Alternatives to Talkie
A companion chat app where you talk with AI characters created by other users or yourself. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Talkie
A companion chat app where you talk with AI characters created by other users or yourself.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Talkie.
Character.AI
A chat app for role-play conversations with AI characters, fictional personas and custom creations.
Character.AI is a freemium web role-play app with a large catalogue of user-made characters and custom personas, focused on storytelling and entertainment.
Kindroid
An AI companion app for building a custom character to chat with by text and voice.
Kindroid centres on a single companion you design yourself, with text chat, AI-generated selfies and human-like voices, though pricing and data handling details are limited.
Nomi
A companion chatbot with long-term memory, customizable personalities, selfies and group chat.
Nomi offers companions with short, medium and long term memory and their own developing personalities, plus group chat and selfies, on a hosted freemium service.
Replika
An AI companion chatbot app for ongoing personal conversations that remembers details of your life.
Replika is an iOS and Android companion app with long-term memory of your life and routines, rather than a library of community-made characters in the browser.
SillyTavern
A locally-installed front end for language models aimed at long-form roleplay and character-driven writing.
SillyTavern is a free AGPL-3.0 front end installed locally, giving deep control over character cards and lorebooks, but you must supply your own model backend.
RisuAI
A cross-platform chat and roleplay front end for large language models from many API providers.
RisuAI is a GPL-3.0 roleplay front end for the web or self-hosting with group chats and lorebooks, requiring your own API key or model back end.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pi
A conversational AI assistant in the browser, built for supportive, informal dialogue rather than task automation.
Layla
An offline AI assistant app that runs language models directly on Android and iOS devices.
Open-LLM-VTuber
A voice-driven AI companion with a Live2D avatar that talks to language models running locally.
KoboldAI Lite
A standalone browser interface for chatting with and writing alongside language models from many backends.
