The best AI roleplay and character chat apps
Apps with big libraries of user-made characters for roleplay and stories — the Character.AI and Janitor AI style of app. Ordered by popularity.
How this list works: apps qualify only on facts verified on their own websites, terms and app store listings; they're ordered by how many people search for them, not by payment. Status is live.
PolyBuzz is a character-roleplay chat platform with a very large library of user-created AI characters spanning anime, games, film/TV, romance and story scenarios.
Janitor AI is a character roleplay platform where users chat with AI characters created by other users or build and publish their own.
Character.AI is a large consumer platform for chatting, voice-calling and roleplaying with AI characters that users create and share.
SpicyChat is a web-based AI character chat and roleplay platform for adults, built around a large library of user-created chatbots.
Talkie is a mobile-first AI character app where users chat with AI personas ('Talkies') created by themselves or other users.
CrushOn AI is a web-based character chat service where users talk with AI characters made by other users or create their own.
Joyland is an AI character chat and roleplay platform with a large catalog of user-created bots, especially anime-style characters, plus tools for building your own characters, personas and interactive stories.
Chub AI (also called CharHub) is a roleplay chat site built around a large library of user-made character cards, lorebooks and 'stages' that anyone can browse, create and share.
Chai is a mobile app for chatting with AI characters that users create and share, running on Chai's own in-house language models.
FictionLab is a web-based AI story and roleplay platform built around user-made 'scenarios' (a setting, characters and lore) that you play through in chat with an AI narrator.
Moescape is an anime-focused AI creative platform that combines character chat (its 'Tavern' character catalog) with image, video, music and text-to-speech generation.
Sakura.fm is a chat site and app for talking with user-created AI characters and roleplaying with them.
Botify AI is an AI character chat app from Ex-Human where users talk with user-made and official bots based on anime characters, celebrities, fictional heroes and historical figures, or build their own companion.
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