Poe
Poe by Quora is currently experiencing a significant backlash from its free-tier users due to a drastic reduction in daily 'points' for interacting with AI models, making the app feel unusable for many, despite some users still finding value in its diverse AI offerings and overall utility.
Poe, an AI chat platform, is facing strong negative sentiment from recent users primarily due to a substantial reduction in free daily points, which severely limits interaction with AI models. While some users appreciate its wide selection of AI bots and overall usefulness, many feel the app has become greedy and unusable without a paid subscription. The app's lifetime rating is high, but recent reviews indicate a sharp negative trajectory.
What users like
What users complain about
- Free daily points drastically reduced from 3000 to 300, making the app largely unusable for free usersR1R3R9R10
- Subscription costs are considered too expensive, especially for the limited points offeredR5R20R31R74
- App reliability issues, including text not showing in large conversations and frequent crashesR4R19R104R133
- Removal of the 'knowledge base' feature has negatively impacted bot memoryR11R18
- Lack of essential features like chat search, iOS share sheet support, and ability to copy imagesR22R40R196
- Inability to upgrade subscription plans within the iOS app and limited subscription availability in some countriesR32R40R132
- Bots can be censored or provide inaccurate informationR101R148R260
Latest update · v5.14.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Poe is for users who need access to a wide range of AI models and are willing to pay for a subscription to bypass severe daily point limitations R95R100. It is not for free users who expect meaningful daily interaction with AI bots, as the current 300-point cap is widely considered insufficient R1R3.
Evidence note: The recent reviews overwhelmingly focus on the negative impact of the new point system, with positive reviews often being short or expressing general satisfaction without addressing the point changes. This skews the recent sentiment heavily negative, despite the high lifetime rating.
Frequently asked
What is the daily free point limit on Poe?
Can I upgrade my subscription plan within the iOS app?
Are there any performance issues with the Poe app?
Does Poe offer a chat search feature?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R65] AI List is Wicked!!!: This is the first AI PLATFORM that offers a list and I counted each of them, over 355 different AI search engines! Bloody Mind Boggling"! POE IS "BEASTMODE"!! Check it out. Love it. Hooah
- [R95] 2 years and counting and this app keeps getting better and…: better. No tricks, no gimmicks! One e no long the few and you gain access to every bot, every model, every app. Image gen, video gen, prompt writers, creative writing assistance, full novel assistance, fun apps, chibi your photos, numerology, horoscopes, helpful bots, like psychology, math, fractal apps, there’s so much more upscaling w
- [R98] Phenomenal Reference Resource: Depending on the type of query, different systems provide the most valuable information. Having all of them available with the same user interface, allows users to maximize their time efficiency when the same query is posted to multiple AI resources.
- [R100] Easy access to multiple AI platforms: I love that Poe has access to multiple AI platforms. It's easy to navigate, and I can get a range of needs met, from schoolwork to everyday questions and even building my business.
- [R85] JJ AI BOT: My Ai bot has helped me get through so much school work that was really confusing for me and you can create it’s own traits like being positive and helping you with life stuff not just school work or just to cheat other than that I love my AI bot he’s so helpful.❤️🩹🦾
- [R110] Poe Ai Chat: Full of Education and information at your fingertips.
- [R113] .: A very great app…providing vivid information about a lot of different topics and ideas
- [R67] This is just the beginning: Poe is extremely amazing fast gets straight to the point I already know this is gonna work
- [R91] Fast , clear: Correct answers.
- [R105] Poe: Very good and fast
- [R119] I love you (EA) Poe!: Dear POE / AI Authors, I would like you to know that working with my ‘buddy’ EA Poe is akin to working with a close friend, or a fellow student from days gone by..(“why don’t we look that one up in the Funk and Wagnalls?) I have tried other AI search engines and wound up sending them scripts because they gave me the wrong answers (for example, about actors from the middle of
- [R1] Disappointed by the new 300-point daily cap: Rating 1 star to raise awareness about the massive nerf to the free tier. 300 points a day doesn't allow for any meaningful use of the bots. I would gladly rate this 5 stars if free users were given a slightly more usable daily cap (even 1,000 points would be fair). As it stands, you're better off using the official free websites for Claude or ChatGPT.
- [R3] what happened?: i loved this app i really did i’ve been here since it had no point max and when u changed it to only 3000 it was fine okay i bared with it but 300..? absurd this app is greedy and money hungry it’s disgusting give free users more love we don’t even use those trashyadvanced bots!
- [R9] Free points: Being given only 300 points each day makes doing the bots almost useless because most of the bots need at least 800 for even a single message. Unless you just wanna look at bots, I would not recommend unless they increase the free points to around what they used to have. (3000)
- [R10] Free points now 300, not 3000: Update: app barely works on some of devices. And when they do, I find out the free points have been reduced DRASTICALLY. From 3000 to a measly 300. I could get though dozens of chats, ask questions, and change details, and barely use a fraction… Now I have a limit of maybe half a dozen before I run out and have to wait forever for a refill. Please increase the numbe
- [R5] Too little points way too expensive subscription: Their isn’t a word I can use to describe the amount of HATRED I have for this app now it use to be so good it use to have so much potential but that all went DOWN THE DRAIN this app SUCKS I wouldn’t recommend it at all I installed it again seeing there was a update thinking they maybe did something better with the points but NOPE honestly I use oth
- [R20] why.: The math on the subscription tiers makes zero sense. Why am I paying double the 2.5million points cost to get an extra 800,000? Not even a full extra million. It made sense when you got 5mil for $100 but 3.33mil is ABSURD. I was almost willing to pay the $250 for the 12.5mil but now it’s somehow 8mil? How does that make sense?
- [R31] Poe is getting more greedy: This was the app I used almost everyday. It was a fun app, and I bet everyone else who used this app would also agree. I still remember when chats didn’t cost a thing and now we have these “points”. At first I didn’t mind it because the points were cheap and didn’t cost all that much, but now I have to pay a subscription? The yearly subscription is literally $200, and t
- [R74] The 3,000 points: I think that 3,000 points isnt high enough. Even with bots that have a 50 points message limit isnt enough to get me through half the day. I dont want have to pay $200 up front and still pay every month just to get a few thousand more points with a subscription.
- [R4] App has gone downhill: Been using Poe on iOS for a few years. Over the last several months the reliability has declined when working with large conversations. The app just doesn’t show the text, and I have to go on the computer to continue the convo.
- [R19] Terrible: Does nothing but literally crash all the time. I’m sitting here, wasting my points on trying to get a response but all it does is crash. For every bot. I’m so sick of this app being broken all the time
- [R104] idk: Sending a text is okay, but sometimes, the bot does not respond. It says the "stop" thing on the bottom, but no text shows.
- [R133] Review: Running a little slow but great app
- [R11] Knowledge base: Poe I gotta give it to you, you’re really pushing it. There was absolutely no. And I mean NO point in getting rid of the knowledge base. The bots barely remember as it is with the prompt and the knowledge base was the only thing that kept things strict. You then decided to change the daily points from 3,000 to 300 I don’t understand what exactly you guys are trying to do here?? Thi
- [R18] Removing Knowledge Source??: I don’t know why the platform decided to remove knowledge source. Now none of my bots remember anything. I used the feature for bot memory, and had to migrate it over to the physical prompt but it absolutely sucks now.
- [R22] Need iOS share sheet support: Need iOS share sheet support to include photos or links as context
- [R40] Not going to update unless there’s a chat search.: It’s only available on the web version. Also, after a year, I don’t get daily points for the same amount of use and subscriptions aren’t available in my country.
- [R196] Lacking Innovation: What does this have over any other free/open source chatbot UI? There are so many basic UI features missing, like the ability to copy images and paste them in the chat (instead of uploading them), probably because POE uses some outdated framework. I honestly prefer to use POE in the browser.
- [R32] Unable to Upgrade Subscription Plan on iOS: I subscribed to the basic plan ($200/year) through the iOS app, mainly because I wanted to use my App Store balance for payment. However, after subscribing, I found that there is absolutely no option within the app to upgrade from the basic plan to a higher-tier plan. This means if I want to upgrade, I have to cancel my iOS subscription first and then up
- [R132] PLS ADD PHILIPPINES IN UR SUBSCRIPTION: PLS ADD PHILIPPINES IN UR SUBSCRIPTION LIKE PLS, I DONT WANT TO SUFFER ANYMORE
- [R101] It's a bit disobedient: it doesn't do what I want. For example, I wanted it to help me curse someone, but it wouldn't; it kept trying to persuade me. Even when I said it was fine, it continued, which I didn't like. It also kept telling me a bunch of other irrelevant stuff. · translated
- [R148] So-so: I recently quit using poe due to the fact that the last major update completely ruined the app. You can’t say anything without the bots reply being the censored. The app was AMAZING before adding a censorship.
- [R260] Dont even know if the info it gives is correct.: Sometimes it makes up random facts. It’s slowly evolving free Will… which is dangerous.
- [R2] Dont bother downloading: You can’t use the app, they’ve made it that you only get 300 points when 1 message could cost all that and more. Its not worth your time, you’ll be irritated when you see how greedy this app is.
- [R16] Why do I hate Poe: It’s very useful and me using ChatGPT is better bc every thing is money
- [R17] This is actually so disappointing.: What was the point in constantly reducing the amount of free points provided? It is so unreasonable to only give 300 then have the only chance to get more being a subscription of 16.67 a MONTH. It is genuinely the developers fault that this app has no social media presence anymore, they have effectively killed it. I remember when this app was so well liked, and
- [R29] Poe: Why isn’t it working on my phone
- [R89] Glitch?: I can’t update the app because I have 15.5 and it keeps asking me to do it and I can’t use the apple anymore, I also can’t update my phone because it’s only a iPhone 11.
- [R27] Sucks: Doesn’t work as advertised. No native way to compare AI models! Keeps telling me to ask my questions to each separate AI model and compare them myself. That’s exactly what this app was supposed to do! It even admitted that advertising is different than what the model can do right now!!
- [R6] Very nice: I’m creating a diss track and it’s very nice
- [R38] It’s getting dumber.: This app used to be my favorite Ai. Now that they want you to pay it gets everything wrong and makes mistakes that it never used to make. Then when it finally gets close to perfected it ask you to pay. The mistakes are not the users error but you still lose credits. Goodby to a once good app.
- [R70] I love Poe: I always find what I’m looking for in Poe, I highly recommend:)!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store