Story roleplay with characters who remember your persona
★★★★★ 4.6 · based on 12,231 ratings
Soulplay is a roleplay app from Studio Dopa, a small studio in Menlo Park, California. You pick from hundreds of characters and story settings, from fantasy heroes to school-life drama and sci-fi missions, or build your own by setting a character’s look, personality and background. You can also set up personas, so a character knows who you are playing, and bring several characters into one group story. Characters made by other people sit in a shared community library. Chatting uses gems, which you earn by watching short ads or buy, and a Soulplay Pro subscription is sold in the app. Its App Store screenshots show a roleplay grid, the character library, a chat, the character creator and a passcode lock.
Reviewers who love it say it feels like Character.AI used to, praise personas that characters actually remember, and call the community great. Several say they moved over from Character.AI, Talkie or PolyBuzz. The complaints are about gems, memory and stability: one reviewer ran out of gems as soon as they logged in, others say characters forget scenes even on the paid plan, and some report crashes. One wishes characters had voices, since it is text only. Soulplay has been on the App Store since May 2024 and is rated 18+.
Soulplay suits adults who like long text roleplay and story chats, and who enjoy building characters and personas or trying ones the community has made.
If you want to talk out loud, Soulplay is text only, so a voice app like Sesame or SynClub may suit you better. If you want one companion who remembers your life over months, try Kindroid, Nomi or Duple.
Described by Soulplay 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.
The App Store reviews below come from the 386 most recent written App Store reviews we pulled on October 25, 2026, going back to May 2024. Long reviews are shortened with “…”; the words shown are the reviewer’s own.
You can create personas that the characters ACTUALLY remember which makes the chats so much better. Making characters is super easy, and lowkey not even stressful like other AI chat apps. ♥️ Gems are easy to get through short adds (or small transactions $), which i’m personally fine with.
It’s almost like C.ai, I hope it doesn’t turn like that again, i love this app!!
It doesn’t take a ton of diamonds/money to use like other apps. I have the Soulplay Pro subscription which I think is a must. I was able to create some really detailed personas that aligned well with the characters. Building my own character was a lot of fun too! … My only gripe is the characters memory size.
I love this app I’m addicted to it. I can play for hours. It is one of the better ones out there and the community is great.
First it has all types of characters and many more to explore. This is the best Ai game instead of Talkie or any other Ai app it works better faster and it’s very Efficient.
I logged in. Immediately out of gems. I feel like gems make the person using the app not want to use it anymore.
This app I love it so much this app is so much better than PolyBuzz I’ve been missing out on this but I don’t like the gem system
Most of the conversation and dialogue is rich and natural. At times you actually feel like you are chatting with someone. The major downside is that the AI characters have very limited memory and it seems to get worse every day.
I’ve loved writing some stories on here but there are times when the app seemingly crashes and i worry i’m going to lose all of my stories, or it just won’t open or some features won’t load for days at a time.
I wish instead of texting all the time they would add voice to the characters just an idea other than that the app is amazing wide variety of characters.
Several people in r/soulplay reported the same error when creating images; one later said it was working again.
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Reviewers say characters remember their persona and that building characters is easy and fun. 13
Several came from Character.AI, Talkie or PolyBuzz and say it works better. 257
One reviewer says they play for hours and the community is great. 4
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Soulplay has an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5, based on 12,231 ratings (checked October 25, 2026).
It is free to download. Chatting uses gems, which you can earn by watching ads or buy from $0.99. Soulplay Pro is $9.99.
No. Its App Store listing describes text chats, and one reviewer asks for voice to be added.
Yes. You set a character’s appearance, personality and background, and can share it in the community library.
Yes. It is on Google Play as well as the App Store.
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