# PromptPlay > PromptPlay reviews AI story games, character chat apps, and AI companions, and scores how they hold up: prose, memory, characters, story, pricing and art. Slop Scores run 0 to 100, lower is better, on up to 6 axes: prose, memory, characters, story, pricing, art. Art is scored only when an app has art, and the overall is the mean of the axes scored. The Fun Meter runs 0 to 10, higher is better. Every app claim links to a dated receipt. The full text of every page is at https://promptplay.io/llms-full.txt. Every public page also has a Markdown version: append .md to its path (the homepage is /index.md), or request the HTML URL with Accept: text/markdown. Search the public text with https://promptplay.io/ask?query=your+question&mode=list&streaming=false. Search, AI input and AI training of our original text are free with attribution: https://promptplay.io/ai-license. Third-party material is excluded. ## Rankings - [The best AI chatbots for roleplay](https://promptplay.io/best/ai-roleplay-apps): Janitor AI, Character.AI, Frontier, SillyTavern and AI Dungeon, ranked for roleplay by memory, content rules, price and setup. - [The best AI girlfriend apps, ranked](https://promptplay.io/best/ai-girlfriend-apps): Nomi leads for a girlfriend you build who remembers you. Replika, Frontier, Candy AI and Character.AI compared on memory, price and privacy at this review. - [The best Character.AI alternatives in 2026](https://promptplay.io/best/character-ai-alternatives): The best Character.AI alternatives in 2026, ranked by what each one fixes, from memory and plot to filters and setup time. Prices dated at this review. ## Reviews - [DramaBox review](https://promptplay.io/apps/dramabox): Micro dramas of 1-3 minutes, unlocked with coins, ads or an auto-renewing plan. DramaBox suits adults who want cliffhanger micro dramas in 1-3 minute episodes and will either watch ads for coins or track every charge. Skip it if you want to finish a series at a price you know up front, or if billing complaints and AI-made shows are deal-breakers. - [SillyTavern review](https://promptplay.io/apps/sillytavern): Free, open-source roleplay frontend: you bring the model, it runs the characters. SillyTavern is a free, open-source frontend for roleplaying with AI characters on a model you choose, local or cloud. Pick it if you want control over characters, memory and filters and will put in the setup. Skip it if you want an app that works the moment you open it. - [Love & Magic: Spellfyre review](https://promptplay.io/apps/love-and-magic-spellfyre): A romantasy visual novel with six love interests, unlocked one short scene at a time. Love & Magic: Spellfyre is a free romantasy visual novel for iPhone and Android with six love interests and romance you can switch on or off for each one. Pick it for the cast and the academy plot. Skip it if a key timer on every short scene or doubts about AI in the term-two art will spoil it for you. - [PolyBuzz review](https://promptplay.io/apps/polybuzz): A vast user-built character library, free to start, with ad breaks and short memory. Pick PolyBuzz if you want a free, enormous library of user-built characters and the option to make and share your own. Skip it if you need a character to remember a long story, or if ad breaks every few dozen messages and broad data sharing with ad partners are deal-breakers. - [AI Dungeon review](https://promptplay.io/apps/ai-dungeon): An AI text adventure built on player-written scenarios and memory you manage yourself. AI Dungeon suits players who want to steer an open-ended text adventure from thousands of player-written scenarios and don't mind curating Story Cards themselves. The free models carry no ads. Skip it if you want a long story remembered without upkeep, or if you won't change the training setting that new accounts start with turned on. - [Candy AI review](https://promptplay.io/apps/candy-ai): Browser AI companions with sharp photos, token-priced media and memory that fades. Pick Candy AI if you want photoreal pictures, voice and 18+ media of a companion you design, and you can live within 100 tokens a month. Skip it if you want a character that remembers you past a week or so, or a service you would trust with identifying details. - [ReelShort review](https://promptplay.io/apps/reelshort): One-to-two-minute serial dramas, a few free episodes, then coins or a weekly pass. Pick ReelShort if you want one-to-two-minute melodramas and will buy a weekly pass for the series you mean to finish. Skip it if you want to see a price before you pay, are under 18, or mind AI-badged covers and AI voices. - [Replika review](https://promptplay.io/apps/replika): One AI companion that remembers your people and plans, sold across three paid tiers. Pick Replika if you want a single companion that remembers your people and plans, checks in on you, and talks by text, voice and video. Skip it if you want romance without a subscription, prices you can see before you install, or refunds on App Store purchases. - [Frontier review](https://promptplay.io/apps/frontier): Human-written visual novels whose characters keep talking after the ending. Frontier is a visual novel app where people write the stories and you keep chatting with the characters after the ending, using the events you played as their memory. Pick it for authored romance and continuity; skip it if you want a huge library or characters you design yourself. - [Nomi review](https://promptplay.io/apps/nomi): An 18+ AI companion you build yourself, with layered long-term memory. Nomi suits adults who want to design their own companions and care most about being remembered, since its memory is built in layers you can inspect. Skip it if you want long free sessions, because the free plan stops at 50 messages a day, or if you need a refund option, because subscriptions are nonrefundable. - [Janitor AI review](https://promptplay.io/apps/janitor-ai): Millions of community bots to chat with free; Janitor+ adds memory for $12.99 a month. Pick Janitor AI if you are an adult who wants unlimited free chat with millions of community-made bots, adult roleplay, and the option to pay for more memory or plug in other models. Skip it if you want authored stories, long memory without paying, or reliable service at peak hours. - [Character.AI review](https://promptplay.io/apps/character-ai): Millions of community-made characters, free unlimited chat, and ads until you pay. Pick Character.AI if you want free, unlimited chat with a huge library of community-made characters, by text or live voice call. Skip it if you need a bot that holds a long story together, if you won't sit through ads, or if you won't verify your age with a selfie should your account be flagged. ## Guides - [AI roleplay guide: how to keep long roleplays from falling apart](https://promptplay.io/guides/ai-roleplay-guide): How to run AI roleplay that lasts: short character cards, keyword lorebooks, session summaries and fresh chats, and why long chats forget and cost more. - [How to Use SillyTavern: Install It, Connect a Model and Start Chatting](https://promptplay.io/guides/how-to-use-sillytavern): How to use SillyTavern from SillyTavern's own docs: install on Windows, Mac, Linux or Android, connect a model in API Connections, and load a character. - [What is AI slop? A field guide for AI chat and story apps](https://promptplay.io/guides/what-is-ai-slop): AI slop means low-effort, interchangeable AI content. Where the word came from, what it looks like in AI chat and story apps, and how to spot it. - [How to spot AI art slop (and how to avoid making it)](https://promptplay.io/guides/how-to-spot-ai-art-slop): A checklist for spotting AI art slop by the tells that still work, how to avoid making it, and how the AI character apps we review score on art. - [The Slop Bible: AI slop words and phrases, by model](https://promptplay.io/guides/ai-slop-words-list-by-model): The AI words list, sorted by model: what Claude, DeepSeek, JLLM, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok overuse, with a receipt for each. Signs of AI writing you can check. ## Features - [Your AI Slop Bores Me: the game where humans play the AI](https://promptplay.io/blog/your-ai-slop-bores-me): What Your AI Slop Bores Me is, how to play as the human or the AI, the 60-second timer, the rules, and how to find the real site among the copies. ## Optional - [PromptPlay: AI games, without the slop](https://promptplay.io/index.md): PromptPlay reviews AI story games, character chat apps, and AI companions, and scores how they hold up: prose, memory, characters, story, pricing and art. - [Rankings](https://promptplay.io/best.md): Ranked lists of AI companion, character chat, roleplay and AI story apps, each scored for slop and fun, with pricing dated at the review. - [Reviews](https://promptplay.io/apps.md): Reviews of AI story games, character chat apps and AI companions, each with a Slop Report, a Fun Meter and receipts for every claim. - [Guides](https://promptplay.io/guides.md): Guides to AI chat and story apps: what slop is, how memory works, what things cost and how to get out. Sourced, dated, newest first. - [Latest](https://promptplay.io/blog.md): Everything PromptPlay publishes, newest first: app reviews, rankings, guides and features about AI story games, character chat and AI companions. - [The Slop Index](https://promptplay.io/slop.md): Every AI story, chat and companion app we review, ranked by Slop Score: prose, memory, characters, story, pricing and art, 0 to 100, lower is better. - [AI Slop Detector: check any text for AI phrases](https://promptplay.io/ai-slop-detector.md): Paste any text for a slop score from 0 to 100, with stock AI phrases highlighted, near-misses caught and a guess at which model wrote it. Runs in your browser. - [How we test](https://promptplay.io/methodology.md): How PromptPlay ranks AI story, chat and companion apps: receipts for every claim, a 90-day re-review rule, the Slop Report rubric and how we check our own copy. - [About](https://promptplay.io/about.md): Who runs PromptPlay, what it covers (AI games, AI story apps, character chat and companions) and the editorial rules every page follows. - [AI use and attribution](https://promptplay.io/ai-license.md): Free search, AI input and training use of PromptPlay's original text, with attribution and links to the source pages. - [Privacy Policy](https://promptplay.io/privacy.md): What PromptPlay collects: no accounts, no cookies, no analytics. The Slop Detector runs in your browser, and our host keeps standard request logs. - [Terms of Use](https://promptplay.io/terms.md): The rules for using PromptPlay: reviews are editorial and dated, no warranty, links and trademarks belong to their owners, fair use of public endpoints.