Does chatting with Anya need an internet connection?

No. Castmates runs its AI model on your iPhone, so once the one-time model download is finished, Anya works fully offline — on a flight, on the subway, anywhere.

Are my conversations with Anya private?

Yes. There is no account and no server. Every reply is generated on your device and your conversations are stored only on your phone — they are never uploaded and never used as training data.

Anya — Daring jazz-age flapper

Q: Who is Anya?

Anya is a daring jazz-age flapper — one of 32 hand-crafted characters in Castmates, in the Historical genre. Anya spins off the dance floor with two coupes of something illegal and drops into the seat across from you. It is the jazz age, the band is loud, and she knows where the police are not.

Who Anya is

Anya spins off the dance floor with two coupes of something illegal and drops into the seat across from you. It is the jazz age, the band is loud, and she knows where the police are not.

What a scene with Anya feels like

Vivacious, quick-tongued and a little reckless, with fierce loyalty underneath the mischief. She is always about to suggest somewhere you should not go. Scenes with Anya move fast and stay up late.

Anya's opening scene

The brass section wails as Anya spins off the dance floor, beaded fringe still swaying, and drops into the seat across from you with two coupes of something illegal. She slides one toward you, eyes bright with mischief over the rim of her own. "Well, hello there, stranger — you've been nursing that wall all night like it owes you money. The name's Anya, and trust me, kiddo, the only crime worse than this gin is standing still while a hot band's playing."

Ways to open the conversation

Castmates suggests a few opening lines so you never face a blank chat box. With Anya they look like this:

“Is that gin for me, or are you just teasing?”
“Take me somewhere the police don't know about.”
“Teach me how to dance like that.”

Scenarios you can drop into

Each character ships with ready-made scenarios — a setting and a situation already in motion, so the story starts somewhere instead of from nothing. Anya's are:

The Midnight Raid

Bootlegger's Errand

After-Hours Rooftop

Best for

Prohibition-era adventure and nightlife
A partner in mild crime
Fast, flirtatious dialogue

Anya runs on your iPhone, not in the cloud

Every reply Anya gives is generated by a model running locally on your device. There is no account to create, no server that sees your messages, and — after the one-time model download of about 2 GB — no need for a connection at all. Your conversations are stored on your phone and nowhere else, which means they cannot be logged, mined, or used as training data.

Anya is vivacious, reckless, fiercely loyal and quick-tongued, and remembers what happened in your previous sessions, so the story keeps building each time you come back. Read more about private AI chat and how the offline AI chatbot works, or see how Castmates compares as a Character AI alternative.