Interactive fiction with faces and voices

Your next story has a voice.

Choose from 300+ characters, from originals to the classics, with portraits, voices and opening scenes. Write the next line, then hear what they say back.

  • Try 3 replies with no email
  • 30 free messages a day with a free account
  • No card · Adults 21+
HadesOpening line · voiced in the app

A living guest. I haven’t had one of those in some centuries. Now. Why have you come down?

Start with Hades
0:00
Characters
300+
App themes
20
Characters in a group scene
2–4
Free messages a day
30

The cast

A character for
your kind of story.

Hockey rinks and Regency ballrooms, windswept moors and the underworld. Every one of the 300+ characters is a fictional adult with a portrait, a voice and an opening scene.

How it works

Four steps
to a first chapter.

  1. Choose a character

    Browse 300+ characters by style, from originals to the classics, or write your own.

  2. Say who you are

    Optional: a name, pronouns and a line about you, set in Your profiles.

  3. Write the first line

    Follow the opening scene or take it somewhere new. Every reply is yours to steer.

  4. Hear them answer

    Turn on voice, invite others into a group scene, export the story when you like.

The full walkthrough

Chat and voice

A conversation
with a face.

Write a line and the reply streams in. Tap play on a reply to hear it in the character’s own voice while their portrait glows with it.

  • Voiced replies. A voice for every character, and a picker to change it.
  • A portrait for every character. It glows and moves gently while a voiced reply plays.
  • Write for me and Polish & expand when you want a nudge.
  • Your story, your edits. Regenerate, edit, or continue from any reply.
How a conversation works
The NYVELLE app: Hades's portrait, a sample conversation in the chat, and the companion panel
The app’s layout, with a sample conversation. Replies are written by AI.

Group chat and Adventure

Bring the whole cast.
Or roll for it.

A group scene in NYVELLE: Hades, Rhett Callahan and Mara Linden answer one message in turn, with speech bubbles over their portraits and the transcript beside them

Group scenes

Cast two to four characters in one room. Let the AI Director invent a scene that brings them together, or set the stage yourself. Saved rooms wait where you left them.

The Adventure screen in NYVELLE: RPG Campaign, Guided Kits, Quick Story, Chronicle and Dice Tray tabs, a hero level and the campaign trail

Adventure

Shape a world, a quest and a hero, then play it out: RPG campaigns, guided kits and quick stories, with a dice tray, objectives and choices, and a chronicle of what happened.

Memory

It remembers
what matters.

A character keeps short notes, like names and plans you mention, and uses them in later chats. You can see everything that was kept, and turn memory off any time.

  • Your switch. Memory is on for each character unless you turn it off, there or in Settings.
  • “Remembered” notes show what was just saved, with View and Undo. “From memory” shows what a reply used.
  • See, correct, pin or forget any memory, or forget everything at once.
Your memoryRhett Callahan's Memory panel, with two sample notes, Correct and Forget buttons, and Add a detail
The Memory panel in the real app, with sample notes.

Themes

Twenty themes.
One click.

Dress the whole app for the story you are in, from candlelit Nocturne to neon Cyberpunk. Nine of the twenty themes are below, shown on the app’s layout with a sample conversation; pick one to preview it.

The NYVELLE app in the Nocturne theme, with a sample conversation
The app’s layout with a sample conversation. Replies are written by AI.

On your phone

No download.
No app store.

Open NYVELLE in your phone’s browser, sign in with a code sent to your email, and your characters, voices and themes are there. Add it to your home screen if you like.

A chat on a phone in the Rose Garden at Dusk theme
A chat with Hades on a phone in the Nocturne theme, with the AI character notice
A chat on a phone in the Starlit Atelier theme

Pricing

Free to start.
Clear when you want more.

No card to begin, and no ads on any plan. Paid plans add gems every month for more replies (including Plus and Ultra from Claude), voice and images; Velvet and Starlight also add a longer memory. Prices in US dollars.

Candlelight

$0No card required

Free. Nothing renews.

  • 30 messages a day
  • Up to 10 voiced replies a day
  • Up to 3 active companions

Moonlight

$4.99a month, or $49.99 a year

Renews monthly or yearly until you cancel.

  • About 47 more replies a day*
  • 12k memory, up to 2× longer replies
  • Up to 10 active companions

Starlight

$19.99a month, or $199.99 a year

Renews monthly or yearly until you cancel.

  • About 215 more replies a day*
  • 2× longer memory, up to 2× longer replies
  • Up to 100 active companions
Compare every plan

* Estimates from typical reply sizes in our own tests; real replies vary (how we estimate). Cancel online anytime in Account → Manage billing. Fair-use limits apply; see pricing for every number.

Questions

Before you
say hello.

Fictional characters, real choices about your story.

All questions & answers
What can I do for free?

Candlelight, the free plan, includes 30 messages a day, up to 10 voiced replies a day (up to 1,500 characters of each reply), 3 welcome images and then 1 a day (Realistic style, once your account is a day old and you have sent 3 messages), and up to 3 active companions. New accounts also get 1,500 welcome gems once, to try more replies, short Plus and Ultra chats, longer voice and images (use them within 30 days). Browse the characters, from originals to the classics, write your own and export your chats and characters. No card and no ads. The allowance resets at midnight UTC; the app shows the reset in your time zone. Before you make an account, you can try any character with 3 free replies and no email (the guest preview).

Are these real people?

No. The characters are fictional and their replies are generated by AI. NYVELLE is for stories and entertainment; characters do not have feelings and their replies can be mistaken.

Can I choose the kind of story?

Yes. Explore romance, fantasy, adventure and everyday settings, or write your own character. Your messages shape the conversation. The hosted NYVELLE app uses safe-for-work content rules.

Can I choose who I am in the story?

Yes. In Your profiles, set the name characters call you, your pronouns and a short note about you. You can keep several profiles and choose one for each companion. Profiles are optional.

Can I hear the replies?

Yes. Tap the play button (▶) on a reply to hear the character say it, or turn on Speak replies aloud (in Chat options or the Voice panel) to hear each new reply by itself. A reply counts only when it is spoken: first as one of your 10 free voiced replies a day, then with gems. Each free voiced reply covers up to 1,500 characters. If you have welcome gems, plan gems or gems you bought, the rest of a longer reply, and voiced replies after your free ones, cost 5 gems per started 500 characters. Welcome gems are used first, then plan gems, then gems you bought.

Can I take my chats with me?

Yes. Export your chats and characters from the app. Character exports use Character Card V2. You can also download an encrypted backup protected by a passphrase you choose. Keep that passphrase safe.

Hades, Mara, Rhett and 300+ more characters

What happens
after hello?

Find out, free

Try 3 replies with no email · 30 free messages a day with a free account · No card · Adults 21+ · Fictional AI characters