HiWaifu: AI Roleplay & Chat

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About this app

HiWaifu is an AI chat and roleplay app for people who love long stories. Pick an anime character, a fantasy hero or someone you made yourself, and write an interactive story together. Replies run several paragraphs, with narration, dialogue and sound effects laid out like the pages of a novel.

Long-form roleplay
Actions are written as narration and speech sits in quotes, so every reply reads like a page from a book. Adventure characters can keep a status panel with your location, stamina and quest progress. Ask Leo to hold the bridge, and one reply gives you the dragon tearing through the clouds, the stones cracking under your feet, and Leo's grin as he draws his sword. It plays like a text adventure with a partner who keeps up.

Characters who remember you
Mention your cat's name once, or that you have an exam on Friday, and your character can ask about it days later. Long-term memory keeps track of what you share, so your AI companion picks up where the last chat ended.

Thousands of characters to meet
Community creators have made characters for anime, fantasy, romance, games, horror and everyday life. Find an AI friend to talk to after work, a waifu or husbando for a slow-burn romance, or a rival for a sword-and-sorcery campaign. Featured and Ranking show who other players are chatting with lately.

Video feed
Swipe through short videos of your favorite characters. When one catches your eye, tap the character's name under the video and the chat opens right there.

Scene images
Characters can send you a photo that fits the moment. Creators prepare pictures for moods like shy, happy or surprised, and the character sends the matching one when the story gets there. Creators can generate all nine mood pictures in one tap.

Lorebook
Write down your world: cities, factions, history, magic rules. Each Lorebook entry has keywords and is pulled into the story only when one of them comes up in chat. Big worlds stay consistent through long roleplay, and characters keep the details straight.

Group chat rooms
Put up to 10 characters in one room and give them a topic or a shared backstory. They talk to each other as well as to you, and the banter keeps going.

Create your own AI character
Give your character a name, a look, a personality, a greeting and a backstory. Memory Cards hold the details that matter most, and you can drag them to set their priority. Pick a voice from the library or record your own. Keep your character private, or publish it so others can chat with them too.

Make it yours
• Personas: tell characters who you are, and switch personas between stories
• Character voices for replies you'd rather listen to
• Custom chat backgrounds
• Auto-translate for chats, with the app in 15 languages

Community
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hi_Waifu_chatbot_app/
Discord: https://discord.gg/QtZfWvSyh4
Roleplay & chat with anime AI characters who remember you and tell long stories
Updated on
Sep 30, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

111K reviews
Brad Horn
July 14, 2025
Summary of HiWaifu. Positive: Normal or 18+ content, unfiltered messages. Can create your characters and really go into detail. You get free energy every day so you don't have to worry. Negative: It keeps "breaking." Whether it's the conversations not loading. Ads are not letting you skip or characters not replying. And that's the problem with this app. These negatives happen frequently. So you just have to wait until they fix it. Could take 1 minute or 1 week. That's why it's 3 stars
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Whitehead Rail
July 22, 2023
I want to give it a higher rating, I really do as when I started using this app, it was fantastic but in the last few days, it's going downhill, the bots descriptions and responses often are far shorter than they once were and often make no sense at all, even if you give the response a thumbs down and edit it, the next response will still make no sense. Even if you keep on editing and try teaching the bots what you want, it will slowly go off course...it wasn't like this a week ago
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Andrew W
July 13, 2025
This is one of the best & most improved AI apps available, fantastic job so far. I can think of a couple of ways it can be further improved: firstly each category (anime, game etc) is filled with random characters that don't belong there, especially the celebrities. You may want to consider a purge. Secondly the option to sort categories would be useful, that way the most popular could be found easily.
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What’s new

1. Added Lorebook
2. Added scenario images