Honest comparison
Foreverse vs JanitorAI
JanitorAI earned its place: a giant card community, a free built-in model (JLLM), official proxy support so you were never locked to one LLM, and a beta mobile app since early 2026. What it does not give you is the card as a file — no official export that we could find. Foreverse does, and the move is one paste: as of 2026-07 a JanitorAI character link imports directly, joined by a novel reader, audiobook listening, and an AI companion.
| Dimension | Foreverse | JanitorAI |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Import a card or paste a link, add a key (~10 minutes) | Open the site, pick a bot, chat free on the house model |
| Card catalog & community | Your imports + community card sites | One of the largest card communities on the web |
| Card portability | chara_card_v3 files on your device, full export | No official card export we could find (as of 2026-07) |
| Model access | 62 preset providers, keys encrypted on-device, plus an official metered channel | Free house model (JLLM) + proxy/API configs entered by hand |
| Mobile | Native Android app on Google Play; iOS beta signup | Web-first; official app in beta since early 2026, SFW by default |
| Beyond character chat | Novel reader, branching continuation, audiobook, companion | Character chat and its community |
| Where chats live | On your phone, exportable files | Platform servers (community exporters exist) |
| Content policy | Provider-level policies, you choose the provider | Permissive on the web; app defaults to SFW until a site toggle |
| Price | Free core, no message caps + your API costs | Free on the house model; optional paid tier added in 2026; proxy API costs are yours |
What JanitorAI is in 2026 — credit included
Strip away the memes and JanitorAI is three load-bearing things. A card community with reach few sites match — romantasy, fanfiction, the long tail of every niche, plus the creators and trends that come with mass. A free built-in model, JLLM, that made “open a tab and start chatting” the default way into card culture, no key required. And official proxy support: its own help center walks beginners through connecting external models with a URL and an API key — which is bring-your-own-key in everything but name. JanitorAI never pretended the house model was the ceiling, and that honesty deserves the same back.
2026 added a fourth thing: an official mobile app, currently in beta. Store rules shape it — NSFW is off by default, and the switch lives on the website, not in the app. It works, and it is young. Foreverse has been a native app from day one, which is most of what the next section is about.
The migration is a paste, not a project
Here is the concrete part. Copy a JanitorAI character link — jannyai mirror links count too — open Foreverse, and paste it into card import. The card arrives as a chara_card_v3 file on your device, with embedded lorebooks and greetings behaving the way tavern players expect. The same paste works for chub, Pygmalion, RisuRealm, AICC, and public png/json/charx links, so a collection scattered across five sites can consolidate in an afternoon.
What you get after the move is a different shape of product, not a bigger catalog. A native app with notifications and chats stored as local files. A long-fiction reader where continuation grows branches beside the original text instead of over it. Audiobook listening for imported novels. A companion that keeps memory on your device and can text you first, with the frequency dial and the off switch in your hands. And the reverse note, plainly: the catalog, the community heat, and the social layer stay JanitorAI's. We are not trying to out-crowd them.
Pick JanitorAI if
- You want the biggest catalog and the community heat — trends, creators, new cards daily
- You like opening a browser tab and chatting instantly, free, on the house model
- You use JanitorAI's community and social features, which have no equivalent here
Pick Foreverse if
- You want cards as files you own — including the ones you paste over from JanitorAI
- You want a native Android app rather than a browser tab, with chats as local files
- You also read long fiction and want branching continuation and audiobook listening
- You already bring your own key anyway — here it picks from 62 preset providers, encrypted on-device
FAQ
Can I move my JanitorAI characters into Foreverse?
Yes, and it is the easiest migration on this site: paste the character's page link (jannyai mirror links also work) into Foreverse's card import, and it arrives as a chara_card_v3 file you own. Some network environments get blocked by JanitorAI's download protection — if that happens, retry on a different network. Chat histories are separate; there is no one-click chat migration.
Does Foreverse have a free model like JLLM?
Not a house model — Foreverse does not train its own LLM. Instead, the app core is free with no daily message caps, signing up grants 5,000 credits on the official metered channel (1 credit = $0.0001, roughly 260 continuations), and BYOK connects 62 providers at list price with keys stored encrypted on your device.
Will my NSFW cards still work?
The cards import regardless of content. Foreverse does not add a platform filter on top of your BYOK traffic; what applies is the content policy of the model provider you choose. Pick the provider whose terms fit what you write.