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Chatbox app is back on the US app store

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Re: Chatbox app is back on the US app store

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Post by MaxikCZ »

esseph wrote: post #3

You know what I just realized? I couldn't tell you the last time I installed a new app on my phone. Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store.

Its really sad to search for some basic functionality like "use phone as wireless mic for PC" only to be hit with wall of in-app pirchases and ads. I understand that the main reason is keeping app on store requires paying ransom to google, which is the worst reason one could imagine.

Re: Chatbox app is back on the US app store

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Post by viraptor »

Cool that they did that, but they could also start behaving properly. The app labels itself at GPL licensed, but the most recent releases are not available on GitHub. It's been the situation for quite a while now and it's been raised with the author a few times in the issues. They don't seem to care.

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Post by llamasushi »

Small anecdote, but back in early 2024 (like, March), I did a ton of searching for an AI helper app that would allow me to use the gemini API key from AI studio. Chatbox was one of only two that I found (can't remember the other), but even back then I was astounded by its functionality and ease of use. It supported a ton of stuff, like custom system prompts, etc. Basically recreated a lot of the lmstudio experience but on a phone.

You'd be surprised, but it was extremely difficult to find an android app that supported API key usage. Ahead of its time.

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Post by tcoff91 »

esseph wrote: post #3

You know what I just realized? I couldn't tell you the last time I installed a new app on my phone. Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store.

On average 90% of time spent on mobile devices is in native apps.

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Post by WhereIsTheTruth »

esseph wrote: post #3

You know what I just realized? I couldn't tell you the last time I installed a new app on my phone. Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store.

Compile it yourself https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox

Re: Chatbox app is back on the US app store

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Post by risyachka »

higginsniggins wrote: post #7
rd07 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chatbox is basically a client for various LLM. It can even connect to locally hosted LLM on Ollama.

how is this different then t3chat?

T3chat was launched much later so the real question is how t3 is different from it or any other chat.

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Post by esseph »

tcoff91 wrote: post #15
esseph wrote: post #3

You know what I just realized? I couldn't tell you the last time I installed a new app on my phone. Everything there is mostly out to exploit me, or a direct security liability regardless of what app store.

On average 90% of time spent on mobile devices is in native apps.

That's.. how is that relevant?

Re: Chatbox app is back on the US app store

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Post by cedws »

llamasushi wrote: post #14

Small anecdote, but back in early 2024 (like, March), I did a ton of searching for an AI helper app that would allow me to use the gemini API key from AI studio. Chatbox was one of only two that I found (can't remember the other), but even back then I was astounded by its functionality and ease of use. It supported a ton of stuff, like custom system prompts, etc. Basically recreated a lot of the lmstudio experience b…

I use Pal for iOS, it has a lot of nice features and it’s a native app.
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