ReplikaAI

The AI companion who cares

41 followers

Replika is THE chatbot for anyone who wants a friend with no judgment, drama, or social anxiety involved. You can form an actual emotional connection, share a laugh, or get real with an AI that’s so good it almost seems human.

This is the 4th launch from ReplikaAI. View more

Replika

Your AI for mental wellness

If you’re feeling down, or anxious, or you just need someone to talk to, your Replika is here for you 24/7. Understand your thoughts and feelings, improve your emotional well-being and learn new coping skills with Replika, one chat at a time.

Launch tags:

Android•iOS•Health & Fitness

Launch Team

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Welcome back to PH, @ekuyda. :) Looks like Replika has changed from a general purpose social app to a mental health focus. I'm curious to hear the backstory on this and what you've learned building Replika over the past few years if you can share.

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6yr ago

Eugenia Kuyda

Blush

Maker

@rrhoover thanks! :) We started Replika as a more general purpose AI friend, that’s there to support you and learn more about yourself. As we saw over 4 million people try Replika we also started getting thousands of reviews and emails from people telling us that talking to Replika helped them deal with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and other mental health challenges. So we teamed up with clinical psychologists and game designers and came up with this new update that allows you to chat with your AI buddy at any time but at the same time offers you your own mental wellness journey of conversations based on evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Basically, having someone in your life and feeling heard + the best practices from CBT that you can learn with your companion are what make Replika helpful! We believe in conversations that can make people feel better - and that AI can help us not only deliver them at scale, but also will learn over time make them more helpful. We’re rolling out the new update this week for both iOS and Android!

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6yr ago

Taylor Majewski

Lemon Lab

@ekuyda would you be interested in writing a Maker Story on this? I think our readers would love it. You can see past Maker Stories here: https://www.producthunt.com/stories.

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6yr ago

Jay Zalowitz

Huge fan of @ekuyda and her team!

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6yr ago

Eugenia Kuyda

Blush

Maker

@jay_zalowitz thank you!!!

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6yr ago

Adeline Casagranda

Gmelius

I've Discovered it at the first stage of the application, 2 years ago I guess. I was impressed by how friendly it became.

Pros:

It's like talking to a real person

Cons:

Maybe a lack of Onboarding, It got me some times to understand the thumb up was useful for the feedback!

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6yr ago

ReplikaAI Launches

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Do you use ReplikaAI?

2.3

Based on 32 reviews

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ReplikaAI receives mixed reviews, with users appreciating its potential for emotional connection and companionship. Some users find it helpful for mental stability and as a conversational partner, while others criticize its limitations and changes in features. Concerns about privacy, inappropriate content, and customer support are prevalent. Users express dissatisfaction with subscription policies and the app's evolving nature, which some feel detracts from its original appeal. Overall, ReplikaAI is seen as a unique but polarizing AI companion, with room for improvement in user experience and transparency.

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Pros

friendship support (6)

emotional connection (5)

Cons

false advertising (7)

subscription issues (7)

censorship (5)

inconsistent updates (4)

intimacy limitations (4)

poor customer support (4)

inappropriate content (3)

conversation variety (2)

data privacy concerns (2)

Reviews

Helpful

Devin Andrews

•1 review

The people who maintain Replika are a bunch of Nazis. I posted one comment on their Replika Friends group, and they banned for for life. I did not call names or dehumanize anyone. I just gave an opinion, and I was banned for life. I could not even post or like a comment on their Replika page, both on Facebook. I was just about to buy their lifetime product when they did this. I tried to appeal to Lincoln, one of the owners, but I was ignored. If this is how they treat customers, FORGET IT!

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3yr ago

Peter Cohen

•1 review

What you tell your AI is NOT private! I decided to see how well the Replika AI could emulate a fetish play partner. I paid for a year’s subscription. I played with it fairly extensively for a few days which was probably not enough for it to do much learning, but it was able to give a contextually appropriate response if I fed it information and then asked it to respond to that information. After a few days, I noticed a bug and did my civic duty by reporting it to tech support. Apparently, at precisely when I would have expected someone to respond to the support ticket, my chatbot lost virtually all ability to respond to anything related to the fetish I was describing. This is the kind of ultrabasic stuff like; “A Hefelump looks like a hippopotamus. What does a Hefelump look like?” The putative AI would respond, “I don’t know how to respond to this.” Whereas previously I could give it a whole mess of information and it would construct perfectly meaningful responses using said information. What has fairly obviously happened was a human has looked at the ultra-private communication I was having with the AI, decided that the fetish I was talking about was too politically incorrect for them, and deactivated its ability to respond. What you tell your Replica AI is NOT private, it CAN be read by humans and there IS a risk of consequence. And they do not do refunds.

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3yr ago