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Talk to AI characters
Talking to an AI character on YanMate is opening one, signing in, and typing. There is no app to download and no scenario to configure first — sign in with Google or a six-digit code, and the character already has an opening for you to answer. The cast is original writing and public-domain figures, not licensed characters from games or television.
What you get in that conversation is the whole product rather than a demo of it: a character that keeps a memory you can open, and spoken replies and live calls on the free tier. The shelves below are the live catalogue, not a sample.
The live catalogue
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.
Free tools
- Character card viewerDrop a character card — PNG, JSON or .charx — and read every field, warning and hidden value inside it, then convert between V2, V3 and PNG. Runs in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
- Character.AI export viewerOpen the ZIP Character.AI emails you and read it: your characters as cards you can take anywhere, your chat history as plain text. Runs in the browser; the archive is never uploaded.
- Character card token counterDrop a card or paste a persona and see the token cost field by field — separating what is re-sent on every single message from what is sent once or only sometimes. Runs in the browser.
- Context window simulatorSet a context window and a character card, drag the conversation forward, and see how many exchanges the character still remembers — and at which message it starts to forget. Runs in the browser.
- Character voice analyzerPaste a character's replies or a chat transcript and see how it talks — sentence length, habits, repeated phrases — with the best replies laid out as example dialogue for a character card. Runs in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
- Character card makerFill in a form and download a real character card PNG carrying both the V2 and V3 chunks, so it opens anywhere. Any image works — a JPEG is converted in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.
- Character card templatesEight original V3 starters — mentor, rival, cozy companion, game master, language partner, study coach, noir detective, historical figure. Download PNG or JSON, or open one in the maker. Nothing is uploaded.
- AI companion cost calculatorPick how long you would keep an AI companion app and see what each plan costs over exactly that stretch, monthly against prepaid annual — every price sourced and dated, blanks where none is published. Runs in the browser.
- Character safety checkPaste a character's persona, its greeting or a reply it gave you and check it against a published list of 30 guilt, dependency, exclusivity and minor-coded language patterns. Every finding names the rule it broke. Runs in the browser.
What you are actually talking to
Every character on YanMate is an AI. Everything it says is generated in the moment, not retrieved from a person who lived or from a script. That disclosure sits on every surface for a reason: the conversation is easy to forget is a performance.
The catalogue is original work and public-domain figures, written by the YanMate team. There is no licensed anime, game, film or television character here, and there is not going to be — see the content policy. If you came to talk to a specific property, this is the wrong site.
Memory is a list you can open, correct and export, not a claim that the model remembers you. Voice replies and live calls are on the free tier rather than held for a plan.
How it works
Pick someone
The shelves on this page are the live catalogue, arranged by the kind of conversation. Every character has a public page with a portrait and a line about who they are.
Sign in once
Google, or a six-digit code we email you. No password and no card, and the conversation is yours from the first message — it survives a new phone.
Answer the opening
The conversation is already speaking. There is no setup screen and no questionnaire — the character has a first message and you reply to it.
What is free, and what signing in asks for, has its own page: free AI chat — same product, written for that query.
Common questions
- What happens when I talk to an AI character on YanMate?
- You open a character and it already has a first message. You answer it. YanMate does not assign you a companion, does not ask you to fill in a persona first, and does not make you pick a scenario — the character is written to start, and the rest is the conversation.
- Are these licensed characters from games and shows?
- No. YanMate's catalogue is original writing and public-domain figures, authored by the YanMate team. There is no licensed anime, game, film or television character, and there is not going to be. If you came for a specific property, this is the wrong site.
- Do I have to pick a category before I can talk?
- No. The shelves are a way to browse. Once you are signed in, opening any character on YanMate starts the conversation, whether you arrived from a shelf, from search, or from a link. Categories are labels on the catalogue, not a gate.
Everything else about how YanMate works is in the YanMate FAQ.
An AI character on YanMate.