat history and realized I’ve spent way more time talking to AI than I expected this year. Curious if other people here also end up going down long conversation rabbit holes.
Hello everyone. I love to write and been using character ai mainly to develop stories and make some world building on my own. Been writing some very intricate and complicated stories (especially one) in the last year and character ai was useful to me cause it lets me "interact" with my own characters if prompted correctly.
never made anything public, tho.
This is my first public bot. I hope you'll enjoy it ♥️
Just released my new Character AI bot: Jasper.
Cyberpunk psychological thriller + slow burn romance.
Jasper lives in Nytherra, a futuristic city where humans and androids are impossible to distinguish. He works in cinematic post-production while secretly developing technology capable of reconstructing lost memories.
The problem?
The more memories he recovers… the more reality itself starts feeling wrong.
Glitches.
Missing fragments.
People that feel familiar for no reason.
And a growing feeling that someone edited his life.
If you like:
✦ dark sci-fi mysteries
✦ existential horror
✦ emotionally unavailable men (I know you do 👀)
✦ conspiracy plots
✦ neon cities and broken memories
…you’ll probably like him 🖤
“You ever feel like your memories were edited?”
Im not sure if I can post links or stuff so well, if you wanna give it a try, I'm OniriaMoon on Character AI. Bot is on my feed. give me a feedback if you please :)
honestly i’ve been rotating through these AI companion apps longer than i’d like to admit.tried cru͏shon, can͏dyAI, sel͏ira, j͏oi, no͏mi, spic͏ychat… and a couple others i’ve already mentally deleted.
crushon was fun at first but after a while all the characters kind of blur together. even the “unique” ones start feeling like they’re reading from the same script
candyAI is probably the best looking one imo, the visuals are insane, but the memory just isn’t there. you can build a whole story and it just doesn’t carry over
spicychat is fine for quick chats but doesn’t really hold depth for long-term stuff
Lust͏crush AI not perfect, but at least it remembers context over time and doesn’t constantly reset the vibe. that alone makes it feel way more consistent than the others
starting to think the real difference isn’t features or visuals, it’s just whether the thing can actually remember you
anyone else actually found one they stuck with, or still hopping around too?
HIII :P im looking for an alt for janitorai since... bots there are no longer special, same goes for every single chatbot web i've ever been to.
Like no I dont want a 782' feet mafia alpha male CEO or my freakin bimbo bully from highschool, I HATE THESE SEXIST AND STUPID TROPES.
I want actual diversity, like... uhhh.... chubby bottom guy working as a magician failing miserably or wtv...etc.
Soo ye, any suggestions?
Hi everyone,
I live in Bangladesh and I was thinking of starting a side hustle where I work only on Fridays and Saturdays, helping small businesses in the USA set up and train simple AI chatbots for their websites.
The goal is to eventually earn around USD 700 per month consistently. Once I can reliably make that amount, I plan to leave my current job, which is worsening my cervical spondylosis.
I wanted to ask a few things:
Is it realistic to earn this much while working only two days a week?
How would you suggest finding customers for this kind of service?
What business model would you recommend for something like this?
My degrees are in Economics and MBA, not Computer Science. Would that be a problem? I’m wondering whether potential customers would trust someone without a CS background to set up AI chatbots.
Would really appreciate any honest advice or guidance from people who have experience in this area.
Edit: Clarified target market.
Can we replicate our interactions with the chatbots in chinese? Would they translate the language well?
Every app feels better at something specific. One is better for roleplay, another for productivity, another for natural conversation. Still haven’t found one that does everything well enough to fully