Chai Research Corp. · App Store rating 4.30 ·
updated 19 Sep 2026
12.9%
of all its App Store ratings are 1–2 stars Apple's full star distribution · 280,285 ratings
#2 of 14
by complaint rate in this category
1.98×
category median (6.5%)
500
one- and two-star reviews read
500
written reviews sampled used for the category breakdown only
4.30★
store rating, all-time
This app's complaint rate is far above the category median of 6.5%. Two different denominators, which is the whole point of this page. 4.30 stars is the average of every rating ever submitted, while 12.9% of all 280,285 ratings are 1–2 stars. Separately, we read the last 500 written reviews Apple returns for this app, so that batch is skewed toward complaints and 500 of them (100%) are 1–2 stars. That second batch is what the category breakdown below is built on, and it is never used to compute the rate above.
Where the complaints concentrate
Every one- and two-star review in the sample is assigned to one primary category.
The three largest are below. The marker on each bar is the category median for that same
complaint type — so you are comparing yourself to the field, not to zero.
Pricing / value
92 of 500 · 18%
vs category2.6× median
Value complaints are usually a packaging problem, not a price problem.
regression
77 of 500 · 15%
vs category5.9× median
Too many ads
51 of 500 · 10%
vs category3.9× median
Ad load is read as a statement about who the product is for.
Read this with care. A 500-review sample carries real error bars, and
52% of the negative reviews in this sample mapped cleanly to a known
category — the rest were too vague or too specific to classify and are excluded rather
than forced into a bucket. Treat the ranking as meaningful and small gaps as noise.
How it compares to the rest of AI companion & wellbeing
All of these are in the same category we rank against — AI companion & wellbeing. The category median is 6.5%; lower is calmer, higher is angrier. Each name links to that app's own public snapshot.
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