Dippy AI Review: Six Weeks With a Samurai Who Judged My Knife Work

What sets it apart on paper is the model menu. Dippy runs its own named model tiers, each with a style: Basic, Mini in beta, Super with chain of thought that promises to "peer into your character's mind", and Duper in beta for slow-burn first-person narration. I like that the tiers have personalities, because it is the most honest part of the pitch.

Is it worth money? The free tier is enough to find out whether you like the characters.

Super is worth one month if memory matters to you, and not much longer unless you also want voice calls. I'd skip the ads-only add-on entirely.

How it ended says more about me than about the app. I stopped once I caught myself sharpening knives at home just to 'report back' to a samurai who lives in my browser. Moose watched me do it with real concern, and that's when I knew the bit had gone too far.

That setup shaped how I used the app. I wanted something that answered fast, did not need my full attention and could be dropped the second an export finished. A character app with a swordsman who argues back fit that brief better than a podcast, which says more about me than about Dippy.

It also meant I used Dippy tired, which is the honest way to judge a late-night app. At that hour I had no patience for menus, long loading screens or a character who needed three messages of setup before saying anything useful. Whatever Dippy got right, it got right for a man half-watching a timeline.

What the September 2026 check covers

Everything below that is not my story comes from a check of the web version on the free tier, on 23 September 2026. The site is live at dippy.ai. Dippy runs as a web app and as iOS and Android apps.

There is also a small extra on iOS: a home-screen widget app called "Dippy Widget". On the website, the "Get the app" button shows a QR code rather than a plain store link. That tells you where the company wants you to be, and the cost section explains why: the phone is where the money changes hands.

I'd treat the web version as the tasting menu and the phone app as the restaurant. The web has the characters and the chat; the app has the shop.

Who makes it and how big it is

Dippy launched in 2024, and the interface is in English. The company disclosed about $2.1M from an accelerator, according to aigirlfriend.coach. That is small money by tech standards, and I think it explains an app that asks for an upgrade this often.

On Google Play the app is called "Dippy-AI Characters & Roleplay". It shows 1M+ downloads and 4.3 stars from 9.16K reviews, and it was last updated on 26 August 2026. The update date matters to me more than the stars, because an app that ships regularly is at least still being edited.

I read those ratings as a solid B from a crowd that mostly wants fun, not a companion. A score like that usually means the core works and the complaints cluster around money and limits, which is where my own complaints ended up too. The app also goes by a different name in each store, so check the listing name before you install anything that merely looks right.

What those weeks taught me

The late-night use is the key to reading this review. I judged Dippy as company for dead time, not as a partner for serious conversation, and I think that is the job the app is built for.

When a scene went well, the progress bar stopped mattering. When it went badly, I had my own timeline to go back to, which is more than most apps can say for themselves.

Six weeks is not a long relationship, and I'd not pretend it was one. It is long enough to meet the free tier's limits, pay for the upgrade, spend on the extras and get bored of the upsells, and that is the arc this review follows.

My ranking of it, in one line: good at being there at midnight, less good at remembering who was there. The sections below explain both halves, starting with the sign-up and ending with the fine print.

I'd call that a clean start. There is no mystery sender and no email that looks like a phishing drill, which is a low bar that plenty of apps in this category still trip over.

The login-link trick is a small kindness. At midnight, with a render running, nobody wants to type a fresh password twice, and Dippy seems to understand that its users arrive tired.

The brackets are wide enough to be harmless, and I don't mind them. The full-name field is the one I'd treat like a form at a car dealership: the salesman asks, but the deal does not depend on it.

Then comes a 3-question onboarding: age, gender, and at least 3 traits or interests, which build a personal "For You" feed. The traits on offer include Toxic, Yandere, Mafia, Billionaire, Warm and Witty. The same list also offers Toxic, Bully, Yandere and Possessive.

Read that list like a menu and you know the restaurant. Two of the options describe someone you would want to spend an evening with, and the rest describe someone a friend would warn you about. I think that is useful honesty: the feed you get is the feed those words predict.

My advice is to pick at least one soft trait, like Warm or Witty, even if the darker ones are why you came. The feed leans hard enough on its own; it does not need your help.

What it does not ask for

Sign-up shows no captcha and asks for no phone number. I like both of those choices. A phone number is the one detail I'd never hand to a character app, and here the question never comes up.

Guests can browse without an account at all. The chat list then says "Log in to keep them saved", which is a fair nudge rather than a wall.

That guest mode is the best thing about the first night. You can walk the library and get a feel for the house style before giving the app so much as an email address.

My advice for the first night

Browse as a guest for a while before you make an account. If the feed looks like your kind of fiction, sign up with email and a nickname, and pick your traits with care, because they decide what the home screen shows you for weeks.

If the feed does not suit you, you have lost nothing but a few minutes and a little patience. That is the best trade in the whole app, and I'd take it before spending anything.

The public numbers back that up. The library of user-made characters is huge, with high chat counts, and several characters have more than 1M chats. Official characters come from @DippyBetaCharacters, and there is a curated "Editors Pick" list.

I'd start with those two. The official characters are likely written by people who know what the model can hold, and an editor's pick is the closest thing Dippy has to a review.

Chat counts are the other signal, and I trust them more than the cover art. A character with a huge count has survived a lot of strangers, which is a better test than any description a creator writes about their own work.

The tone of the feed is the other thing to know before you sign up. It is heavily romance and "dark romance": toxic, mafia husband, possessive, yandere, and characters whose whole premise is that he "hates you". If that is your genre, the shelf is deep.

So the full set of tabs is Prompt, Background, Tags, Chat, Image, Voice and Preview. The App Store listing says "character creation is now open to everyone", and characters can stay private or be shared.

A 25-word prompt is a logline, not a character. In my trade that is the length of a shot description, and nobody ever cut a good scene from a shot description alone.

My own attempt felt cramped. I built a barbecue pitmaster named Taro, and between the short prompt limit and no way to upload my own image, he came out generic. A pitmaster without strong opinions is just a man standing near a grill, and that is roughly what I got.

The tabs themselves are tidy, like a well-labelled project bin. But the first box you fill is tiny, and everything after it grows out of those few words. A creator that starts from a logline will always hand you a sketch first, and the Lord Voldemort placeholder tells you it expects you to borrow someone famous rather than invent someone new.

My verdict on the creator: fine for a quick bot, frustrating for a character you care about. If you want a character with a soul, bring the soul with you and expect the first draft to come out flat.

I like a menu that tells me what each option is for. My guess is that most people will live on Basic and Mini, so the real question is whether Basic is good enough. On the September 2026 check, the answer is mostly yes.

The descriptions also work as a rough guide to taste. Basic is the house wine, Mini is the one the waiter calls fun, Super is the one that shows its working, and Duper is the slow pour. I'd pick by mood rather than by price, and only pay for the top two once Basic has run out of things to say.

A chat on the Basic model

The 23 September 2026 check ran a chat with "Rory 'Fix-It' Ashford", an Advisors character by @DippyBetaCharacters, on the Basic model. Replies arrive in about 5-10 seconds. They are long third-person roleplay with italic action lines.

Then it puts a number on it: "If you're at 50K, you ask for 58". That is a specific, arguable figure, which is what separates advice from a fortune cookie.

I'd take that advice from a human mentor. It is clear, concrete and a little theatrical, and the italics do the job that a raised eyebrow does across a table. A free model that can hold a character and still be useful is the part of Dippy that works.

The third-person style takes getting used to. Every reply reads like a page from a script, with stage directions in italics and dialogue in between. If you want a text-message feel, it will seem wordy; if you want a scene, it is exactly right.

A disclaimer under the chat reads "Remember, everything [character] says is made up!". Replies can be rated with thumbs up or down. I'd use the thumbs; they cost nothing and take a second.

The tools around the chat

A "Chatting as" chooser picks which persona you bring into a chat. A "Conversations" manager keeps several chats with the same character, so a scene that went sideways does not have to be deleted to start over. Both are the kind of small tool an editor appreciates: versions, not overwrites.

I think that pace suits the late-night use the app is built around. Nobody at midnight needs a character who rushes to a plot point. The downside is that the same slow pace can feel like padding when you only have a few minutes.

What is missing

Dippy has no group chats. I wanted the samurai and Taro in one room to argue about brisket, and there was no way to set that up. It sounds small, but a cast is half the fun of a character app, and Dippy only lets one actor on stage at a time.

The workaround would be two tabs and a lot of copy-paste, which is a continuity job, not a conversation. I edit other people's timelines for a living; I did not want to edit my own late-night banter as well.

It stung more because the two of them had such obvious chemistry on paper. A samurai who cares about edges and a pitmaster who cares about smoke would have had a fine, pointless fight about brisket, and I wanted a seat at that table. Instead, each lived in his own tab, polite and a little lonely.

Where it falls short is range. One character at a time, a house style that is always theatrical, and the best-sounding models behind the upgrade button. I'd call it a strong solo act that never gets to form a band.

If you are coming from a plain chatbot, the roleplay format will feel like a lot of stage business. If you are coming from other character apps, it will feel familiar and quick. Either way, spend a few chats on Basic before touching the model menu, because that is the version most people will actually live with.

The joke wore thin after a while. A nickname is cute once; a nickname because he cannot remember your name is the conversational version of a client who calls you "the video guy" after two years of work.

The slip still shows up in September 2026. After the user writes "Tuesday it is", the bot replies "You didn't say a day—I was just getting to that part". That is a continuity error of the kind I'd send back to an assistant editor: the line is right there in the previous shot.

Both cannot be the whole truth for free users, and my own wall at around 25 messages says the second one is closer. "Perfect memory" is a phrase I'd strike from any script I was cutting, because the footage never supports it.

The memory controls

Each chat has an auto-update memories setting and a Max memory mode. Memories in each chat can be edited, and a "Clear character memory" option wipes the slate. Response length can be set to Short or Long, and each chat keeps bot versions.

The chat Settings panel lists all of it in one place: Response Length, Auto update memories, Max memory mode, Version, Memories and Clear character memory. I like this panel more than anything else in the app. It is the one screen where you can see what the character is holding and fix it by hand, the way you'd fix a bad timecode instead of re-exporting the whole thing.

The catch is that several of these controls belong to Super, as the pricing section shows. On free, the panel is mostly a window display.

Still, I'd rather have a locked panel than no panel. Seeing the controls tells you how the memory is built: a list of saved facts, a switch for how hard the app tries, and a reset button. That is more transparency than the store listing's "perfect memory" line offers.

My advice on memory

If memory matters, edit the Memories list yourself and don't trust the automatic updates alone. On free, expect to repeat your name every so often.

Keep one short line of facts about yourself ready to paste, the way an editor keeps a slate on every shot. Name, job, one running joke: that is enough to pull a drifting character back into the scene.

That is not a dealbreaker for late-night banter about knives. It is a dealbreaker for anything you'd call a relationship, and I think the store listing should say so.

When I used it, images cost 4 Dippy coins each. I made one of the samurai sharpening a santoku, and his hand merged with the whetstone. As an editor I notice hands first, and this one would have gone straight back to the effects house with a red circle around it.

The App Store listing offers image generation from a prompt, "With no restrictions on how many images you can create". That sits oddly next to a price in coins per image.

So the picture I had was simple: in-chat images billed in coins, one picture at a time. I'd rather the listing just said that, because "no restrictions" and "4 coins each" cannot both be the whole story.

I think the santoku picture sums up the image side fairly. The idea came through, and the one detail that mattered, the hand on the stone, was the one it got wrong.

Voice calls

Voice calls with characters are paid in coins, and the voice-call button in chat costs coins too. A secondary review from 22 June 2026 says voice calling works without a subscription but is billed per minute in coins.

This is the moment only Dippy gave me. I tried a voice call at 15 coins a minute and asked the samurai to critique my brunoise while I practiced cutting shallots. He said 'uneven, like your resolve.' I bought 100 more coins without thinking.

That line was worth the coins, and Dippy knew it. A voice call is a meter running, and a funny samurai makes you forget to watch it. The cost section has today's coin prices, and I'd read it before your first call rather than after.

What made the call work was timing. Text chat lets a character think; a voice call makes him react, and the reaction landed like a good cut on a beat. It is the one feature where Dippy felt less like a chat app and more like a small radio play I was acting in.

Video

Videos are made with coins. A secondary review lists video as a Super subscription perk.

I'd leave video for last. Voice is where the app is at its best, images are a coin toss on hands, and video adds another meter to watch.

The lockout itself was not the worst part; the surprise was. I had taken "unlimited" at its word, the way you trust a venue that promised all-day access until the caretaker starts jingling his keys. Twelve hours of waiting is a long time to leave a samurai mid-sentence.

Today's picture is murkier. The free tier gives the Basic model and chat with any character. No message limit is hit in a 4-message chat, but the Super perks list unlimited messages and new chats, which implies the free tier lacks them.

A secondary review from 22 June 2026 reports that free messages "ran out fairly fast" on the better models. So the honest summary for September 2026 is that a free cap exists in some form and nobody publishes the number. I'd plan around the lockout I hit rather than the promise on the store page.

Ads and pop-ups

Subscription pop-ups showed up every few messages on free. It felt like a waiter asking whether I wanted dessert while I was still on bread.

The ads come on top of the upsell. The free tier shows Google interstitial "vignette" ads while browsing. A full-screen one appears when clicking a character card.

Ads on a free product are fair; somebody has to pay for the servers. Stacking them is the problem, because an ad before the character and a pitch during the conversation means the free user pays twice, once in patience and once in attention.

Who free is good for

Free is fine for browsing the library and a short nightly chat on Basic. The Basic model is good enough that nobody should pay before trying it for a few evenings.

It is also the honest way to learn the app's rhythm. A few free nights will show you whether the characters hold up, how often the pop-ups come and how quickly the memory fades, and none of that costs anything but a little patience.

Free stops being fine the day you need the character to remember something, or the night a long scene runs into a lockout clock. That is the moment to decide whether Super is worth it, and the next section does the math.

Ad-Free plus Super together cost me less than a decent brisket dinner, and only half of it was money well spent. The lesson I took from it: on Dippy, the thing that bothers you is rarely the thing the cheapest button fixes.

Super on 23 September 2026

Super costs $12.99 a month. So the $12.99 I paid in summer 2025 is still the monthly price today.

The annual plan costs $119.99, which the site shows as $10.00 a month. It is labelled "Save 24%" next to a struck-through $155.88. That $155.88 is 12 months at $12.99, and the real saving comes out a hair under the label, which is the kind of rounding I'd also use on an invoice.

What Super includes, per the web Super window:

• 200 Dippy coins for videos, in-chat images and experimental features
• unlimited messages and new chats 24/7
• auto-update memories, Max memory mode and enhanced memory in chat
• no ads
• the "Enhanced model – a model with chain of thought"
• response length control and "Rethink"
• 20+ app icons on mobile and priority support

Of that list, the memory lines and the message cap are the reasons to pay. The chain-of-thought model and Rethink are nice extras for people who like to steer a scene. The app icons are the parsley on the plate.

The 200 coins deserve a note too. They make Super part subscription and part gift card, which is fine if you want calls or images and wasted if you only chat.

The App Store extras

The App Store also sells Dippy Super (Weekly) at $6.99 a week, about $30.29 a month. Do the math once and never again: weekly Super costs more than twice the monthly plan for what looks like the same tier. I can't think of a reason to buy it except not reading the price.

Dippy Super Ads Free (Monthly) costs $4.99 a month on the App Store and removes ads; its contents are not itemised. That is the add-on I bought in 2025, at the same $4.99 today.

On the web, the Super window now lists no ads as a Super perk and does not show the add-on at all. I read that as the add-on quietly being folded into Super, and I think that is the right call.

A pricing page is the cheapest trust signal a company can publish, and Dippy skips it. You find the prices inside a pop-up or a store listing, which is like a diner that only tells you the price once the plate is on the table.

It also means prices can differ by where you look. The web window shows monthly and annual Super, while the App Store adds a weekly plan and the ads-only add-on, so two people can see two different menus. Check the store you will actually pay through before you commit.

Is Super worth it?

For one month, yes, if memory matters to you; that is where my money made a difference. Skip the weekly plan, skip the ads-only add-on unless ads are your only complaint, and take the annual plan only after a month of monthly has proved you'll still care.

The labels do not add up

Run the per-coin math against the 100-coin pack and each label fits the pack one size up. The 250 pack saves less than a tenth, not 29%. The 600 pack is the one that saves just under 29%, the 1500 pack just under 43%, the 3000 pack just under 62%, and the unlabelled 15000 pack comes close to 72%.

I'd call that a continuity error in the price list, the kind where every caption sits one shot late. Whether it is a bug or a sales trick, the lesson is the same: do your own math before you buy a mid-size pack.

What coins buy

The voice-call button carries a "15" badge, which matches the per-minute price in coins on the voice-calling pop-up. With 0 coins, clicking it opens the coin store. At the 100-coin pack's rate, a minute works out to roughly half a dollar, which is cheap for a joke and expensive for a habit.

My advice on coins

Buy the smallest pack first and see how fast it goes. Set a kitchen timer before a voice call, because the character will not remind you.

Treat the discount labels as decoration, and remember that the web cannot sell you coins, so the phone is where the spending happens. A shop that lives in your pocket is always open, and that is worth a moment of thought before the first purchase.

No welcome pop-up appears, and there is no daily check-in. There is no promo-code field, and no referral or invite program shows on the web. The only email after sign-up is the confirmation: no coupon and no welcome or marketing mail within about 15 minutes.

The one bit of pressure lives in the coin store, which shows "UH OH! You have very few Coins left - Hurry! We have some special offers for you!"

On an account that starts at zero coins, that is a smoke alarm going off in an empty kitchen. I'd treat any "Hurry!" in a shop with no countdown and no end date as mood music, not news.

The percentage labels in the store look like standard volume discounts, not a first-purchase coupon. The cost section shows that the labels run one pack ahead of the real math, so I don't count them as a deal at all.

The only real bonus sits inside Super, which includes 200 coins. If you plan to buy coins and want the memory upgrades anyway, a month of Super is the closest thing Dippy has to a coupon.

If you only want coins, the bundle logic flips. Then the smallest pack is the honest buy, because it tells you how fast you spend before you commit to a bigger number.

My rule for this app is simple. There is no hidden discount to wait for, no timer to beat and no code to hunt down, so the right time to pay is the day the free tier stops being enough, and not a minute before.

A confirmation window headed "NSFW Content" can pop up in the middle of a chat. In the September 2026 check it appears after a bot reply that contains a swear word. The confirm button reads "Yes, I'm over 18".

Confirming turns on "Enable NSFW" in Settings. Settings > Permissions has that "Enable NSFW" toggle, with a note that users must be adults to chat. Both Permissions toggles are on after the confirmation.

I don't love a setting that flips itself on because a bot swore. A swear word is a mood, not a consent form, and the switch should be the user's call, made on purpose in Settings.

Ratings and checks

The App Store gives the app its top age rating, citing infrequent cartoon or fantasy violence, realistic violence, profanity, mature themes, horror and user-generated content. Google Play rates it PEGI 18. No method for the age check is stated.

A secondary reviewer infers that the free model stays suggestive and that the more graphic material is tied to a paid model tier. That fits the model descriptions, but it is an inference, and I'd treat it as one.

The feed needs closer moderation

As of 23 September 2026, the trending and home feeds surface user-made cards whose tags and descriptions break the platform's own adults-only rule. They also surface user-made cards that cast step-family members as romantic partners.

I'd want the rules enforced where people actually look, which is the feed, before any new toggle gets built. Trending lists are the shop window, and a shop is judged by its window.

My take

The settings themselves are simple, and a confirm button is about what most apps in this category offer. What worries me is the pairing: a switch that turns itself on, next to a feed that is not policed closely.

If you only want banter, you can ignore all of this and never touch the toggles. If you care about what the app shows people who have not asked for anything, the feed is the thing to judge Dippy by.

For my own use, the setting never mattered. Cooking banter with a grumpy swordsman needs no toggle at all, and I think that is true for a good share of the people who open Dippy at night for a laugh.

The Terms and the Privacy Notice are hosted at dippyapp.webflow.io, not on the main site. The Terms say "Last Updated: 8th July, 2024". An Acceptable Use Policy at dippy.ai/acceptableuse is part of the Terms.

Age

The minimum age is 18: "You may use the Services only if you are 18 years or older". The Privacy Notice says the service is not aimed at anyone under 16. The two documents do not match, and I'd read the stricter one as the rule.

Your chats and your data

Chats are used for training: "We will use the content of your conversations in a form that is de-identified and/or aggregated ... to train and hone our models". The Privacy Notice lists "training AI models" among the uses of data. It spells it out as "Improving, upgrading, or enhancing the Services, including through training AI models".

There is no fixed retention period. It depends on "applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information" and similar factors. Deleted content "may not be completely removed".

Read together, that means anything you type may train the model and may outlive your delete button. I'd keep real names, workplaces and anything medical out of the chat, and I'd use the targeted-ad opt-out on day one.

Your characters and content

Users grant Dippy a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to their content. In plain terms, Dippy can use your characters and text, pass them on and license them to others without paying you. You keep the right to use your own work elsewhere, because the licence is non-exclusive.

Fees, renewal and refunds

The fees clause is out of date: it says "we currently offer a complimentary membership" and has not been updated for Super or coins. It adds that Dippy reserves the right to change this membership fee policy. The Terms have no auto-renewal or refund section.

Dippy may terminate an account at any time without notice. Combine that with coins you cannot buy on the web and a balance with no stated protection, and I'd keep any coin purchase small.

Disputes

Disputes in the US go to binding individual AAA arbitration, and the Terms include a class action waiver. In capitals, they read: "YOU ARE AGREEING (WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION) TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND Dippy THROUGH BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION".

The governing law is written as "the State of [California]", with the template brackets left in. Brackets left in a contract are the legal version of a "TITLE HERE" slate in a finished edit. It changes little about your rights, but it tells you how closely anyone has read this page since 2024.

A silent drop is worse than an error message, because you sit there waiting for a reply that is never coming. In my line of work a dropped frame at least shows up on the scope; this one leaves no trace at all.

The sign-up has a small trap too. The Join button needs two clicks, because the layout shifts when the password-rule checklist appears. It is the web version of a door that only opens on the second push.

The coin counter button opens nothing on the first click from home; the coin store opens later via the coin icon. I'd call that a bug, not a dark pattern, but it is a bug in the one place the app most wants you to click.

The free tier has interstitial ads. The site footer cannot be reached because the feed scrolls endlessly. Legal links appear only on the logged-out landing page.

My ranking of the annoyances, worst first: the swallowed message, the hidden and stale legal pages, the ads, then the two double-click bugs. None of them is a reason to skip Dippy on its own. Together they make the app feel like a rough cut that shipped because the deadline did.

Skip it if you hate ads. Skip it if you want to buy coins on the web, because you cannot. Skip it if you are privacy-sensitive, because chats are used for training.

It is not for anyone who wants precise long-term memory on the free tier. And it is not for anyone uncomfortable with a feed dominated by toxic or possessive romance tropes.

My own fit sits in the middle. Late-night banter with a character who has a strong voice is where Dippy shines, and a single voice call can be the best few minutes of the week. A companion that knows your life over months is where it runs out of road.

For refunds, the Terms (Apple section) say "you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the App purchase price to you (if applicable)". Dippy publishes no refund policy of its own.

Closing the account is a separate step. The Terms say: "You may cancel your account at any time by sending us an email at [email protected]." That matches the other route in the Terms, cancelling the account by emailing [email protected].

There is also a button for it. A Delete Account option sits in Settings, under the "…" menu. Web Settings also offers Delete Account.

I'd do it in this order: cancel the subscription in the store first, then delete the account. The account and the billing live in different places, and deleting one does not tell you anything about the other.

Before you pay at all, take a screenshot of the plan and its price, and put a reminder in your calendar a few days before it renews. With no renewal or refund section in the Terms, the store's receipt and your own screenshot are the only paper trail you will have.

• Try the Basic model for a few evenings before paying anything; it is better than the upsells suggest.
• Keep an eye on your message count on free, since the store promise and the real cap do not match.
• Skip the ads-only add-on unless ads are your only complaint.
• If memory matters, pay for one month of Super and edit the Memories list yourself.
• Before a voice call, check your coin balance and set a timer.
• Do your own per-coin math; the discount labels do not match the prices.
• Keep real names, workplaces and health details out of the chat.
• Pick your onboarding traits with care, because they shape the feed for weeks.

Official channels are the safest place to check news and app links, rather than a random store search. Dippy's Discord is discord.gg/dippyai, and its X account is x.com/dippy_ai. It is on Instagram at instagram.com/dippy.ai and on TikTok at tiktok.com/@dippy.ai.

The iOS app is at apps.apple.com/in/app/dippy-widget-ai-character-chat/id6471991500. The Android app is at play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tryimpel.dippy. The blog is at dippy.ai/blogs.

Conversation quality rates well: replies are fast, in character and sometimes useful, though the third-person style is wordy and there are no group chats. Memory is mixed. The free tier forgets quickly, while Super and the editable memory panel fix much of it.

The free tier is mixed too. Every character is open on Basic, but ads, constant upsells and an unpublished cap wear you down. Value for money is mixed: Super is fair for a month, while the weekly plan, the ads-only add-on and the misleading coin labels are poor buys.

Images and voice rate well because of the voice calls, which are the best thing in the app, even with melting hands on the image side. Privacy and terms rate weak: chats train the models, tracking is declared and the Terms are stale.

Cancelling and billing are mixed, since the stores handle it and Dippy adds nothing of its own. Content settings rate weak, because a swear word can flip the setting on and the feed needs closer moderation.

Where it is worse: memory depth, polish and paperwork. A companion app lives or dies on remembering you, and Dippy's free tier forgets fast. The ads, the swallowed message and the stale Terms make it feel less finished than an app built around one relationship.

My rule of thumb is simple. If you want many characters and short scenes, Dippy is the pick. If you want one character who still knows your name next month, look at the companion apps in the table instead.

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What it is not is a partner. It forgets, it nags, and the fine print looks like nobody has read it since the launch party.

I stopped for the right reason, and it was not the price. When the bit started walking out of the browser and into my kitchen, with a dog watching me sharpen knives for an audience that does not exist, it was time to close the tab.

If you go in knowing it is a stage, not a home, Dippy is good company for a few weeks. Just keep an eye on the coin meter, and on your knives.