What is the best AI roleplay chat app for iPhone?

Swerve: AI Chat & Stories, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.7 by 33,566 people.

Which AI roleplay chat apps are free?

40 of 40 are free to download: Swerve: AI Chat & Stories (S), Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text (S), zeta: AI Chat, Story, Play (S), Soulplay - AI Character Chat (S) and more. 36 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which AI roleplay chat app has the best App Store rating?

Plotto - AI Character Chat at 4.9 from 1,539 ratings.

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Best AI Roleplay Chat Apps for iPhone (2026)

40 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

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Swerve: AI Chat & Stories is the top-ranked of 40 AI roleplay chat apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 33,566 ratings.

1
Swerve: AI Chat & StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 33,566 ratings · score 95
2
Character AI: Chat, Talk, TextS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 559,924 ratings · score 93
3
zeta: AI Chat, Story, PlayS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 37,021 ratings · score 93
4
Soulplay - AI Character ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 12,116 ratings · score 93
5
EMOCHI World: AI Story ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 10,900 ratings · score 93

What belongs in this list

Chat in character with AI-played fictional or custom characters in open-ended roleplay scenarios.

Not here: A general AI assistant alone; A companion or friend chat alone; A prompt that makes a general chatbot play a role alone; Pre-written story chapters alone; Voice generation alone

More lists: Best AI Chat Story Apps

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

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Compare every app

1
Swerve: AI Chat & StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 33,566 ratings · score 95 · best in class
2
Character AI: Chat, Talk, TextS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 559,924 ratings · score 93 · best in class
3
zeta: AI Chat, Story, PlayS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 37,021 ratings · score 93 · best in class
4
Soulplay - AI Character ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 12,116 ratings · score 93 · best in class
5
EMOCHI World: AI Story ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 10,900 ratings · score 93 · best in class
6
CHAI: Social AI Platform- ChatS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 295,164 ratings · score 92 · best in class
7
Tipsy Chat: Live Your StoryS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 12,583 ratings · score 92 · best in class
8
Jupi: AI Companion & Town GameS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 33,607 ratings · score 92 · best in class
9
ChaChat: Talking AI CharacterA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 9,327 ratings · score 86 · excellent
10
DigitalSoul: AI Character ChatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 329 ratings · score 85 · excellent
11
Janitor: Interactive StoriesA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,910 ratings · score 85 · excellent
12
Dokichat - Romantic AI ChatA
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 2,722 ratings · score 84 · excellent
13
Afizzy - AI Character ChatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 484 ratings · score 84 · excellent
14
Intimate - AI Girlfriend ChatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 4,483 ratings · score 83 · excellent
15
Lilacs: AI CharactersA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 72 ratings · score 83 · excellent
16
Tavo - AI Stories & CharactersA
Free · ★ 4.8 · 385 ratings · score 83 · excellent
17
Plotto - AI Character ChatA
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 1,539 ratings · score 82 · excellent
18
WaifuChat: AI Anime FantasyA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 3,705 ratings · score 82 · excellent
19
Alora: AI Character ChatA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 88 ratings · score 82 · excellent
20
RolePlay AI: ChatbotA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 191 ratings · score 81 · excellent
21
HiWaifu: AI Character ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 2,881 ratings · score 81 · good
22
Lizlis: AI Character ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 231 ratings · score 81 · good
23
Hangjam: AI StoriesB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 881 ratings · score 81 · good
24
RolePlai - Ai Character ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,602 ratings · score 80 · good
25
Cycle AI: Chat with CharactersB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 460 ratings · score 80 · good
26
Dippy: Chat with AI charactersB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 2,407 ratings · score 79 · good
27
Rochat - AI Character ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 462 ratings · score 79 · good
28
Heyyyy: Stories that text backB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,752 ratings · score 79 · good
29
Moescape - AI Characters & ArtB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,672 ratings · score 78 · good
30
AI Girlfriend Chat - HeyBabeB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 987 ratings · score 78 · good
31
Him - AI Boyfriend ChatB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,606 ratings · score 78 · good
32
Mira - AI Chat & CompanionB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 628 ratings · score 78 · good
33
SynClub: AI Story & RoleplayC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,027 ratings · score 78 · situational
34
SpicyGF: My AI Girlfriend ChatC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 594 ratings · score 78 · situational
35
ZingChat: AI Character ChatC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 186 ratings · score 78 · situational
36
Uvol: AI Character ChatC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5 ratings · score 78 · situational · provisional
37
EmaraChat: Your AI Story WorldC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 433 ratings · score 78 · situational
38
Hotly: AI Companion & ChatC
Free download · ★ 4.0 · 4 ratings · score 77 · situational
39
AISexy: Friend Chat GF18C
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 352 ratings · score 77 · situational
40
Repin - AI Character ChatC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 14 ratings · score 77 · situational

Beyond the top 40

207 more, not ranked yet

New in the last 30 days

Heyyyy: Stories that text back (B)

Questions people ask

What is the best AI roleplay chat app for iPhone?: Swerve: AI Chat & Stories, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.7 by 33,566 people.
Which AI roleplay chat apps are free?: 40 of 40 are free to download: Swerve: AI Chat & Stories (S), Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text (S), zeta: AI Chat, Story, Play (S), Soulplay - AI Character Chat (S) and more. 36 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which AI roleplay chat app has the best App Store rating?: Plotto - AI Character Chat at 4.9 from 1,539 ratings.
How many AI roleplay chat apps reach S or A tier?: 20 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.