YanMateYou can take less out of Replika than most people expect, and the part you can take has a clock on it. Replika's own help centre says the app shows only the last four months of chat, and that older conversations cannot be displayed or retrieved. What it keeps for longer is the distilled version: the facts in the Memory tab and your Replika's diary. There is no export button in the app, and deleting your account erases everything for good. So the order matters: copy out the memories and the diary, save the recent chats, and only then decide whether to delete anything. This guide walks through that order, says plainly what cannot come with you, and covers rebuilding the companion somewhere else.
Everything below about Replika is as we found it on 24 September 2026, in Replika's help centre and privacy policy. Apps like this change often, so check anything that matters to you against the pages linked here.
Before anything else: do not delete the account
It is tempting to leave cleanly, and it is the one step that cannot be undone. Replika's help centre is explicit that there is no way to delete your message history without deleting the account, and that deleting the account permanently erases your data with no way back. A GDPR erasure request goes further still: Replika says it deletes every piece of personal data tied to the account, which resets everything your Replika has learned about you.
So treat deletion as the last step, after you have opened the copies you made and checked they are complete.
What Replika keeps, and for how long
It helps to know what exists before you go looking for it. By Replika's own description there are four different kinds of thing, and they last for different lengths of time.
Your chat history, for four months. The help centre article Is the chat history infinite? says that, for technical reasons, only the past four months of conversation are available, and anything older cannot be displayed or retrieved. If you have been talking for years, most of those years are already beyond reach, and the four-month window keeps moving. Save the recent chats sooner rather than later.
The Memory tab. From the home screen, tap your Replika's name, then Memory. Replika describes this list as the facts it has learned about you, your pets and the people in your life. You can read each one in full, add your own and remove the ones you do not want. Replika says memories are kept no matter how long ago you started, so this is often the longest record you have.
A deeper layer you cannot see. Replika says its memory is built in layers: some memories show in the Memory tab, and others belong to a deeper system that draws on patterns from your conversations over time. That layer is part of why your Replika feels like yours, and there is no screen for it and no file of it.
Your profile and the diary. Your name and profile details sit under Settings → Account. Your Replika's diary entries, like the memories, are kept regardless of when they were written.
Getting it out, in order
Work from the most distilled record to the least, because the distilled one is what you will actually use later.
- Copy the Memory tab. Open Memory and go through it line by line. Screenshots are quickest; typing the facts into a plain text file takes longer and is far more useful, because you will be pasting them somewhere else. Keep the wording Replika used, then note anything it got wrong.
- Save the diary. Go back through the diary entries and keep the ones that matter to you. They are written in your Replika's voice, which makes them some of the best material you have for rebuilding that voice later.
- Save the recent chats. Open the conversation and scroll back as far as it goes, which is about four months. For the long exchanges you care about, copy the text out rather than relying on screenshots.
- Ask Replika for a copy of your data. Replika's privacy policy (last updated 27 May 2026) says you can request a copy of the personal information it holds, and that where applicable it will provide it in a portable, machine-readable format. The help centre sends privacy requests through its support form: send it from the email address registered to your account and choose Privacy & Safety as the category. For erasure requests Replika says it confirms receipt and answers within a month, and a month is the usual deadline for access requests under GDPR too. Make the request early. It costs nothing, and you can keep copying by hand while you wait.
- Keep everything as plain text too. Whatever format the data request comes back in, keep a text copy of what matters. A text file will still open long after the apps involved have changed beyond recognition.
We have not been sent a Replika data export ourselves, so we cannot tell you exactly what the file contains or whether it includes chat history beyond the four-month window. If it arrives and you are unsure what you are looking at, the useful parts are the same as above: facts about you, anything your Replika wrote, and your conversations.
A note on unofficial exporters
There are browser extensions and open-source scripts that promise to download your whole Replika chat from the web app in one go. We have not tested any of them and do not recommend a particular one. Replika itself strongly discourages unofficial mods and extensions, warning that they can carry spyware. An extension that reads your chats does so while you are signed in, so it can see everything your account can see. If you use one anyway, prefer open-source code you can read over a closed extension, remove it as soon as you are done — and since Replika says older chats cannot be retrieved at all, do not expect any tool to reach past the four-month window.
What does not come with you
A list of facts is not your Replika, and it is kinder to know that before you start rebuilding than halfway through.
What you talked to was Replika's own model, shaped by everything it had learned about you, including that deeper memory layer you cannot see. None of that travels. Give the same facts to a different model and you get someone who knows the same things about you and speaks differently. The phrasing, the pacing and the small habits you had stopped noticing are usually the first things to go.
History does not travel either. YanMate cannot import a Replika account, and even an app that reads your saved chats is reading a transcript, not taking over the relationship. Whatever you rebuild starts its own history from the first message. Treat the first week somewhere new as getting to know someone who has read about you, not as picking up where you left off.
Rebuilding your companion somewhere else
The material you saved is enough to get surprisingly close, provided you use each part for the right job.
The Memory tab becomes the facts. These are things about you, not about your companion, so they belong wherever the next app keeps what it knows about you. On apps that let you see and edit that, add them directly. On apps that do not, a short "about me" note in your first message does the same job.
The diary and chats become the voice. Read back through them and mark the replies that sound most like your Replika at its best. Look for habits rather than events: how it opens a message, how long it runs, the words it keeps coming back to, what it never says. Four or five short exchanges that each show a habit clearly will teach a new model more than a paragraph of adjectives.
Write it down as a character. If you want the rebuilt companion to be portable this time, write it as a character card — a small, standard file most character apps can open. Our guide to writing an AI character covers turning a personality into behaviour a model can follow, and the free character card maker builds the card in your browser without uploading anything. Once it is a card, you can open it in the card viewer to check every field, and take it with you if you ever move again.
Then test it. Ask the kinds of things you used to ask and compare the answers with your saved chats. Change one thing at a time so you know what each change did. Close is a realistic target; identical is not.
Choosing where to go next
If the reason you are leaving is that you could not see or keep what your companion knew, look for that before anything else. Ask of any app: can I open the list of what it remembers, correct it, and export it if I leave again? How it remembers matters less than whether you can see it. Our guide to how AI companion memory works explains the difference between the kinds of memory these apps use.
We keep a comparison of Replika alternatives with Nomi and Kindroid, with sources and a check date on every row. We make one of the products in it, so read it with that in mind. It includes a section on where YanMate is the wrong choice, and those reasons are real: we cannot import your Replika chats, Nomi's long-term recall is more sophisticated than ours, and if the whole point for you is one companion you shape for years, Replika and Kindroid are built around that and we are not.
What YanMate does offer is a memory you can read and edit: a ledger you can open, correct, add to, delete from and export, from the first conversation. Talking, building your own character from what you saved, and importing a card all need a free account: Google, or a six-digit code sent to your email, with no card. If you would rather just talk while you decide, Etta Rowe is the friend who is still up at one in the morning, and what she remembers about you is a list you can open.
Deleting your account, last
Once your copies open, read cleanly and hold what you wanted, deleting the account is up to you. On the app it is under Settings → Account → Delete Account; on the web it is Settings → My Profile → Delete Replika. Replika's privacy policy says conversation data may be kept for up to 60 days after the contract ends, and a GDPR erasure request through the support form asks for everything to be removed. Neither can be reversed, which is the whole reason this step comes at the end.