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1. [R1] Perplexity 1/5 · US Buyers beware it’s a scam.: I paid for a pro account and it wants to charge me to do things. Why when I have a pro account I can go on Gemini with a pro account and do it I can go on Claude with a free account and do a lot of it. Why am I paying for Perplexity? no refunds available even for same-day purchase… It’s a scam.
2. [R3] Perplexity 3/5 · US Credits for a paid app??: I can’t believe that I’m being hampered by going through all of my “credits” or whatever it is when I pay for this app. That seriously makes me want to cancel the service. Never use it again.
3. [R50] Perplexity 1/5 · US Bad purchase: This is an expensive app that isn’t worth the money and hassle. I paid for the personal subscription for $200 With very little use it is out of credits for use and always trying to get you to spend even more. Bad purchase.
4. [R42] Perplexity 1/5 · US App is the Worst: I spent hours putting together a project that I'm doing everything is in the app. Everything's going fine and then all of a sudden it gets to the point where it tells me I have to add credits won't tell you how many credits that you need or why you need more credits but now the app can no longer access any of the information that I had put together hours probably 40 or 50 hours w
5. [R6] Perplexity 3/5 · US Finance and coding: It’s good for reasonably simple tasks but starts hallucinating for finance forecasts and complex coding. It’ll be good to have a seamless export to excel feature instead of I copying python code and executing in VS Code
6. [R7] Perplexity 1/5 · US Lies in the answers: The app has gone downhill, photos can't be uploaded, it invents facts, and you have to pay for every little thing. · translated
7. [R13] Perplexity 1/5 · US Horrible AI: This AI we’ll fight with you and lies all the time
8. [R40] Perplexity 1/5 · US Lies and Fabrications: I was using Perplexity to help me write a fishing guide. This AI MADE UP imaginary lures and supporting statements for me to use. Going back, I found multiple instances on almost everything this AI did that was inaccurate at best, pure fabrications at worst. Then it admits that it didn’t do ANY research. It didn’t verify a single thing. It was “pattern matching” to create a
9. [R16] Perplexity 1/5 · US Images don’t reliably work: Server swears it generates them but the links are broken. Idk it just doesn’t work for me half the time.
10. [R19] Perplexity 1/5 · US Do not download: Worst app ever. Cannot edit a simple photo request. Don’t waste your time. Fake positive reviews. Save your money. So many good apps out there that actually work.
11. [R26] Perplexity 1/5 · US Do Not download to make videos: This app is absolute garbage for AI videos. Do not download. Do not pay for anything I wish for a refund I paid for the one month subscription for $20 to make a video and the video came out terrible. The quality is so bad. Download and deleting the same day.
12. [R30] Perplexity 1/5 · US TERRIBLE!!!: Do not subscribe to this! $20 a month does NOT give you access to all the AI models it advertises- and basically is just ChatGPT. Majority of the image generation does NOT work in the mobile app and run into constant errors! I am using on 2026 iPhone 17 Pro Max.
13. [R4] Perplexity 2/5 · US Interrupts way too often: Having a conversation with Perplexity is painful. It starts answering before I complete my question and it wants to babble and babble giving much more info than what I asked, making a follow up conversation difficult.
14. [R10] Perplexity 2/5 · US Apps great but: For some reason the search bar takes forever to load in and this never happened until I updated the app which is crazy suspicious just saying
15. [R12] Perplexity 3/5 · GB Permanent Pop ups: I don't want to keep dealing with the presence of perplexity computer suggestions or follow up suggestions that keeps on erasing the prompt I'm trying to write.
16. [R15] Perplexity 3/5 · GB Limited Interaction: Perplexity is a really Good ai let down severely with it’s limited interaction you are unable to input data beyond a certain point when it imposes user restrictions. It has a great interface and interoperability but until the issues of user input are rectified it cannot be recommended as the only way in which to do so is to pay £200 per month this both take’s it out of the rea
17. [R9] Perplexity 3/5 · GB Suboptimal Token Usage: I got an annual subscription because the promise was great. And you can do basic stuff with it. However the app consumes tokens even if you don’t actively use it. Currently it’s useless to me. Also it cannot connect well to local LLMs on my computer which gets you locked in, consuming cloud-based tokens
18. [R28] Perplexity 1/5 · US Perplexity lost a significant step: Once a contender to replace Google… today it rarely comes up with accurate or reliable output. Even Free ChatGpT or Gemini is always consistently better on same prompts. Shame…
19. [R34] Perplexity 1/5 · US This is ChatGPT, but charging: It doesn't let you speak and upload pictures of things that you want them to explain to you unless you pay for it and you get that for free with Grok and ChatGPT
20. [R44] Perplexity 1/5 · US Worse than ChatGPT: I tried to generate a photo with a picture, and it couldn’t even do that. The ads LIED. This was a total waste of my time and storage. ChatGPT can do better, and that’s already a stupid app. Why can’t any app ever have a good connection.
21. [R55] ChatGPT 5/5 · US Love it: I appreciate the chance to get ideas for the various projects I work on
22. [R59] ChatGPT 3/5 · US ChatGPT is the best: It really easy to use and you can be anything you want
23. [R64] ChatGPT 5/5 · US This is a High-value tool.: This is a High-value tool that, when used correctly, solves many problems-especially regarding time.
24. [R66] Google 5/5 · US Best: I love this app because it just has everything
25. [R72] Google 5/5 · US So great: I use google to research and find songs I don’t know,now I LOVE LISTENING TO SUMMER TIME
26. [R75] Google 5/5 · US Best app.: This is the best app to use if you have an issue. Love it
27. [R80] DuckDuckGo 5/5 · US Idk: It’s just a WAYYYY better Safari that’s more consistent, blocks adds, and dosent send my information to 94 hackers!
28. [R89] DuckDuckGo 5/5 · US duckduckgo is a ✨ DIVAAAA✨: thank you besties for this great browser I have it on my phone and macbook too for school likeeeee she is CLASSY she is ICONIC and she gets NO ADS 🫪🫪👍👍 the whole app is tea ✨🫶
29. [R91] DuckDuckGo 5/5 · US Ad free!: IT’S A GOOD APP! I like how it is ads free, ads are most annoying thing on earth, so having a search engine that is ad free is a blessing for not only me, but for everyone that uses DuckDuckGo, such a good app!
30. [R97] Google Gemini 5/5 · US The best AI: This ai is great I use it to search up everything and generate ideas. This is better than any other out there and deserves to get 5 stars
31. [R100] Google Gemini 5/5 · US nice: easy and useful
32. [R106] Google Gemini 5/5 · US Genial: Me ayuda en muchas cosas y me es muy útil para buscar información de productos
33. [R109] Grok AI 3/5 · US Was a bit disappointed: I like using grok for general AI help used for personal stuff. I had a picture the other day taken over 40 years ago. I was holding an old hunting rifle and grok cleaned up the photo with great results one more pass and it stopped because of the rifle. So it’s a bit “woke”
34. [R111] Grok AI 4/5 · US Great but lacking.: So I’ve been using Grok for awhile now. It’s been absolutely fantastic. I often use the Imagine part for a novel I’m writing. What kind of makes me slightly annoyed, is the new “Weekly limit” it’s annoying
35. [R120] Grok AI 5/5 · US Best app: Best editing and teamwork and very good app for influencers
36. [R37] Perplexity 5/5 · US Surprisingly good at diversified info: Surprisingly good at diversified info, especially to comment other AI with a quite fair standard
37. [R18] Perplexity 3/5 · GB Good for free: God pro version with Revolut. Using it but as all AI giving lot of false answers
38. [R107] Grok AI 1/5 · US Waste of time: The new restrictions on Grok give you like 15 minutes look I get it. It’s an exaggeration but it gives you like 15 minutes per week now for $30 a month. It’s a waste of time. Don’t waste your money on Grok. You get 15 images in the image generator and 15 minutes of time talking to Grok don’t waste your money. It’s not worth $30 a month!
39. [R117] Grok AI 1/5 · US SuperGrok usage limits: SuperGrok used to have unlimited usage now they’re putting a cap on that were you only get so many hours a week
40. [R119] Grok AI 1/5 · US Super grok a rip off: SuperGrok Annual is a bait-and-switch disaster after the June changes I paid $300 for the annual SuperGrok subscription expecting reliable access for long-form voice RP and creative workflows. For months it was great. Then June hit and they switched to a single shared weekly usage pool. Now my voice sessions (which are the whole reason I subscribed) burn through the entire we