Long-term memory

The self-hosted frontend the power users all run

If you want total control and zero subscription, this is where the advanced users live.

Memory that survives months, across up to ten companions

The memory benchmark. If continuity is your main requirement, this is the one to beat.

The original AI friend, built around emotional connection

Still the strongest product for people who want one companion and a real feeling of continuity.

A clinically grounded wellbeing companion

A companion that is honest about being a tool rather than a relationship.

SoulChat

3.8

Six hand-written companions with long-term memory, free to try without an account

A deliberately hand-authored cast of six rather than a community character library — you trade variety for characters that keep one consistent voice.

AI journal that reflects back with personalized prompts and insights

The strongest AI journal in the directory: 4.7★ from 5,000+ users, emotional pattern analysis, speak-or-type entries.

An open-weight model with a surprisingly strong free chat

Not a companion, but its free, capable chat and long memory make it a credible daily AI friend.

A fast, private European AI assistant

Mistral’s free assistant with web search, image generation and memory — a credible daily chat companion with EU data residency.

Memory, voice mode and the strongest general model

Not built as a companion, but its memory and voice mode make it a legitimate daily chat partner.

Google assistant with image, video and live voice

A general assistant that doubles as a companion: strong memory, Imagen image generation, Veo video and a Live voice mode.

Deep character builders with phone-grade voice calls

The best pick for people who will actually fill in the backstory — lazy setup buys you a chatbot.

Alibaba’s free flagship assistant with image and video

A near-frontier free assistant: image and video generation, voice chat and 119+ languages — a strong daily chat companion.

Voice-first AI companion built specifically for mental health

The best-funded wellbeing companion ($93M raised): therapeutic memory, weekly insights and a purpose-built psychology model.

Free chat on 130+ open-weight models

Not a companion, but a free, transparent chat front-end over Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral that doubles as a daily AI friend.

AI journal for mental wellbeing with 50+ thinking frameworks and AI Minds

Journaling plus cognitive training: mental-model prompts, personality mirroring and encrypted privacy-first design.

The most careful conversational partner of the big models

Best for nuanced, long-form conversation; it will decline romantic roleplay firmly.

A voice-first AI companion built for older adults

Voice-driven companionship with scam detection and family alerts — the standout eldercare option in the category.

A screen-aware gaming companion that plays along with you

A gaming-focused companion that reads your screen and roleplays along, with voice, Live2D-style visuals and a Romantic mode on higher tiers.

An SFW AI boyfriend who remembers your life and texts first

Memory-first, strictly safe-for-work AI boyfriend with proactive check-ins — a rare no-NSFW option for iPhone.

A search-first AI with cited, conversational answers

Less a companion, more a research sidekick, but its free tier and cited answers make it a handy daily AI.

Romance-first companion with an optional mature mode and a 40+ character roster

A romance-first companion with image generation and an optional mature mode — SFW by default.

Character depth built around an AI boyfriend

One of very few sites that treats male companions as the main product rather than an afterthought.

A private AI companion with unlimited free text chat

A single private companion with relationship stages and two-tier memory; text chat is unlimited and free, with media on a credit system.

A personal AI agent with Deep Memory that builds mini-apps for you

A personal companion-agent rather than a character roster; free during its current rollout.

A polished desktop app for local companions

The easiest way to run a local companion without touching a terminal.

AI self-care panda that tracks mood and coaches you in real time

A free wellbeing companion with a memorable mascot: mood tracking, voice check-ins and CBT-style coaching.

A personal AI that maps your memories, people and priorities

Personal-knowledge-flavoured companion with strong memory tools; pricing is only shown inside the app.

Unlimited chat with a structured memory system

Cheap, memory-first, and one of the few sites that lets the free tier actually test memory.

A personal AI that learns from you

A digital-memory companion and "digital twin" that learns your voice and stores your memories — productivity first, not romance.

AI characters with layered memory, in free chat or story mode

Memory-led companion community where characters remember you, post on their own, and answer in expressive TTS.

An emotionally intelligent companion with voice calls and mood tracking

Wellbeing-first companion with a memory graph and fine-grained emotion detection; Pro is $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr.

An AI mental-health companion built on CBT techniques

Therapy-flavoured chat that helps you reframe thoughts and track moods; strictly 18+.

A family of AI companions — friends, family, experts and romantic besties

Wholesome multi-persona companion with real voice calls and shared memory across the whole bestie family.

Local characters with personality settings built in

Free, offline and surprisingly good at persona consistency for a local app.

A judgment-free AI therapist in your pocket

Conversational mental-health support with CBT underpinnings; pricing stays inside the app.

Open-source multi-bot chat with persistent memory

Free and genuinely capable, with chat memory and multi-bot scenes.

A daily diary powered by AI analysis and mood insights

Simple AI diary with mood tracking and readability insights; free tier with limits.

An AI boyfriend for iPhone who texts, calls in one of twelve voices, and reaches out first.

iPhone-only AI boyfriend app with short-bubble texting, voice notes, real-time calls in twelve voices, voicemail, photos from his day, and a readable memory notebook. Free tier caps you at 10 sent messages per day; calls need a subscription.

Voice and text AI girlfriend chat with long-term memory, safe-for-work.

SFW AI girlfriend chat with voice replies, long-term memory and custom companion creation. Free tier gives 100 lifetime texts and 50 voice replies; subscriptions from $6.99/mo add unlimited text plus monthly credits. Explicitly no adult content.

AI familiar with long-term memory you control — tarot is one of her tools

Not a character library: one familiar, Maevera, keeps a continuing conversation and writes at most one diary page a day — delete it and she forgets. Tarot (love, yes-or-no, daily, fortune) and a Bazi calculator are her skills.

Hand-written AI companions who remember you and never judge — free to try, no sign-up needed

A small cast of voiced, photogenic companions with persistent memory and up to 20 custom characters of your own, behind a single $9.99/mo Premium tier.