TypingMind
Shares rank 8 of 9 chat interfaces by recommenders
Chat front end for AI models with agent skills for teams, praised as outstanding; critics note the phone app drops its connection unless kept in the foreground.
Chat front end for AI models with agent skills for teams, praised as outstanding; critics note the phone app drops its connection unless kept in the foreground.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Phone app drops connection when backgrounded
“The only problem is that typingmind needs to be in the foreground on my phone, otherwise it will kill the connection.”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds”
Other chat interfaces people recommend
The four most recommended other chat interfaces, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open WebUI | 71 | 37 | 66% | 12 | 3 mo3 owners | — |
| Onyx | 32 | 17 | 65% | 9 | — | — |
| Mozilla Thunderbolt | 21 | 51 | 29% | 6 | — | — |
| LibreChat | 12 | 2 | 86% | 7 | — | Approved |
| TypingMindThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“platform tools like Open WebUI and TypingMind are a good workaround since the big boys don't”
“The app lets admins import agent skills, assign them to custom-built AI agents”
“The only problem is that typingmind needs to be in the foreground on my phone, otherwise it will kill the connection.”
“I used a Word document generator with TypingMind and GPT-4 via API, and it was more usable over a year ago”
“I find TypingMind outstanding.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.