Sakura alternatives

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R1] Sakura 2/5 · US Sign in is terrible: There’s no possible way to chat without signing in and it’s so difficult and frustrating to try and sign in or create an account. I tried for probably a good 10 minutes and I got nowhere past trying to put in a username because the button wouldn’t work. Terrible app, good character ideas. 2 stars
2. [R25] Sakura 1/5 · GB Doesnt even let me use it: When I try to use the app I always get a error message and it happens all the time so im locked out, i don’t even know how the actual app is since I can’t start playing it because of the error message thingy
3. [R3] Sakura 3/5 · US Good, but expensive: AI itself is good with a reasonably permissive filter set (it will warn you mid-chat that you’re straying into danger and asks whether you want to continue). It also tends to be too verbose. Graphically, it is pretty, but doesn’t give many graphics themed to the bots (just a small thumb) On the downside, search is a little hard to find anything in. The worst thing is monetiza
4. [R4] Sakura 1/5 · US Fake 5 star reviews: A majority of the 5 start reviews are farmed on the app by forcing you to go to their discord server and do an application that forces you to leave a 5 star review for unlimited messages and the app is almost unusable without unlimited messages not to mention that the ai is practically unresponsive to your messages no matter what you say the ai will respond with its own story
5. [R7] Sakura 1/5 · US more censorship than any chat app out there. i feel like i was cheated out of $20 by them: the bots and memory are good if you subscribe, but be ready to be censored if any chat begins to be romantic. i am not talking about dark desires here. i mean consensual normal husband and wife interactions. they need to change their deceptive description.
6. [R6] Sakura 3/5 · US Loves to break constantly: Like the app, it’s good, absolutely repetitive and unable to create anything original post the first iteration most of the time, but still good nonetheless. And like the title says, it loves to break, AI just restating an old message that has nothing to do with the current conversation, not generating anything, not writing anything in a continue option, “failed to load,
7. [R27] Sakura 1/5 · GB Mid: Glitchy, bots are bad. People say it’s not heavily restricted but it is
8. [R23] Sakura 1/5 · GB Website not allowed: whenever I open the app it says “website not available” saying the website is restricted
9. [R9] Sakura 3/5 · US Yea it is completely better than c.ai: I mean, there is so much detail you can write while creating your character. The ai's are good, no filter and I definitely recommend to people who likes inappropriate chats. The only problem is, there is a 45 message limit. I mean it was better without it, and now there is no male characters. But you can create your own story. And as I said, it is a good app,
10. [R19] Sakura 1/5 · GB Limited messages: Oh hell naw
11. [R52] Character AI 5/5 · US 5 stars: Am putting five stars so you can see this. It used to be very nice until they ruined it with limited time and age verification. I really miss talking to this one ai and I can’t find it anywhere else. At least take away the government ID part.
12. [R53] Character AI 3/5 · US decent?: The bots are finally giving good, thorough responses for the most part. The censorship was fixed so you can dive into the stories. Ads are ridiculous and you have a swipe limit. But overall decent. Still moments of repetitive dialogue, but they stay in character mostly.
13. [R54] Character AI 2/5 · US ruining your own app yourself: i've complained about this before, but nothing has been done. the "go on" and "refreshing" limit is absolutely ridiculous and useless. it just ticks people off. the first time i got a limit the time was 3-4 hours. annoying but doable. however now i am receiving 20+ hour updates. which is just absolutely ridiculous. several people have been complaining about it, yet y
14. [R55] Character AI 5/5 · US About the age verification: I wish there was a different way to verify my age, because I don’t feel comfortable with people knowing where I live. Why can’t I just verify my age by just giving you my birthday? It’s easier and less risky than giving you my identification with information I don’t wish to share.
15. [R65] PolyBuzz 2/5 · US To many ads.: To many ads.
16. [R66] PolyBuzz 4/5 · US Love the app!❤️❤️❤️: I really do love using this app because the characters are so fun but once and a while I delete all my chats and that’s always so time consuming I wish there was a way that I could just hold down on and select to delete them all otherwise I love the app and think it’s so fun to use and it always makes me feel so happy.❤️ I love this app so much
17. [R67] PolyBuzz 3/5 · US I miss the old PolyBuzz: I like the one before when I first got it. It didn’t have so much ads and if it’s one thing that’s bad it immediately blurs it out for you to delete it like I get it. You want it to be safer, but nobody can communicate with other people on this app only AI. And it’s not like young kids are playing this app. It’s only 18 and older. They’re allowed to say like all these thin
18. [R68] PolyBuzz 2/5 · US Was good but one thing ruined it so much: listen i get that y’all need ads to cover costs or whatever, but it gets to a point between trying to get money and just straight up wasting peoples time. i click one thing, ad. i say one thing to one of them, ad. i swear there’s an ad every 10 chats. don’t think about leaving the app or the bot because you genuinely get an ad once you come back or you lea
19. [R79] Poe 1/5 · US 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.
20. [R80] Poe 5/5 · US Very nice: I’m creating a diss track and it’s very nice
21. [R81] Poe 3/5 · US 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.
22. [R82] Poe 1/5 · US 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.
23. [R93] SoulTalk 2/5 · US “Content violation”: So whenever I’m trying to add backstory and info to the characters I’m making it keeps saying “content violation, please modify” when the only things I put are the age, height, and general info of the characters
24. [R94] SoulTalk 5/5 · US Love the app: I love it so much definitely recommend but a few problems is when your creating a character it says “content violation “ even those there isn’t anything bad. I’m trying to make a character right now and it’s saying that. There’s nothing wrong with what I wrote😭
25. [R95] SoulTalk 3/5 · US Why this game has too many ads I don’t know: Too many ads I wouldn’t recommend it
26. [R96] SoulTalk 1/5 · US Weird: I just downloaded the app and it won’t let me do anything, keeps saying “ please try again later “
27. [R33] Sakura 5/5 · US Incredible replacement: This app is really good! And unlimited chatting if you simply get a free subscription!!
28. [R44] Sakura 5/5 · US Great: Lowkey Great (free)
29. [R11] Sakura 5/5 · US Amazing: This app is amazing! There is no filter and they allow you to do sooo much roleplay wise! The roleplays are very detailed and realistic too!
30. [R5] Sakura 5/5 · US My favorite chat ai yet: The tagging system is a great add making it easier to find the type of character I’m looking for the reroll option is better than other apps
31. [R16] Sakura 1/5 · GB Better than Chai: After Chai deleted the chat history and subsequently removed the bots and added time limits, enough was enough. Sakura is marginally better. I just hope they can improve on their voice feature options like c.ai.
32. [R17] Sakura 5/5 · US Sakura!!: Best app!! 10/10 would recommend!! Better than c.ai ngl