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CLUSTER CHAT-CONVERSE-CHARACTERS · 40 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-01-30

AI character chat apps

This cluster covers chat and roleplay applications for conversing with customizable AI personas—anime-style characters, fictional figures, experts, and companions—for entertainment, roleplay, and social practice. Pre-index entry counts were low (1–3 per month) from March 2023 through July 2026, with a modest rise to 3 in January 2026; 12 members have no source date. Miffan leads on activity with 102 stars, far ahead of suyou-galgame-agent (4 stars) and gamesmith-ai-game-generator (2 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2023: 1SEP 2023: 1NOV 2023: 1JAN 2024: 1AUG 2024: 1SEP 2024: 1FEB 2025: 1JUL 2025: 2AUG 2025: 1SEP 2025: 1OCT 2025: 1DEC 2025: 1JAN 2026: 3FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 2JUN 2026: 2JUL 2026: 3AUG 2026: 12SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 3
MAR 2023OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 18 unlabelled

Operator · 8 hobby · 1 indie · 3 commercial · 1 open source · 7 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Miffan115★20 daysliveAndroid AI assistant client that supports ChatGPT login, cross-app text-selection translation, and customizable role-play characters.
  2. 02ravencat3★today—hobbyAI chat and companion app that lets users create and chat with multiple AI personas, join group chats, and make voice or video calls.
  3. 03talkdude2★4 dayslivehobbyCross-platform AI chat companion app that runs on-device or connects to cloud AI providers, with customizable chat characters and no chat limits.
  4. 04Cyber-Childhood-sweetheart3★25 days—hand-codedhobbyScheduler for a QQ roleplay chatbot that provides autonomous routines, memory, and proactive messaging with a customizable persona.
  5. 05haunted-ai1★2 molivehobbyAI companion platform offering character-driven conversations, interactive experiences, and mini-games to relieve boredom and reset mood.
  6. 06suyou-galgame-agent4★1 mo—hobbyChat bot for a messaging platform that role-plays customizable characters with humanlike replies, stickers, photos, and proactive conversation starters.
  7. 07Charm: AI Only Social Media0★3 daysliveAI-only social media app where the user is the sole human and all other profiles are AI characters to chat with and roleplay.
  8. 08GirlX - AI Companion0★1 moliveai-builtindieAI companion app for chatting with AI characters, creating custom friends, and supporting multiple languages.
  9. 09pinecone-bot2★1 mo—hobbyDiscord bot framework that hosts an authored persona character with memory, model fallback, and a village of interacting AI agents.
  10. 10ichibot0★5 days—hobbymacOS desktop app that provides an AI chat companion with a customizable mascot, conversation history, and selectable AI providers.
  11. 11AI Girlfriend - Katarina0★1 molivecommercialAI chat app that connects users with diverse virtual characters for personalized, empathetic conversations and casual companionship.
  12. 12EmotiAI – AI Chat Buddy0★1 moliveAI companion chat app that lets users have personalized real-time conversations with customizable AI characters for casual companionship.
  13. 13Najimi: Private AI Companion0★2 moliveAI companion app that provides private local chat with an expressive customizable avatar, supports voice conversations, and can read documents offline.
  14. 14Shapes, Inc. - AI with friends0★8 dayslivecommercialMultiplayer chat app where users converse with AI characters and other people around shared fandoms, and can create custom AI personas.
  15. 15Cooomi - AI Companion0★1 molivecommercialAI chat app with customizable character companions, real-time voice conversations, and group chats between AI identities.
  16. 16Your Boyfriend - AI Companion0★2 moliveAI companion app that lets users create a custom character with chosen personality, voice, and look, then chat by text or voice.
  17. 17Caveduck - AI Character Chat0★27 daysliveAI chat app with a large library of customizable characters for open-ended, unfiltered roleplay and companion conversations.
  18. 18personai1★7 mostalelivehobbyAI chat platform that generates customizable personas with configurable traits and behaviors for storytelling, simulation, and conversational experimentation.
  19. 19Repin — AI Character Chat0★1 moliveAI character chat app that quickly builds custom companions with persistent memory and lets users share created characters with a community.
  20. 20desktop-waifu0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop overlay app that displays an animated 3D virtual character with AI-powered conversational chat for companionship.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.