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Beni AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Persistent-memory AI companion app with video/voice interaction that proactively checks in across chat platforms.
12K visits/mo
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Talkie AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI character chat app for roleplay conversations with fictional, celebrity, and user-created personas.
6.8M visits/mo
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NovelAI
✓ verifiedPaid
Subscription suite for generating anime-style AI art and AI-assisted stories, aimed at writers and AI artists.
4.0M visits/mo
Pricing
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Tablet: $10/mo
Scroll: $15/mo (unlimited image generation)
Opus: $25/mo (10,000 bonus Anlas)
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Core features
- ✦Persistent memory across conversations and sessions
- ✦Proactive, unprompted check-ins
- ✦Voice and camera-based multimodal interaction
- ✦Customizable AI companion appearance ('Beni Studio')
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦Planned messaging-app integrations (Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp)
- ✦Large library of pre-made AI characters and storylines
- ✦User-generated custom character creation
- ✦Roleplay-style scripted scenarios
- ✦Community discovery and search of characters
- ✦Memory collection across chats
- ✦Premium subscription tier (Talkie+)
- ✦Anime-focused AI image generator
- ✦Image2Image, inpainting and enhancement
- ✦Vibe Transfer for borrowing image aesthetics
- ✦Multi-character prompting
- ✦AI writing assistant
- ✦Adjustable samplers and advanced settings
Use cases
- →Have an ongoing AI companion that remembers past conversations
- →Get proactive reminders/follow-ups without asking
- →Interact with an AI via voice or camera instead of just text
- →Create a customized AI persona/character
- →Fans engaging in roleplay with fictional or fandom characters
- →Users creating and sharing original AI personas
- →Casual entertainment chat and storytelling
- →Community discovery of trending character chats
- →Generating anime characters and artwork
- →Editing and refining AI images
- →Writing and continuing stories with AI
- →Experimenting with prompts and styles
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