Prelulu is interactive fiction that escalated. You pick a character — the possessive boyfriend, the cold CEO, the mafia husband, the vampire countess — and instead of reading their story, you text with them. Then, and this is the actual product, they call you: voice calls and face-to-face video calls with an animated avatar, on Prelulu’s own model, with a memory of every previous conversation.
If that sentence made no sense to you, you are not the audience, and the audience is enormous: this is the AI-companion and story-roleplay genre that has quietly become one of the biggest consumer AI categories, and Prelulu’s bet is that video is its next format. The character library runs the full romance-webtoon trope board — mafia, yandere, secret crush, werewolf, BL and GL lanes included — plus non-romance lanes like co-op mystery solving. You can build your own characters and keep them private.
What it costs
Free to start, honestly so: a daily free message allowance that does not expire, plus welcome credits covering a short first call. Membership starts at $9.99/month (Plus: 60 video or 180 voice minutes a month), $29.99 for Premium (185 video minutes), with yearly pricing at 40% off. Run the arithmetic before committing: video works out around 16 cents a minute on Premium, so a nightly half-hour habit is a Muse-tier ($99.99) habit. Text chat goes unlimited on every paid tier, which is the sane place for most people to live.
What we can’t tell you
How it will feel after week three. Character apps live or die on memory and consistency — whether the character who knew your name on Tuesday still knows it in December — and longer memory is explicitly a paid-tier feature here, so test the free tier’s recall before judging. The pricing page also promises “nothing revealing on your statement”, which tells you where some of this genre’s evenings end up; the site itself keeps to PG-13 romance tropes, but go in knowing it is a roleplay platform, not a scripted one.
The details
| What it is | AI character roleplay: text, voice calls and live video calls |
| Price | Free daily messages; Plus $9.99/mo, Premium $29.99/mo, yearly −40% |
| Best for | Romance-webtoon and interactive-fiction readers who want the story to answer back |
| Think twice if | You’re minute-blind on video calls — the meter is real, do the maths first |
