Saylo is a story app from X Original, a Hong Kong company. You create characters with their own look, voice, personality and background, build a world around them, and steer the plot with every choice. Saylo keeps track of key story details, such as characters, places, major events and items, so a story can pick up where it left off, and you can add details yourself. Finished plots can become Visual Stories with chapters and artwork, plot videos or comics, and you can publish them on Clips, its sharing feed. In Party Mode, several people and characters join one story room. You can also choose between AI models and writing styles. Its App Store screenshots show the character feed, a story chat, the character creator, Visual Stories and Party Mode.
Reviewers who like it say it is easy to start, you can chat without tokens, and ads are bearable or can be removed. The complaints are louder and more recent: since June 2026 many long-time reviewers say a stricter filter changed their stories, some say saved stories or persona edits disappeared, and others say characters forget what happened or start talking to each other instead of you. Its rating is lower than most roleplay apps. Saylo has been on the App Store since May 2024 and is rated 18+.
Who it’s for
Saylo suits adults who see roleplay as making something, and want to turn their stories into comics, videos or chapters to share, or to play one story with friends.
If you want a companion for everyday chats rather than a story tool, or a filter that has stayed the same, read the recent complaints first. Soulplay, Moescape or Duple may suit you better.
What you can do
Create characters with a look, voice and personality
Build a story world and steer the plot
Keep key story details so plots can continue
Turn plots into Visual Stories, comics and videos
Play one story with friends in Party Mode
Share your work on Clips
Described by Saylo on its App Store listing and shown in its App Store screenshots. Not our hands-on test. Rated 18+ on its App Store listing; also on Android.
What people say about Saylo
The App Store reviews below come from the 293 most recent written App Store reviews we pulled on October 25, 2026, going back to June 2024. Long reviews are shortened with “…”; the words shown are the reviewer’s own.
Overall rating3.9★★★★★based on 1,290 ratings store ratings checked October 25, 2026See the ratings source
Store star ratings only
5★63%
4★9%
3★5%
2★3%
1★20%
How we calculate this
Which sources feed the number: only the star ratings people left on Saylo’s App Store listing: 1,290 ratings, average 3.90 out of 5, read from Apple’s ratings data on October 25, 2026. The overall rating is that average, shown to one decimal place, and the count shown is the same 1,290.
Community reviews: the review cards show 10 written App Store reviews and 1 Reddit/forum item. None are scored, so none are part of the number. No estimate is added.
1
★★★★★
It turned out way better than I thought
I love how you get crazy with the scenarios you can play along with it and the parameters or you can change it up a little bit like make yourself extremely powerful, five out of five all the way
Hi! This is the most immersive ai chat I have downloaded so far and the only thing I see lacking that all the other ai chats carry is multiple personas you can alternate between. The one persona makes it more difficult and have to constantly switch the information manually. I think besides that it’s a good app overall.
Honestly, it’s great. There’s no paywalls you don’t have to have tokens or anything to talk and the worst you deal with is like a minute and a half two minute ad every few hours if you spend that long on here.
It’s fun and funny to mess with the bots. … There’s some ads but it’s not overbearing or a blocker for any features. You can just pay to remove ads if you want.
I’ve been using this app after emochi went out and I became attached no annoying ads every 30 seconds actual fun and the fact you can save your persona is perfect ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
I use to enjoy long conversations, turning stories up or down with created characters. It was unfiltered just 6+ months ago. … Now the story goes all crazy and the cause is your bs language filter.
Memory entrees feel almost pointless. Forgets things after a few prompts, misunderstands basic english, output has grammar, spelling or spacing errors.
The characters seem to have developed Alzheimer’s, they literally forget who you are or what happened two minutes ago. Then you get ridiculously long dumps of text where the characters start having entire conversations with each other, completely excluding you.
when your adds pop up it says in big bold letters ‘1h Free No Ads’ so like anyone would you watch them. But then you’re watching more ads in as little as 5 minutes.
This used to be my favorite AI chat app but their recent updates killed it. I can’t even update my character persona anymore and like 90% of the stories I had saved are gone now so I stopped subscribing.
Reddit items were read in full through the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on October 25, 2026, and link to the original thread. They are shown as written but are not scored.
Each review links to its source. Quotes are word for word; anything marked Paraphrase is our summary. We skipped reviews with explicit or abusive content. Reviewers’ names are not shown.
Loved and not so loved
Themes we saw in the reviews above. The numbers link to the reviews each point comes from. This is a summary of the sample we read, not a score.
Loved
Big, flexible stories
Reviewers like going wild with scenarios and call it immersive. 12
Chat without tokens
Reviewers say you can talk without paying and ads are bearable or removable. 345
Not so loved
A stricter filter
Many long-time reviewers say a 2026 filter changed their stories. 6
Forgetting and rambling
Some say characters forget fast or talk to each other instead of you. 87
Ads and lost stories
One says ad-free breaks end within minutes; another lost saved stories. 910
Quick facts
Price
Free to download, with ads. The App Store lists, in US dollars, a Plus Monthly plan at $9.99, a Plus 1-Month Pass at $14.99, a Pro Monthly plan at $19.99, a Quarterly plan at $24.99 and ad removal at $2.99, plus top-ups. Source
Age label
18+ · App Store
Available on
iOS · Android
Checked
2026-10-25
Prices and ratings change often. Features are what Saylo describes; they are not our hands-on test results. Official site · How we list apps
Questions people ask
How is Saylo rated?
Saylo has an overall rating of 3.9 out of 5, based on 1,290 ratings (checked October 25, 2026).
Is Saylo free?
It is free to download with ads. Plans run from $9.99 a month, and ad removal is $2.99.
What is Party Mode on Saylo?
Party Mode lets several people and story characters join one story room and move the plot forward together.
Did Saylo add a filter?
Many App Store reviews from June 2026 on say a stricter content filter was added. Saylo’s community guidelines prohibit sexually explicit content.
Is Saylo on Android?
Yes. Saylo is on Google Play as well as the App Store.
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