Chat with AI - Chathouse
Roleplay, Characters & Chatbot
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Bring your favorite characters to life. Import character cards and roleplay with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and 50+ AI models, all in one app.
Bring your favorite characters to life. Import a character card, pick a model and start roleplaying in seconds, with Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and 50+ other AI models in one app.
CHARACTERS & ROLEPLAY
• Import PNG and JSON character cards from Photos or Files
• Supports popular card formats, including TavernAI V1, V2 and V3, Pygmalion and Faraday
• Create personas, so characters know who they're talking to
• Use roleplay models like Cydonia, Skyfall and UnslopNemo
• Edit messages, regenerate replies, or have a reply continue where it stopped
50+ AI MODELS IN ONE APP
• OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 and GPT-5.6
• Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5
• Google: Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemma 4
• DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash
• Grok 4.7 and 4.6
• Kimi K3, MiniMax M3, GLM 5.3, Qwen3, Mistral, Meta Muse and Llama 4
• Perplexity Sonar for answers with sources from the web
• Switch models whenever you like
AN EVERYDAY ASSISTANT, TOO
• Pick an assistant personality, from neutral to scholar or poet
• Attach photos and PDFs and ask questions about them
• Use Deep Thinking for harder questions (Pro and Pro+)
• Dictate messages with on-device voice input
BRING YOUR OWN KEY
• Use your own API key for OpenAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, xAI, Perplexity or Google AI Studio
• Chat with local models through Ollama, exo or any OpenAI-compatible server
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your chats are stored on your device
• Voice input is transcribed on your device
FREE TO START
Chat for free with the Chathouse Free model and a daily message allowance. Upgrade to Pro to choose from a wide selection of models and use Deep Thinking, or to Pro+ for every model, including new and experimental ones.
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more Chathouse 1.18 is a modernization update. We've rebuilt key parts of the app on newer foundations, so it stays fast and reliable going forward.
IMPROVEMENTS
• New rendering engine for formatted replies
• Refreshed in-app notifications
• Updated components throughout the app
FIXES
• If a message can't be sent, you now see an error with a Retry button instead of no reply
• Smaller fixes and stability improvements
Thanks for chatting with Chathouse!
1.18.0 Oct 26
It's been a while! This update brings a big model refresh, plus a round of polish and fixes.
NEW MODELS
• OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and the GPT-5.6 family
• Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5
• Google: Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Gemma 4
• DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash
• Grok 4.7 and 4.6, now listed under SpaceXSI
• Meta Muse Wonder, Glimmer and Spark
• Kimi K3 and K2.6
• Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro
• Brand new: MiniMax (M3, M2.7, M2-her) and Z.AI (GLM 5.3)
IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES
• Smoother streaming, especially for long answers
• Chat titles now better reflect what your conversation is about
• Faster follow-up questions when chatting about PDFs
• More reliable subscription handling
• Fixed a crash with some imported character cards
• Lots of smaller fixes and stability improvements
Thanks for chatting with Chathouse!
1.17.0 Oct 22
New models, bugfixes and performance improvements
1.16.0 Mar 12
Bugfixes and performance improvements
1.15.1 12/18/2025
Bugfixes and performance improvements
1.15.0 11/10/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added neutral assistant personality
- Added custom conversational style prompt to My Profile in Settings
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to llama-server
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Added log export to settings for troubleshooting
- Fixed some subscription resolution edge-cases
- Fixed some visual issues with reasoning handling in Chathouse models
- Fixed paywall showing the wrong message to users who are already subscribed
- Fixed assistant personalities and custom prompts in Google AI Studio
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
- Removed Perplexity R1 1776 (deprecated)
1.14.5 08/29/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added neutral assistant personality
- Added custom conversational style prompt to My Profile in Settings
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to llama-server
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Fixed some visual issues with reasoning handling in Chathouse models
- Fixed paywall showing the wrong message to users who are already subscribed
- Fixed assistant personalities and custom prompts in Google AI Studio
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
- Removed Perplexity R1 1776 (deprecated)
1.14.4 08/25/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added neutral assistant personality
- Added custom conversational style prompt to My Profile in Settings
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Fixed assistant personalities and custom prompts in Google AI Studio
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
- Removed Perplexity R1 1776 (deprecated)
1.14.3 08/21/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added neutral assistant personality
- Added custom conversational style prompt to My Profile in Settings
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Fixed assistant personalities and custom prompts in Google AI Studio
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
1.14.2 08/18/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added custom conversational style prompt to My Profile in Settings
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
1.14.1 08/17/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added GPT-5 and GPT-5 Mini
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and GPT-OSS 120B
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Fixed some issues with deep thinking
1.14.0 08/09/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added PDF upload to every model
- Added capability detection for custom OpenAI connections
- Added support for connecting to LM Studio
- Added OpenAI GPT-OSS 20B and 120B
- Added MoonshotAI Kimi K2
- Added Claude Sonnet 4
- Added Claude 3.7 Sonnet Deep Thinking support
- Added Qwen3 235B A22B, Qwen3 30B A3B and Qwen QwQ 32B
- Added TheDrummer Valkyrie 49B V1
- Improved ability to reference photos and images in context
- Improved attachment and microphone button design
- Fixed messages showing the incorrect personality icon
- Fixed reasoning tokens showing up as part of normal messages
- Fixed PDF input showing for models that don’t support files
- Fixed minor issues with reasoning messages
- Fixed rate limiting banner showing up for local models
- Removed Claude 3.5 Sonnet (use 3.7 Sonnet or Sonnet 4 instead)
- Removed Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (model became unavailable)
- Removed old Qwen Turbo and Qwen Plus models (use Qwen 3 instead)
1.13.3 08/07/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added PDF upload to every model
- Added capability detection for custom OpenAI connections
- Added Claude Sonnet 4
- Added Claude 3.7 Sonnet Deep Thinking support
- Added Qwen3 235B A22B, Qwen3 30B A3B and Qwen QwQ 32B
- Added TheDrummer Valkyrie 49B V1
- Improved ability to reference photos and images in context
- Improved attachment and microphone button design
- Fixed messages showing the incorrect personality icon
- Fixed reasoning tokens showing up as part of normal messages
- Fixed PDF input showing for models that don’t support files
- Fixed minor issues with reasoning messages
- Removed Claude 3.5 Sonnet (use 3.7 Sonnet or Sonnet 4 instead)
- Removed Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (model became unavailable)
- Removed old Qwen Turbo and Qwen Plus models (use Qwen 3 instead)
1.13.2 05/24/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added PDF upload to every model
- Added capability detection for custom OpenAI connections
- Added Claude 3.7 Sonnet Deep Thinking support
- Added Qwen3 235B A22B, Qwen3 30B A3B and Qwen QwQ 32B
- Improved ability to reference photos and images in context
- Improved attachment and microphone button design
- Fixed messages showing the incorrect personality icon
- Fixed reasoning tokens showing up as part of normal messages
- Fixed PDF input showing for models that don’t support files
- Fixed minor issues with reasoning messages
- Removed old Qwen Turbo and Qwen Plus models
1.13.1 04/30/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added PDF upload to every model
- Improved ability to reference photos and images in context
1.13.0 04/29/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added OpenAI o4-mini
- Added chat forking to take a conversation into multiple directions
- Added the ability to merge a forked chat back into the main chat
- Added review button to settings
- Added remaining free messages indicator
- Added cheaper weekly subscriptions
- Improved and localized all message suggestions
- Improved resources and messaging around character cards
- Fixed suggested messages sometimes triggering by accident
- Fixed scrolling through suggested messages sometimes opening the sidebar
- Fixed suggested messages animation when bringing up the keyboard
- Fixed text in the chat text field visually remaining after sending
1.12.3 04/21/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added OpenAI o4-mini
- Added chat forking to take a conversation into multiple directions
- Added the ability to merge a forked chat back into the main chat
- Improved and localized all message suggestions
- Improved resources and messaging around character cards
- Fixed suggested messages sometimes triggering by accident
- Fixed scrolling through suggested messages sometimes opening the sidebar
- Fixed suggested messages animation when bringing up the keyboard
- Fixed text in the chat text field visually remaining after sending
1.12.2 04/18/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added OpenAI o4-mini
- Added chat forking to take a conversation into multiple directions
- Added the ability to merge a forked chat back into the main chat
- Improved and localized all message suggestions
- Improved resources and messaging around character cards
- Fixed suggested messages sometimes triggering by accident
- Fixed scrolling through suggested messages sometimes opening the sidebar
1.12.1 04/18/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added OpenAI o4-mini
- Added chat forking to take a conversation into multiple directions
- Added the ability to merge a forked chat back into the main chat
- Improved resources and messaging around character cards
1.12.0 04/17/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 Mini, GPT-4.1 Nano
- Added xAI Grok 3 Beta, Grok 3 Mini Beta
- Fixed photos taken with the in-app camera not showing up
- Fixed message and response regeneration performance
- Fixed reasoning tokens sometimes repeating themselves
1.11.0 04/15/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added support for many macros in character chats
- Improved import of TavernAI/CC V3 character cards
- Improved photo sending ability
- Improved some paywall texts
- Disabled prompt selection for character chats (will be reworked in the future)
1.10.1 04/11/2025
Thanks for using Chathouse! Here's what's new:
- Added vision and image analysis capabilities
- Added the ability to send photos and images
- Added character import from photo library
- Added automatic ollama model capability detection
- Added automatic OpenRouter model capability detection
- Added search bar to model list
- Added Reddit link to settings
- Improved sidebar behavior and localizations
- Improved character card import and error handling
- Fixed character card import from JSON files
- Fixed OpenRouter model loading for custom connections
- Many small bug fixes and usability improvements
1.10.0 04/06/2025
We're always improving Chathouse with bug fixes and new features.
Here's what's new today:
- Added free trials for Pro and Pro+ subscriptions
- Added exo template in connection wizard
- Redesigned connection and model picker
- Improved progress visualization for character chats
- Improved some chat personality images
- Improved error handling
Additionally, many models previously only available to Pro+ subscribers are now available to Pro subscribers as well!
1.9.0 04/04/2025
We're always improving Chathouse with bug fixes and new features.
Here's what's new today:
- Added lots of exciting chat personalities to choose from
- Added multiple character conversation styles to choose from
- Added Deepseek V3-0324 and Mistral Small 3.1
- Added the ability to hide character cards
- Added the ability to copy code to clipboard
- Added `Cmd+Return` shortcut to send messages on macOS
- Improved code rendering in regular chats
- Improved story and inner monologue rendering in character chats
- Improved some inconsistent localizations across many languages
- Reworked content moderation prompt to reduce unnecessary refusals
- Redesigned active model connection toolbar
- Tweaked the dark mode icon to look slightly better
- Fixed cursor jumping when editing messages
- Fixed several small usability issues
1.8.0 03/27/2025
We're always improving Chathouse with bug fixes and new features.
Here's what's new today:
- Added support for character cards
- Added support for personas when in a character chat
- Added support for continuing messages
- Improved message loading animations
- Fixed sidebar message sorting by last used
- Fixed some visual issues
Supported character card formats:
- TavernAI, CCV1, CCV2, CCV3
- Faraday/BackyardAI V1 (V2, V3, V4 compatible)
- Pygmalion
1.7.1 03/19/2025
Chathouse 1.18 is a modernization update. We've rebuilt key parts of the app on newer foundations, so it stays fast and reliable going forward.
IMPROVEMENTS
• New rendering engine for formatted replies
• Refreshed in-app notifications
• Updated components throughout the app
FIXES
• If a message can't be sent, you now see an error with a Retry button instead of no reply
• Smaller fixes and stability improvements
Thanks for chatting with Chathouse!
more Version 1.18.0 Oct 26
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