Better AI Chat alternatives

Better AI Chat (Verlintas/BetterAIChat): BetterAIChat is a native Android AI assistant app that uses your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini API keys and can operate the phone through function calling. See its 5 use cases.

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