Anima Friendly AI companion for casual chat, roleplay, and relationship practice. 0410 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# chat# companion# mobile
Character.AI Chat with millions of AI characters or create your own; huge community and web/app access. 0420 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# characters# chat# community
KoboldAI Lite (Web UI) Zero-install browser UI for Kobold/KoboldCpp/AI Horde & OpenAI-compatible APIs; quick RP chats with sampling controls. 0410 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# koboldcpp# local-optional
LibreChat Self-hosted multi-provider chat UI (OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama etc.) with roles, files, and search—flexible RP client. 0410 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# agents# multi-model
Chai Mobile-first character chat network with lots of user-made personas. 0410 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# characters# chat# mobile
JannyAI (formerly JanitorAI) Large roleplay platform with extensive character catalog and user-created bots. 0410 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# catalog# characters# chat
RisuAI Cross-platform RP client/app with multi-API support, TTS, assets-in-chat, regex filters, and character expressions. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# characters# local
TavernAI Early popular RP frontend for character chats; supports world info, groups, and multiple text-gen backends. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# characters# groups
LM Studio (Desktop) Popular desktop app to run and chat with local LLMs; simple model management and fast GPU/CPU offload for RP sessions. 0400 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# desktop# GPU
NovelAI (Stories & Chat) Story writing and anime-style generation with popular RP chat modes. 0400 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# anime# chat# roleplay
Open WebUI Modern self-hosted chat UI for local models (Ollama/OpenAI-compatible) with histories, file/RAG, tools—great RP shell. 0390 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# local# NSFW
Kuki Award-winning social chatbot for playful conversation, games, and RP-style chat. 0390 Roleplay & Companion Chat (Platforms)# chatbot# games# roleplay
LoLLMS WebUI Feature-rich local web UI with personalities, multi-user support, and multimodal tools—handy for custom RP personas. 0380 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# multi-user# multimodal
KoboldCpp Single-binary llama.cpp fork with a lightweight built-in UI; fast local inference for RP with long context options. 0380 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# GGUF# inference
Open WebUI (Docs & Install) Official docs for installing and running Open WebUI across platforms—popular local RP chat shell with RAG. 0360 Roleplay Frontends (Local/Self-Hosted UI)# adult# docs# install