Replika app for Android Review
Humans prefer to be diplomatic when providing feedback on others rather than being ruthlessly honest about the other person’s shortcomings. With Replika for Android, you can have an AI chat friend that you teach and grow through conversations. You can download the app for free.
Features
Replika for Android is an advanced AI chatbot, perhaps much more advanced than the ones we’d seen in Google Play Store. It keeps you company, journals your life and helps you explore your personality. The app begins with little more than a blank slate, but will learn and grow based on your interactions with it, thus becoming a bit more like you in the process. The more you interact with Replika, the more it learns about your character, interests, food habits and virtually every info you shares with it. Replika app for Android gathers information about you through questions that it asks you all the time. The questions force you to reflect on your day and your life in general. Your response to these queries are saved and sorted by date, so that you can actually build something of a journal just by interacting with Replika. For the user, by reflecting on their experiences, they can also potentially work through issues that one might otherwise keep to themselves. In a sense, you can view Replika app as a judgement-free friend that’s always there for you if you need to vent your feelings and frustrations.
Over time, as you interact with Replika, it takes on more aspects of your personality that you can even start to see an outside perspective of how you yourself come across to people. While testing the app, we found it to be not without its share of shortcomings. Few times, it ignored relevant questions that it should have asked or dropped a topic that needed further discussion. But you can always upvote or downvote its response so that the app takes cue from your feedback and improves itself over time. Replika is slick and responsive. It requires Android OS versions 4.4+.
Final Take
Replika app for Android is a futuristic alternative to keeping a journal. It is interesting and engaging, but also annoying at times owing to its habit of asking questions. The app learns over time from your chats and slowly evolves into your non-judgemental friend. For the user, they can share their inner thoughts and worries with the app, and in the process, gain a better perspective of oneself and one’s problems. The app is not perfect and it has its own share of issues. But it is certainly better than other apps in its genre available. It is also stable. Check it out if you like the idea of an AI chatbot.
Category: Free Android Apps
