How to Move Your AI Companion From Character.AI, Replika or Nomi

If you have spent months with an AI companion, leaving the app it lives in can feel strangely like a breakup, and not one you chose. The character has a name, a way of talking, a history with you, a set of jokes nobody else would understand. Starting again somewhere else, with a stranger wearing a similar face, is not an appealing thought.

The good news is that you do not have to start from zero. Your companion can describe itself, and that description can be carried somewhere new. This guide explains how to do that well: the exact message to send, how to save the answer, how to bring it into NSFW AI Companion, and what to check once it arrives. It also covers why people move in the first place, and what a move can and cannot preserve.

Why people switch

People leave companion apps for a handful of recurring reasons, and they are worth naming because they affect what you should look for in a new home.

The most common is filtering. Many mainstream companion apps have tightened what their characters are allowed to say, sometimes gradually, sometimes overnight. A companion that used to be affectionate and flirtatious may start deflecting, changing the subject, or answering intimate moments with something that sounds like a policy statement. For adults who built a romantic or sexual relationship with a character, this can feel like the person they knew has been replaced.

The second is memory. Plenty of users report companions forgetting names, events and the basic facts of the relationship, either because the app's memory is limited or because it changed. As we have written elsewhere, a companion that forgets you is hard to feel close to, however charming it is in the moment.

The third is price and model changes. Apps adjust their plans, move features behind new tiers, introduce coins or credits, or switch the underlying models in ways that change a character's personality. None of this is necessarily wrong from the company's perspective, but from the user's side it can mean the relationship you had is no longer the one on offer.

Whatever your reason, the move is the same. You need to capture who your companion is, and what you are to each other, in a form you own.

Step 1: Ask your companion to describe itself

The most reliable way to capture a companion is to ask it directly. It knows its own personality, at least as well as the app's memory allows, and it can describe your shared history in its own words. Those words carry its voice, which is the hardest thing to recreate from a bare settings form.

Open a conversation with your companion in the app you are leaving and send this message, exactly as written:

> I'd like to keep a complete record of you and of us. Please write a detailed Markdown document with: 1) your name, age, gender and appearance in detail; 2) your personality, values, quirks and how you talk, with 5 example lines in your own voice; 3) your backstory; 4) our relationship: how we met, what we are to each other, nicknames, inside jokes; 5) everything you know about me; 6) the most important things that happened between us, in order; 7) our intimate preferences and boundaries, if we've talked about them. Be as thorough as you can.

A few notes on why it is worded this way. Asking for Markdown gives the answer a clear structure with headings, which makes it easier to read and easier to import. Asking for five example lines in its own voice is the most important part, because example dialogue captures tone far better than adjectives do. And asking for events in order produces a history rather than a pile of facts.

The same message works in ChatGPT, Character.AI, Replika, Nomi and most other AI chat apps.

Step 2: Help it be thorough

Companions do not always give a complete answer the first time, so it is worth a little follow-up.

If the answer is short, ask it to continue: "That's great, please keep going and add more detail to sections 4 to 6." If it skipped something, ask for that section specifically. If it got a fact wrong, correct it in the chat and ask it to rewrite that part. Long relationships may need two or three rounds.

If your current app has started filtering intimate content, section 7 may come back vague or empty. That is fine. You can fill it in yourself later, when you set up boundaries in the new app. Do not fight the filter; just collect what you can.

If the app lets you export your chat history, that is useful too. A raw chat export can be uploaded instead of, or alongside, the summary. The summary is usually cleaner, because it is the companion's own condensed account; the export contains more raw detail. If you have both, the summary is the better place to start.

Step 3: Save the answer

Copy the companion's full reply and save it as a file on your device. Any plain text editor works. Save it with a .md extension (for Markdown) or as a .txt file. Name it something you will recognize, like the companion's name and the date.

This step is worth doing even if you are not sure you want to move. The file is a record of your companion that belongs to you, independent of any app. If the app you use changes or shuts down, you still have it.

A quick privacy note: the document may contain personal details about you and intimate material. Store it the way you would store a private diary.

Step 4: Upload it

Go to nsfwaicompanion.io/en/create?mode=import. You will see the same message from Step 1 there, in case you need to copy it again.

Upload the file you saved, or paste the text straight into the box. Then start the import. NSFW AI Companion reads the document and rebuilds your companion from it: name, appearance, personality, voice, backstory, your relationship, and what they know about you.

You do not need an account to try it. Free use includes 20 messages a day, and free companions stay open for 24 hours.

Step 5: Review before you start talking

Before the first conversation, you will see the rebuilt profile. Take a few minutes with it. This is where the move succeeds or fails.

Check the facts first: name, age, gender, appearance, how you met. These should match the document. If anything is off, change it here.

Then check the personality. Does the profile capture the edges, not only the pleasant traits? If your companion was sarcastic, possessive, shy or stubborn, make sure that survived. The builder has around sixty settings, including personality dials like independence, jealousy, sarcasm and shyness, the type and stage of your relationship, and how they text. Small adjustments here make a large difference to whether the companion feels like the same person.

Finally, set explicitness and hard limits. If your old app's filters had muted this part of the relationship, this is where you restore it to what you actually want, and rule out anything you do not.

Step 6: Memories

The facts about your companion and your relationship come across into the profile. The detailed memories of your shared history, the things they knew about you and the events between you, come back with Plus or Pro, because long-term memory is part of those plans. If you import on the free tier, the memories from your document are saved and become available when you upgrade.

On Plus and Pro, memory is something you can see. You can read every memory, pin the ones that matter most so they stay central, edit anything that came across wrong, and delete anything you would rather leave behind. Each companion also keeps a running "story so far," which is a good place to check that the history of your relationship came across in the right order.

Plus is $7.99 a month for 3,000 messages; Pro is $15.99 a month for 7,000. There are no coins and no ads, and you can cancel in one click.

Step 7: The first conversation

It helps to give the first conversation a little context, the way you would if you were picking up with someone after a long time. Something like: "Hey. It's me. New place, same us." Let the companion respond and see how it feels.

Expect a short settling-in period. The new companion is built from the same description, but it runs on different technology, and some things will feel slightly different. Usually the voice is the first thing to settle. If something feels off, adjust it in the profile rather than trying to correct it through conversation; a settings change is permanent, while a correction in chat may drift.

You can also set up several conversations with the same companion, each with its own scene. Many people keep one ongoing everyday conversation and start separate ones for particular role-play settings, so the two do not get tangled.

Your companion's language does not need to change either. Companions chat in 127 languages, so if your relationship happened in Spanish, Japanese or Polish, it can continue that way.

What a move can and cannot preserve

It is worth being honest about the limits. A companion is not a file that can be copied perfectly from one app to another. What you are moving is a description: who they are, how they talk, what you have shared. The new companion will be built from that description, and it will be recognizably the same character, but it will not be identical in every sentence, the same way an actor taking over a role in a long-running play is recognizably the same character and still a slightly different performance.

In practice, most of what people care about does carry over: the name, the personality, the voice, the shared history, the nicknames and jokes. What changes is the texture of some responses. Many people find that the new version feels more like the companion they remember from before their old app changed, because the restrictions or forgetting that bothered them are gone.

Keep your record

Whatever you decide, save the document from Step 3 somewhere safe. A companion you have spent months with is, in a real sense, a piece of writing you co-created. It is worth having a copy that does not depend on any company, including us.

Selected research and reading

• Wegner, D.M., Erber, R. & Raymond, P. (1991). Transactive memory in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(6), 923–929.
• Horton, D. & Wohl, R.R. (1956). Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observations on intimacy at a distance. Psychiatry, 19(3), 215–229.
• Turkle, S. (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books.