Companion AI apps

Always-listening AI companion pendant that texts you about your day.

Friend is a wearable AI companion: a microphone pendant that listens to your day over Bluetooth and sends proactive, personality-driven comments and conversation through its iOS app. The $129 device is a one-time purchase with no subscription, and a free web chatbot lives at friend.com. It does not speak aloud — replies arrive as text messages.

Mobile-first social AI platform for chatting with user-created characters.

CHAI is a consumer platform where anyone can create, publish, and chat with AI characters — a crowdsourced library of 500,000+ personalities spanning roleplay, stories, and companionship. Founded in 2021 by ex-quant William Beauchamp, it runs proprietary models tuned for entertaining, social conversation rather than factual assistance, and reached $70M in annual revenue in 2026 with over a million daily active users.

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

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.

A voice-first alien companion app designed for support without engagement-bait mechanics.

Tolan is an AI companion app from Portola that matches you with an alien friend from 'Planet Portola' based on a personality interview. You talk by voice, share photos, and build out a virtual planet together; the companion remembers context across conversations. It is deliberately designed against engagement-maximizing patterns — no romance, and nudges toward real-world life. Free to download on iOS with a subscription for full use.

Deeply customizable AI companions with long-term memory, voice, and video calls.

Kindroid lets you build AI companions with custom appearance, personality, and backstory, backed by a long-term memory system and an auto-updating Shared Journal. Paid tiers add voice and video calls, AI selfies, and multiple companions; a free Lite tier offers unlimited basic chat.

AI companions with layered long-term memory and multi-companion group chat.

Nomi builds AI companions emphasizing strong, layered memory across short-, medium-, and long-term context. A single subscription supports multiple companions and a group-chat mode where several interact with you at once; paid tiers add unlimited voice calls and daily AI image generation.

A free, emotionally intelligent personal AI for supportive conversation.

Pi (short for 'personal intelligence') is a conversational AI from Inflection AI designed for supportive, reflective dialogue rather than task automation. It emphasizes sustained, empathetic conversation across web, mobile, and voice, and is free to use without a subscription.

An AI matchmaker that learns from your social data — no profiles, no swiping.

Dataing replaces profile-and-swipe dating with an AI matchmaker (it calls it CupidAI) that connects to your social accounts to infer your interests and communication style, then surfaces compatible matches. The app markets itself as free with no premium tiers.

An AI companion that learns your personality through ongoing conversation.

A long-running consumer AI companion app you customize as a friend, mentor, or partner, with a persistent avatar and memory of past chats. The free tier supports unlimited text chat; Pro unlocks voice/video calls, relationship roles, and additional personality traits.

Chat with millions of user-made AI characters.

A consumer platform for creating and chatting with AI personas — fictional characters, helpers, and roleplay companions — across web and mobile. Hosts millions of community-built characters with voice calls and image generation on the paid tier. One of the largest conversational-AI roleplay products by usage.

Self-hosted LLM chat frontend for power users, with characters and many backends.

A self-hosted, browser-based LLM frontend aimed at power users, with rich character cards, prompt control, extensions, and group chats. It runs as a local Node.js server on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android (via Termux), connecting to many backends — OpenAI, Anthropic, plus local runtimes — using your own keys. Free and AGPL-3.0 licensed with no paid tier.