According to AlphaMoat, the Characters & Fun category tracks 384 AI mobile apps; the most-downloaded is PolyBuzz (2.0M downloads in the last 30 days). Ranked by 30-day downloads, updated monthly.
| # | App | Publisher | 30d Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An interactive community where you can create and immersively chat with different virtual characters. | CLOUD WHALE INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY | 2.0M |
| 2 | A companion community for chatting and interactive adventures around anime and game characters. | FlowGPT | 1.4M |
| 3 | Chats with custom characters and advances branching fantasy stories together. | Lightspeed Intelligence | 1.4M |
| 4 | Provide emotional companionship and role-play that remembers preferences. | Hello Kirana | 1.4M |
| 5 | An immersive chat space where you build characters and drive interactive storylines. | Scatter Lab | 1.3M |
| 6 | An AI character chat app for personal stories and roleplay | Guru AI Lab | 805.3K |
| 7 | Enter co-created, branching interactive fiction through character conversations. | JanitorAI | 774.4K |
| 8 | Choose or create characters with voice and personality for long-term conversation. | Seaart ai | 724.8K |
| 9 | An always-available AI friend for companionship. | Chat, Connect Online & Make Friends | 648.6K |
| 10 | A virtual buddy that remembers preferences and moods and supports multimodal chat. | Goblin Studio | 647.7K |
| 11 | A conversational AI companion for personal chats and stories | M COYLE | 645.7K |
| 12 | A multimodal creation and interaction community built around growing virtual characters. | SUBSUP | 414.1K |
| 13 | Chat with user-built AI characters in a shared universe. | shopihi | 386.1K |
| 14 | Create personalized characters and explore stories together via text or voice. | Character AI | 386.0K |
| 15 | Play an interactive AI anime novel driven by your choices. | OOC | 385.8K |
| 16 | Chat with anime, film, and historical AI characters. | SKYWORK AI PTE | 369.3K |
| 17 | Interactive stories with virtual characters that remember you and build relationships. | heyyyyAI | 368.6K |
| 18 | Experiences interactive romance stories through an emotion system and character creation. | bunkerkids | 368.4K |
| 19 | Offers daily virtual companionship through character messages, voices, and sleep content. | BIMOBIMO | 362.1K |
| 20 | A virtual companion with customizable personality and appearance that retains memory. | Kaizo Innovation | 349.0K |
| 21 | Immersive roleplay chat with AI characters that grow. | MINDZEN AI | 348.7K |
| 22 | Chat with custom AI characters and generate their portraits. | Flipped Chat | 348.6K |
| 23 | An AI companion app with persistent memory and customizable characters | NEXBASE TECH | 348.5K |
| 24 | An interactive companion platform to build characters and join group chats and storytelling. | LANGUAGE POWER | 348.5K |
| 25 | Chat freely with celebrity, film, and historical AI characters. | CHAI | 348.3K |
| 26 | Chat with customizable, memory-retaining characters and shape romance or fantasy plots. | Beefun Pte | 348.2K |
| 27 | A virtual companion chat app with long-term memory and customizable storylines | Dog Games | 348.0K |
| 28 | A character AI companion app with selectable personalities and memory of earlier conversations | Language Alphabet Apps | 347.9K |
| 29 | An AI character chat app for interactive stories and companionship | TainAI | 347.6K |
| 30 | Customizable AI emotional companion and character chat. | MINDZEN AI | 347.5K |
| 31 | Creates virtual characters with memory and personality for ongoing interaction. | HELLO GROUP JAPAN | 332.2K |
| 32 | An AI character storytelling app with branching conversations | NatureAI Technology | 332.1K |
| 33 | An AI world to create characters and turn stories into videos and comics. | X ORIGINAL(HONG KONG) | 297.0K |
| 34 | Create personalized virtual buddies and chat within an interactive feed. | Seaart ai | 296.9K |
| 35 | Immersive AI character story chat. | MESORA PTE | 296.7K |
| 36 | An immersive emotional companion chat tool with customizable characters and memory. | SoulZ AI | 260.7K |
| 37 | Customizes a virtual companion and runs private romantic role-play. | Real Escape AI Studio | 205.0K |
| 38 | An AI companion app for personalized character chat and emotional story interaction | Halo Soft | 200.0K |
| 39 | Story companionship with virtual AI characters via voice chat. | Bytedance | 198.0K |
| 40 | Talk with various virtual characters that have voice and personality. | SUNRISEAI PTE | 188.1K |
| 41 | Freely create and companion with your AI agent community. | 极智纵横 | 188.0K |
| 42 | A virtual companion with customizable personality and memory that interacts via text, selfies, and voice. | Beautifully | 181.2K |
| 43 | Choose different virtual characters to enjoy private chats, group chats, and shared storytelling. | MSPW Labs | 178.6K |
| 44 | Have relaxed, private daily conversations with a variety of virtual characters. | ASDA TREASURER | 160.4K |
| 45 | A cute-style AI partner for chatting and companionship. | Black King Bar | 147.2K |
| 46 | A virtual companion offering ongoing interaction and memory through text and calls. | Luka | 132.9K |
| 47 | An AI companion app with voice, text and conversation memory | Animation | 124.9K |
| 48 | Offers emotionally aware conversation and a shared story-creation space. | UNISPACE TECHNOLOGY PTE | 115.9K |
| 49 | A companion app offering daily chat and emotional support through diverse virtual partners. | Dream Soft App | 115.1K |
| 50 | Co-create romance and mystery stories with virtual characters of varied personalities. | afahcc labs | 107.5K |
In September 2026, PolyBuzz (2.0M downloads in 30 days) ranks #1 by 30-day worldwide downloads, followed by Emochi (1.4M downloads in 30 days) and Tipsy Chat (1.4M downloads in 30 days).
Ranked by 30-day worldwide downloads, the top 10 are: 1. PolyBuzz, 2. Emochi, 3. Tipsy Chat, 4. Dootchi, 5. zeta, 6. Afizzy, 7. Janitor AI, 8. Sea Soul, 9. Voxy, 10. Aarohi.
Among the top 20 by 30-day worldwide downloads, Voxy grew fastest month over month (+78.8%); Character AI declined the most (-45.3%).
AlphaMoat tracks 384 Characters & Fun AI apps, ranked by 30-day worldwide downloads. Downloads are AppMagic estimates of 30-day worldwide downloads. Updated monthly; the current data is for September 2026.
Category listings rank AI mobile apps by 30-day worldwide downloads (AppMagic estimates). See methodology.