Replika alternatives: where your companion's chats would live instead

The Morse teamPublished November 9, 2026Facts checked November 9, 20269 min read

The Replika alternatives worth a look, as of November 9, 2026, are Morse for companion chats kept on your own device, Nomi for long memory, Kindroid for a companion you can edit and call, Character.AI for a library of characters, and Pi for a friendly talk with no romance. Which one fits depends on why you're leaving. Replika rewrote its privacy policy on October 28, 2026 to keep your text messages for 24 months while your account is open, its free tier gives "limited access," and its prices show only inside the app.

We read Replika's privacy policy and terms (both last updated October 28, 2026), its help center, its App Store listing, and the Italian data protection authority's decision against Luka, Inc. on the Garante's own site on November 9, 2026, then each alternative's own policy, terms, plan, and help pages the same day. Replika earns credit for two things. Its policy gives retention periods in months, where most companion apps write "as long as necessary" (our survey of 14 policies), and it contractually bars the AI model providers that write its replies from training their own models on your data (Replika).

Replika alternatives at a glance

As of November 9, 2026. US prices are the lowest monthly subscription on each app's App Store listing that day.

Why are people leaving Replika?

Replika's own pages, and Italy's regulator, give five reasons.

• It keeps your texts longer now. The October 28 policy keeps texts for 24 months while your account is open (Replika), a change Character AI vs Replika sets beside the old rules.
• Your Replika can change under you. The terms describe "more than one generation of the Replika experience (for example, the classic Replika experience and Replika 2.0)," in which "memory systems, models, and content differ." If your account moves between versions, your Replika's "look, feel, features, and behaviour" may differ (Replika). The home page says Luka "rebuilt Replika from the ground up" (Replika).
• Free use is thin and revocable. Free features may be "modified, restricted, or withdrawn without notice" (Replika).
• Prices live in the app. The help center says the cost "is shown in the app on the subscription screens and in the relevant store." On the US App Store on November 9, monthly plans were $7.99 and $14.99, annual ones $49.99 and $69.99, Replika Platinum $89.99, and gems from $0.99 to $19.99 (App Store).
• A regulator found fault. Italy's Garante fined Luka €5 million in 2025 (Garante), as is Replika private explains.

Is there a free Replika alternative?

Yes. Morse's Free plan has no cap on character messages, with the model picked for you, and needs no card. Character.AI says "Unlimited messaging stays on every plan, including free," though the free plan carries full ads (Character.AI). Pi starts a conversation on its home page, and Nomi is free to start with no card.

Kindroid no longer is, since new accounts get a one-time preview and then turn read-only (Kindroid), as Kindroid alternatives covers.

Which Replika alternative keeps the least after you leave?

The one that never held your chats. For the apps that do, here is what each company's own policy says it keeps, read November 9, 2026.

Kindroid's row is new. Its privacy policy took effect on November 7, 2026, two days before we read it, and set the 7-year moderation records, plus up to 7 years for records of generated media and the request behind each one (Kindroid). The top Replika alternatives lists we read that day, RoboRhythms' (updated October 22, 2026) and eesel's (last edited June 22, 2026), compare memory, romance, and price, and neither mentions retention (RoboRhythms, eesel). RoboRhythms also puts Replika at $19.99 a month, while the US App Store's monthly plans top out at $14.99.

Character.AI's row may change too. It filed for Chapter 11 to sell the company and expects the sale to be "complete by the end of November or perhaps early December 2026," and "if such a bid is unavailable, however, the platform will be wound down" (Character.AI).

How do Replika alternatives check your age?

All of them are for adults only, and each checks differently; AI companion app privacy compares the checks and who at each company may read your chats.

• Replika asks your date of birth and may add a selfie or ID check (Replika); Italy's regulator found its earlier check lacking, as is Replika private explains.
• Kindroid counts a paid subscription as proof of age, and deletes a flagged account that isn't verified within 30 days, "including its Kindroids and chats" (Kindroid).
• Character.AI checks every user through Persona and puts anyone under 18 in reading mode (Character.AI).
• Nomi is "directed to adults only" (Nomi), and Pi is "not intended for minors under the age of 18" (Inflection).
• Morse is adults only, and every user confirms they're 18 or older.

Can you choose the AI model in apps like Replika?

Not in Replika. Its terms say models differ between versions and platforms (Replika), and its help center says Replika Ultra adds "smarter conversations" (Replika), but no page we read describes a model menu. The others give you some say:

• Kindroid subscribers get "our newest flagship language models" and can "use legacy language & selfie models" (Kindroid).
• Nomi's wiki, summarizing a May 2026 Q&A stream, gives this answer: "The plan is for Solstice to remain as a legacy model for quite some time" (Nomipedia).
• Character.AI calls its models chat styles. PipSqueak 2 is on every plan, and DeepSqueak and LongSqueak are a daily taste on lite and unlimited on c.ai+ (Character.AI).
• Pi runs on Inflection's own models, and its policy says Inflection trains them on your data unless you opt out in your account settings (Inflection).
• Morse bundles over 30 models, open and closed, from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek, and others. On Pro, a character can run on any included model.

How do you move your Replika to another app?

By hand. None of the apps here says it imports a Replika, as of November 9, 2026. Do it in this order:

1. Copy what your Replika knows. Its Memory section lets you view, add, and delete what it remembers (Replika). Paste the memories you care about into the new character's description.
2. Ask for a copy of your data, if your country gives you that right. Replika's policy lists access and portability rights and handles requests in the app or through its contact address (Replika).
3. Cancel where you paid, then delete the account last. Deleting the app cancels nothing, and an App Store or Google Play subscription is cancelled only in the store (Replika). The delete paths, and what Replika keeps afterward, are in is Replika private.

How Morse keeps a rebuilt companion off our servers

Every column in the tables above measures how long a company holds your companion's history and what it may do with it in the meantime. Morse is built so that history never sits on our servers.

• Characters, for the companion you're rebuilding. Write your Replika's memories into a character of your own. Your character chats, the characters you make, and your personas are stored in your browser, encrypted, and our servers don't keep your messages or log their content (privacy policy). The Free plan has no cap on character messages, and Pro, at $19 a month, adds memory across chats and lets a character run on any included model. When a message in a character chat reads like suicidal thinking, crisis lines appear, a check that runs on your device.
• Private, for long talks in Chat that you'd rather no host keep. It's the default for a new chat, on open-weight models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers, so they keep nothing.
• E2EE, for the things no one else should read. Your browser checks the enclave's hardware attestation, then encrypts each message so only that enclave can read it, and our servers relay ciphertext they can't read. The enclaves are run by third-party providers, not by Morse, and the protection depends on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed. E2EE runs open-weight models, without web search or image generation, and comes with Pro; end-to-end encrypted AI chat explains the checks.
• Anonymous, for GPT, Claude, or Gemini without the provider knowing it's you. Our proxy removes your account, email, and IP address. The provider still sees the message and may keep it for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy.

In every mode, Morse doesn't train AI on your content, sell your data, or show ads, and runs no advertising trackers or third-party analytics. Your history locks when you sign out, and opening it takes two keys: one that never leaves your device, and one our server gives you at sign-in. Because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities. Morse is a web app, so there's no store listing or store subscription to untangle. Clearing your browser or deleting your account deletes your chats, and Morse can't recover them, so keep a copy of any story that matters to you.

Choose Replika, an alternative, or Morse

• Choose Replika if you want voice calls, selfies, and one companion that builds a picture of you over years, and Luka keeping 24 months of your texts is fine.
• Choose Nomi if long memory matters most and you're comfortable signing up with Google or Apple.
• Choose Kindroid if you'll pay to edit memory by hand and keep legacy models, knowing flagged content can be kept for up to 7 years.
• Choose Character.AI if you want many user-made characters with free unlimited messages, and accept ads and a company in the middle of a sale.
• Choose Pi if you want a warm, non-romantic talk, and you'll turn off model training in your account settings.
• Choose Morse if you want your companion's history encrypted on your device instead of on a company's servers, with no training and no ads, unlimited character messages free, and over 30 models in one account.

How we compared them

We read every page linked above on November 9, 2026. We didn't buy subscriptions, so prices are the US App Store's for that day, and your country's may differ.

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Replika is a trademark of Luka, Inc. Morse is not affiliated with or endorsed by Luka, Inc.