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A living world with 7 voiced characters, RPG stats, jobs, seasonal events, and 30+ relationship levels that unlock dates, sleepovers, and marriage. The dating sim genre, reimagined with AI.
AI Girlfriend: Memory, Voice & a 31-Level Relationship
One heroine written for more than twenty stories. She remembers what you tell her, changes across 31 relationship levels, sends photos and voice messages, calls you, and keeps a diary about the two of you. Android, Telegram and web.
A written character with his own stories and gifts, opinions he keeps, and a relationship that can cool off. Same memory, diary and novel as Nika, written for a male lead. Telegram only.
Three layers per story: the live conversation, a rolling summary of everything older, and up to ten key facts you can read, edit, delete and pin. Your last ten stories keep their memory when you come back.
31 Relationship Levels, Both Directions
From Arch-Nemesis to Obsession, starting near the middle. The level changes how your companion talks to you and what they are willing to do, and it can go down as well as up.
Photos in Four Styles, Video From Any Photo
Realism, hyperrealism, illustration and anime, one switch for everything they generate. Any image can be turned into a short video. A Studio builds shots from over two hundred options, or from your own prompt.
Voice Messages and Live Calls
Three voices to choose from, voice notes from you that they understand, and in Nika's app real-time calls where she stays in character and remembers the story.
A Diary and a Novel
After 50 new messages your companion writes a diary entry about you, at most once a day. After 150 messages a story can be bound into a chaptered novel you read in the app.
Hand-Written Stories, Plus Yours
Nika has more than twenty official scenarios across nine genres, all starring her. Beyond that, an eight-step editor and a tile-based constructor let you write your own character and story, publish it, and earn in-app currency when others unlock it.
Nika AI is a small studio that builds AI companions: Nika, an AI girlfriend for long roleplay; Sebastian, an AI boyfriend with his own stories; and Aurora City, an AI dating simulator with seven characters. Nika and Sebastian share one engine: memory with editable facts, 31 relationship levels that can go down as well as up, a diary the companion writes about you, photos in four art styles, voice messages, and a novel generated from your story. More than 100,000 people use the products every month.
Is it free?
Free to start. Your first day after registering unlocks every feature with a generous message allowance; after that a free daily allowance stays open and shrinks over time unless you upgrade. Plans lift the message limit, and one-off packs of tokens or messages never expire. Aurora City's core gameplay (text, activities, jobs, progression) stays free. Plans and payment methods differ by channel: Google Play Billing in the Android app, card, SBP or crypto on the web, plus Telegram Stars in the bots.
How do the 31 relationship levels work?
Every story starts near the middle, at Neutral. Eight levels sit below it and twenty-two above, up to Obsession. Each reply moves the level a little, periodic verdicts on the conversation move it a lot, gifts move it up. The level changes the companion's tone and willingness rather than unlocking buttons, and you can switch it off before a story starts. In Aurora City specific levels unlock dates, sleepovers and marriage.
How does the memory work?
Per story, in three layers: the recent messages, a rolling summary of everything older, and up to ten key facts extracted automatically or added by you. The facts are an editable list in the Memory section; pin the ones that must never be forgotten. Memory does not cross stories, and your last ten stories keep theirs.
Do I need to download an app?
No. Nika, Sebastian and Aurora City all work as Telegram bots: press Start, confirm you are 18, and you are talking. Nika also has an Android app on Google Play and a web app at app.nika.team that installs on iPhone as a PWA. Sign in with Telegram to keep one account across channels.
Is it uncensored?
The products are 18+ and adult roleplay between consenting adults is allowed without lectures or refusals. There are firm rules: anything involving minors is banned outright, illegal content is blocked, generated images are screened and published community stories are reviewed.
What languages are supported?
Fifteen: English, Russian, Spanish, Persian, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Korean, Serbian and Japanese. The interface, the stories, the diary and the companion's replies are localised, and community stories are translated automatically.
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