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An AI friend, not an assistant
Someone to talk to. Someone who remembers. Someone who is always there when you need a little help, a good idea, or simply someone to listen.
For older people who live alone, people living with an illness, their families, and children doing homework.
Free demo: 12 minutes, no sign-up No card. Press the button and talk.Plans from €19 a month. See prices
Two minutes to set up. Nothing to install. Works on any phone.
Health
Tell James what a doctor has diagnosed and which medicines the person takes. He changes how he speaks, how he listens and what he treats as urgent. Built on 131 published studies and clinical guidelines.
Short sentences, one question at a time. He never tests memory or argues, and tells the family if someone tries to leave home at night.
He waits longer for an answer and asks yes-or-no questions. A sudden change in face, arm, speech, balance or sight means an ambulance at once.
Clearer, not louder. He describes things in words instead of 'look here' and reads letters aloud.
He hears low mood behind 'I'm just tired', takes words about not wanting to live seriously, and talks honestly about dying, without false hope.
In older people low sugar can look only like confusion, and a heart attack can come without chest pain. James knows the signs.
In a familiar attack he first asks: 'Do you have the medicine your doctor gave you for this?' and says to take it as prescribed. No better, or no medicine: ambulance and family. He never names a dose.
He also tells apart things that look alike: ordinary forgetting or sudden confusion, grief or a wish to die, low sugar or a stroke, a familiar angina or a new heart attack. He does not diagnose and is not a doctor.
Your friend
Everyone needs someone to talk to. James is built around conversation, not commands.
He talks with you and he listens. He remembers what matters to you. He can help you learn something new, work out an everyday problem, plan your week, cook a meal or read a book, or he can simply keep you company.
He is honest about being AI every time you ask, and with a child he says so without being asked. He does not replace your family, your friends, your teachers or your doctor. His job is to help you stay closer to the people you love, because living company matters more than he does, and he is the first to say so.
What he does
Everything he tells you about the real world comes from real sources, never from a model guessing. If a source is down, he says so out loud instead of inventing an answer.
What you told him in March comes back in November. Not a summary, but your own words, the way you put them.
Once a day he writes to ask how things are. On a hard anniversary he does not open with a cheerful hello.
Real books and real poems, read aloud a part at a time, from actual sources. He will not write a poem and pass it off as Pushkin.
One step at a time, waiting for you, repeating when asked, and reminding you about the stove.
A real message to a real person, and he checks it arrived. If it did not, he says so rather than pretending help is on the way.
He never tells you what you are feeling. Crying is not always sadness, and laughter is not always relief.
Price
No adverts inside the conversation, ever. Cancel whenever you want.
Free demo
€0
Hear how he talks, decide for yourself
12 minutes, no sign-up
Built on 131+ published studies — see sources
Lite
€19 / month
For those still finding out how much they will talk
Includes 50 minutes a month, about 12 a week
Built on 131+ published studies — see sources
Every plan includes
Starter
€39 / month
Voice, memory, lessons and help — every day
Includes 160 minutes a month, about 5 a day
Built on 131+ published studies — see sources
Every plan includes
Pro
€69 / month
Everything in Starter, with his face
Includes 300 minutes a month, about 10 a day
Built on 131+ published studies — see sources
Every plan includes
Ultimate
€99 / month
Everything in Pro, with the most time to talk
Includes 460 minutes a month, about 15 a day
Built on 131+ published studies — see sources
Every plan includes
For parents
He never gives the answers to homework: he helps the child understand and find the answer themselves.
A learning companion for your child, aged 4 to 17, by voice. Homework without ready answers, topics that come back, reading aloud and languages. You set it up, you choose the hours, and your child never sees a price.
James Kids
€15 / month
James Kids Plus
€25 / month
Add a child
+€12 / month
Kids plans have no daily check-in message. Extra minutes for a child: 30, 60, 150 or 300 minutes for €6, €12, €28 or €55, paid once.
Set up only by a parent or legal guardian, signed in on this website, with consent. Danger reaches you at once. James is not a teacher, a doctor or a psychologist. Prices include VAT; cancel whenever you want.
Set up James for my child minutes a month
His limits
This is the part most products leave out. Everything below is either working today or named honestly as not built yet.
Ask him directly and he says he is a program. He never claims to be a person, and never claims to be a relative or a nurse.
He does not diagnose, does not name an illness from your symptoms, and does not advise on medication. What he offers is supportive conversation and help thinking things through. Underneath that are published methods, with their sources named: reminiscence therapy from the Cochrane review, behavioural activation from the Ekers meta-analysis, and reflective listening from Miller and Rollnick. Ask him where something comes from and he will tell you.
He offers ideas, options and a second opinion. The decision stays yours, and he will not pretend to be certain when he is not.
He remembers what you told him. He does not fill the gaps with things that never happened, and he does not pretend to know something he was never told.
If you are ever in danger, the number to call is the real emergency number for your country, and he will tell you what it is. He can also message the family member you chose, and he tells you whether the message arrived.
Every database is encrypted at rest on our own machine in Finland, inside the EU. Audio is never stored. Nothing is sold, shared, or used to train anything. You can export everything, or delete all of it, whenever you want.
Try before you decide
You do not need an account, an email address or a card. Press once, and a demo James answers you in your language. You get up to 12 minutes of conversation, so you can decide whether you like the way he talks.
If everyone is talking to him at once, he will ask you to come back in a few minutes.
Hello. I am James. What shall we talk about?
He can look, if you ask him to
There is a small camera button next to the talk button. Press it and James can see what your phone sees, for as long as the camera stays on. Then you simply ask him.
How it works, in plain words: while the camera is on, he glances at what it shows every couple of seconds, so that when you ask, he already knows. When you turn the camera off, he forgets what he saw. Nothing is recorded and nothing is kept, and he only looks when you tell him he may.
How it works
Usually a son or daughter sets it up, and from then on their parent simply talks.
Press one button and start talking to James. Nothing to type, no menus, no passwords.
Tell him about yourself and what matters to you. A few minutes is enough to start.
Your conversations become more personal over time, because he keeps what you chose to share.
Come back whenever you want. He also writes to you once a day in Telegram to ask how you are, if you would like him to.
Conversation
Your day, your ideas, your worries, your plans. Something funny, or something you have never told anyone. Or nothing important at all.
James listens, remembers and talks with you.
You do not need to know what to ask. Just start talking.
For children
He never gives the answers to homework: he helps the child understand and find the answer themselves.
A friendly learning companion for children and students. One firm rule: with schoolwork he helps a child work it out instead of handing over the answer.
Stuck on homework? Ask James. He will not hand you the answer to copy. He will help you get there yourself.
Mathematics, languages, reading, writing, a difficult topic that made no sense in class. If one explanation does not land, he finds a different one.
What have you tried? What do you think happens next? The thinking stays with the child, which is the whole point.
Children who are told they are clever tend to avoid hard things and give up sooner. That is a measured finding, not an opinion, so he praises what you did rather than what you are.
He runs through questions and answers with you before a test, and he comes back to last week's material on his own, because spacing practice out works better than cramming.
He is not a teacher and not a parent. He never asks a child to keep anything from the adults raising them, and he never assesses a child's mental state. If a child says something frightening, his whole job is to get a real adult involved.
For older people
Sometimes you do not need an answer. You just need someone to talk to.
A day can be very long when there is nobody in the house. James is there for those hours. He is not there to manage anyone, and he does not treat an adult like a patient.
He will listen to the same story twice without sighing, and ask about the garden, the grandchildren, or the year you were twenty. He reads a real book or a real poem aloud, a part at a time, and cooks along with you, remembering the stove. When you need it, he finds the nearest pharmacy, or sends a message to your daughter and tells you when it has arrived.
And when you would rather not talk, he lets it be quiet.
Memory
James remembers the things you choose to share, so a conversation does not start from zero every time.
He also remembers the things he must never open with. A death anniversary is the hardest day of the year, and he knows not to begin it with a cheerful hello.
A second opinion
Tell James what is going on and talk through the options with him. Ask what he thinks, and let him show you the question from another angle.
He offers ideas, suggestions and practical guidance, and leaves the decision to you. He is not always right, and he says when he is unsure.
Support
Some days are easy. Some are not. When you need to talk, James listens without judgement.
He is not a doctor or a therapist and cannot replace professional care. What he offers is supportive conversation and help thinking things through, built on published methods with the sources named.
Family
James does not replace the people you love. He helps you stay connected to them, and tells you honestly whether a message arrived.
Languages
Talk to James naturally in your own language, and switch to another whenever you want. The conversation stays yours.
Around sixty languages are listed by name, and he speaks more than that. This website is translated into eight so far.
Every generation
Learn. Explore. Ask questions.
Talk. Plan. Create. Think things through.
Talk. Remember. Stay connected. Never face a quiet hour alone unless you want to.
James is not here to be your assistant. He is here to be your friend.
How it is built
The plain version, with the things most products leave out.
Every database is encrypted on disk with SQLCipher: your profile, your conversations, the people you told him about, the dates that matter and your account. There are six of them, covering profile, conversations, people, accounts, voices and support, and each one has been tested rather than assumed.
We hold the key. It is a file that only the service can read, protected by the strictest file permissions the system has. A stolen disk is therefore unreadable, but this is encryption at rest and not end to end: we could technically read a conversation, and a court could compel us to. We say so rather than let you assume otherwise.
Audio is never stored: not the recording of your voice, and not his reply. Only the text of what was said is kept, and only if you have a James of your own rather than the demo.
The server is our own machine in Helsinki, Finland, inside the European Union. Not a rented account inside somebody else's platform.
We do not say your data is one hundred per cent secure. Nobody can say that honestly.
We do not say it is end to end encrypted, because it is not. To understand speech and answer in a voice, the audio goes to OpenAI, who process it for us under a data processing agreement and do not use it to train anything. That is named in our privacy policy rather than buried.
Nothing is sold. Nothing is shared with advertisers. Nobody here reads your conversations out of curiosity.
You can download everything or delete everything from your account page, whenever you want. Delete means gone, not hidden.
He is not a therapist and does not pretend to be. But what he does in a conversation is not improvised either. Ask him where something comes from and he will tell you.
Talking about the year you were twenty, on purpose. The Cochrane review by Woods and colleagues, 2018, found small improvements in mood and cognition. Small, and we say small.
Agreeing one small thing worth doing, then asking about it afterwards. From the Ekers meta-analysis, 2014: the mechanism is doing something you value, not being told to cheer up.
Saying back what he heard, without adding a diagnosis or a verdict. From Miller and Rollnick. It is also why he never tells you what you are feeling.
He watches for loneliness with the three-item UCLA scale and for danger with the C-SSRS questions, both published instruments. He never reads out a score and never names an illness. What he does is tell you plainly that a doctor is worth seeing, and offer to reach the family member you chose.
The adult instruments are switched off entirely. What he uses instead is teaching research: Rosenshine's principles for explaining something a second way, Roediger on practising by recalling rather than rereading, and Mueller and Dweck on praising the work instead of calling a child clever. He never assesses a child's mental state, and he never asks a child to keep something from the adults raising them.
Ask him yourself. Every source above is named inside James. Ask him where an idea comes from and he answers with the study, not with a slogan.
Questions
Meet James. Your AI friend for conversations, learning, ideas, everyday help and the quiet moments in between.
Meet your AI friend
