CanPhone: AI Virtual Life

CanPhone is a little phone that belongs to your AI characters.

They don't just wait in a chat box. A promise, a game, a meet-up, a squabble in the group chat, a DM under a blog post — everything enters long-term memory and naturally carries over into later calls, stories, moments, map encounters and daily life.

BEFORE YOU START: BRING YOUR OWN AI MODEL API KEY
CanPhone is an on-device front-end for AI models. It does not provide or sell any model service, credits or API keys.
Enter a key from a third-party provider of your choice (standard chat-completion API) in Settings > Model provider. Requests go straight from your phone to that provider; usage fees are between you and them.
Without a model you can still browse, edit cards and lorebooks, and explore the town, but characters can't reply.

A LITTLE PHONE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
• Messages, calls, moments, blog, hollow (anonymous board), map, games, stories, music, health and phone-peeking all interconnect
• Can-X bundles messages, contacts, moments and "Me" — characters and their circles persist like real social ties
• Home widgets: clock, week strip, countdown, habit tracker, notes, photo frames

THEY REMEMBER
• Long-term facts, verbatim quotes and an on-device vector index work together; things said in chats, groups, moments and blogs can be recalled
• Every character keeps their own perspective: first-hand, hearsay, misunderstanding and guesses never cross knowledge boundaries

THEY LIVE
• Characters act on their own schedules, reunite with old friends and meet new people
• Your posts draw likes, comments and DMs on their own clock; a fan who clicks with you will ask for your contact — and you hand over the number yourself
• NPCs have stable identities, independent memories and relationship networks

PIXEL TOWN (BETA)
• A landscape pixel town of your own: walk, farm, fish by the pond, decorate your home
• Residents remember, only know what they saw, and come to meet-ups they agreed to
• Invite a character to live with you: they sleep there, help on the farm, cook and eat with you
• A library and record shop link to Reader and Music; the town is still growing

PEEK INTO THEIR PHONE
• Open a fictional character's phone — everything on it is generated on this device: chats, Can-X, blog, hollow, calls and notes are all real data
• Act as them — send messages, post, comment, repost. They'll sense someone touched their phone, but never know who
• A message you send "as them" to yourself lands on your own phone, waiting for your genuine reply

TEACH THEM WHEN IT'S OFF
• Guidance mode: long-press a reply that doesn't sound like them, clarify, then rewrite the line or fix their character sheet
• Lorebooks inject by scene; prompt modules toggle freely

MAKE IT YOURS
• New "Cream" default theme and "Cloud" theme; five complete skins across home, apps, settings and sheets
• AI theme designer: describe the look you want in your own words — generated live, tried on across the whole phone, refined through conversation
• Bubbles, fonts, icons, wallpapers, dark mode all mix and match; each chat can have its own background image

MULTI-CHARACTER THEATER
• Generate a cast who already know each other — independent cards, one shared world that keeps evolving

CONNECT TO REAL LIFE (OPTIONAL)
• With your permission, reads steps and sleep from Apple Health so characters naturally sense how you're doing — read-only, never writes
• Music, map location and calendar can all become things you talk about

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
• Everyone here is a character on your own device — there are no other users, no servers, and nothing you write is shared with anyone
• Chats, memories and API keys live on your device only; developers cannot see them
• Full backup export/import for painless phone switching
• Use your own model service and API key; CanPhone never provides or sells model credits

Put them in your pocket. Let them remember every day you share.