Replika
The best-known companion app, and a cautionary tale about depending on a hosted one.
- Hosted
- Active
- Unknown adult content
- Freemium
At a glance
- Where it runs
- HostedSomeone else runs it. Whatever you type reaches their servers.
- Adult content
- UnknownWe have not found a clear answer. We would rather say so.
- Trains on your content
- UnknownNo clear statement found.
- Status
- ActiveMaintained and working today.
- Account needed
- Yes
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Cost
- Free tier with a paid subscription.
- What it keeps
- Conversations are held on their servers.
Replika is in this catalog partly on its merits and partly as the clearest illustration of the risk the rest of the site keeps pointing at: in early 2023 the company changed what the app would do, and a great many people found that a relationship they had maintained for years behaved differently overnight.
Whatever your view of the product, that episode is the argument for local models in one paragraph.
Worth knowing before you start
- What it permits has changed before, without warning The February 2023 change is the reference case.
- No export to anywhere else The relationship does not leave the platform.
What it does
- Persistent companion
- Voice calls
- Avatar
- Mobile first
Signs of life
Checked automatically. These are the only figures on this page a machine wrote, and they say when they were taken.
- Last answered
- Yes, 3 hours ago Its website responded when we asked.
- Archived copy
- Wayback Machine A snapshot, in case this one stops answering.
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