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20 Character.AI alternatives

Character.AI: Create and chat with millions of user-made AI characters — the largest conversational roleplay community on the internet. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Chatbot, Creative Writing and Roleplay, ranked by how much they have in common with Character.AI.

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  1. NovelAI

    Subscription Text & Writing

    Subscription web app for AI-assisted story writing with long-context models and anime-style image generation with NovelAI Diffusion.

    Also: Creative Writing, Roleplay

  2. ELSA

    AI English-speaking coach app that scores pronunciation and fluency and offers role-play and interview practice with instant feedback.

    Also: Roleplay

  3. Duolingo

    Duolingo's top subscription tier, adding AI speaking practice: Video Call with Lily and Roleplay scenarios with feedback.

    Also: Roleplay

  4. Cantina, Inc.

    Social platform for building AI characters with their own voice and personality, then turning them into short-form videos you can post anywhere.

    Also: Roleplay

  5. AI writing app for novelists that drafts, rewrites and expands fiction in your style from a Story Bible, using its own Muse model.

    Also: Creative Writing

  6. English grammar checker and editing toolkit for fiction writers, with style reports, rephrasing and story-level manuscript critique.

    Also: Creative Writing

  7. Kunlun Tech

    AI music generation with lyric writing, stem separation, and reference-based style matching.

    Also: Creative Writing

  8. Suno AI

    Create stunning original music in seconds using AI. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.

    Also: Creative Writing

  9. Moonshot AI

    Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and strong agentic coding and research workflows.

    Also: Chatbot

  10. Inflection AI

    Inflection AI's free conversational companion for talking things through, learning and reminders, by text or voice.

    Also: Chatbot

  11. Quora

    Quora's chat app for using many AI models in one place, from GPT and Claude to image, video and voice models, plus custom bots.

    Also: Chatbot

  12. Microsoft

    Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, images, voice and files, now one app for personal and work accounts on web, desktop and mobile.

    Also: Chatbot

  13. Kagi

    Subscription General Purpose

    Subscription search engine with no ads or tracking, per-site ranking controls, Lenses, Quick Answer and a multi-model AI assistant.

    Also: Chatbot

  14. DuckDuckGo

    DuckDuckGo's anonymized chat with Claude, GPT, Mistral and open models (formerly DuckDuckGo AI Chat); free, no account needed.

    Also: Chatbot

  15. Brave

    Brave's built-in browser assistant that summarizes pages and PDFs, with Brave Search grounding and bring-your-own-model support.

    Also: Chatbot

  16. Mistral AI

    Mistral's unified AI agent — Work mode for long-horizon research, analysis and drafting, Code mode for sandboxed coding with GitHub pull requests.

    Also: Chatbot

  17. Google

    Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google.

    Also: Chatbot

  18. Meta

    Meta's free assistant built on Llama, available on the web and woven into WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

    Also: Chatbot

  19. An open-source desktop AI client that talks to every major provider and your local models from one window.

    Also: Chatbot

  20. The assistant for Zhipu's GLM models, with a strong bent toward coding, long-horizon agent tasks, and artifact building.

    Also: Chatbot