Lotus

As AI mental health chatbots go, Lotus is one of the plainer ones: a free online AI therapist you talk to in a chat window, with no paid plan to get past.

Lotus listens, offers support and gives guidance for everyday life struggles.

Behind the chat sits a large language model that, by the maker's own account, was trained on millions of user conversations to improve its responses.

That is a claim from the product's makers, not a clinical result, so weigh it accordingly.

The practical appeal is low friction.

You open the site, start typing and talk things through whenever you want to, at no cost.

Lotus is a chatbot, though.

It makes sense for venting and reflection, and it is not a replacement for a licensed human therapist, especially in a crisis.