RentBestie is an offline AI companion app. Everything below is answered honestly, including the things the app is not good at.
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Open Interested in the header and tap Say hi on her card. You can also open any profile and tap Message.
Go to Settings → Not interested. Every character you passed on is listed there with a Bring back button. Nothing is ever deleted by a swipe. There is also Bring back everyone I passed on if you want them all at once.
The deck holds thousands of companions and loops round when you reach the end, so it does not run dry — but it only shows people you have not decided on yet. If it says you have seen everyone, bring some back from Settings.
Tap her name at the top of the conversation, or tap her picture next to any of her messages.
The language model is loaded into memory when the app opens. While that happens a chat shows Connecting instead of the message box. It is usually a few seconds, and longer the first time after installing.
They are being written on your device rather than fetched from a server. That is slower than a cloud service, particularly on older hardware, and it is why the app works with no signal. You can tap the stop button at any time.
The model is small enough to run on a phone, and small models make things up, lose the thread and contradict themselves. She remembers the last few messages in a conversation, not the whole history. This is a limitation of running privately on your device, not a fault in your copy of the app.
No. Every companion is fictional. The photographs are AI-generated and depict no real person, and the names, home towns and life stories are invented. RentBestie is a companionship app, not a service for meeting real people.
No. The app contains no networking code, so it cannot send your messages anywhere. It works fully in airplane mode.
No. They live inside the app and are never written to your photo library. The app has no photo library access at all.
Settings → Delete all conversations clears every chat and keeps your Interested list. Settings → Erase everything clears chats, likes and passes together. Deleting the app removes everything.
Around 1.6 GB. The language model and every character photograph ship inside the app so it works the first time you open it, with no download and no account. Install over Wi-Fi.
The model failed to load. Tap Retry in the message bar. If it keeps happening, restart your device, and if it still fails, delete and reinstall the app — your conversations are stored on the device and will not survive a reinstall, so this is a last resort.
Generating text uses the processor heavily. Close other apps, and expect older devices to be noticeably slower. The app does no background work — it stops when you leave it.
iOS 16.4 or later iPhone ~1.6 GB free space No internet required
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