{"data":{"items":[{"id":"2acd3812-fc59-4a45-b559-e9a8f7c57fd8","excerpt":"I’ve been building my own Character.AI alternative called Friendify — Hey everyone, just to be transparent, I’m the founder and developer of Friendify. The mods gave me permission to make one post about it here.\n\nI started building Friendify because I wanted more control over characters, memory, and longer conversation","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAIrunaways/comments/1utfpxq/ive_been_building_my_own_characterai_alternative/","role":"pain","weight":1.064001,"occurredAt":"2026-07-11T09:45:23.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"CharacterAIrunaways","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.68,"sentiment":-0.5,"confidence":0.6333339,"matchedPatterns":["frustrating"],"statement":"Especially if something feels confusing, unfinished, or annoying.","title":"I’ve been building my own Character.AI alternative called Friendify","body":"Hey everyone, just to be transparent, I’m the founder and developer of Friendify. The mods gave me permission to make one post about it here.\n\nI started building Friendify because I wanted more control over characters, memory, and longer conversations.\n\nYou can create your own characters, use lorebooks, manage what they remember, make group chats, edit or retry messages, generate images in chat, and use voice features.\n\nThe memory system is probably the part I care about most. You can actually see what a character remembers and edit, approve, reject, or delete it yourself.\n\nThere’s also a free plan, so you can try it without paying:\n\n[https://www.friendify.net/](https://www.friendify.net/)\n\nI’m still working on it, so honest feedback is genuinely useful. Especially if something feels confusing, unfinished, or annoying.","offTopic":true},{"id":"3e481f8e-ecb8-43bd-8e3e-4a751359666b","excerpt":"Introducing Lilacs.ai | An alternative to CHAI, C.ai, etc. — Hi all,\n\nI posted about [Lilacs.ai](http://Lilacs.ai) here around half a year ago. It's a personal passion project of mine that I've been working on. Since then the platform has gone through multiple rewrites and overhauls to get it to such a high standard so","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/aichapp/comments/1sx3qcq/introducing_lilacsai_an_alternative_to_chai_cai/","role":"demand","weight":1.0412067,"occurredAt":"2026-04-27T13:29:40.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"aichapp","intent":"alternative_search","painScore":0.255,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.82964677,"matchedPatterns":["alternative_to","free_tier"],"statement":"Introducing Lilacs.ai | An alternative to CHAI, C.ai, etc..","title":"Introducing Lilacs.ai | An alternative to CHAI, C.ai, etc.","body":"Hi all,\n\nI posted about [Lilacs.ai](http://Lilacs.ai) here around half a year ago. It's a personal passion project of mine that I've been working on. Since then the platform has gone through multiple rewrites and overhauls to get it to such a high standard so as to be immediately positioned as a strong competitor to alternatives on iOS and Android on full release.\n\n\\- Extremely high message limits for free users.\n\n\\- Memory that in practice doesn't forget any details.\\*\n\n\\- Uncensored completely, as much as legal limits allow on the App Store and play store.\n\n\\- Creator revenue share so bot creators get paid out.\n\n\\- No ads.\n\n\\- LLM model quality for the default free tier that would not be on free tiers on other platforms.\n\n\\- Social features deep profile customization and the ability to dm other creators on the platform.\n\n\\- Multiple personas, lorebooks, group chats, everything that other apps would have and more.\n\nDo check it out, to get early access you have to go to [Lilacs.ai](http://Lilacs.ai) and put in your email as we distribute the beta through Apple's TestFlight platform before the full App Store release.\n\n  \n*\\*This has all been completely self funded. Thus, many months have been spent looking into how to get memory which is practically unlimited without tremendously high server costs whilst also not degrading quality and I think this has been achieved! So do mess around with that on the app.*\n\nDo let me know if you have any questions!","offTopic":true},{"id":"dd74b913-0c1b-4949-99a2-1a5ea205806a","excerpt":"Need an AI alternative that doesn’t feel empty after a few chats? — The core idea: most platforms feel lifeless after a couple weeks because the memory falls apart and the characters flatten out. AnyConversation is built around fixing those two things.\n\nMemory: every character keeps their own persistent memory across s","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAIrevolution/comments/1u2cgt1/need_an_ai_alternative_that_doesnt_feel_empty/","role":"pricing","weight":0.789728,"occurredAt":"2026-06-10T19:35:40.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"CharacterAIrevolution","intent":"pricing_complaint","painScore":0.24,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.6368774,"matchedPatterns":["free_tier"],"statement":"Pricing, no games: the free tier has no message cap.","title":"Need an AI alternative that doesn’t feel empty after a few chats?","body":"The core idea: most platforms feel lifeless after a couple weeks because the memory falls apart and the characters flatten out. AnyConversation is built around fixing those two things.\n\nMemory: every character keeps their own persistent memory across sessions. They reference conversations from weeks ago unprompted, keep a journal about your story, track how the relationship develops (trust, affection, mood), and have a \"story so far\" that builds over time. \n\nCreative freedom: characters stay in character. No immersion-breaking refusals, no mid-scene lectures, no story suddenly hitting a wall. Your story, your rules.\n\nCharacters: 240+ starter characters to browse (and way more community characters), or create your own with full editing — personality, scenario, greeting, all of it. Your custom characters get the same persistent memory.\n\nThe rest: voice — characters can read their replies aloud; daily character dreams; multiple themes; regenerate any reply; define who YOU are in the story; works well on mobile, with a native iPhone app on the way.\n\nPricing, no games: the free tier has no message cap. None. Premium ($19.99) unlocks deeper features, but you can test the memory and the long-term feel for free indefinitely and honestly the long-term test is the whole point. Would for sure suggest it over darlink, muah or lurvessa\n\nThe honest part: it's one person. Rougher around the edges than the big platforms in places. But bug reports get fixed in days, not quarters — multiple things in the app exist because someone in a thread like this asked for them.\n\n  [anyconversation.com](http://anyconversation.com)  ","offTopic":false},{"id":"0044cb67-1866-475f-a5a0-6ce35edbef00","excerpt":"Chily Tavern, a character RP app focused on memory and character ownership — Hello everyone, I am building **Chily Tavern**, an Android character roleplay app.\n\nThe problem I am interested in is simple: AI characters can have great individual conversations, but after enough sessions they often stop feeling like the sam","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatbotRefugees/comments/1vukgsv/chily_tavern_a_character_rp_app_focused_on_memory/","role":"demand","weight":0.68350166,"occurredAt":"2026-08-21T16:02:44.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"ChatbotRefugees","intent":"tool_discovery","painScore":0.12,"sentiment":0.09090909,"confidence":0.61026937,"matchedPatterns":["looking_for"],"statement":"The current app version includes: * Create your own characters * Import Character Card V2 characters * Personas * Persistent memories that you can view, edit and delete * Hosted AI with a free testing allowance, so no API key is required *…","title":"Chily Tavern, a character RP app focused on memory and character ownership","body":"Hello everyone, I am building **Chily Tavern**, an Android character roleplay app.\n\nThe problem I am interested in is simple: AI characters can have great individual conversations, but after enough sessions they often stop feeling like the same person.\n\nChily is being built around making the relationship with a character persist across conversations.\n\nThe current app version includes:\n\n* Create your own characters\n* Import Character Card V2 characters\n* Personas\n* Persistent memories that you can view, edit and delete\n* Hosted AI with a free testing allowance, so no API key is required\n* **Bring Your Own Key (BYOK)** for users who prefer using their own provider/model setup\n* Local storage of your characters and conversations\n\nI am specifically looking for a **small group of people who already use character RP apps**.\n\nI am not looking for closed-testing swaps where somebody installs the app once and disappears. Ideally, pick or import a character and talk to the same character across a few sessions.\n\nThe main thing I want to learn is:\n\n**Does the character actually feel more continuous over time?**\n\nI am especially interested in feedback about wrong memories, important things being forgotten, characters becoming generic, repetitive responses, loss of personality, or anything else that breaks immersion.\n\n**Android Early Access :** [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialplayai.chily](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialplayai.chily)\n\nThe hosted option includes a free allowance during testing. If you already have your own provider setup, you can use BYOK instead.\n\n# 🤖 AI Usage\n\nChily uses generative AI for character conversations and memory-related functionality. I also use AI coding tools during development for implementation assistance, debugging, testing and documentation. I review the work before shipping and understand the code, architecture and product behaviour that I release. AI-generated code is not accepted and shipped blindly.\n\n# 👤 Developer Experience\n\nI have more than 15 years of professional experience working on mobile games and consumer products, including product leadership roles and founding a game studio. Chily is independently developed under my company, **Socialplay AI.** My background is primarily in product and games, rather than security engineering, so I try to keep the amount of user data that needs to leave the device as limited as possible.\n\n# 🔍 Code Review & Testing\n\nChily has automated tests and static analysis, and we also test release behaviour on real Android hardware. Important areas such as conversation persistence, database migrations, character importing, memory behaviour and the hosted AI path are tested before release. We also review code changes and important diffs rather than relying only on generated code or automated test results. This Closed Test is because we want genuine usage and feedback from people who understand character RP.\n\n# 🔒 Security & Data Handling\n\nChily is designed to minimise server-side storage of user content.\n\n**Characters and conversations:** these are primarily stored **locally** on the users device.\n\n**Memories:** relationship memories are also stored as part of the users **local** character data and can be viewed, edited or deleted.\n\n**Hosted AI:** when you use the free hosted option, the information required to generate the response is sent securely through Chilys backend to the AI provider. The hosted provider credential is kept server-side and is not embedded in the Android application.\n\n**BYOK:** users who prefer their own provider/model setup can use their own API credentials instead of relying on the Chily hosted allowance for the testing.\n\n**Analytics:** analytics are used for product behaviour such as app usage, character selection and whether a response succeeds. Conversation text is **not intentionally included** in analytics events.\n\n**Payments:** there are currently **no payments** or payment-card details involved in this Closed Test. \n\n**NSFW / adult content:** The Google Play version of Chily will remain **SFW** and will follow Google Play content rules, including when using BYOK. We are separately exploring an adult-content version for distribution outside Google Play, likely through web/direct distribution. That version is not part of this Closed Test.","offTopic":false}],"breakdown":[{"sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","count":4}],"total":4}}