Prelulu Lets You Text, Talk, and Video Call Original AI Characters

Prelulu's core idea is that an AI character isn't locked into one format. The same character you text can also take a voice call or a live video call, and the app's own framing is simple: you can text them, hear their voice, and see them face to face. Characters remember what you've told them across conversations, so a relationship built over text carries into a call later instead of starting over. That multi-format setup is also where the roadmap is headed. On Prelulu's ProductHunt launch, a member of the team described ongoing work on better context-sharing between text and video, so a conversation that starts in one format can carry even more of that continuity into the other as that update ships.

What sets a call apart from a static chatbot reply is how Prelulu's co-founder, Tony Tong, described it on the product's ProductHunt launch: the avatar steers the storyline through tool calls, deciding when to move the plot forward, change direction, or react, based on what you say. In practice, that means two people starting the same character and the same opening scene can plausibly end up in different places, since the story is responding to each conversation rather than replaying one script for everyone. The team is already prototyping what comes next for that video layer, including an early demo built on Hunyuan's HY-NoMaS that lets a user steer video with text instructions and camera controls, a sign the underlying model is set to keep improving rather than staying fixed at today's version.

Prelulu's Discover feed is organized around genre and trope filters rather than a flat list, covering categories like fantasy, sci-fi, horror, anime, and RPG settings alongside narrower story archetypes. Each character profile shows chat and save counts, which gives a new user a visible read on which characters other people are already spending time with before they commit to one. Beyond the existing catalog, Prelulu includes a 'create your own character' option, so a user who wants an original character rather than one from Discover has a direct path to build one in the app.

Prelulu is free to start: the free tier includes a daily free message allowance plus welcome credits and a daily check-in bonus toward a call, with no fixed monthly credit grant until you subscribe. Beyond that, three paid tiers, Plus, Premium, and Muse, each add a larger monthly credit allotment and more voice and video minutes together: Plus includes 180 voice minutes (or 60 video) and 7,200 credits a month, Premium (the platform's recommended tier) includes 555 voice minutes (or 185 video) and 22,200 credits, and Muse includes 2,160 voice minutes (or 720 video) and 86,400 credits. All three paid tiers add unlimited text chat with no daily cap, private characters, and longer character memory over the free tier. Voice and video draw from the same credit pool, and the published minute-to-credit ratios mean video runs through credits noticeably faster than voice, so a user who mostly wants to watch a character's face react will want to budget for that. One-time credit packs, from $1.99 for 700 credits up to $99.99 for 62,000 credits, are available on any plan for topping up mid-month, and yearly billing cuts the monthly price by 40% across all three tiers.

The clearest fit is someone who wants an AI character relationship to span more than one format, texting day to day and occasionally moving to a voice or video call, with the story responding to what they actually say rather than replaying the same scene for everyone. Someone drawn to building an original character, rather than only picking from Discover, gets a direct path to that through the character-creation option. A reader who just wants to test the format can start entirely on the free tier's daily allowance and welcome credits, then size Plus, Premium, or Muse to however much voice or video time they actually end up using week to week.