HiWaifu: AI Roleplay & Chat

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About this app

HiWaifu is an AI chat and roleplay app for people who love long stories. Pick an anime character, a fantasy hero or someone you made yourself, and write an interactive story together. Replies run several paragraphs, with narration, dialogue and sound effects laid out like the pages of a novel.

Long-form roleplay
Actions are written as narration and speech sits in quotes, so every reply reads like a page from a book. Adventure characters can keep a status panel with your location, stamina and quest progress. Ask Leo to hold the bridge, and one reply gives you the dragon tearing through the clouds, the stones cracking under your feet, and Leo's grin as he draws his sword. It plays like a text adventure with a partner who keeps up.

Characters who remember you
Mention your cat's name once, or that you have an exam on Friday, and your character can ask about it days later. Long-term memory keeps track of what you share, so your AI companion picks up where the last chat ended.

Thousands of characters to meet
Community creators have made characters for anime, fantasy, romance, games, horror and everyday life. Find an AI friend to talk to after work, a waifu or husbando for a slow-burn romance, or a rival for a sword-and-sorcery campaign. Featured and Ranking show who other players are chatting with lately.

Video feed
Swipe through short videos of your favorite characters. When one catches your eye, tap the character's name under the video and the chat opens right there.

Scene images
Characters can send you a photo that fits the moment. Creators prepare pictures for moods like shy, happy or surprised, and the character sends the matching one when the story gets there. Creators can generate all nine mood pictures in one tap.

Lorebook
Write down your world: cities, factions, history, magic rules. Each Lorebook entry has keywords and is pulled into the story only when one of them comes up in chat. Big worlds stay consistent through long roleplay, and characters keep the details straight.

Group chat rooms
Put up to 10 characters in one room and give them a topic or a shared backstory. They talk to each other as well as to you, and the banter keeps going.

Create your own AI character
Give your character a name, a look, a personality, a greeting and a backstory. Memory Cards hold the details that matter most, and you can drag them to set their priority. Pick a voice from the library or record your own. Keep your character private, or publish it so others can chat with them too.

Make it yours
• Personas: tell characters who you are, and switch personas between stories
• Character voices for replies you'd rather listen to
• Custom chat backgrounds
• Auto-translate for chats, with the app in 15 languages

Community
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hi_Waifu_chatbot_app/
Discord: https://discord.gg/QtZfWvSyh4
Roleplay & chat with anime AI characters who remember you and tell long stories
Updated on
Sep 30, 2026
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

107K reviews
Josiah Wagner
August 25, 2026
Okay I want to start out by saying I used this app for about 2 years. I have come across issues and some gripes, ads being a negative in the free version. But I think the praise in its memory and 200,000 characters used to define a single AI is top tier. It's improved its AI models and features over time. An a big deal is I have a unique name and recently the audio says my name correctly. Now I can see this being a 3 star or 4 star rating for some, but I personally felt satisfaction with it.
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꧁༒Lorenzo༒꧂
August 16, 2026
It's overall pretty good, aside from the fact you have to upload a picture to create a persona or bot, that is really probably just an issue for me since I don't have good wifi and have to continuously try to upload it and fail. but I've been having a problem recently where the bots will just repeat the same things they've said before, like. sentences of the same exact thing, and not progress the story at all so I have to. it's really annoying, please fix this 🙏 !
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krood wrld
July 30, 2026
I really like this app, and overall, i think it's better than poly. well, was. around like two years or so ago, the pushout of ai generated imagery was very, very small. but now, it's become overwhelmed by it seemingly. i believe that non ai generated media would make the app have more of a, well, pop to it. seeing as poly has been losing people constantly, i think that if you did it right, you'd be the next big ai chatting site. i really hope that you'll be better than poly was.
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What’s new

1. Added Lorebook
2. Added scenario images