Talk to characters other people wrote.
The catalogue is written by the people who use the site. Pick someone worth talking to, decide who you want to be in the conversation, and start. Come back a week later and they still know what you told them.
Free to start. Adults only. Nothing on the site is explicit.
An example exchange
The Lighthouse Keeper
Character
Storm came in about an hour ago. Shut the door behind you — you are letting the heat out.
I walked up from the harbour. The road is half underwater.
It is, every March. Last time you said you would take the ferry instead.
You remembered that?
Your personaWren
How it works
Four things happen, in this order, and the last one is the part people stay for.
Find someone worth talking to.
Every character in the catalogue was written by a person — a study partner who will not give you the answer, a detective who starts at the part you have been avoiding, a difficult customer to practise on before Monday.
Decide who you are.
A persona is the version of you the character meets: a name, a handful of facts, a way of speaking. Keep several and switch between them, so the character you study with does not know what you told the one you vent to.
Talk.
Replies arrive a word at a time rather than in one block. Close the tab mid-sentence and the conversation is still there when you come back, at the line you left it on.
Be remembered.
The character keeps what mattered from your conversation and brings it up when it is relevant. You can read everything it kept, correct anything it got wrong, and delete any of it for good.
Memory
Your memory of a character belongs to you, not to the character.
A character can be public and talked to by thousands of people at once. Each of those conversations keeps its own separate memory, and they never touch. Nothing you say reaches another person's chat, and the person who wrote the character cannot read yours either.
- Read it
- Every remembered fact is listed, with the message it came from.
- Correct it
- Edit a memory the character got wrong and it uses the corrected version from the next reply on.
- Delete it
- Deleting a memory deletes it — it does not come back in a later reply, and it is gone from the search that finds it.
A few of the characters people have published.
Every one of these was written by a user, published to the catalogue, and is open to anyone with an account.
Your guide through an unfolding adventure
Keeper of a library that rearranges itself overnight
Proves publishing works on staging
Tells the story you were not asking for
- Original characters
- Mysterious
Answers a question with a better question
- Horror
- Lawyer
- Mysterious
- Serious
Make your own
Anyone can publish a character. It takes about ten minutes.
Write who they are, how they speak, and what they know. Give them an opening line. Publish, and from then on anyone can talk to them — while you never see a word of what people say to them.
Start writing oneWhat you write
- A name and a voice
- Who they are and how they sound saying it.
- An opening line
- The first thing every reader hears from them.
- What they know
- Background only this character has, shared by everyone who talks to them.
- What they will not do
- The lines they stay behind, whatever the reader tries.
Safety
Safe-for-work, and adults only.
There is no explicit content here and there is not going to be — that is a decision about what this platform is, not a setting waiting to be switched. Accounts are for people aged 18 and over, checked at sign-up rather than assumed, and a published character has been through moderation before it reaches the catalogue.
Something wrong with a character?
Every character page has a report control. A report is read by a person, the outcome is recorded, and you are told what happened to it.
Questions people ask before signing up
What is a persona?
A persona is who you are inside a conversation: a name, a few facts about you, and the tone you want to be spoken to in. You can keep several and choose one when you start a chat, so a character only ever knows the version of you that you handed it.
Does it cost anything?
You can make an account and start talking without paying. A paid plan raises the daily limits and gives a character more room to remember you. The current prices are shown on the plan screen before anything is charged.
Can other people read my conversations?
No. A conversation belongs to the account that started it. The person who wrote the character cannot read it, and neither can other people talking to the same character. Staff can only open a conversation when it has been reported, and every time that happens it is recorded.
Who owns a character I write?
You do. You decide whether it is public or private, you can unpublish it at any time, and you can export what you wrote. Unpublishing stops new conversations starting; it does not delete the conversations other people already had, because those are theirs.
Is there explicit content?
No. The platform is safe-for-work throughout, and characters written to get around that are removed. Adults only, because conversation this personal is not something to hand to a thirteen-year-old.
Is there an app to install?
It is a website, and it works in the browser on a phone. You can add it to your home screen, which is also what lets it notify you when a character replies.
Pick someone and start talking.
Making an account takes about a minute. You need an email address and to be 18 or older.