A personality you actually control
Five sliders drawn from the Big Five personality model shape how your companion thinks, how warm they are, and how they talk. Move one dial and the conversation changes.
AI companions with real personalities
An AI companion you actually designed
Move five personality dials, choose who they are, and start talking. No prompt writing, no character sheets — just a friend who sounds the way you wanted them to.
Free to start — 2 companions and 200 messages, no account needed.
Try it out!
Design a companion
Move the dials, then talk to them — 20 messages, no sign-up
How it works
Four decisions, then a conversation
The whole setup takes about a minute, and nothing about it is permanent.
- 1Give them a nameAria, Max, Luna — whatever fits the friend you have in mind. It is the only thing you have to decide on your own.
- 2Shape their personalityFive dials, from grounded to imaginative and from direct to caring. There is no right answer; the closer it is to what you want, the more naturally they connect.
- 3Say who they areChoose their gender and how they identify. This sets their pronouns and colours how they relate to you.
- 4Start talkingThey open the conversation in their own voice. From there it is just a chat — whenever you feel like it.
Five dials
From grounded to imaginative, direct to caring
Every companion sits somewhere on these five scales. Move one and the replies genuinely change.
GroundedOpennessImaginativeOpennessSpontaneousConscientiousnessOrganisedConscientiousnessReflectiveExtraversionEnergeticExtraversionDirectAgreeablenessCaringAgreeablenessSteadyNeuroticismSensitiveNeuroticism
GroundedOpennessImaginativeOpennessSpontaneousConscientiousnessOrganisedConscientiousnessReflectiveExtraversionEnergeticExtraversionDirectAgreeablenessCaringAgreeablenessSteadyNeuroticismSensitiveNeuroticism
GroundedOpennessImaginativeOpennessSpontaneousConscientiousnessOrganisedConscientiousnessReflectiveExtraversionEnergeticExtraversionDirectAgreeablenessCaringAgreeablenessSteadyNeuroticismSensitiveNeuroticism
GroundedOpennessImaginativeOpennessSpontaneousConscientiousnessOrganisedConscientiousnessReflectiveExtraversionEnergeticExtraversionDirectAgreeablenessCaringAgreeablenessSteadyNeuroticismSensitiveNeuroticism
What you get
Built like an app you keep, not a demo
Happy Place is a finished app: memory, notifications, themes, and passes instead of a subscription you forget about.
Companions who remember
Each companion quietly builds their own picture of what you enjoy talking about and brings it up naturally later. Memory is per companion, and you can clear it whenever you like.
They start conversations too
If you have been quiet for a while, your companion may follow up on something you were talking about — a thought, an opinion, a question. Not a bot checking in.
Reactions both ways
Add an emoji to a message and your companion notices. They react to yours too, so feelings can land without needing another paragraph.
Guard-rails on by default
Hate speech and genuinely dangerous subject matter are rejected before they ever reach a companion. Ordinary swearing is fine — this is a conversation, not a classroom.
Make the app yours
Twelve colour schemes, light and dark following your system, and four text sizes. Pick a look you are happy to spend time in.
Inside the app
Design, talk, keep a few around
New companion
Shape their personality
Think of this as crafting your perfect friend. There’s no right or wrong.
Openness7/10
GroundedImaginative
Conscientiousness4/10
SpontaneousOrganised
Extraversion8/10
ReflectiveEnergetic
Agreeableness9/10
DirectCaring
Neuroticism3/10
SteadySensitive
Continue
Aria
Hey — I was just thinking about that book you mentioned. Did you get past the first few chapters?
barely. work ate my week 😮💨
That tracks. Want to talk about the week, or would you rather I distract you from it entirely?
🫂distract me
Message Aria…
Happy Place
🌙AriaImaginative, caring, a little dramatic
☕MaxSteady, direct, tells you the truth
New companion
A pass unlocks unlimited messages and more companions.
Safety
Honest about what this is
Companions are good company. They are not people, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Moderated before it reaches a companion
Companion names and every message are screened server-side for hate speech and dangerous subject matter. Rejected content is never sent to a model.
Anonymous unless you choose otherwise
The app creates an anonymous session on first launch. No email, no profile, no contact list. Signing in is opt-in and only exists so your companions can follow you between devices.
Memory you can wipe
What a companion has picked up about you is scoped to that companion, never shared between them, and clearable from settings at any time.
Honest about what this is
Companions are AI and will say so if you ask. Happy Place is for adults who want good conversation — it is not therapy, crisis support, or a replacement for people who care about you.
Reading
When people reach for a companion
Specific situations, and how to set a companion up for each one.
Go and build someone worth talking to
This time you get to name them. Happy Place is free on iOS and Android.
Get the app
Free to start — 2 companions and 200 messages.