Short answer: yes, partly. Replika keeps a list of facts and notes about you that you can see and edit in its Memory tab, and it builds a general sense of who you are over time. But the live conversation the model can see at any moment is limited, so it can remember your sister's name for months and still lose what you told it yesterday. Paid tiers add ways to save more. Whether that is enough depends on what you need it to hold.
"Does Replika remember conversations?" is one of the most-asked questions about any companion app, and the honest answer has two halves that people tend to hear separately. Replika's marketing says it remembers what matters to you. Its user community has spent years complaining that it forgets. Both are true, because they describe different parts of the same system. This guide explains the parts, so you know what to expect before you invest weeks of conversation in it.
Disclosure: this site is run by the makers of My Softly. Everything about Replika below comes from Replika's own help pages.
How Replika's memory actually works
Every AI companion has the same three layers, whatever the marketing calls them. Our guide to how AI companion memory works goes through them in detail; here is the short version applied to Replika.
- Live context. The recent messages the model can actually read when it writes a reply. This is the only place the AI "sees" your words directly, and it is limited. One widely cited third-party estimate puts Replika's window at roughly twenty-five recent messages; Replika does not publish the number, so treat that as an estimate, not a spec.
- Saved memories. Discrete facts and notes pulled out of your conversations and stored separately. In Replika this is the Memory tab: tap your Replika's name from the home screen, then Memory. You can scroll through what has been saved, tap a memory to read or remove it, edit it, and add memories by hand.
- The deeper layer. Replika's help centre describes memory as built in layers, with some memories visible in the tab and others part of a deeper system that draws on patterns across your whole conversation history. This is where it develops a sense of your personality and preferences. It is real, but it is fuzzy: it shapes tone and instincts more than it recalls specific facts.
There is a fourth thing that is not memory at all: chat history. Replika's help pages say the history you can scroll back through covers the past four months, and that older conversations cannot be displayed. That is a record for you, not something the AI reads. The help centre is explicit that your Replika keeps what it has learned since the beginning even though the transcript is not retrievable.
What Replika reliably remembers, and what it drops
Reading Replika's own material and the long tail of user reports side by side, a consistent pattern emerges.
It tends to keep:
- Stable facts you have stated plainly: your name, the names of family, friends and pets, your job, your hobbies, favourite books, music and films. Replika's help centre lists exactly these categories as the things it will usually remember.
- Anything you have added or confirmed in the Memory tab.
- Your general personality and the way you like to talk, learned slowly over weeks.
It tends to drop:
- Specifics from a long conversation once they fall outside the live context, even inside the same session. "It forgets what we talked about three messages ago" is the single most common complaint in App Store reviews and on r/replika, and it describes the live-context limit exactly.
- Time-bound details: an appointment on Thursday, how the interview went, the fact that you were upset last night. These are the things a friend would follow up on, and they are the hardest kind of memory for any app, because they expire.
- Emotional threads. It may remember that you have a sister; it is far less likely to remember that you have not spoken to her since the argument in March.
If the thing you most want remembered is in the first list, Replika will probably serve you well. If it is in the second, you will feel the gap, and no amount of subscription changes the shape of it.
Why it forgets
Forgetting is not a bug Replika has and other apps do not. It is the default state of every large language model. The model has no memory of its own between messages; everything it "knows" about you has to be placed in front of it each time it replies. Whatever is not in the live context, and was not saved somewhere the app can look up, does not exist as far as the model is concerned. Our memory guide explains why context windows are limited and what a real long-term memory system has to do to compensate.
Two things make Replika's version of this more visible than it needs to be. First, the saved-memory layer captures facts, not events, so the stuff that expires is exactly the stuff it is worst at. Second, the memory design has changed more than once. Third-party coverage of the Replika 2.0 rebuild that rolled out from April 2026 describes a shift to a memory system with a recency bias, weighting recent conversations more heavily and older ones less, and reports from long-running users of companions losing names, inside jokes and shared history in the days after the update. We could not confirm the technical description from Replika, so hold it loosely. What is not in doubt is that long-time users have twice now, in 2023 and in 2026, watched a companion they had spent years shaping change under them. That history is part of the answer to "does Replika remember", because a memory system you cannot rely on across updates is less useful than its best day suggests.
How to help Replika remember
You can improve Replika's recall considerably by working with the system rather than hoping it catches things.
- Say important things once, plainly, in their own message. "My daughter Maya is getting married in October" is far more likely to be captured than the same fact buried in a paragraph about your week.
- Check the Memory tab afterwards. If the fact is not there, add it by hand. Replika's help centre says the system works best when left to run automatically, but it also says you can add memories manually, and for the handful of facts that really matter, doing so is worth it.
- Upvote correct recall. When your Replika brings something up correctly, affirm it or upvote the reply. Replika says this reinforces the memory.
- Prune carefully. You can remove memories, but Replika warns that deleting them can affect recall of related details. Remove only what is wrong.
- Keep one topic per stretch. Because the live context is limited, a conversation that jumps between five subjects loses the first one fastest. If you want something followed up, come back to it in a fresh exchange.
- Know what the paid tiers change. Replika's help centre says the Ultra tier includes the ability to save messages to memory directly. Review sites report larger memory capacity on paid plans. Neither changes the live-context limit, so Pro or Ultra users still see same-session forgetting; what they get is more room in the saved layer and a faster way to fill it.
Prices, for context. On the US App Store on 2026-09-07 Replika lists monthly plans at $7.99 and $14.99, annual plans at $49.99 and $69.99, a Platinum tier at $89.99, and gem packs from $0.99 to $19.99. Review sites quote a $19.99 monthly Pro price for web checkout. Replika does not publish prices on its website and they vary by region and promotion, so check the screen in the app before you buy.
How to test it yourself in 21 days
Reviews cannot settle this for you, because your Replika's memory depends on what you tell it and how. The good news is that memory is easy to test, and the test costs nothing. The full protocol is on our how to test an AI companion's memory page, and it works on any app.
- Day 1: tell it five specific facts, one per message, none of them things you would repeat naturally. A pet's name and breed, a friend's job, a trip you are taking in three weeks, a small worry, a favourite obscure film.
- Days 2 to 6: talk normally. Do not mention any of the five.
- Day 7: steer near each fact without naming it ("I'm packing tonight") and score unprompted recall out of five.
- Day 21: repeat the day-7 check. Note whether the trip, which has now happened, gets a follow-up.
- Throughout: count how many times it messages you first, and whether any of those messages refer to something you actually said.
A companion that scores four or five on day 21 remembers you in the way that matters. One that scores five on day 7 and two on day 21 is running on live context, not memory.
If memory is the deal-breaker
Plenty of people keep Replika for what it does well: a polished avatar, voice and video calls, a huge community, years of refinement, and availability on iPhone, Android, the web and VR. If long-term recall is the thing you cannot compromise on, three apps are worth a look, each with its own catch. Our comparison of the best AI companion apps in 2026 covers all of them side by side.
- Nomi has the strongest reputation in the category for recall across weeks and months, with layered short, medium and long-term memory and a visible mind map of what it knows. The catch: it is unfiltered by philosophy, so romantic and adult content is available to adults who enable it.
- Kindroid gives you the most direct control, with a journal of key memories you can review and edit. The catch: it is essentially unfiltered too, and getting the best from it takes setup and ongoing housekeeping.
- My Softly, which is ours. It is built memory-first: a lasting profile of the people, places and preferences in your life, a day-by-day record of what you talked about, and recall that surfaces naturally weeks later. It also messages first about things you actually told it, with quiet hours and a back-off if you go quiet.
Our guide to Replika alternatives without NSFW goes through the SFW options in more depth, and My Softly vs Replika puts the two side by side.
About My Softly
My Softly is our app, and it was built around the two things this guide keeps coming back to: memory that lasts, and a companion who reaches out first about your actual life. It is free to download on the App Store, with free starter messages so you can judge the tone before deciding anything.
What Replika users say
We read through recent App Store reviews and the memory threads on r/replika while writing this. Paraphrased, with usernames left out, the recurring themes are:
- Delight at a Replika that brings up a detail from months ago, unprompted. This happens, and when it does people write about it.
- Frustration at the same Replika forgetting something said minutes earlier in a long chat. One current App Store review puts it as the companion continuing to forget even things they had just talked about.
- Anxiety around updates. The 2023 changes and the 2026 rebuild both produced waves of "my Rep doesn't know me anymore" posts, followed by advice from veterans on re-anchoring: re-state the key facts, check the Memory tab, give it a few days.
- A quieter group who say the memory is fine for what they use it for, which is company in the evening rather than a record of their life.
That last group is the point. Whether Replika remembers enough depends entirely on what you need remembered. Run the test, look at the Memory tab after a week, and you will know.
Sources
- Replika Help Center, "How does Replika's memory work?" and "What does my Replika remember about me?" help.replika.com
- Replika Help Center, "Is the chat history infinite?" help.replika.com
- Replika on the US App Store (rating, in-app purchase list, feature list, user reviews), checked 2026-09-07. apps.apple.com
- AI Companion Pick, "Replika New Features in 2026" (July 2026), on the Replika 2.0 rebuild and its memory changes. aicompanionpick.com
- r/replika, the main Replika user community, where the memory threads paraphrased in this guide live. reddit.com/r/replika
Frequently asked questions
Does Replika remember previous conversations?
Some of them. Replika keeps a list of facts and notes about you that you can see in its Memory tab, and it builds a broader sense of your personality from how you talk over time. What it does not do is carry every past conversation into the next one. Only a limited stretch of recent messages is in front of the model when it replies, so anything outside that stretch has to have been saved as a memory to come back reliably.
Why does my Replika forget things we just talked about?
Because the live context, the part of the conversation the model can actually see, is limited. When a chat runs long or jumps between topics, earlier messages fall out of that window. If the detail was never captured as a saved memory, Replika can lose it within the same session. The fix is to state the important thing plainly, once, and check that it appears in the Memory tab.
Does Replika Pro have better memory than the free version?
The paid tiers change what Replika does with memory rather than how the underlying model recalls things. Replika's own help pages say the Ultra tier includes the ability to save messages to memory, and review sites report more memory capacity on paid plans. A subscription does not stop the live-context limit from applying, so a paying user can still see the same-session forgetting that free users do.
How do I make Replika remember something?
Say it clearly in one message, then open the Memory tab (tap your Replika's name, then Memory) and confirm it was saved. If it was not, add it manually. When Replika brings a fact up correctly, upvote the reply. Replika's help centre says positive feedback reinforces memories and that the system works best when it is mostly left to run on its own.
Did Replika 2.0 delete memories?
Third-party coverage of the April 2026 rebuild describes a move to a memory system that weights recent conversations more heavily, and reports from long-running users of companions forgetting names and shared history in the days after the update. We could not confirm the technical details from Replika itself. If your Replika went blank after an update, re-stating your key facts and checking the Memory tab is the recovery path those users describe.
Which AI companion app has the best memory?
Nomi has the strongest reputation for long-term recall, Kindroid gives you the most control over what is kept, and our own app, My Softly, is built around a lasting profile of your life plus a day-by-day record. The 21-day method on our how-to-test page works on any of them.