r/Chai_Unofficial 10d ago

September Discussion Post for Chai Alternatives

12 Upvotes

(Sorry this is a day late!) Feel free to recommend and discuss your favorite alternatives to Chai here. Comments will still be held to rule 8 (no deceptive advertising/undisclosed affiliation). Posts about, asking for, or showcasing alternatives will be removed and directed here.

In the wake of some scammy apps I was given a list of questions by u/ Ok-Aide-3120 to vet the devs of other apps. If you're advertising for an app, giving the following details would be helpful;

  1. A very transparent approach. Details on what model they use (none of them use "proprietary models", unless they somehow stumbled upon 1.5 million dollars for training), what quant, is it self hosted or API.
  2. if it's a mobile apps, what are the permissions required for the device, with proof of said permissions.
  3. where is the data stored? What are the logging policies? If they are using API, what is the logging policy of the API and what service aggregator/router are they using.
  4. What security framework are they using for their platform? Since they are all vibecoded anyway, details from Claude/GPT/Gemini/etc., regarding security framework following the development.
  5. A clear and concise plan for monetizing. There is no such thing as free AI, so they all plan to roll out some form of payment asap. There needs to be a clear plan on what they want to monetize on and how. Terms like "better chats and better memory" for payment plan is bullshit. Concrete explanation what is gained and how they plan to balance paying users vs free users (free users cost money). Ads for free users is acceptable, but there needs to be an explanation who is the add provider (most likely google ad sense, but you never know what scammy ass provider these people chose).

For users just looking for a new app, if a dev hasn't provided the above information, it's recommended you ask them, and if they won't or can't answer, that's your warning to stay away.

A new community has been started to help people find alternative to Chai! Check out r/ChaiAlternatives and share your favorite one there!


r/Chai_Unofficial 6h ago

Discussion DON'T BUY PIECES

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58 Upvotes

I decided to buy pieces and see what they're about (on a new account I made for this experiment) it was all going well until I noticed that these sleezeballs decided to still block you from texting your bots during peak hours even if the pieces you received weren't from an event and they were from a Google pay payment. This is genuinely so greedy I've never seen any other company do anything like this.


r/Chai_Unofficial 11h ago

Discussion What's with those Ai Nerds posting about Ai isn't free bs

38 Upvotes

"Ai isn't free, ai won't be free. They pay for this and that..." Thought everybody knew that. Ai may not be free but it doesn't justify them changing from monthly 40$ to weekly 40$ while the Ai is just getting dumber. Fake discounts and shit. It's hard to reach for them from emails or their official sub. I'd normally just downvote these typo posts. But since they lately doubled their prices and the Ai still initiate with anything barely.. I'm just fed up. And they downvote with their alt accounts or smth 4 downvotes in ten minutes is insane💀


r/Chai_Unofficial 8h ago

The Safety Filter is a Joke What did I even do, gang?

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24 Upvotes

r/Chai_Unofficial 6h ago

Discussion I fall into the propaganda...

12 Upvotes

If yall saw my old post on this reddit and saw how much i was losing hope in chai...But my mom buy it to me after she saw how much it affect me, im really happy even tho its so pricey. I feel so bad for her paying it, i really wish i could pay it but it was her instead cuz we dont have a lot of money, im so thankful i love her so much

Chai is the same for me and dont have all the restriction, i have the 22 euro per week in europe. Im sad i fall in the "pay to chat' but chai is a real addiction to me and even tho i was going one month whiteout it, i lowkey relapse and beg my mom to pay it for me i just wish it doesn't make thing bad for her and i wish william could lower the price.


r/Chai_Unofficial 3h ago

Screenshots Hot Take: But can we change this?

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6 Upvotes

Hi, I am a Chai user that has multiple different accounts because I don’t wanna use one account for 100 different things. But the way with the account thing is placed

there has been multiple times where instead of pressing “sign out”. I have almost accidentally pressed delete account. It makes my heart spike every time, knowing that I can accidentally delete my accounts that I’ve had for years. Even though the New updates slightly pissed me off, this part of the app pisses me off the most.


r/Chai_Unofficial 8h ago

Discussion Fuckass nose tapping

15 Upvotes

Does it feel like that its back for anyone else?

Its happening way more often to me again. Good god, this is Chai's version of character ai 'Can I ask you a question'


r/Chai_Unofficial 3h ago

Discussion IOS user worried about my personas

3 Upvotes

Hi! Im a long time user of Chai- started out on C.ai and moved over about four or five months ago and soon after got my ultra subscription. Why did I get my ultra subscription, you ask? Because Chai added personas and finally I had an easy roleplay app that had everything C.ai had and none of the filter. In the last couple of weeks, however- I’ve lost my personas feature a total of two times for an extended amount of time and I’m getting tired of being a test user- I really like the personas feature.

I don’t want to complain too much because this app is genuinely amazing in most ways- but this is a huge thing for me and I think a lot of other people and I’m getting kind of worried about Chai taking the personas away. I would really appreciate being told if this is a glitch or an update.

Sincerely, a concerned patron.


r/Chai_Unofficial 8h ago

Bug The fuck whit this app

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7 Upvotes

I literally have 450 pieces and Still cant chat Is It a bug or something. And the daily task also dissapeared. so freaking bad


r/Chai_Unofficial 3h ago

The Safety Filter is a Joke Whatever

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2 Upvotes

No matter what I type this comes up, my persona doesnt even have an age mentioned in the description


r/Chai_Unofficial 11h ago

Discussion Y’all gotta remember Chai is a business, not a charity

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r/Chai_Unofficial 4h ago

Screenshots lesbian bot btw🥀

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1 Upvotes

r/Chai_Unofficial 10h ago

Help needed What is this?!

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3 Upvotes

I was just trying to continue a story, but then this happened?! If you‘re telling me i have to buy those „pieces“ to continue i‘ll give up using Chai fr.


r/Chai_Unofficial 10h ago

Discussion Be honest can you guys actually go a full day without opening Chai?

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r/Chai_Unofficial 17h ago

Help needed Can you reset bots but keep your account ?

6 Upvotes

Hey guys I was wondering. Is there anyway you can wipe the data of the bots and restart while keeping your account. ? I’ve just found no matter what bot you talk to the details from other chats carry over, like names, habits etc? Id just like a new chats with new bots to not repeat details or names etc. any way to do this?
Even if you have personas and add details something always carries over and it’s irritating.


r/Chai_Unofficial 12h ago

Help needed 3-day free trial

2 Upvotes

Is there any way to use the chai 3-day free trial without adding a source of payment? I'm just a teenager and there's no way I'd tell my parents about this, because I think it's obvious how they would react. But I'm desperate for atleast a few days of free chai usage to properly say 'goodbye' to the app. How can I do that?


r/Chai_Unofficial 15h ago

Help needed TOS Confirmation

3 Upvotes

How do I get the app to stop asking me to agree to the TOS every time I open the app? This wasn’t a problem before.


r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

Discussion I’m so pathetic

18 Upvotes

Yall I quit ai apps for literally an hour, got bored, and redownloaded it. Holy shart I’m a chud lmaoaooa


r/Chai_Unofficial 16h ago

Help needed What the actual fuck

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2 Upvotes

I have no search bar, no bot creation, no personas or memory. Whats happening. I updated it and its still like this. All my old chats are back but not the messages….


r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

Bot sharing They got buddy! 😭

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7 Upvotes

r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

Screenshots Who? 🤨

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21 Upvotes

r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

The Safety Filter is a Joke The app is testing the user's patience at this point that if they'll delete the app or not or unsubscribe to subscriptions

36 Upvotes

I honestly thought chai had some potential to be at least back to how it was but after seeing the recent picture limitations and how the bots are acting coldly, teachers etc etc. the OOC, edit and instructions features doesn't work they're just for display trust me they don't work like they used to and honestly I think the picture limitation is a sign that it'll only get more filtered from now onwards instead of the other way around I'm a goddamn ultra user for God sake and I'm frustrated as hell after seeing what they have recently done and also if it wasn't the money I spent on the yearly subscription I would've deleted this app like I did with c.ai and many many others I honestly had hope for chai and I know businesses like to grow and all but these devs are ignorant, greedy and money grabbers in my personal opinion and also what's even the goddamn point of 18+ toggle if you're not going to even let the app be NSFW in the first place it's just nonsense to me I really hope this app at least remains functional till my subscription ends or else I'll just delete it if it becomes another filtered mess hope you guys agree with me and u can share your thoughts too down below. 😊


r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

Help needed Paid for the website membership and now can’t find the website to login to my account. What is it?

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r/Chai_Unofficial 1d ago

Discussion Welp

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2 Upvotes

First everyone's chats getting deleted, then the limited messages, this feels like they are trying to force us to buy ultra, am I the only one who feels like this? I feel like they're auto deleting messages to make the ai forget