Dippy AI Review 2026: Super Prices, Free Tier and Who It's For

— Mainstream Roleplay, Soft NSFW

Dippy AI

6.8 /10

A free character-chat app from Impel Intelligence in San Francisco, with a busy community feed, named model tiers, voice calls and coin-paid images and video. Super is cheap and sold through the app stores. The NSFW toggle exists, but the ad network and the stores keep it suggestive.

Free, No Card Daily Chat Limit (Free) Super from $9.99/mo (iOS) Coins for Images, Video, Calls iPhone, Android, Web Terms Link 404

Features (per official pages) 7.5/10

Adult Content Scope 4.0/10

Value for Money 9.0/10

Pricing & Billing Clarity 8.0/10

User Feedback 8.6/10

Scored with our v3 method: features and adult scope from the official pages, value from the entry price, billing terms, and user ratings with 50+ reviews. See how scores work.

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Dippy is a character chat and roleplay app. You pick a character from a community feed or build your own, then chat by text; recent versions add voice calls ("Now call your favourite characters!", in App Store release notes since December 2025) and paid image and video generation. It is live and updated: the iOS app was last updated on 27 August 2026 (version 2.0.9), the Android app on 1 October 2026.

This review rests only on things anyone can check on 20 October 2026: the web client served at dippy.ai, the unauthenticated parts of Dippy's API, the US App Store and Google Play listings, the legal pages those listings link to (and, where they are now dead, the Internet Archive's last copies), and Impel Intelligence's public GitHub. It is not a hands-on test, so there are no chat logs or sample images below. Prices are US storefront figures in US dollars.

What You Get

The community feed is Dippy's strongest asset, and its public API shows how much it gets used. The most-messaged characters in the feeds we pulled on 20 October 2026 were a "Bully" character with 16.7 million messages, two mafia-husband characters at about 1.8 and 2 million, and a run of "cold crush at school" and enemies-to-lovers characters past a million. The home-page tags are Trending, New, Editors Pick, Male, Female, Anime, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Gaming, Toxic, Sarcastic, Advisors and Horror.

• Character creation: open to free users, with steps for name, description, background, starting message, tags and generated images (each image style has a coin cost visible only inside an account).
• Voice calls: paid in coins; calls end with an "out of coins" signal when the balance runs dry.
• Images and video: the client describes coins as buying "features like image generation and video generation".
• Memory (Super): "Enhanced memory within chat", "Auto update memories" and a "Max memory mode" with "Extended memory for richer, more immersive roleplay experiences". No message counts or context sizes are published.
• Personas: you can set up your own personas for the characters to address.
• Platforms and scale: iPhone, Android and a web client. Google Play shows 1M+ downloads; Dippy's own public user-count endpoint returned about 9.17 million on 20 October 2026 (the company's figure, not an audited one).

Models: Basic, Mini, Super and Duper

Few apps in this category say which models they run. Dippy at least names its tiers. The model list served by its API on 20 October 2026 had four visible options:

A fifth entry, "OpenAI", is in the list but hidden. Duper is new since our August review. Mini is the Bittensor model: the fallback list baked into the web client still describes it as "For a new flavour of roleplay (Bittensor SN11)". Impel's own GitHub now describes Subnet 11 differently: the FAQ in its Dippy Studio miner repository calls it "The Dippy Studio Subnet (Subnet 11)", "a decentralized network for distributed AI image inference tasks", and the miner and orchestrator code was last pushed in December 2025 and January 2026. So Mini still exists in the app, but the subnet named in its description now works on images.

Adult Content: Store-Safe Ceiling

There is a real adult switch. Settings contains "Enable NSFW" ("Users must be 18+ to chat"), and turning it on raises a screen that reads: "This mode contains mature content and may not be appropriate for certain viewers. To continue, confirm that you're over 18." What it unlocks sits behind the login wall. Four public signals point to a suggestive ceiling rather than explicit content:

The public feed backs this up: none of the 752 characters we pulled carried the API's NSFW flag. One App Store review still on the listing describes "the spicy writing" as good but says the app won't go into "very detailed dark themes". If explicit roleplay is the point, the apps in our uncensored chatbot guide are built for it, and our Character AI alternatives list covers the same move.

The Free Tier

Dippy's page title reads "AI Character Chat & Roleplay (online, free, unlimited)", and the App Store description has a section headed Unlimited Free Messages promising "no worries about time limits or message caps". In practice, the web client served on 20 October contains a "You have reached the daily chat limit!" screen, labelled Basic plan, with an unlock countdown, and "Chat unlimited: Unlimited messages and new chats 24/7" is listed as a Super benefit. Dippy doesn't publish the daily allowance. When it runs out, you can:

So the free tier is genuinely free, with no card, and anonymous chat is supported before you sign up. Expect to trade some time, ads or tasks for it once you hit the daily limit.

Pricing & Which Plan to Pick

Dippy has no public pricing page. The US App Store lists every in-app purchase; the web client has its own hard-coded prices. As listed on 20 October 2026:

What Super buys, per the paywall in the web client: unlimited chat, no ads, the Super model ("A model with chain of thought"), enhanced and auto-updated memory, Max memory mode, response-length control, a "rethink" option, 20+ app icons on mobile and priority support. On the yearly option the paywall can show a toggle reading "Skip trial to get [N] coins instantly"; the number of coins, and whether your storefront offers a trial, are only visible inside an account.

Which plan to pick.

• Try free first. Character creation, the feed and two models (Basic and Mini) cost nothing.
• If the daily limit is what stops you: Super. Monthly is $9.99 or $12.99 depending on which price your storefront shows; yearly works out at $8.25 a month at $99, or $10.00 at $119.99. If you're offered $99 a year, that is the best value once you know you'll stay.
• If only the ads bother you: Ads Free at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Neither the store listing nor the client says it lifts the daily chat limit, and "Chat unlimited" and "No ads" are sold as separate Super benefits, so don't assume it does.
• For images, video and calls: coins, on any plan. The App Store lists one pack (100 coins for $3.49), and Dippy publishes no per-image, per-video or per-minute coin costs, so the App Store line "no restrictions on how many images you can create" holds only as long as you keep buying coins.

Google Play gives only a range, "$0.99 - $199.99 per item", without naming the products; the top of that range is higher than anything on the App Store list.

Before You Pay

• Company: Impel Intelligence, Inc., 548 Market St, San Francisco (Google Play developer details). Support email: support@dippy.ai.
• Terms of service: the link in the web client (dippyapp.webflow.io/terms) and the one on Google Play (dippy.ai/terms, which redirects there) both returned a 404 page on 20 October 2026. The Internet Archive's last good copy, from 7 July 2026, is the version "Last Updated: 8th July, 2024". It says users must be 18+, that Dippy will use de-identified conversation content "to train and hone our models", and that disputes go to binding individual arbitration (AAA consumer rules); the governing-law clause reads "the laws of the State of [California]" with the courts of the "[Northern District of California]", template brackets included. It still says Dippy "currently offer[s] a complimentary membership", written before Super and coins existed.
• Refunds and cancelling: no Dippy refund policy found. Subscriptions are sold through Apple and Google, so their refund processes apply, and store subscriptions are cancelled in your Apple or Google account settings. The archived terms say you can cancel your account by emailing support@dippy.ai.
• Web billing: the web client carries this notice: "Web subscriptions are temporarily unavailable and will be back soon. If you were already subscribed on the web, we may have temporarily stopped charging your card. If your subscription is paused, you can start a new one through our mobile app!" If you once subscribed on the web, check your card statement.
• The task wall: it loads in a full-screen frame titled "Datapoint Tasks" from task.trydatapoint.com, with microphone and autoplay permissions granted to the frame. Datapoint is Impel's own product, published under the same GitHub organisation. Its Android SDK is described as app monetization "through a task system", and its MCP server is pitched to AI developers as a way to "recruit real humans for evaluation tasks", including human ratings of model outputs and preference data for AI training. We can't see which tasks a Dippy user gets without hitting the limit.
• Ads: Google AdSense loads for non-paying users on the web, and Impel's release notes for iOS 2.0.1 and 2.0.4 (February and March 2026) promise "a smoother, faster, and more rewarding ad flow".
• Privacy: the privacy link also returned 404. The last archived copy (September 2025, also dated 8 July 2024) allows using personal information for "improving, upgrading, or enhancing the Services, including through training AI models", and covers "targeted advertising" and the "sale" of personal information as defined by US state privacy laws. Google Play's data-safety panel says "No data collected" and "No data shared with third parties"; Apple's App Privacy section for the same app says identifiers and usage data "may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies". Both are the developer's own declarations, and they can't both be right.
• Age checks: the web client sends a fixed age of 21 when it creates an account, while onboarding separately asks for an age bracket (18–24, 25–39, Over 40). The App Store lists "Age Assurance" among its in-app controls; we can't see how that works without an iOS account.
• A content warning: the public feed includes a few dozen school-setting romance characters, one of them past 1.3 million messages, with tags such as "highschool romance", "school life", "classmate", "teenagelove" and descriptions like "your cold crush at school". They are not flagged NSFW and we saw nothing explicit in the public descriptions, but on an app with an 18+ mode, school-age framing is a red flag. If you use the mature mode, stick to characters who are clearly adults and use the "underage" report option for the rest.

What users say

• App Store (US): 4.3 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings on 20 October 2026. The reviews featured on the listing date from 2024 and 2025. They praise the writing and the variety of bots, and complain about memory ("They forget everything after like 2-3 messages"), bugs and the move from ad-free to paid.
• Google Play: 3.2 out of 5 from 9.19K reviews (8.62K on phones). The most-upvoted review on the listing (379 "helpful" votes, November 2024) complains about ads and paywalls. An August 2026 review reports that the app crashed and the website was down, though both were working on 20 October.
• Trustpilot: no Dippy profile found. trustpilot.com/review/dippy.ai returned "not found" on 20 October 2026, and a search turned up no other profile.

Pros & Cons

Alternatives

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Final Verdict — 6.8/10

A big, free roleplay app with cheap Super and a full feature set; for explicit content, look elsewhere.

Dippy covers most of what a companion app can offer: text chat, voice calls, images and video on coins, free character creation, apps on both stores that are still being updated, a 4.3-star App Store average and Super from $9.99 a month. If you want suggestive, slow-burn romance roleplay and don't mind ads, the free tier costs nothing but time. The score is held back by a store-safe adult ceiling, unpublished coin costs and daily limits, and terms you can't currently read: the links are 404 and the last archived version predates every paid feature.

Who should use Dippy AI:

• Romance and drama roleplayers happy on a free, ad-supported tier
• Users who want a big community library on iPhone or Android
• Heavy users who'd pay $8.25 to $12.99 a month for unlimited chat and longer memory

Who should look elsewhere:

• Anyone for whom explicit content is the point (see Xotic AI or Secrets AI)
• Users who want to read the current terms before paying
• Anyone who wants a published price for images, video or calls
• Past web subscribers unsure whether they are still being charged

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