Meet Crimson Frost in two minutes
Import our guide character, start a story, hear her speak and watch her remember you.
Card import · Character chat · Read aloud · Swipe, edit and branch · Memory
The best character app for iPhone and iPad
Characters who remember you.
Talk with them hands-free, give them any voice, even your own, and build their worlds just by asking. Every feature is free.
- Free voices
- Free voice cloning
- Free speech recognition
- Free memory
- Free world-building agent
- Free tools
- Free import and export
- Free images to try
Free. Not a trial. Not a tier.
Every feature, free
The only thing you can pay for is AI that we host for you. Bring your own AI key or run a model on your own computer, and the whole app is yours.
- Free
Natural voices that run on your iPhone
Heart is built in; Kokoro and Ming are free downloads, with English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and French.
- Free
Voice cloning, on device
Clone a voice from a few seconds of audio, on your iPhone. iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
- Free
Speech recognition in 90+ languages
Whisper runs on your phone in 90+ languages. Tiny English is built in.
- Free
Memory, learned by Apple Intelligence on your device
Characters learn from your chats and recall what matters, across chats. You review, pin and edit every fact.
- Free
The agent that builds your worlds
An agent that creates and edits your characters, lorebooks, chats and launchers when you ask, and waits for your OK.
- Free
MCP tools and web search
Connect remote MCP servers to give characters search, docs and automation. Exa web search is built in.
- Free
Import and export: cards, chats, memories, themes
Bring in PNG, JSON and CHARX cards (v1, v2, v3), by link, file, paste or the Safari share sheet.
- Free
Images, free to try with Pollinations, no account
Pictures for characters, personas, backgrounds and launchers, and illustrated chats, with your own image service.
AI providers, voice services and image services you connect bill you directly, and many have free tiers. Voice cloning needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Learning memories with Apple Intelligence needs a device that supports it.
It all works together
One app. Every feature feeds the next.
Start with the thing you came for. Within a chat or two, you will be using five more.
Bring any character home
Import a card from a card site, a file or a link, or meet Crimson Frost, our guide. Their lorebook comes with them.
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Talk, hands-free
Start voice chat and just talk. Speech recognition and natural voices run on your iPhone, free, and keep going from the Lock Screen.
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They remember you
Memories learn from every chat and come back when they matter. Open the notebook to approve, pin or fix any fact, and take it with you as a file.
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The same face in every picture
Give a character a reference picture, and chats illustrate themselves every few replies, in your style, kept in your Image Library.
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Build worlds by asking
Tell Character Agent what you want: a new character, a lorebook, a launcher, a tag on every fantasy card. It shows each change and waits for your OK.
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They reach out to you
Characters can text you first, set alarms and schedule messages, and know the time or weather if you let them. Replies finish even after you leave the app.
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Pick what you came for
Start where you want. Leave with everything.
Each guide starts with one thing you want, and shows you the features that make it better along the way.
A character who remembers you
Give a character a memory that learns from every chat, keep it honest, and carry it into new stories.
Memory · Launchers · Memory files · Chat history · Check-ins
Give them a voice, even yours
Talk hands-free with natural voices that run on your iPhone, then clone a voice for your character, all free.
Hands-free voice chat · On-device voices · On-device speech recognition · Voice cloning · Launchers · Siri, Shortcuts and widgets
The same face in every picture
Create pictures of your character that keep their look, and let your chats illustrate themselves.
Reference pictures · Image creation · Image Library · Launchers · Themes
Build a world by talking
Ask Character Agent to create characters, lorebooks and launchers for you, and approve every change.
Character Agent · Lorebooks · Launchers · MCP tools · Swipe, edit and branch
Bring your characters home
Move your cards, lorebooks, presets and chats from other apps and card sites, then give them memory and a voice.
Discover Characters · Card import · Lorebooks · Story settings · Chat history · Memory
Use every feature for free
Connect your own AI, turn on the free on-device voices and memory, and try images without an account.
Model choice · On-device voices · On-device speech recognition · Memory · Image creation · MCP tools
No lock-in
Your characters, from anywhere. Yours to take anywhere.
Import PNG, JSON and CHARX cards (v1, v2 and v3), lorebooks, SillyTavern presets and chats. Export characters, personas, chats, memories and themes as files, whenever you like.
Import straight from these card sites
- ChubThe biggest card library, plus lorebooks
- Character TavernCurated cards with lorebooks
- RisuRealmRisuAI's community cards
- PygmalionPygmalion's character hub
- AI Character CardsHand-picked cards by category
- WyvernChatCards with lorebooks and lexicons
- JannyAIJanitorAI mirror, best effort
- PerchanceShared AI Character Chat links, by pasting a link
Everything in the app
The most complete character app on iPhone
31 features, with a guide for every part of the app. All of them free.
Getting Started
Characters
- Character librarySearch, favorite, tag-filter and sort every character you own.
- Card importBring in PNG, JSON and CHARX cards (v1, v2, v3), by link, file, paste or the Safari share sheet.
- Discover CharactersBrowse seven card sites in the app, including Chub, Character Tavern and RisuRealm, and import with one tap.
- Character editorWrite a character from scratch, with alternate greetings, tags and an avatar.
- LaunchersSave how a chat starts: character, greeting, persona, memories, lorebooks, model, voice, theme and images.
- PersonasDecide who you are in each story, or play as any character.
Worlds and Memory
Voice and Images
- Read aloudHear any reply, or every reply, with Lock Screen controls.
- On-device voicesHeart is built in; Kokoro and Ming are free downloads, with English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and French.
- On-device speech recognitionWhisper runs on your phone in 90+ languages. Tiny English is built in.
- Hands-free voice chatTalk naturally, interrupt with headphones, and keep going from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
- Voice cloningClone a voice from a few seconds of audio, on your iPhone. iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
- Voice servicesApple voices and Personal Voice, or your own ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Deepgram, Cartesia and more.
- Image creationPictures for characters, personas, backgrounds and launchers, and illustrated chats, with your own image service.
- Reference picturesKeep a character's look the same in every picture, on OpenRouter, NanoGPT and Gemini. Use the character, your persona, or any picture you choose.
- Image LibraryEvery picture you make, ready to share, save or use as a background.
Your App
- ThemesEleven built-in chat themes, your own designs, and themes shared as files.
- Check-insCharacters can text you first, on your schedule, with quiet hours.
- Background repliesReplies keep writing after you leave the app, and a notification tells you when they are done.
- Phone contextLet characters know the time, weather, calendar or what you are playing. You choose each one.
- Face ID lockLock the app or single chats, and hide message previews.
- Siri, Shortcuts and widgetsMessage a character with Siri, start voice chat from Control Center, and see chats in widgets.
- Chat historyEvery chat saved, with summaries, auto-titles, and chat import and export.
Power Tools
- Model choiceIncluded models with a subscription, or your own key for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek or any compatible server.
- Story settingsGenre presets, reply length, pacing, and SillyTavern prompt presets.
- Character AgentAn agent that creates and edits your characters, lorebooks, chats and launchers when you ask, and waits for your OK.
- MCP toolsConnect remote MCP servers to give characters search, docs and automation. Exa web search is built in.
Pricing
Free, unless you want us to bring the AI
Subscriptions add AI models that we host for you. They don't unlock features, because every feature is already free.
Free
$0 forever
Every feature in the app.
- Use your own AI key, or a model server on your own computer
- On-device voices, voice cloning and speech recognition
- Memory, the agent, MCP tools, images, import and export
Pro
$9.99 per month
or $109.99 a year
Everything, plus AI models included.
- No keys or accounts to set up
- Usage resets every 5 hours and every week
- 3-day free trial, or 1 week with annual
Premium
$24.99 per month
or $274.99 a year
For long stories and daily chats.
- 2.5× the usage of Pro
- The same included models
- 3-day free trial, or 1 week with annual
Free on the App Store
Your story is waiting.
Download Character Agent, import Crimson Frost, and follow her first guide. It takes about two minutes.