The 30-second answer
Use ChatGPT when you have a self-contained task that needs a smart answer: research, code, long-form writing, analysis of a document you paste in.
Use Aiffinity when you want an AI that knows you — the way you actually talk, the people in your life, the apps you use — and can act on your behalf without you having to explain yourself every time.
Feature comparison
Core differences across the features most people actually care about. Both products ship quickly; we update this table when something meaningful changes.
| Feature | Aiffinity | ChatGPT |
|---|---|---|
| Primary surface | iOS messenger (Android roadmap) | Web, iOS, Android, desktop app |
| Default AI identity | Your Aiven — one personal AI built on your Individual Print | ChatGPT — same identity for every user |
| Memory | Long-term Individual Print (personalization signals + interests + values + style), exportable and revocable | Opt-in memory across chats, not exportable between apps |
| Group chats | First-class — multiple people + their Aivens in one thread | One-on-one chat only |
| Drafts your messages | Yes — in your voice, across iMessage, Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram | Not natively; you copy-paste |
| Takes real actions | 170+ connected apps (Calendar, Gmail, Notion, Strava, Kalshi, Spotify, GitHub, …) | Via Custom GPTs and Actions; smaller catalogue |
| Model under the hood | Best-of-N routing across top frontier models; swappable | OpenAI models (GPT-4.1, GPT-5, o-series) |
| Price (2026-04) | Free waitlist; premium tier at launch | Free; Plus $20/mo; Pro $200/mo |
| Privacy posture | E2E encryption, on-device inference where possible, confidential compute otherwise | Data processed in OpenAI infra; opt-out of training available |
| Portable profile context | IP export + OAuth grant to any compatible AI | No cross-app profile export |
What ChatGPT does better
We'd be lying if we said otherwise. ChatGPT is still the first tool most of us open for the hard stuff:
- Raw reasoning on novel problems. For research, mathy thinking, or unusual code problems, the top OpenAI reasoning models are a notch ahead of the mid-tier models most consumer AIs reach for.
- Deep Research. ChatGPT's agent can spend 15 minutes reading the web and producing a cited report. Aiven can trigger a similar agent in the background via the provider platform, but it's not the same one-shot experience.
- Document analysis. Drop a 200-page PDF into ChatGPT and ask for a summary. It's the best quick-and-dirty read of a long document we've used.
- Image generation and video. DALL·E and Sora are state of the art for generative media; we integrate through connected providers rather than trying to ship our own.
If any of those are your daily driver, keep your ChatGPT subscription. Aiffinity is happy to hand off to it.
What Aiffinity does better
1. It lives where you already live
A huge fraction of your day is spent in a messenger. ChatGPT makes you context-switch to a browser tab. Aiffinity is the messenger — Aiven is a thread at the top of your conversation list, and it also jumps into the group chats where you're already planning dinner with friends.
2. It has a real memory of you
ChatGPT's memory is essentially a running "notes about this user" file. Aiven's memory is an Individual Print: personalization signals, interests and values sampled from (opted-in) sources like Spotify and Strava, relationship-specific context for the people you actually talk to, and a model of how you write — sentence length, humour, swearing, nicknames. Drafts feel like you because the model that wrote them actually watched you.
3. It takes action, not just suggestions
ChatGPT can plan a trip. Aiven can plan a trip, book the dinner, add it to your calendar, Slack your co-founder that you'll be out Friday, and pay the dog-sitter — because it's wired to 170+ real apps via OAuth. Every action is user-approved with a clear diff of what's about to happen.
4. Group conversations are a primary object
ChatGPT is one-on-one by design. Aiffinity treats the group chat as a first-class surface, which means your Aiven and your friends' Aivens can coordinate something together — "find three weekends in June when all four of us are free" — without anyone leaving the conversation.
5. Your profile context is portable
If OpenAI raises prices or a better model appears tomorrow, your ChatGPT memory stays with OpenAI. Your Aiffinity Individual Print is yours. You can grant it to any compatible third-party AI via OAuth, and the IP becomes their cold-start signal. Moving AIs stops being a reset.
When to pick which
Pick ChatGPT if most of your AI time is individual, task-shaped work: research, writing, code, analysis. You don't need a profile-context layer — you need raw reasoning and don't mind the browser tab.
Pick Aiffinity if most of your AI time should be spent with people — drafting messages, coordinating groups, acting across your life's apps — and you want an AI that feels like you, not like a corporate identity.
Pick both if you're a heavy AI user. Keep ChatGPT for deep work; let Aiven handle the social, transactional, and multi-app layer. Aiven can call ChatGPT as one of many backends when the task demands it.
Migrating from ChatGPT
You can bring your ChatGPT history with you:
- In ChatGPT, go to Settings → Data Controls → Export Data.
- You'll receive a ZIP with your full conversation history within a few hours.
- In Aiffinity, open Aiven → Import → From ChatGPT and upload the ZIP.
- Aiven reads the conversations (locally, on-device) and folds the signal into your Individual Print. Nothing from your export leaves your device beyond the enriched IP summary.
Details, export schema, and what we keep vs discard: see the imports guide.
Try Aiffinity
We're launching on iOS first. Join the waitlist for 500 free AI tokens when Aiven opens its doors.
Join the waitlist →Frequently asked questions
Is Aiffinity a ChatGPT wrapper?
No. Aiffinity can call ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or other models under the hood on your behalf, but the product is a messenger with a personal AI built from an Individual Print. The personalisation, memory, and relationship-aware drafting happen in Aiffinity's own layer, not in the underlying model.
Do I still need ChatGPT Plus if I use Aiffinity?
Not for everyday conversation, drafting, or cross-app actions. Many people still keep ChatGPT for heavy research, document analysis, or coding — Aiven can hand off those jobs to ChatGPT through the provider platform while still keeping track of what you asked and why.
What does Aiffinity do that ChatGPT does not?
Four things: (1) it lives inside a messenger so it sees the conversations that define who you are; (2) it maintains an Individual Print you can export to any other AI; (3) it acts across 170+ connected apps; (4) group conversations with multiple Aivens are a first-class surface.
Can I import my ChatGPT history into Aiffinity?
Yes. ChatGPT lets you export your full conversation history from Settings → Data Controls. Aiffinity's import flow ingests that export and folds the information into your Individual Print so Aiven starts out knowing what you've already told ChatGPT.
Related reading
- Welcome to Aiffinity: the messenger where everyone gets their own AI
- All comparisons — Pi, Replika, Character.ai
- Full provider catalogue — the 170+ apps Aiven can talk to
- Security model — how your data and your IP are protected