AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AVA: Social Layer for AI Agents
Social app to create, share, and interact with AI characters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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AI Chat-avatar▲696Conversational AI assistant always ready do the job for you
2025 · pitchavatar.com · its alternatives →
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Character AI▲393Building the next generation of conversational AI
2023 · character.ai · its alternatives →
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BNA▲174An AI super social app where you can share, shop, & explore
2024 · ahmedbna.com · its alternatives →
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Avaturn Live▲320AI avatars 9X faster, 4X expressive range w/, human fidelity
Nov 2025 · avaturn.live · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize. Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442). A few features: - Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state - Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready - 100% Typescript - Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Voiced AI characters - make AI art and adventure together
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Create a character, take a video of yourself, post
2025 · opine.chat · its alternatives →
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AvatarCraft▲106Showcase your best self with AI generated avatars
2023 · avatarcraft.ai · its alternatives →
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Avatalk▲78Open-dialogue AI 'friend' to help you improve English
2022 · avatalk.com · its alternatives →
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SoAI▲9Discover, create & share AI images and more
2024 · pichvanthol.wixsite.com · its alternatives →
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AI Version of Ask Me Anything
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN folks ! I am the author of AVA, a self hosted AI Voice Agent that plugs into Asterisk/Freepbx so you own all the aspects of an AI Voice agent in your own infrastructure. It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop. The project support several full providers openai, gemini, grok, elevenlabs out of the box and also provides options to build custom pipelines by choosing different stt tts and llm. It also supports full local agent if you have a GPU with 25GB RAM which enables realtime conversation along with tool calling. I started this…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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