AI Chat Bestie vs Textation

AI Chat Bestie is dedicated to enhancing the ChatGPT experience with a user-friendly and feature-rich interface. By directly connecting to the OpenAI API, AI Chat Bestie enables faster response times by eliminating slow typing animations that are common in other interfaces. The tool is designed to stay connected persistently, so there's no need to worry about logging back in every time you leave your tab open.

The enhanced user interface includes a searchable chat history, making it convenient to find past conversations and lost answers quickly. Plus, your chat history is always available and stored locally in your browser, ensuring that you have access to your data at any time.

With AI Chat Bestie, there's no need for registration; all operations such as storing keys and chats, and sending messages are performed directly in the browser, which not only provides ease of use but also maintains your privacy. The service is free to use, with the only requirement being to bring your own OpenAI API key, which can be obtained for free from OpenAI.

Textation was a chat bot companion that let you build custom AI characters and talk to them over SMS, voice calls, or in-app chat. You could randomize a persona or set age, profession, location, and physical traits yourself, then keep the storyline going through interactive replies.

What set it apart from typical chatbot apps was the real phone layer: characters could text and call your actual number, not just chat inside a browser tab. It also bundled a generative image tool so characters could send visuals mid-conversation, styled from classic painting to anime.

The product ran on an uncensored LLM with a 4k token context window and offered free unlimited use while in beta. As of August 2026, textation.ai no longer resolves via DNS, so the service appears discontinued even though cached homepage copy still describes these features.