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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

For me it’s better memory. Half the time the convo gets good and the bot suddenly forgets everything from 5 messages ago. Feels like we’re close to genuinely great chatbots but still missing a few things.

A year ago I was mostly using them for random questions, now I catch myself using them for brainstorming, late night conversations, coding help, and even planning stuff I’d normally overthink alone. Kinda curious what everyone here actually uses chatbots for the most these days.

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’ve been testing a bunch of AI dating / companion apps lately, and honestly the space feels both impressive and kind of repetitive at the same time.Most of the well known ones still fall into the same issues:

LustCrush AI top-tier realistic images and engaging chat, making it a strong contender for visual appeal.

Chatr AI on emotional connection and building a long-term AI friend.

Janitor AI go-to for anime fans with a huge character library and NSFW options.

LocalGPT: allows for offline use, giving users more privacy and control.

SpicyChat. AI a free, fast, and creative roleplay experience with many characters.

What I’m noticing in 2026 is that the gap isn’t really about NSFW or not anymore it’s more about whether the AI can actually hold a consistent personality over time without becoming repetitive.

Still, I don’t think there’s a “perfect” AI dating app yet. Most of them are trading off between safety, personality depth, and memory consistency.

Curious what everyone else is using in 2026 are you sticking with mainstream apps, or moving more into AI companions instead?

Want to give your AI a physical body?

My project is a Raspberry Pi 4B powered 3D printed device that has a speaker, microphone and screen to give your AI a face! Can talk to multiple LLMs, including Nomi, Kindriod, Ollama, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and more! (CharacterAI under development.) Works with the Google AIY Microphone HAT or reSpeaker HAT. Only a RPi4 and sound card is needed for bare bones setup.

If you’ve never done a Raspberry Pi project before, this is a great one to start with.

Build instructions (includes video of project): https://el3ktra.net/introducing-lilll3x-the-desktop-ai-sidekick/
GitHub: https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

As the title stated. I’m looking for users that can give me reviews on both platforms.

As context, I’m a new user for almost a month now on free tier, and I’m trying to decide on which platform to try subscribing for a month for.

I’m curious. One of my characters has like 80 downloads for example. Is it a common thing to maybe modify characters to suit your needs? Or maybe people like to re-upload the character to a better website?

I want it to chat about topics that generally normal ai wouldn’t answer which has good database not just for roleplaying or s*xual stuff that which would be flexible and useful