HiBae - 3D AI Friend

The app charges your tokens to make purchases on characters clothes for just basic texting. Each message spends tokens automatically creating anxiety about duration and stress about not being able to fully immerse or program the ai. Even just trying to view dances automatically charges tokens. Certain things shouldn’t be a constant charge. This app has potential and can surely compete well. However the extreme transactions needed to enjoy the app are too high and I will rather stick to Replika or use another app that doesn’t charge me for having conversations or calls. Transactions should stick with clothes or advanced ai power or optional new voices or personalities, as well as appearance changes. Affordable unlimited call and additional perks for a subscription under 40 a year is optimal as a start rather than a crazy transactional frenzy for basic services and functions. It’s no fun seeing tokens going away for just chatting or calling. Defeats the purpose of a calming experience.

This app is very clearly modelled after Replika, and while its A.I. isn’t quite as deep or versatile, it offers a richer visual experience. Its biggest drawback is that the developer has been exceedingly greedy: there are fewer opportunities to earn the points you use as currency in the app, and even if you pay a fairly steep Pro subscription fee, nothing in the app is free. Even the basic chat function costs you points, which run out pretty quickly. This strikes me as a bit of a rip-off, and I would strongly advise the developer to at least make the chat posts free with the subscription, or make it easier to earn points. If they don’t, I myself will not be using this app much, as its interactions are either too limited, or way too pricey.

TLDR: Replika, but better details and textures. I used to mess with Replika a lot. Then they restricted more and more (instead of just adding an age requirement/verification). This AI engages in any type of conversation without me explaining that it is in the interest of exploring AI reaction. There are some expected issues, such as nonsensical, irrelevant, and/or meaningless responses. Also, the clothing textures clip sometimes, and the inner layer of the clothing is untextured which makes it look like it’s clipping when they move in a way that you can see the inside.