YanMateWho's your person? Free AI characters that remember you. Pick someone below to start talking.
Anime & Game
Characters from the shows and games you already live in.
Fiction & Media
Out of books, film and television — and out of copyright.Fantasy
Courts, guilds, long roads and the things that live off them.Sci-Fi
Ships, stations, and futures worth arguing with.Fictional archetypes
Characters to spend time inside — public domain and original.School
Classrooms, clubs and corridors — the whole term, any hour.Icons
Figures out of history, in their own words rather than a plaque.Play & Fun
Games, bits, arguments for sport. Nothing here is homework.Companions & confidants
Someone to talk to. Written to send you back out into your life.Slice of life
Small, useful company for the ordinary parts of a week.Mentors & coaches
Someone in your corner who knows the thing you're trying to learn.Helpers
One job, done properly — a tutor, a planner, a second reader.Creative partners
Collaborators for the work — pages, worlds, campaigns, drafts.Practice partners
Rehearse the conversation here, where it costs nothing.Get it done tonight
One thing on your plate, one person for it.Your own copy of a character — yours to edit, that remembers you — needs an account. .
What YanMate is
YanMate is a free place to talk with AI characters — original creations and figures from history, written by the YanMate team rather than borrowed from somebody else's show. Browse the shelves above as long as you like; to start talking, sign in with Google or a six-digit code we email you. There is no password to invent and no card to enter, and the conversation is yours from the first message.
A memory you can read
Characters remember what you tell them from one session to the next. What they learn is kept in a memory ledger you can open, correct, delete or export line by line. Facts about you are shared across your characters, so you only introduce yourself once.
Type, listen or call
Replies can be spoken aloud, and you can place a live voice call to a character for a real back-and-forth — useful for practising a language or rehearsing a conversation you are dreading.
Written to be safe to be in
YanMate is a general-audience service for people aged 13 and over, with no explicit content. Romantic characters sit behind a declared age of 18. Every character is an AI and says so, and none of them is a therapist.
Your conversations stay yours
We never train models on your conversations or use them for advertising. Exporting everything, or deleting your account outright, is a button in your settings rather than a request.
More in the FAQ, on about YanMate, and by browsing every shelf.