I’ve been really getting into AI stories/games but I was curious if there are any that are a little better about remembering stuff and maybe where you can create your own prompts? Is AI dungeon considered to be the best right now? I don’t mind paying

This is an updated version of The List of Alternatives made by u/Ratdog98. According to them, they apparently just don't have the time to update the original list anymore, and as a result, a lot of the info in the original list is outdated. The original list also doesn't include some newer alternatives. As such, with Ratdog98's permission, I've decided to update (and reorganize) the list myself.

Even over a year since the list was originally made, although AID is in a significantly better state than it was back then, it isn't exactly uncommon to see users on this subreddit who are asking for alternatives or who are unhappy with current AID. That's why I've decided to update Ratdog98's old List of Alternatives; so that those users have a good resource to find alternatives that might better suit their needs.

Also, it's worth noting that the original list includes some alternatives that aren't mentioned here. This is because this is meant to be a list of alternatives that are actually worth considering, and at this point in time, several of the alternatives from the original list are either simply outclassed by other alternatives, or are outright broken.

This is broken into 5 main sections:

• The Big Three

• Paid Alternatives

• Free Alternatives

• Alternatives In Development (Not released)

• Cost Comparison

Additionally, the paid and free sections will each be divided into 4 subsections:

• General Alternatives*

• Censored Alternatives

• PC-only Alternatives

• Mobile-only Alternatives

*By "General" alternatives, I just mean alternatives that do not fit into any of the other 3 categories. Essentially, alternatives that aren't censored and that aren't exclusive to only PC or mobile.

I hope you enjoy the list, and that you might find some utility in it.

The Big Three

(Note: This section is primarily to highlight the few alternatives that seem most popular within the community; as such, the descriptions in this section are meant to be short and concise. Further details on these alternatives are included in the next two sections.)

NovelAI

Price: $10/$15/$25 per month (Has 100 output free trial)

This is likely the most popular alternative to AI Dungeon; right now, it has about 60k members on Discord, as well as around 28k on the subreddit. The service offers multiple AI models, specifically finetuned versions of GPT-Neo 2.7B, GPT-J 6B, Fairseq-13B, and (for $25 subscribers) GPT-NeoX. It has a lot of advanced features implemented as well, and overall, it easily has the most features of any alternative I'm aware of. NovelAI is arguably the best value you can get with a paid alternative.

• Website: https://novelai.net/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/VzpJspczD5

• Subreddit: r/NovelAI

KoboldAI

Price: FREE

This is arguably the best free alternative. It can be used as a frontend for running AI models locally with the KoboldAI Client, or you can use Google Colab or KoboldAI Lite to use certain AI models without running said models locally. The largest available models with the Colab are finetuned versions of GPT-NeoX, and the largest available models with KoboldAI Lite are finetuned versions of OPT-30B. It definitely has the most features of any free alternative that I'm aware of.

• KoboldAI Client: https://koboldai.org/

• KoboldAI TPU Edition Google Colab: https://koboldai.org/colab/

• KoboldAI Lite: https://lite.koboldai.net/

• Subreddit: r/KoboldAI

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/UCyXV7NssH

Dreamily

Price: FREE

This seems to be a fairly popular free alternative, and it's one of the few alternatives with a proper mobile app. It uses an unknown AI model, but the outputs are fairly decent for a free alternative. It also has a selection of different finetuned models to use, along with the option to customize models (although that functionality is limited at the moment). It also generates multiple outputs at once.

• Website: https://dreamily.ai/

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/esDncB8zbH

• Subreddit: r/DreamilyAI

Paid Alternatives

Paid/General

NovelAI

Price: $10/$15/$25 per month (Has 100 output free trial; 50 outputs before making an account, 50 more after making an account)

This is likely the most popular alternative to AI Dungeon at the moment. It has a lot of advanced features implemented as well. It also has image generation using finetuned versions of Stable Diffusion, primarily meant for anime and furry images. It has a currency called "Anlas" that are used for training modules and generating images.

In terms of costs, NovelAi has a three-tier monthly subscription system. For $10, you get 1000 max (tier 10) priority actions per week -- if you exceed that, you get 100 actions at the next tier down until you reach one. This means that your actions may take longer to compute after you use your 1000. The largest model available for this subscription tier is Euterpe; a finetuned version of Fairseq-13B. You also get 1000 Anlas per month. For $15, you get access to a larger context (2048 tokens instead of 1024) which means the AI will remember more of your previous inputs. For $25, you get unlimited max priority actions and access to the Krake model (a finetuned version of GPT-NeoX), as well as early access to experimental features. You also get 10000 Anlas per month and unlimited normal and small sized generations (NAI defines this as "images of up to 640x640 pixels and up to 28 steps when generating a single image. Does not include img2img generations.") with the image generator.

Some more notable features:

• Text is color-coded to show whether it was generated by the AI, written by the user, or modified by the user.

• It shows which entries from the World Info (called Lorebook with NovelAI) have been activated.

• It also has a great amount of customization options in the form of themes.

• It has text-to-speech.

• It has "hypebots" which can comment on events in your stories. If you remember AI Dungeon's scoring bots, they're similar to those; just without the scoring system.

• Website: https://novelai.net/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/VzpJspczD5

• Subreddit: r/NovelAI

HoloAI

Price: $5/$8/$12 per month (Has 8000 character free trial).

HoloAI is a program that runs select AI models inside a cleaned-up browser interface. They have taken into account privacy needs and have encrypted saving/loading. I'd say it's most comparable to NovelAI, and as with NovelAI, HoloAI offers multiple models for users; although $5 and $8 subscribers only have access to a fine-tuned version of GPT-J-6B. Users who pay $12 per month get access to a fine-tuned version of GPT-NeoX and base Fairseq-13B.

As for cost, HoloAI has two systems of payment: a subscription, or a-la-carte. One can get a $5 per month sub for 500,000 characters, or $8 per month for unlimited characters. It also offers a free-trial of 8000 characters to test out the service before you purchase. One can also pay $1 to add 40,000 characters to their account. Every account will have access to a memory of 2048 tokens, as well as access to text-to-speech. As mentioned above, $12 per month subscribers have access to base Fairseq-13B and finetuned versions of GPT-NeoX.

It also allows for the training of custom modules. The $8 tier provides 400 module training steps per month, while the $12 tier provides 2000. However, it should be noted that development of HoloAI has essentially come to a halt, and the devs are apparently looking for people to take over the project.

Some other notable features:

• Users can generate multiple responses from the AI rather than having to retry multiple times.

• The length of a reply can be up to 500 characters compared to NovelAI's 400.

• Created stories have encrypted backups stored on the server called Holo history, allowing you to restore former versions of your works or copy them.

• Website: https://writeholo.com/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/gnqxm9uFjv

• Subreddit: r/HoloAI

Sudowrite

Price: $19/$29/$129 per month if you pay monthly, $10/$20/$100 per month if you pay yearly (Has free trial)

Sudowrite is an AI-writing assistant application. It uses GPT-3 Davinci, and is the only GPT-3 Davinci application I know of that isn't heavily censored. It is technically filtered, but only to prevent astroturfing and sexual content involving minors, so most users shouldn't have any issues. Although, it's worth noting that the latter only started being filtered recently, and it's possible that false flags might be an issue. It has three subscription tiers: "Hobby & Student", "Professional", and "Max", with those tiers allowing users to generate 30k, 90k, and 300k words per month, respectively.

Overall, Sudowrite is definitely on the expensive side. And unfortunately, it's also lacking some features that are common among the other alternatives on this list (for example, no equivalents to World Info or Author's Note, although a World Info equivalent is planned). Although, it still has some interesting features (it has options to come up with ideas, summarize text, reword text, generate feedback on the story, come up with plot twists, describe things, etc.; it also generates multiple outputs at a time).

Note: Sudowrite is not exactly designed for phones. For my phone, it only works correctly while the browser is in desktop mode, but having to use desktop mode still isn't ideal. However, it works perfectly fine on PC, and according to one of the co-founders, tablets (I can't confirm since I don't own a tablet).

• Website: https://www.sudowrite.com/

OpenAI Playground

Price: Pay per token; pricing depends on model used (Has free trial)

The OpenAI Playground allows access to OpenAI's GPT-3 models. New users get a free $18 worth of tokens that they can use within 3 months of registering.

Important note: The OpenAI Playground is technically unfiltered; you can get the AI to generate anything. However, you can supposedly still get banned for violating OpenAI's content policy. Bans don't seem very common from what I've heard, but it's something to be aware of, especially given that you need a phone number to make an account, thus meaning that making an alt account isn't as easy as with other applications.

• Website: https://platform.openai.com/playground

Wordtune

Price: $25 per month if paying monthly, $10 per month if paying yearly (Has very limited free tier)

This is an AI text rewriting application from AI21Labs. Some people have reported it to be good, and its Jumbo-1 model is quite large at 178B parameters.

• Website: https://www.wordtune.com/

Endless Visual Novel (EndlessVN) -- In Open Alpha

Price: €9/€15 per month (Has 30 day free trial)

This is a pretty interesting option out there. As the name implies, it's meant to generate visual novels. It's still in development right now, and it has some very promising things that you should pay attention to: AI-generated music, graphics, and story. Text is generated with GPT-J 6B and images are generated with Stable Diffusion; unsure what the music is generated with (they simply say they use "a variety of neural networks" for that). It has a Discord and subreddit to keep up to date with (the Discord is much more active).

• Website: https://endlessvn.io/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/vCYkfnCKgR

• Subreddit: r/EndlessVN

ChatFAI

Price: Free/$9/$29/$59 per month or $99/$290/$590 per year if paying yearly

This is an AI chatbot application that I'd say is most similar to Chai in terms of feature set and business model. It has basically the same features as Chai. It has a free tier that allows up to 100 messages per month, and up to 4 ongoing chats, along with 3 subscription tiers.

All subscriptions allow you to create custom characters. The Basic tier allows up to 1500 messages per month, and allows 10 ongoing chats. The Premium tier allows up to 5000 messages per month, and allows 25 ongoing chats. The Deluxe tier allows unlimited usage and 50 ongoing chats.

As for what makes it worth considering over Chai, it uses much larger AI models. The dev hasn't specified which models, though, just said that they're 100B+ parameter models. Theoretically, it should be the best uncensored chatbot application on this list in terms of output quality. However, it is expensive.

• Website: https://chatfai.com/

Paid/Censored

LitRPG Adventures

Price: $3/$6 per month/$25 per 6 months

This one doesn't seem to have a great amount of publicity. It's primarily meant to generate ideas for RPGs, and it uses, according to the creator, "finetuned GPT-3 models, GPT-Davinci, and Text-Davinci-003". It goes by a paid credit system, with each credit allowing the generation of something with the AI, and it also has a monthly subscription to get a certain amount of credits per month (it starts at $3). Alternatively, one can purchase the contents of a subscription and 2,500 credits with a purchase of $25 dollars (usable for six months).

Additionally, a few of the generators are available for free; but the majority of the generators are only usable with a membership. Any unused credits will carry over when your membership is renewed. It should be noted, however, that this application doesn't work quite like any of the others on this list. None of the generators on the website, at least at the moment, allow for users to input text. The application apparently has a filter for adult content (I know this, not because I've encountered the filter personally, but because the dev told me), although it should be basically unnoticeable given that you can't input any text that might cause the AI to generate adult content to begin with.

• Website: https://www.litrpgadventures.com/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/gZsnYDdbkp

• Demonstration Video One: https://vimeo.com/543912120

• Demonstration Video Two: https://vimeo.com/543903743

PhilosopherAI

Price: $3 per 10 queries

This application uses GPT-3 Davinci, and presumably uses OpenAI's filter. As the name implies, it's meant to answer philosophical questions.

• Website: https://philosopherai.com/

• Subreddit: r/PhilosopherAI

Paid/PC-only

AIdventure

Price: $12 one-time payment

This is one of the few options on the market which is a flat-cost – if you don't like subscriptions, this is a definite option to consider. However, unlike those offerings, this is an entirely locally-based option. As such, it'll require a more powerful computer in order to properly run the software. AIdventure also features an RPG-style stat system.

Since its release, there have been quite a few updates! Of note,

1. GPU Support for the AIs which helps to decrease generation times

2. Automatic translation between different languages!

3. Lore Book/Dictionary/World Information implementation

To date, I cannot think of or have not heard of any alternatives which have automatic translations between different languages. While the developer admits that more testing is needed, the responses are apparently decent.

• itch.io: https://lyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.itch.io/aidventure

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2114790/AIdventure/

• Discord: https://discord.gg/mJGSkJ3mgT

AI Roguelite

Price: $9 one-time purchase

This is the first real game that I can think of revolving around AI generation. It has image generation using Stable Diffusion, along with all the other stuff you'd expect from an AI text generator, coupled with a UI in a roguelite/roguelike setup. You can run the models locally, or use the Kobold Horde/Stable Horde to generate the text and images. If you have a NovelAI Opus subscription, NovelAI's image generation can also be used with it. You can read more about it on the Steam page:

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889620/AI_Roguelite/

• Subreddit: r/airoguelite

Paid/Mobile-only

ScatterNote

Price: $5 to $30 per month (Has 14-Day Free Trial)

ScatterNote takes a different approach to AI storytelling than the likes of AIDungeon. It bills itself as a "note taking and idea management" app that allows you to take a web of connected ideas/thoughts and allow the AI to generate insights and content around it. As the team explained here, "ScatterNote is a mobile app where users can write down ideas, connect them with bits of string, and let an AI walk the links between notes to generate stories." Because it runs on GPT-2, however, the output may not be as good as that generated by the likes of AIDungeon/NovelAI/HoloAI.

It is a subscription-based piece of software, but it does have a 14-day free trial to use before obtaining a subscription. From the Play Store page, the subscription ranges from $4.99 to $29.99.

• Website: https://www.scatternote.com/

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1553490404

• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dannobotgames.scatternote

Free Alternatives

Free/General

KoboldAI

This is arguably the best free alternative at the moment. It can be used as a frontend for running AI models locally with the KoboldAI Client, or you can use Google Colab or KoboldAI Lite to use certain AI models without running said models locally. It definitely has the most features of any free alternative that I'm aware of (including multiplayer; I don't know of any other alternatives with multiplayer). With Google Colab, the largest available models are finetuned versions of GPT-NeoX. As for KoboldAI Lite, the models just depend on whatever the volunteers are providing.

Note: Running AI models locally with KoboldAI is only an option on PC. Google Colab and KoboldAI Lite work perfectly fine on both PC and mobile, though.

• KoboldAI Client: https://koboldai.org/

• KoboldAI TPU Edition Google Colab: https://koboldai.org/colab/

• KoboldAI GPU Edition Google Colab (older Colab version with weaker models): https://colab.research.google.com/github/koboldai/KoboldAI-Client/blob/main/colab/GPU.ipynb

• KoboldAI Lite: https://lite.koboldai.net/

• Subreddit: r/KoboldAI

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/UCyXV7NssH

Dreamily

This seems to be a fairly popular free alternative, and it's one of the few alternatives with a proper mobile app. It uses an unknown AI model, but a developer said at one point that it used a model smaller than GPT-Neo 1.3B (although that info could very well be outdated; that was said well over a year ago). Regardless, the outputs are fairly decent for a free alternative. It also has a selection of different finetuned models to use, along with the option to train custom models (although that functionality is limited at the moment). It also generates multiple outputs at once.

There are two versions of the service: an English option, and a Chinese version, which requires an account to sign-in and is apparently much stricter on its output monitoring. Links to both are included, along with a disclaimer.

• Website (English version): https://dreamily.ai/

• Website (Chinese version -- REQUIRES LOGIN and STRICT MONITORING): http://if.caiyunai.com/dream/

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/esDncB8zbH

• Subreddit: r/DreamilyAI

TextSynth

Price: Free/Pay per token

This website allows free, uncensored access to GPT-J 6B (plus a finetuned version of GPT-J 6B meant for French), Fairseq-13B, GPT-NeoX, Codegen-6B-mono, and M2M100 1.2B (an AI model meant for translations). It also has Stable Diffusion, but that's not uncensored. For free users, there's a rate limit and the AI is limited to generating up to 200 tokens at a time. You can also pay per token (pricing depends on which AI model you use), which removes the rate limit and output length limit. It's lacking in features, though.

• TextSynth Playground: https://textsynth.com/playground.html

Inferkit

Price: Free/$20/$60 per month

This describes itself as "a web interface and API for AI-based text generators" usable by both novelists and app developers alike, and the AI model used is Megatron-11B. It has a free option that allows you to generate 10000 characters per week. $20 subscribers get 600k monthly characters and $60 subscribers get 2.5 million monthly characters. With that said, I don't feel that it's worth paying for over the other paid alternatives. It may be worth trying for free users, though. Worth noting is that there's no in-program or online saving function built in; thus, it has neither a filter nor any ability for the contents to be leaked. Just make sure to save your outputs, if you do decide to use it.

Note: The original List of Alternatives noted that some have experienced issues using gift cards/certain credit cards for payment. Unsure if that's still an issue, but it's something you should be aware of.

• Website: https://inferkit.com/

Pygmalion

The Pygmalion AI models were made with the intention of being an uncensored alternative to applications like CharacterAI and ChatGPT. So, they're primarily meant to be used as chatbots. Overall, the models seem pretty decent. They're also compatible with KoboldAI and TavernAI.

Note: There was a Google Colab for Pygmalion, but it was taken offline. If you want to use the Pygmalion models without running them locally, your current options are the KoboldAI Google Colab, KoboldAI Lite, the Oobabooga Google Colab, and AgnAIstic.

• Pygmalion Guide & FAQ: https://rentry.org/pygmalion-ai

• Oobabooga Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/oobabooga/AI-Notebooks/blob/main/Colab-TextGen-GPU.ipynb

• HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/PygmalionAI

• Subreddit: r/PygmalionAI

• Discord: https://discord.gg/ZHXEa3yywq

Chai

Price: Free/$12/$30 per month

Chai is a chatbot application that I'd say is most comparable to CharacterAI. It uses GPT-J 6B and, for $30 subscribers, Fairseq-13B. It allows for the creation and customization of bots to chat with. However, for free users, usage is limited and an ad plays when starting a new conversation. Free users can only send a certain amount of messages over a certain amount of time before their message limit resets. How many messages and how long they take to reset seems completely random; I've gotten 50 messages that took 1 hour to reset, 70 messages that took 4 hours, 30 messages that took over an hour, etc. Worth noting is that only your inputs use up messages. If you send 1 message, and then retry the AI's output 10 times, it'll count as only having used 1 message.

It's available on the Google Play Store and App Store and has a web version; although the web version seem to be lacking some features of the app versions. Users can also upload bots, and there's a page to find bots other users have uploaded. $12 subscribers get ad-free, unlimited use, and $30 subscribers get access to Fairseq-13B. Although, I'm personally not sure that a Chai subscription is worthwhile. For a lower price, you could purchase a NovelAI subscription, and optionally, use TavernAI as a frontend for it if you want a UI and features more similar to those of Chai. This option offers more features, more powerful AI models, and better privacy at a lower price than a Chai subscription (although, TavernAI is exclusive to PC and requires some setup).

Important note: Bot creators can read the most recent conversations that users have had with their bots. The creator won't see the user's username or anything, but this means that it's very important to not put personal info, or anything else you don't want people reading, in your Chai conversations (you should already avoid doing so any AI application that isn't locally run due to the possibility of data breaches and the companies behind the applications generally being able to read private content, but this is especially important with Chai). If you want your conversations to be private, make your own bots.

• Website: https://chai.ml/

• Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Beauchamp.Messenger.external&hl=en_US&gl=US

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chai-chat-with-ai-bots/id1544750895

• Subreddit: r/ChaiApp

AgnAIstic

AgnAIstic is essentially an online frontend for using other AI models with a Chatbot-esque UI. It's apparently compatible with NovelAI, KoboldAI, OpenAI, Chai, and the AI Horde.

• Website: https://agnai.chat/

• Github: htthttps://github.com/luminai-companion/agn-ai

AnimaAI

Price: Free/$10 per month/$40 per year/$70 lifetime subscription

This is an AI chatbot application that I'd say is most similar to Replika in terms of UI and feature set. It allows you to create and train an AI to chat with, with the AI being represented by a customizable 3D avatar (although the bulk of the cosmetic customization options are locked behind a subscription). The "romantic partners" status (and along with it, NSFW content) is also locked behind a subscription. A subscription also allows unlimited usage of the AI.

Overall, if you want something similar to Replika, this might be worth considering. I'm not sure I'd recommend a monthly subscription, but the yearly and lifetime subscriptions are both pretty cheap in the long run in comparison to the other applications on the list.

• Website: https://myanima.ai/

• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=anima.virtual.ai.robot.friend&hl=en_US&gl=US

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anima-ai-friend-chat-bot/id1537239242

• Subreddit: r/AnimaAI/

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/146705341009086

Nastia

This is a pretty new AI chatbot application that seems to be pretty obscure at the moment. I'd say its character creation options are most comparable to those of Replika. I can't seem to find any info on what AI model it uses, but for what it's worth, the output quality seems pretty decent from my testing.

Worth noting is that, although it's currently entirely free, the website implies that the application will be monetized some time in the future. Additionally, although it doesn't currently have a mobile app, a mobile app is planned.

• Website: https://www.nastia.ai/

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Nv52Bk8qEk

Free/Censored

ChatGPT

This is an AI chatbot application made by OpenAI. Since it's made by OpenAI, it uses OpenAI's content filter to enforce their content policy and is also not exactly great in terms of privacy. Still notable for giving very good outputs, especially for a free application.

• Website: https://chat.openai.com/chat

CharacterAI

This is an AI chatbot application made by two former Google employees who worked on Google's LaMDA model. It uses an undisclosed AI model, and I'd say its most noteworthy feature is the ability to create and train "characters" to chat with. It disallows NSFW content, though, and it's pretty bad in terms of privacy.

• Website: https://beta.character.ai/

Replika

(Free/$70 annually + microtransactions)

Replika is an application designed to act as an AI chat companion of sorts. It uses GPT-3 to generate text, and it allows users to create and train a character to chat with. It also has voice chat and a customizable 3D avatar to represent your Replika, among other features. It has PC, iOS, and Android options.

Note: If you've heard of Replika but haven't been keeping up with the updates to Replika, you may have heard that NSFW content was possible, but just locked behind a Replika Pro subscription. Replika used to allow NSFW content for paid users, but the developers recently removed NSFW content soon after they began having legal issues with Italy's Data Protection Agency as a result of the lack of safeguards to prevent minors being exposed to inappropriate content. I (and some others) assumed this would just be a temporary solution to said legal issues, but more recently the devs have said that NSFW content is not coming back.

Some users have reported the censorship negatively affecting intimate roleplay with the AI; not just NSFW content. And as a fair warning, Luka, the company behind Replika, is just... not exactly a great company. Even outside of their current controversy due to the removal of NSFW content, they've never exactly been good at simply being upfront and honest with their community.

• Website: https://replika.ai/

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1158555867

• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.replika.app

• Web Version: https://my.replika.ai/

• Subreddit: r/Replika

Poe

Category: Chatbot

Poe is an AI chatbot application made by Quora. It uses multiple AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The outputs seem good, although it's heavily censored.

• Website: https://poe.com/

Pirr

This is an AI writing assistant that seems to be specifically advertised to generate erotica. It seems okay in terms of output quality from my testing. However, it disallows violence, humiliation, racism, incest, underage characters, noncon, and abuse. Possibly other things as well. And it seems to just use a simple regex filter, meaning that false positives are not exactly uncommon.

• Website: https://pirr.app/

Free/PC-only

TavernAI

TavernAI is a frontend for NovelAI, KoboldAI, and Pygmalion. It's intended to replicate the UI and features of CharacterAI. You can also import CAI chats into TavernAI.

• Github: https://github.com/TavernAI/TavernAI

• Discord: https://discord.gg/zmK2gmr45t

Free/Mobile-only

AI Tales

Price: Free/$5 One-Time Purchase)

AI Tales is an interesting alternative for phones in that it focuses on not only AI-generated story telling but picture generation as well. With scenario creation included as a $5 option, it has a good amount of creative freedom from what I can tell. Since it runs on private, internal servers, it offers no censorship of any kind from outside sources, and the dev has confirmed that only an adult check (are you 18 years old?) is implemented.

At the moment, it comes with an iOS or Android version to use. There is the possibility that it will be usable on a PC in the future as well.

• Website: https://aitales.art/

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aitales/id1548458291

• Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feynmanapps.aitales

Alternatives In Development (Not released)

Project Electric Sheep

This one is quite a bit different from AID. Essentially, it's a dream simulator game that uses GPT-3 to generate dialogue and books and such. It seems that you'll type in what you "wish to dream about", and the game will randomly generate 3D environments, characters, dialogue, and so on based on what you typed in.

• Website: https://www.projectelectricsheep.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AIelectricsheep

Anticthon

This is another one that's quite a bit different from AID. It's essentially meant to be an MMORPG with AI-generated character dialogue and such, using GPT-3.

• Creator's Website: https://rathergoodgames.com/

• Creator's YouTube Channel (has footage and such of the game): https://youtube.com/channel/UCJI1jybX86E44BqtytdgMFA

Cost Comparison

Disclaimer: This section is based on my own experiences with the paid alternatives and my opinions on said alternatives, and my opinions are, of course, subjective. Additionally, I'm focusing on comparing the pricing of the paid alternatives that are most similar to AI Dungeon; it's kinda hard to compare something like LitRPG Adventures, for example, to something like NovelAI.

As far as paid alternatives go, NovelAI is likely the best value. Relatively affordable with a lot of features and fairly good AI models. HoloAI is cheaper (its subscription tiers are only about half the price of their NAI counterparts), but is generally worse than NAI in most other aspects. And additionally, KoboldAI has come far enough in the past year or so that I feel that it's actually arguably better than HoloAI at this point. As such, I'd recommend that people considering HoloAI try out KoboldAI as well and come to their own conclusions on whether or not HoloAI is worth paying for.

Sudowrite, in my experience, gives the best outputs of any alternatives that aren't heavily censored. Plus, it has some pretty neat features that you don't really see in other alternatives. However, it's relatively expensive (especially if you pay monthly rather than yearly), you can't get unlimited use, and it's missing some features that are common among the other alternatives.

Inferkit, in my opinion, just isn't worth paying for at this point. If you're willing to pay $20+ per month, you're probably better off just using something like NovelAI, HoloAI, or Sudowrite. It may be worth using as a free user, though.

AIdventure is pretty affordable, being a $12 one-time purchase. However, its main appeal at the moment seems to be the stat system. If that doesn't appeal to you, then KoboldAI or one of the other paid alternatives will probably be better for your needs, as AIdventure currently limits you to using relatively weak AI models.

If you have any questions, or if you've heard of any alternatives that aren't on the list (or are making one), let me know. And if you're suggesting an application to be added to the list, please include info on what AI model(s) the application uses, if possible (or any other info that's worth mentioning, for that matter). Additionally, please tell me if there's any outdated or incorrect information, or if any of the links are broken.