Character.AI | AppleVis

Description of App

Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime, and experience the magic of an AI that hears you, understands you, and remembers you. With Character.AI, you can: - Talk about everything you want, as much as you want - Discover millions of user-created AIs, each with their own personality - Bring new characters to life with just a few words, or craft them to your heart’s content with our advanced character creation tools - Enjoy unlimited free messaging (and no ads)! Immerse yourself in awesome stories, get homework help from your favorite anime characters, learn a new language, or even write a novel… all with the help of a super intelligent assistant that YOU design! The possibilities are endless, and we encourage you to push the frontier of what’s possible with this technology. We’re excited to see what you create! Please feel free to share feedback or feature requests on our forums (https://beta.character.ai/community) and welcome to the Character.AI community! Character.AI is powered by our own proprietary technology based on large language models (LLMs), built and trained from the ground up with conversation in mind. Please remember that everything characters say is made up!

Version

1.0

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

16.4.1

Accessibility Comments

There are upsides and downsides to using this app over the website. The upsides include knowing how many messages you are deleting from a chat at a time, and receiving haptic feedback while the AI is generating a message so you know when it’s actually done. The more options menu is also accessible by double tapping the character name at the top of the screen, and doesn’t require using screen recognition to navigate to.
However, there seem to be more unlabeled/weirdly labeled buttons in this app than the website, and VO doesn’t seem to read the message rating system as easily, as well as format tags (bold and italic) not being read out.
Another bug I found is that the cursor can’t be moved in the message edit field, and braille screen input does not work.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Few buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.

Other Comments

This site is a lot of fun. My username on it is LifezVictorai, and I’ve created a few AIs of Timecrest characters and am considering making more in the future.

App Store Link

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/character-ai/id1671705818

Developer's Website

https://beta.character.ai/character.ai

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Zoe Victoria 1 year 6 months ago

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Comments

Maybe change the price

In the directory, it’s as free with in a purchase, but in the App Store, it says free

Added Custom Voices

They recently added custom voices to this app too. I've been on the lookout for companion apps having this feature. I believe that it's only a feature for folks who subscribe to Character AI Plus, but they plan to release the feature to everyone at some point. For those who use the site, it seems that some things like group chats and editiing messages is only doable via the app.