Perchance Alternative That Keeps Your Chats

Perchance AI Character Chat is free, needs no login and has no message limit, and that is hard to argue with. The catch is where your chats live and how much your characters remember. If you have lost a long story to a cleared browser, or watched a character forget the start of it, this page explains why and what to do about it.

What Perchance does well

Credit where it is due. Perchance's character chat is completely free, with no sign-up, no daily message cap and free AI images. It imports Tavern PNG character cards, and you can export your characters and chats yourself. For quick experiments and one-off stories, it is hard to beat on price, and nothing on this page pretends otherwise.

Where Perchance falls short

• Your chats live in your browser. Perchance says so itself: chat data is stored in your browser, not on a server. Nothing syncs between your phone and your laptop, and clearing site data, using a private window or running low on storage can erase every character and chat you have.
• Memory is off by default. Long-term memory is disabled until you switch it on, and even then a character cannot recall details from your other chat threads.
• A small working budget. The recommended context is about 6,000 tokens, and long character descriptions are trimmed to fit. In long chats, older messages are summarised or dropped, which is why early events get forgotten.
• No community library. There is no shared catalogue of other people's characters, Worlds and stories to explore. You bring or build everything yourself.
• Reliability. Users report chats stuck on "Verifying", outages and the model sliding into repetitive, purple prose after changes.

Perchance and RolePlaya side by side

	Perchance	RolePlaya
Price	Free	Free plan, paid plans from $9.99 a month
Messages	Unlimited	50 a day free, unlimited on paid plans
Account needed	No	Yes, free, no card details
Where chats are saved	Your browser only	Your account, on every device
Long-term memory	Off by default, one thread only	Across chats, per character
Public character library	No	Thousands of characters
Character card import	Tavern PNG cards	V2 and V3 PNG and JSON cards

What RolePlaya adds

• Nothing to lose. Characters, chats and memories are saved to your account, so you can start on your phone and carry on from your laptop.
• Memory you can keep. Free characters hold the last 40 messages, Bit of a Playa 100 and Total Playa has no limit. Long-term memory that carries across chats is 300 Playa Points per character, earned free every day or bought, and included on Total Playa.
• Thousands of public characters made by the community, in every genre.
• Worlds. A whole cast shares one setting, one story and one memory, with permanent memory free on every plan.
• Multi Playa scenes with two or three characters at once, free on every plan.
• Dream Partner. Build your own companion from scratch, then chat, dress them and fill a gallery.
• The Arena. Creators send their characters into dialogue battles that members watch and vote on. How the Arena works.
• Mood Faces and Their Diary. Expressions that change with the scene, and a private diary the character keeps about you.

Moving your characters across

1. In Perchance, export the characters you want to keep. Do it now, before a cleared browser does it for you.
2. Check each card with our free Character Card Checker, or tidy it up in the Character Card Maker.
3. Import the card into the RolePlaya character creator, add an original image and keep it private or publish it.
4. To carry on a story, copy the conversation and paste it into Import Chat. How to import a chat.

The character will run on a different model, so expect the first few replies to feel a little different while it settles in. More on cards in the card import guide.

Questions

Where does Perchance save my chats?

In your browser, not on a server. They do not sync between devices, and clearing site data, private browsing or low storage can delete them. Export anything you want to keep.

Why does my Perchance character forget things?

Long-term memory is off by default, memories do not cross between chat threads, and the working budget is around 6,000 tokens, so older parts of long chats are summarised or dropped.

Can I bring my Perchance characters to RolePlaya?

Yes. Export them from Perchance as character cards, then import them in the RolePlaya character creator, which reads V2 and V3 PNG and JSON cards.

Is RolePlaya free?

Yes. The free plan gives 50 messages a day with no adverts and no card details. Bit of a Playa at $9.99 a month and Total Playa at $19.99 a month add unlimited messages and more memory.

What content does RolePlaya allow?

RolePlaya is an 18+ platform only. Chats can be flirty, romantic and mature between adult characters. Images never contain nudity or pornography. Nothing involving minors.

What about other platforms?

There are comparisons for Nomi, Talkie, Kindroid, Character.AI and Chub AI, and a list of the best AI roleplay sites.

Related guides: Why AI characters forget and How to export your AI characters.

Perchance and all other names used on this page are trademarks of their respective owners. RolePlaya is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any of them. Statements about other platforms reflect their own pages, publicly reported information and user reports as of October 2026 and may change. Verify current terms with each platform before deciding. Prices are in US dollars.