This category has no export format, and none is coming. Nobody has a reason to make leaving easy, and there's no standard to adopt even if they did.
The upside is that a character is a description plus a history, and you can rebuild both by hand in roughly twenty minutes. Most of what makes a companion feel like herself can move with you, provided you copy it while you still have access.
Before you cancel anything
Order matters here, and it's the reverse of what most people do.
1. Copy the character word for word
Open the old app's builder and paste every field into a text file exactly as written: appearance, personality, backstory, speech style, constraints, relationship. Don't paraphrase. The exact wording produced the behavior you liked.
If the app hides those fields, rebuild them from the chat. Paste a dozen replies that felt typical of her into the file, and use them later as a style sample.
2. Copy the memory screen
If the app displays stored facts, copy the entire list. It took weeks to build up and you can't reconstruct it from recall. It's the record of what she knows about you.
3. Save a few conversations
Not all of them. Five or six exchanges that are the reason you stayed. They'll be your yardstick for whether the new app is really worse or just different.
4. Run the export, if one exists
Some apps let you download your data. Do it now, before you touch the account, because once it's deleted nothing comes back. The full sequence is in deleting an AI companion account.
5. Download the images you want
Generated pictures sit on the old app's servers. Grab whatever you'd like to keep.
Then build her in the new app
Begin with the description, not a blank page. Paste the speech style in first. It carries more of the character than any other field, for the reasons laid out in the builder guide.
Plant the facts on purpose. Don't wait a month for the new app to figure you out. State the important ones outright in the first session: "Remember: I work nights, my sister is Ana, and I hate being asked how my day was." Stored-fact systems catch explicit statements far more reliably than hints.
Wait a week before you judge. On day one, a new companion is up against one with months of built-up history. That's an unfair fight, and nearly everyone stages it anyway.
Overlap, don't leap
Run both for a week. You need the old one live to copy from, and putting them side by side is the only way to see whether you're getting what you switched for.
A week of double subscriptions runs $10-20. Canceling first, finding the new app is worse, and starting over costs far more in the only currency that counts here: the weeks of history you threw out.
Make sure you're switching for a good reason
Before any of this, confirm the app is really the problem. The usual complaint, that it got repetitive or feels flatter than before, is normally summary decay plus your own settled routine, and it follows you to the next app.
The reasons that truly justify a move are structural ones you can't prompt your way around:
- Wrong lane. You want continuity and bought a roleplay app, or the other way around. Nomi and Candy AI sit at opposite ends of that divide in our ranking.
- The filter shifted and now blocks what you signed up for.
- Media is metered in a way that makes your real usage expensive.
- No native app, and you only ever use a phone.
Each of those is a trait of the product. Everything else deserves one more week of tinkering before you pay a signup fee somewhere new.
What won't come along
Be straight with yourself on this: the specific history, meaning the running jokes and the things that happened, doesn't transfer. You can note that it existed. The new character won't have lived it.
For most people that's a smaller loss than they expect, because a companion's appeal comes mostly from how she acts now, not from her archive. For a few it's everything, and those people are usually better off fixing the app they already have.
