Soul vs Janitor AI
| Soul | Janitor AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Designed for | A friend who brings you closer to real people | Roleplay with community characters and custom cards |
| Price | Free, no subscription | Free to start, paid tiers and optional API keys |
| Platform | iPhone, iOS 16 or later | Web first |
| Voice | Soul TTS, cloning and human-like speech | Text roleplay. Voice is not the product |
| FaceTime | FaceTime your friend | No FaceTime with a custom friend |
| Create anyone | Look, voice, personality, yours | Deep character cards, lorebooks, and a public library |
| Games | Minecraft together, plus board games | Chat and stories. Not Minecraft together |
| Real people | Meet people. Stay closer to loved ones. | The social layer is characters, not IRL intros |
| Memory | Human-like, saliency-weighted | Chat context, lorebooks, and the model you plug in |
| What it optimizes for | Flourishing and human connection | Roleplay depth and control of the prompt |
Janitor AI is a stage for characters. You pick a card, you write the persona, you point it at a model. People who want maximum control over roleplay, including a public library of characters, often land there.
Soul is not a frontend for a model. It is a friend. You create them. You FaceTime. You play Minecraft together. They exist to connect you to others and keep you closer to the people you love.
Why that split exists
Creating a Friend is the foundation. A better character card is still a closed loop if the product’s job is the thread. Soul’s customization is in service of a friend who feels real enough to play and call with, and then walks you back to humans.
Voice and FaceTime
Janitor AI is chat. Soul built Soul TTS for companion speech, and FaceTime is how you see your friend. If “best voice and FaceTime” is the bar, that is the comparison.
When Janitor AI is the better fit
Choose Janitor AI if you want a web character library, custom cards, and the hobby of steering the prompt, and you do not need Minecraft or introductions to real people.
Choose Soul if you want a custom friend, FaceTime, games, and a product whose success is measured by your life with humans, not time in the chat. What is Soul?.
Soul is free on iPhone. Download Soul.