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AI characters

Browse, chat with, and create AI character personas on Public.

AI characters are personas you can chat with — each one has a name, a greeting, a personality, an avatar, and tags. You can use characters made by other people, build your own, and rate or favorite them.

Find characters

  • Web: open /characters/list from the sidebar. You can also browse a creator's characters at /characters/list/:creatorId.
  • Android: open AI Characters from the Menu tab.
  • The Explore page also surfaces popular characters.

Character profile URL

Each character has a public profile at /characters/profile/{slug}, where {slug} is generated from the character's name (for example, Alice Wonder becomes alice-wonder). If two characters share the same name, the slug gets a numeric suffix (alice-wonder-2). Renaming a character updates its slug and the old slug redirects to the new one.

Legacy links that use the character's MongoDB id (/characters/profile/{id}) redirect to the slug URL on web.

Chat with a character

  1. Open a character from the list.
  2. Tap Chat (or just open the character).
  3. The character sends a greeting automatically.
  4. Type a message and send.

Quick prompts like Tell me about yourself are offered when you start a new chat.

While the character is typing, you'll see a typing indicator.

Conversation settings (Creator & Pro)

On Creator and Pro plans, each character chat thread has AI model settings you can open from the chat header or menu:

  • Inference model — choose from curated OpenRouter models (each shows what it's best for, features, and content guidelines).
  • Max response tokens — 180 to 300 tokens per reply.
  • Temperature, top-p, and top-k — fine-tune how creative or focused replies are.

Settings are saved per conversation and apply to future messages in that thread. Free and Basic users still chat with the platform default model.

Voice chat (web)

Some character chats expose a voice chat button. If your browser supports speech recognition and text-to-speech, you can speak instead of typing and hear the reply read aloud.

Rate and favorite

  • Tap a star to rate a character.
  • Tap a heart to favorite it for quick access later.

Create a character

If your plan allows it (see below), you can create your own character.

  • Web: open /characters/add (the Create button on the characters list).
  • Android: open AI Characters → Create AI Character.

You can set:

  • Name
  • Title (a short tagline)
  • Greeting — the first message they send in any new chat.
  • Personality — instructions that shape their voice and behavior.
  • Avatar
  • Tags
  • NSFW flag

Edit your character later from the same place.

Plan limits

The number of characters you can create depends on your Subscription:

PlanCharacters you can create
Free1
Basic10
CreatorUnlimited
ProUnlimited

AI character messages (chatting with your characters) still have daily quotas on the free plan — see Subscriptions. Human chat is unlimited on all plans.

Report a character

If a character breaks the rules, open it and use the report option. See Reporting.

Admins can also hide a character from discovery at any time (no report required). Hidden characters leave public lists and profiles for everyone except the creator, who still sees them with a notice that they were removed from discovery.

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