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20+ Best AI Friend AI Character ChatJoy Alternatives for iPhone (2026)

AI Friend AI Character ChatJoy is C tier, #13 of the 22 tiered apps in story creation. Here is everything that competes with it on iPhone, in tier order.

All 22 alternatives, in tier order

  1. 1
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 131,098 ratings · score 94
    Lets you write text message conversations, then turn them into short videos you can watch and share.
  2. 2
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 38,549 ratings · score 90
    An AI-driven text adventure where players create or choose scenarios and shape the story.
  3. 3
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,115 ratings · score 88
    An AI writing app for creating stories, novels, scripts, and poems.
  4. 4
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 605 ratings · score 85
    AI story generator and novel-writing workspace for building plots, chapters, characters and narrated stories.
  5. 5
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 194 ratings · score 85
    Free AI story generator app with customizable story settings, a saved story library, and optional premium subscriptions.
  6. 6
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 39,197 ratings · score 82
    Read original fictional stories in many genres and create, organize and publish your own chapter-based stories.
  7. 7
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 20,856 ratings · score 81
    Lets users describe a world, add a selfie as the main character, chat with characters and roleplay personalized.
  8. 8
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 25,616 ratings · score 80
    Free app for writing chat-style text stories with characters and dialogue, then exporting them as video.
  9. 9
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 88,824 ratings · score 80
    Creates realistic chat stories, AI voices, AI-generated songs, and teleprompter-based practice recordings in one free…
  10. 10
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 4,046 ratings · score 79
    Free app for creating animated My Little Pony stories with characters, backgrounds, props, co-stars and recorded.
  11. 11
    Flashy SocialBhigher tier
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 37,813 ratings · score 77
    Free entertainment app for watching and writing stories and videos, with a social feed, subscribers and group stories.
  12. 13
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 1,523 ratings · score 75
    Generates AI text message stories using your name and a friend's, across themes like horror, romance, sci-fi and comedy.
  13. 14
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 7,087 ratings · score 74
    Writing tool for building stories from characters, dialogues and scene titles, shown as chat-style conversations.
  14. 15
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,352 ratings · score 71
    Write fake text conversations between multiple characters and capture them as an image to share.
  15. 16
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 48 ratings · score 71
    Generates personalized short stories from a title, description, characters, genre, plot and chosen word count.
  16. 17
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 4,881 ratings · score 65
    AI reading app that generates romance stories from the tropes, characters, plot twists or settings you choose.
  17. 18
    Free + IAP · ★ 3.5 · 8,050 ratings · score 55
    Free app for making animated movies by choosing a scene, creating actors, and writing a story the app brings to life.
  18. 19
    Free download · ★ 3.8 · 2,240 ratings · score 54
    Creates story books from photos, videos, text and audio, with sharing by email and downloads across multiple devices.
  19. 20
    Free download · ★ 3.7 · 2,928 ratings · score 52
    Write stories as text message conversations, then save and share them on social networks or with friends.
  20. 21
    Free + IAP · ★ 2.5 · 4,481 ratings · score 50
    Lets users write fan fiction chat stories as the author of a message conversation, with over 12 listed features.
  21. 22
    Free download · ★ 3.4 · 645 ratings · score 47
    A free app for creating, sharing, and playing visual novels with custom characters, backgrounds, music, and effects.
  22. 23
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,816 ratings · score 75
    Video and photo editor for Reels, Stories and TikToks, with templates, music, stickers, fonts and AI captions.

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to AI Friend AI Character ChatJoy on iPhone?
TextingStory Chat Story Maker, S tier, #1 in story creation.
Is there a free alternative to AI Friend AI Character ChatJoy?
Yes: TextingStory Chat Story Maker (S tier, #1) is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Does anything rank above AI Friend AI Character ChatJoy?
Yes. 11 apps rank above it in story creation: TextingStory Chat Story Maker (#1), AI Dungeon: RPG & Story Maker (#2), Book Creator: Author AI (#3) and more.

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