Alternatives to Replika

An AI companion chatbot app for ongoing personal conversations that remembers details of your life. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Replika

    An AI companion chatbot app for ongoing personal conversations that remembers details of your life.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Replika.

  • Character.AI

    A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Character.AI is a web app for role-play with a large catalogue of user-made characters and custom personas, focused on storytelling rather than one ongoing companion with memory.

  • Pi

    A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Pi is a free browser-based assistant built for supportive, informal conversation, but it does not list long-term memory or mobile apps.

  • Layla

    An offline AI assistant app that runs language models directly on Android and iOS devices.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroidiOS

    Layla runs language models offline on Android and iOS so conversations stay on the device, with character creation for role-play, though phone hardware limits model size.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Meta AI

    Meta's free AI chat assistant, powered by Llama and built into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

  • ChatGPT

    OpenAI's AI assistant for conversation, writing, coding, analysis and image creation.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

  • PocketPal AI

    A mobile app for Android and iOS that downloads small language models and runs them on the phone.

    FreeProprietaryAndroidiOS