How Do I Bring My Characters and Chats to RolePlaya From Another Site?

The short answer: you do not have to start again. RolePlaya imports your old chats, so the character picks up exactly where you left off, and it imports character cards, so your characters arrive already written. Both are free on every plan. Here is how to do it from wherever you are coming from.

A lot of people are asking this right now. Character.AI is in bankruptcy and being sold, and Chai’s iPhone app disappeared from the App Store on 22 October. Whatever is happening on the site you use, your stories should not be stuck there.

Bringing a chat across

Coming from	How to get the chat out
Character.AI	The free CAI Tools browser extension, or Character.AI’s own data export
SillyTavern	Manage chat files, then export as .jsonl
Chub	Export or download the chat from the chat menu
Janitor AI	A free Janitor chat exporter extension
RisuAI	Export from the chat list
Agnaistic	Export chat from the chat menu
Chai, PolyBuzz, SpicyChat, CrushOn, Talkie and anywhere else	Copy the conversation off the page and paste it in

Once you have the file or the text:

1. Open a chat with the character you want to carry on with. If they are not on RolePlaya yet, bring the character over first (next section).
2. Open the menu and tap Import Chat.
3. Pick the site the chat came from. Each one shows you how to export from it.
4. Upload the file or paste the text. If the file holds several conversations, pick the one you want.
5. If it is not obvious which speaker is you, tap your name.
6. Check how the story began and where you left off, then tap Continue. Your next message carries on the same story.

Bringing a character across

Most roleplay sites share a character card format, and RolePlaya reads both versions of it, V2 and V3, as a PNG image or a JSON file. Cards from Chub, SillyTavern and Janitor AI load straight in.

1. Open the character creator and find the Import Character section.
2. Choose Import Card for a PNG, or Import JSON for a .json file.
3. The form fills itself in. Check it over, add a picture if the card did not bring one, and save.

No card? Copy the character’s name, greeting and description from the old site and paste them into a new character. That is all a character really is, and it takes a few minutes.

If you are leaving Character.AI

The fastest route is the CAI Tools extension. Open a chat, download it as a Tavern chat or the whole history as a .zip, and RolePlaya reads either. Character.AI’s own export lives under Profile, Settings, Account, Manage Account and Data, Export Data, but it says that can take three to four weeks and the download link expires after about a week. If you want a full backup before the sale, ask for it now.

If you used Chai on an iPhone

Chai says the copy already on your phone keeps working, you just cannot download it again for now. Copy the conversations you care about while you still have it, then paste them in with Import Chat.

RolePlaya does not need the App Store at all. Open roleplaya.com in Safari, tap the three dots or Share, then Add to Home Screen, and it opens full screen with its own icon. The Install RolePlaya page has steps for every device.

What carries over and what does not

• Carries over: the conversation itself, who said what, and where the story got to. The character remembers what happened.
• Carries over: a character’s name, greeting, personality and description, from a card or pasted text.
• Does not: your followers, likes or chat counts on the old site. Those belong to that site.
• Everyone must be an adult. RolePlaya is 18+ only, for members and for characters, so stories involving anyone under 18 cannot be imported.

For the full site by site walkthroughs, see Move Your AI Chats to RolePlaya and Import Janitor, Chub and SillyTavern Character Cards.