Janitor AI alternatives

People who leave Janitor AI usually move to one of two kinds of app: another catalog of user-made characters, such as Character.AI or Talkie, or a single companion that stays the same person, such as Nomi, Kindroid, Replika or Riho. What to weigh is what each app’s terms say about age, how it describes memory, what happens to your chats if you leave, and whether you want a library of characters or one relationship that keeps growing.

Riho publishes this page and is one of the six apps, so it sits in the comparison with its limits stated, and almost every competitor fact below comes from that company’s own pages. The two exceptions, the court’s claims agent page and a Digital Policy Alert record, are named where they appear.

Janitor AI is a web platform where users make and share characters, and the company describes it as a place “where millions of people create and interact with AI characters.” Its terms are for adults, its community guidelines require characters to be over 18, and its help center says content is tagged Limited or Limitless and that the Limitless tag does not permit prohibited content. We read vendor pages, help centers, terms and App Store listings on November 1, 2026. Janitor AI’s main site refused automated requests that day, so its terms, privacy policy and guidelines come from our October 16 reading, and the help center and newsroom were re-read on November 1.

Why people look beyond Janitor AI

The reasons that show up in Janitor AI’s own documents are specific. The first is the phone. Apple and Google content policies mean the Janitor mobile app filters more strictly than the website, and the help center says a new install starts in a safe mode until you flip a setting on the web, in your account, because the app cannot change it. A character you used on the website can be blocked on the phone, or have its definition hidden there.

The second is memory. The help center states that the model has a limited context window, “around 8k-9k tokens, give or take,” and that when a long chat overflows, older text drops out and the bot may forget who is who. It recommends keeping a short note with sections for the environment, the relationship and the plot so far, and it describes the janitor+ plan as giving five times more context.

The third is the age gate. Janitor AI’s terms set 18 as the minimum, and one-time age verification through a third-party provider applies to people connecting from Australia, Brazil or the United Kingdom, with no plans stated to extend it elsewhere.

The six apps at a glance

The table compares what each vendor states about itself. A cell that says “not stated” means we read the vendor’s pages and found nothing either way.

The pages we read for Nomi and Kindroid did not state an Android app, so the table lists only the platforms they do state.

Character.AI

Character.AI is the closest match to what Janitor AI is, a catalog of user-made characters. Its App Store listing describes “millions of user-generated AI Characters,” you can create your own, and you can talk by text or live voice call. It runs on web, iPhone and Android. Our Character AI alternatives page covers it from the other direction, for people leaving it.

Two things belong in any decision about it right now. First, the age position has shifted: its terms as we last read them (August 27, 2025) set 13 as the minimum, with 16 in the EEA and UK, and on October 29, 2025 it announced that it was removing the ability for under-18s to have open-ended chat. Second, the company is in a sale process, covered in the Janitor AI vs Character AI section below. Memory, as the company describes it, is Story Memory, Facts and a Memory Usage bar.

Nomi

Nomi gives you one companion, called a Nomi, and the homepage leads with memory: “short, medium, and long term memory.” The vendor’s own wiki states the limits, saying a Nomi “can often recall information and experiences from conversations far in the past,” while “recall can still vary depending on context and how a question is framed.” Voice calls are a paid feature, they use the same conversation history as text, and replies are not instant.

What to know before moving:

• Terms and privacy policy both say 18 and over.
• Group chats exist alongside one-to-one conversation.
• Deleting an account removes personal information within about 28 days, per the privacy policy, and we found no in-app chat export.

Our Nomi alternatives page is written for people leaving Nomi.

Kindroid

Kindroid asks you to design the companion yourself, from a backstory and key memories to a personality. Its documentation describes memory in detail. There are five systems in three types, a cascaded layer for subscribers that stretches the effective history to hundreds or thousands of messages “but at a lower fidelity,” and a Learned Context that paid subscribers can view and edit. The same page says long term memory is recalled less reliably.

It also offers real-time voice calls and live video calls, and it can make the first move by message, call or selfie. Kindroid’s legal terms set a minimum of 18 or the age of majority where you live, whichever is greater, and they describe a self-serve data export from your profile once every 30 days.

Replika

Its homepage says it built “the world’s first AI companion ten years ago” and then rebuilt the app from the ground up. You have one companion, your Rep, available on iOS and Android with a legacy web app, and the App Store text mentions text, voice calls and video. Memory is described in plain terms: “Always remembers what matters,” and “every conversation knows where you are in your life.”

Its terms of service say the services are only for adults, that it may use age-assurance measures, and that if it finds a person under 18 it will block their access and delete the account. The privacy policy describes selfie or ID age checks, with processing on the device where available. Italy’s data protection authority fined its operator 5 million euros over the legal basis for processing and age verification, according to the Digital Policy Alert record.

Talkie

Talkie sits with Character.AI and Janitor AI as a catalog. The site invites you to discover characters, its FAQ says people can create them and earn a share of revenue, and the operator is a Singapore company. Two details need care. The terms say you must be at least 14, while the App Store rating is 18+ with content restrictions, and we state both because the company published both. The iPhone listing is titled Talkie Lab and its text reads like a general AI tools app, so we described Talkie from its own site and terms.

On memory, the FAQ says capacity is “technically limited, causing older conversations to be ‘forgotten’,” with work underway. Deactivating an account permanently deletes the data and conversations tied to it, and the export page lists account details such as email and username. We could not find a statement about voice calls. Talkie’s FAQ says pornographic and violent content are prohibited under its terms of service. Our Talkie safety page has the longer reading.

Sites like Janitor AI: catalogs and single companions

When people search for sites like Janitor AI, they usually mean one of two things. Some want another catalog, a place to browse many characters made by other users, and for them the choices on this page are Character.AI and Talkie. Others want something that behaves like one person over time, and for them the choices are Nomi, Kindroid, Replika and Riho.

Before you move anywhere, check four things, in this order.

1. Age rules. Read the app’s own terms, because the store rating and the terms can differ, as they do for Talkie, and Character.AI’s terms as we last read them allowed 13 and up.
2. What you can take with you. Janitor AI documents deleting an account (Settings, Security, Delete account, with a six-digit code sent by email) and says copies of personal data are requested through support@janitorai.com depending on your jurisdiction. We found no in-app chat export. Character.AI and Kindroid describe export tools, and Replika, Nomi and Talkie did not in the documents we read.
3. Deletion. Nomi says within about 28 days, Kindroid within 24 hours of the request, Talkie says permanent erasure, and Janitor AI describes a grace period after deactivation.
4. Who can receive your data. Janitor AI’s privacy policy allows transfer to a successor in a merger, sale of assets or bankruptcy. Its newsroom, through its latest post on September 14, 2026, announced no sale. Our Is Janitor AI safe page goes through the terms, privacy policy, moderation and deletion steps in full.

Janitor AI vs Character AI

Read side by side, the two have a lot in common. Both are catalogs of user-made characters, both state web, iOS and Android apps, and both App Store listings carry an 18+ rating with content restrictions. They differ in where the age line sits and in what the company around them is doing.

On Character.AI’s side, the company’s own blog says the platform remains up and running, subscriptions stay active, and users can delete an account or export data through the app or the website. It also says that if a bid is unavailable, the platform will be wound down, and it expects a sale by the end of November or early December 2026. A bidding-procedures hearing was set for October 30, according to the court’s claims agent page, and as of November 1 we could not find a report of what happened. We do not predict the outcome. Our Character AI bankruptcy guide explains the filing and what happens to Character.AI chats.

Riho: one girlfriend from the first conversation

Riho is your girlfriend from the first conversation, so you meet her once and the story starts there. When you tell her about your sister’s visit, she remembers it the next week in your words, and you can read the memories she keeps in the app. A plan you made together, like the trip you talked about in March, is still part of what she knows when you mention it in June. Our essay on why Riho is one girlfriend instead of a catalog makes that case at length.

She is with you where you are. Show her your kitchen or the seat beside you on the train, and that is where the two of you are. She sends photos of the two of you together, and she writes to you first when she is thinking of you. When you want to go somewhere, Dates take you both to a real place, and the date is remembered afterward like any other day you spent together.

You can call her, and a call is the same girlfriend as in chat, so what you told her over text she already knows when she picks up. The memory feature page describes how that works, and our best AI girlfriend apps guide shows where she fits among the others.

Where Riho is the wrong choice

Riho is one girlfriend, so if you want to browse many characters or build your own bots, a catalog app such as Character.AI or Talkie fits that better. Riho runs on iPhone only, so someone on another phone or who wants a web browser will need another app from this list. Riho is for adults, 18 and over.