Souls: create, talk and remember

Before you begin

• Souls are for adults 18 and over. Read the introduction before continuing.
• Have an internet connection and an available AI allowance or your own configured key. Advanced generation and paid media can require your own provider account.
• A soul based on a person is an AI representation, not that person. Use real faces and voices only with the required permission.
• Reverbot shows an AI notice at the start of the day’s first conversation and after every three hours of talking, whatever character the soul plays.

Note: Souls are companions — not therapy, counseling or medical care. If you’re in crisis, call or text 988 in the US and Canada, or find a helpline in your country at findahelpline.com. In the US and Canada, call or text 988 for crisis support.

Make a soul

1. Tap SOULS in the top bar, then Make a soul.
2. Choose a starter, such as Trash talker, or use the available custom or AI creation choice.
3. Review the name, look and voice. Use Another look, Edit look or Another voice where offered.
4. Tap Create, or Create [name] when a name is entered.
5. Open Personality & story to edit the character, background, speaking style and custom wake phrases.

On the first profile prompt, Set up my profile helps souls ask to learn about you; Skip for now leaves that for later. A soul receives the profile only after permission.

Call them or use Chat

1. Open the soul’s page and turn on Answers to their name.
2. Read its wake phrase, then close the page and return to the main screen.
3. Tap the big button and say the phrase, such as “Hey Sally, you there?”
4. Talk after the soul joins. Tap the big button to stop listening when finished.

For text, open Chat on the soul’s page. Show calls in Chat includes voice conversations there; Conversations lists saved sessions. Voice conversation starts from the main screen, not the settings page.

A soul never starts a new conversation on its own; you call it.

In Souls settings, preferences apply to all souls:

• Pauses allows occasional explained pauses. Ask “What’s up?” for a check or say “Go on” to continue. In Chat, an explained pause can split a reply when Natural texting pace is on.
• Keep talking in a lull lets a soul occasionally carry on while an existing call is quiet. Extra AI requests can cost money; Reverbot’s AI limits them to two per call, including check-ins and sign-off.
• Thinking sounds adds a quiet sound during a longer wait. Expressive sentence delivery uses the smart response allowance to choose tone without changing the selected voice.

Teach facts and background

1. Open the soul’s page. Under Teach [name], enter one Fact or background detail to add and tap the arrow to add it.
2. For source material, open Documents & facts and add a document or use Paste text.
3. Choose AI that studies them, explain what to learn if needed and use Study them. Review the cost before analysis.
4. Use Life story › Add a moment from their life for a dated event.

A conversation never rewrites an explicit profile entry. Souls can remember conversations, what they learn about you and fictional details they introduce, but the profile material you deliberately enter takes precedence. Apply any suggested personality changes separately.

Review conversational memories in What they remember, and transcripts in Conversations. Forget everything about me removes the relationship memories listed in its warning while keeping profile facts and transcripts; Undo all growth has its own reset confirmation.

Record about them

1. Stop any listening session or call.
2. On the soul’s page, tap the big red Record about [name] button, for example Record about Sally.
3. Speak about their background, people or experiences, then tap Stop recording.
4. Correct Review transcript.
5. Tap Keep just the words to save text without AI sorting, or Add to [name] to review the cost and let the selected AI sort facts and life events.
6. Use Record more for another take, or Discard to leave without keeping it.

This recorder keeps the words, not original microphone audio. To preserve original audio, use Life Journal’s Record a memory. Imported journal recordings can later offer Play original recording on the soul’s Recordings page.

Choose their voice and look

1. Open the soul’s AI & voice page to choose who writes their lines, their voice engine and speed. Add any required provider key before choosing a paid voice.
2. Use Record a voice for this Soul only with the speaker’s permission and an eligible ElevenLabs account.
3. Open their look editor and choose a character, permitted picture or voice display. Tap Done to save; Cancel keeps the previous choices.

The center shows the soul’s chosen voice display, not its profile photo. Talking faces and lips use the configured display; paid realistic face animation needs its own account and consent. A preview in settings does not begin a conversation with the soul.

Set growth and relationship pace

Open Growth & journal on the soul’s page:

• Difficulty, under Relationship difficulty, controls how gradually familiarity and trust develop. Personality default uses a natural pace for most souls and a slower pace for guarded characters. Time and repeated conversation both matter; asking to be closer does not bypass the limits.
• Grows from your conversations allows reflection after conversations.
• How fast controls personality adjustments, not voice speed or the relationship’s time requirements.
• How far from what you set limits drift from your chosen personality.

Keeping to yourself slows closeness. Trust and closeness can go backwards after difficult interactions. The soul’s Journal records its reflections; it is separate from your private Life Journal.

Choose their life and permissions

Under Their life, choose In your phone or describe A life of their own. Realism adds AI-written experiences and moods between conversations; review its own-key requirements and cost before turning it on. None of those fictional events actually happened.

In Permissions, allow only the capabilities you want. Full access allows the listed capabilities, including future additions, but does not bypass iPhone permissions or action confirmations. Make [name] your assistant assigns the one assistant role and organizer access.

Important: Only a soul that lives in your phone and knows it is an AI can have phone access or be your assistant. A soul with a life of its own, one configured to believe it is alive, or a Life Journal narrator cannot use those capabilities. Messages remain drafts you review and send.

Their world: see their day

1. Open a fictional soul’s Their world page and review Your BytePlus account.
2. Set up your own key, then review the face and video permissions.
3. During a conversation about its fictional day, ask “Show me a video of what happened.” Tap Show me when offered.
4. Tap Write the scene and review the scene. Nothing has been filmed or generated yet.
5. Review the separate video price, quality and length, then confirm Make the video.

The AI-made result is kept in Their world and can be watched again. These are fictional scenes, not recordings of real events. BytePlus limits which faces its video service accepts; read the face message before paying for generation.

Create photos and videos

Important: Media generation is optional for each soul and uses the configured provider’s account. Image and video requests are separate charges.

1. Open AI & voice › Photo & video creation.
2. Allow images and videos separately for this soul.
3. Choose image and video providers, or follow the account defaults from Settings › Image & Video AI.
4. Allow on-screen display after confirmation only if wanted.
5. Describe a non-explicit image or video, then review the request and confirm creation.

Settings › Media library holds creations, saved jobs, favorites, sharing and deletion. Nano Banana is an image model; optional assistance can prepare image references for supported video services or edit a journal image as a copy. It does not generate audio or replace the original source.

Introduce souls and share deliberately

You can call up to four souls into a get-together from the main screen. Invite another by name or ask those present to discuss a subject for a round. Their own AI and voices are used. On a soul’s page, Souls they know lets you introduce them and review their conversations with each other.

Important: Sending or saving a .soul file moves the soul off this phone; it is not an ordinary backup copy. Whoever opens the encrypted file first becomes its owner, and other copies will not open.

To share, turn on Export, import & send souls in Souls settings, then use Send or save as a .soul file or Send to a friend on the soul’s page. Read the media-storage choices and password option before confirming.

Get help using Reverbot

1. Tap SOULS, then Make a soul.
2. Choose Reverbot App Helper at the start of the starter list.
3. Add your own supported AI key if needed. This helper does not spend Reverbot’s free questions and starts with the iPhone’s on-device voice.
4. Ask for help, such as “Where do I change the voice for Questions?”

The helper uses Reverbot’s current written Help, opens supported settings pages and can point to controls the app identifies. It does not inspect screenshots or take over the phone. You still choose settings, grant permissions, enter keys and confirm calls, messages, purchases or deletion yourself.

You can give another eligible soul this ability in Permissions, using Guide you around Reverbot. A soul with a life outside the phone cannot receive this permission.

If it doesn’t work

• If a wake phrase does not answer, turn on Answers to their name, start listening with the big button and check the phrase. Duplicate phrases need renaming.
• If replies fail, check AI & voice, its key, connection and allowance.
• If the voice differs, check the soul’s voice engine and any missing-key message.
• If a permission is unavailable, review Their life and whether the soul knows it is an AI; fictional lives outside the phone cannot control it.
• If a paid scene fails, read Couldn’t be made — why and check the provider’s face and region requirements before retrying.
• If a remembered fact is wrong, correct its profile source instead of repeating it in Chat.

Still not working? In Settings, under Feedback, tap Report a Bug.