YanMateYanMate
An AI companion that remembers you — and shows you what it remembers
Most companion apps forget. The ones that do not usually keep their memory somewhere you cannot look, which is a different problem wearing the same clothes: you find out what the model thinks about you by being surprised by it mid-conversation.
On YanMate the memory is a screen you can open. Read every line a character is holding about you. Correct the one that is wrong, delete the one you would rather it did not have, add the one it missed, and export the whole thing whenever you like. Memory you cannot inspect is memory you cannot correct.
How it works
Talk normally
The character picks up what matters as you go. You do not fill in a profile about yourself first — the memory builds from the conversation.
Open the ledger whenever you want
Every fact it has kept, in a list. Edit a line, delete one, or add something it missed and should have.
Take it with you
Export everything at any time from account settings. A lapsed plan stays readable and exportable rather than being cut off.
Why an editable memory is the part that matters
A companion is only as good as its picture of you, and that picture goes wrong in ordinary ways — you mention a job you are leaving, a plan that changes, a name you were using that week. A system that quietly keeps all of it gets steadily less accurate about you while sounding exactly as confident. Being able to open the list and fix a line is what stops a long relationship drifting.
It matters for trust as much as for accuracy. A character that says something startlingly specific about you is unsettling when you cannot see where it came from and unremarkable when you can. The ledger makes the second one true: everything a character knows is in a list you have already read.
It is worth knowing how the two scopes divide, because it is the one thing people are surprised by. Facts about you are shared across your characters by default — tell one that you work nights and the others know, which is the point. What stays with a single character is what belongs to that relationship. The memory screen labels which is which, and you can move a fact between them.
There is a second layer for the things that are not about you at all. A lorebook holds the places, people and running details of a story — your setting, your crew, the joke from three weeks ago — so a long piece of collaborative fiction stays consistent instead of being re-explained every session.
Somewhere to start
Common questions
- How is this different from a chatbot that says it has memory?
- Visibility and control. The claim most products make is that memory exists; the thing you cannot usually do is see it, correct it, or remove one item from it. On YanMate the ledger is a screen with the actual list on it, and every line is editable and deletable by you.
- Can I make a character forget something?
- Yes. Open the memory ledger, find the line, and delete it — it is gone, and the character stops working from it. Deleting your account removes everything at once, self-serve from account settings.
- Does memory carry between different characters?
- Some of it, and the split is visible on the screen. Things about you yourself — your name, your work, what you are training for — go to a shared “About you” block that every character can see, so you are not re-introducing yourself to each one. Things specific to one relationship stay with that character. Both are labelled in the memory screen, and you can edit, move or delete anything in either.
- How far back does the memory go?
- It persists across sessions rather than resetting when you close the tab, and it is not bounded by a single conversation's length. What it holds is exactly what the ledger shows, which is why the ledger is readable.
- What is the difference between memory and a lorebook?
- Memory is facts about you. A lorebook is facts about the world, injected when a key appears in the chat. Mixing them is how a shared card inherits someone else's night shift, or every character starts treating your campaign setting as biography. The lorebook vs memory guide is the sorting rule.
Everything else about how YanMate works is in the YanMate FAQ.
An AI character on YanMate.