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Talkie

Voice-first AI character chat — millions of companions to talk to or create.

Category
Companion
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOSAndroid
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 10, 2026

Talkie is MiniMax's AI companion app: chat by text or voice with user-created characters across anime, fantasy, romance, and utility genres, with a memory system for conversational continuity and a card-collecting community layer. It became one of the most-downloaded AI companion apps in the US, second only to Character.AI.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Voice agent (primary capability)
  • Agent memory (secondary capability)
  • Roleplay characters (primary capability)
  • Companion chat (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Polished real-time voice chat
  • Large user-created character library
  • Memory keeps long-running continuity
  • Usable free tier
  • Opaque moderation; ban complaints
  • Pulled from app stores at times
  • China-based vendor; data concerns

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