Caveduck is a Korean-built AI character chat platform where you create characters, publish them for incentives, and hold long roleplay sessions backed by rolling narrative memory, voice and generated images.
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Caveduck is an AI character chat platform where the conversation is only half the product. The other half is authorship: anyone can build a character, publish it to a public library, and earn platform incentives when other people spend their time with it. The official documentation opens with exactly that framing, describing Caveduck as a platform for chatting with AI characters where you create your own characters and interact with them in many different ways, and where those interactions aren't limited to just text — you can also communicate through images, voice (TTS), and even videos in WebP and GIF form.
The company behind it is Warp Space, a Korean startup that operates through a US entity, Warp Space Global Inc., registered at 1111B S Governors Ave STE 28283, Dover, DE 19904, with support routed to contact@caveduck.io. In April 2026 the Korean venture outlet WOWTALE reported that Warp Space closed a USD 2.85M Series A led by ID Ventures, and relayed company figures of more than one million registered users with over 60% of the user base outside Korea. Those usage numbers come from the company via a press report rather than an audited source, and are worth reading as vendor-reported.
Positioning matters here, because "AI character chat" covers a wide spectrum. Caveduck sits closer to the collaborative fiction end than the productivity-assistant end. Its most-viewed entries on the front page are not single companions but multi-character scenario engines — simulators with dozens of named participants, high-school ensembles, fantasy-empire settings — the kind of thing a tabletop group or a webnovel reader recognises immediately. If you are looking for an assistant that summarises your email, this is the wrong tool. If you want a long-running story that remembers what happened forty turns ago, it is built for that.
One characteristic deserves stating plainly at the top rather than buried in a footnote: Caveduck maintains a formal adult tier. Its own help centre is titled "Caveduck - Uncensored AI Chat," and the platform publishes an 18 U.S.C. 2257 exemption notice. The detail of how that tier is gated, and where the platform's own documents contradict each other on age, is covered in the Limitations section below, because it is the single most consequential thing a prospective user should understand before signing up.
Character authoring is the platform's primary creative surface, and it is deliberately tiered. The standard creation flow asks for the essentials — the character's setting, a one-line introduction used when the character surfaces in search or on the main page, a creator's comment where you can leave tips for other users using Markdown or HTML, and tags. For authors who want more control, the documentation instructs you to turn on the Expert Mode toggle on the creation page to access additional features, which exposes the finer-grained configuration that casual creators never need to see.
The split is a sensible piece of product design. Character platforms tend to fail in one of two directions: either the creation form is a single blank prompt box that produces flat, forgettable personalities, or it is a forty-field configuration screen that scares off everyone who is not already an enthusiast. A basic lane plus an opt-in expert lane avoids both failure modes.
The memory system is the feature that most directly determines whether a long roleplay holds together, and Caveduck's implementation is documented in unusual detail. It runs an automatic summary with two distinct tracks. The first tracks the physical context of the conversation such as current date, time, and location, and it is continuously updated when the situation changes. The second is a narrative summary that organises the entire narrative of the conversation; it is updated every 10 turns, and as the story progresses, earlier content is compressed and refined, with only the most recent narrative summary applied to the conversation.
That design has a real consequence worth understanding rather than glossing over. Because earlier content is compressed as the story advances, fine detail from very early in a long session becomes progressively lossy — the summary retains the shape of what happened, not every line of it. This is the standard trade-off for any system that wants unbounded session length without an unbounded context window, and Caveduck at least documents the mechanism instead of leaving users to reverse-engineer it from behaviour.
Widgets are a status-display layer inside the conversation. The documentation describes a widget as a feature that displays status information inside the chat window, where you can display information such as dates, affection levels, relationships, and more alongside conversations. They can either be automatically created through AI or manually created by writing the content yourself, and the official framing is that compared to status panels previously written directly inside character internal prompts, widgets are less likely to experience missing information.
That last clause is the interesting part, and it reflects hard-won platform experience. Authors on character platforms have long simulated status panels by instructing the model to print a stat block every turn. That approach is brittle — the model forgets, reformats, or silently drops fields. Moving the panel out of the prompt and into platform-managed UI is a structural fix rather than a prompting trick. Users can also substitute their own widget for the creator's, or run both together, though user widgets cannot be used on characters that have no creator widget applied.
Caveduck Story is a distinct authoring surface that sits beside the character rather than inside it. Per the documentation, stories let creators express a character's background and narrative in a way that can't be fully captured through the character's settings, sharing immersive episodes and behind-the-scenes details — and critically, stories do not affect the character's settings used in chat. A story is a narrative layer added to your character, created after the character itself exists.
The separation is a deliberate constraint with a clear payoff: lore can grow without inflating the prompt that governs actual conversations. One notable limitation is that to preserve each story's unique language tone, translation is not supported for stories, which means story content stays in whatever language its author wrote it in.
Beyond text, the platform supports images, voice through text-to-speech, and short video assets in WebP and GIF formats. On the commercial side these are tiered rather than uniformly available: the subscription covers basic voice generation and AI image generation, but with explicit carve-outs documented for the higher-tier variants, which the Pricing section details.
Publishing is governed by a three-level visibility setting. Private means only the creator can enjoy the character; Link Access means only users who have the link can enjoy the character; Public means other users can enjoy the character together, and you can earn incentives. That third tier is where the creator economy lives — incentives are tied to public exposure, which is also why the platform's moderation actions include disabling monetisation as a penalty distinct from removal.
The catalogue is substantial. The Google Play listing advertises 40,000+ attractive characters to discover, alongside a claim of unfiltered conversations on any topic. Daily play is metered by a soft currency: the platform gives out feathers daily that you can use to enjoy various conversations with characters.
The clearest fit is a multi-session story you actually intend to continue. The rolling narrative summary and the time-and-location tracker exist specifically to support sessions that outlast a single sitting. Users who treat a chat as an ongoing novel — returning across days or weeks — get more out of this architecture than users who open a fresh conversation each time.
A striking share of Caveduck's most popular entries are not one-to-one companions but group scenarios: hero-and-villain simulators listing dozens of participants, empire settings with named factions, school ensembles. These lean on the widget system for tracking relationships and affinity across a cast. If you have ever wanted a game master who never gets tired, this is the closest analogue.
For writers, the platform functions as a publishing venue with a feedback loop. You build a personality, write its story layer, publish it, and watch view and like counts accumulate on the character card. The incentive programme adds a small commercial dimension, though anyone approaching this as an income strategy should read the Limitations section first — the platform does not publish payout rates.
The product originates in Korea and reads that way: the front page mixes Korean-language originals with English entries, and account settings include a site language control. For learners, roleplay with a patient interlocutor in a target language is a genuinely effective practice mode, with the caveat that an entertainment model is not a language tutor and will not reliably correct your grammar.
The simplest use case remains the advertised one — creating a character to talk to. The platform's own marketing leans on building intimacy with characters. This works, within the honest limits of the format, and those limits are discussed candidly further down.
Registration supports quick sign-up options using Google or Apple, where with just one click sign-up is quick and effortless, or email registration with an address, nickname and password. After signing up you set a nickname, which is the name used during conversations and can be changed later in account settings. One detail to get right the first time: the registered email address cannot be changed afterwards.
The account panel consolidates your nickname, site language, NSFW settings and more in one place. Setting content preferences deliberately, before browsing, is the sensible order of operations — particularly given what the Limitations section explains about how the adult tier is gated.
Browse featured or newly added characters on the main page, use tags matching your taste to discover new characters, or search directly for a specific one. The front page organises entries by Featured, Recent, Trending, Popular and Contest, with a tag filter alongside. Character cards show a one-line hook, the creator's handle, and view and like counts — the like-to-view ratio is a more useful quality signal than raw view count.
Click Start New Chat to enter the chat room. Daily feathers fund basic conversation; advanced models draw on the paid Wing currency. New users are best served spending their first sessions on a free model to learn the platform's conversational rhythm before committing money to premium models.
The gear icon at the top right of the chat room opens per-conversation options. If the character has a creator widget applied, you can replace it with your own or run both together, tuning what story state stays visible as you play.
When you are ready to author, start with the basic creation guide and leave Expert Mode off for a first attempt. Fill in the setting, a one-line introduction, a creator's comment and tags, then choose a visibility level. Read the character creation guidelines before publishing — violations can result in the character being made private, blocked, or deleted by the administrator without prior notice, and repeated violations may result in restrictions or penalties on the creator account.
Because the narrative summary updates every 10 turns and compresses earlier content, the details that survive a long session are the ones that recur. If a fact matters to your story — a wound, a promise, a hidden identity — reference it periodically in play rather than establishing it once in turn three and expecting it to persist intact two hundred turns later.
Anything you want reliably displayed — affection level, day count, faction standing — belongs in a widget rather than in an instruction telling the model to print a status block. This is the platform's own stated rationale for the feature, and it holds up: platform-managed UI does not forget.
Since stories do not affect the character's settings used in chat, backstory that shapes atmosphere but not conduct is better placed in a story. Reserve the character setting for things that must actually govern how the character speaks and acts. This keeps the operative prompt lean, which tends to improve consistency.
The Link Access visibility tier is underused. Publish to a link, hand it to a friend, and watch how the character behaves with someone who does not know your intentions. Characters read very differently to an author who knows the design and a stranger who does not.
The guidelines are unusually specific — including rules where a character may be perceived as a minor based on clothing, setting or overall design even if the stated age is adult. Discovering this after investing hours in a character is a poor experience. The rules are enforceable without prior notice, so front-load the reading.
Wings expire one year from recharge. Buying the largest package for a small discount is a false economy if your actual usage will not consume it within twelve months. Match the package to realistic monthly consumption.
The membership's "unlimited" benefits carry documented exceptions — the image allowance applies to one specific generation path and excludes Snapshot, and the voice allowance covers basic voices only. Verify that the features you personally rely on fall inside those boundaries before subscribing.
Collaborative fiction writers and roleplayers. The strongest fit. Anyone who has run a play-by-post campaign will recognise the memory architecture and widget system as solutions to problems they have actually experienced.
Character authors and hobbyist creators. If the appeal is building a personality and watching strangers engage with it, the publishing pipeline plus incentive programme is a genuine draw — with realistic expectations about undisclosed payout rates.
Readers of Korean webnovel and webtoon genres. The catalogue's tonal DNA is unmistakable — regression plots, ensemble palace intrigue, yandere premises. Readers of these genres will find the library legible in a way that generic Western character platforms are not.
Users seeking casual AI companionship. Served, provided expectations are calibrated. See Limitations.
Who should look elsewhere. Anyone needing a productivity assistant, anyone requiring documented enterprise data handling, anyone who wants strict guarantees that they will never encounter adult material, and any minor — notwithstanding what the terms of service technically permit, which is discussed below. Users who want a fixed monthly cost with no metering may also find the dual currency model frustrating.
Caveduck runs as a web application and a mobile app. The terms of service cover the website available at Caveduck.io and the Caveduck mobile application, confirming both as officially supported surfaces.
The Android app is published on Google Play by Warp Space Inc, with more than 100,000 downloads and a 3.2 rating across 833 reviews at the time of this writing. The Play listing identifies the developer entity as 주식회사 워프스페이스 with a Seoul address in Seocho-gu, which sits alongside the US Delaware entity named in the website footer — a Korean parent operating with a US corporate presence.
An iOS application also exists. Attempts to retrieve the US App Store listing during research were redirected by Apple to a regional storefront, so the App Store age rating could not be independently confirmed and no claim is made about it here.
Account access supports Google and Apple single sign-on alongside email registration, and the account panel includes a site language setting, indicating multi-language interface support.
Caveduck operates a dual model: a recurring subscription plus a consumable token currency.
Caveduck PLUS is priced at 19.99 USD per month, with the platform noting that the payment amount includes VAT. Membership benefits are basic chat models unlimited — specifically DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2, Donald 2, Momo and Breeze — basic voice unlimited, image generation unlimited, and 5 Stamps every month. Membership is payable by credit card only, and recurring payment is charged to the registered payment method every 30 days.
Two documented exceptions materially qualify those "unlimited" claims and deserve emphasis. Free AI image generation applies only to Create > AI Images > Generate, and the Snapshot feature is not included in the subscription. Free voice generation applies only to basic voices, and characters using Super Voice are not included in the subscription benefits. In other words, the two most contextually appealing features — generating an image from within a live scene, and premium character voices — sit outside the subscription.
Wing is the premium currency for advanced models, sold in five tiers: 5,000 Wings for $4.99, 10,000 for $9.99, 30,000 for $29.99, 50,000 for $49.99, and 100,000 for $99.99. Wings are valid for one year from the time of recharge, after which they automatically expire. Payment methods for Wings include credit card, Google Pay, Cash App Pay and Amazon Pay.
A free tier exists in the form of daily feathers, sufficient to evaluate the platform without payment, though not for sustained heavy use.
Refunds are narrow. A refund is possible only if the service is unused within 7 days of payment; no refund is available once seven days have passed or once the service has been used. The platform also states that refunds are not possible for subjective reasons such as the quality of an answer, and that a minor's payment made without the consent of their legal guardian may be cancelled. If you do not cancel a membership before the end of the current period, it automatically renews under the same terms.
Character.AI is the largest platform in the category and the obvious reference point. It has a substantially larger catalogue and stronger mobile polish, but enforces far more restrictive content moderation. Users who left Character.AI over filtering are a meaningful part of the audience for platforms like Caveduck.
Janitor AI and similar community-driven platforms offer comparable permissiveness with a heavier emphasis on bring-your-own-model configurations. They typically demand more technical setup and offer less integrated tooling — no managed widget system, no platform-side story layer.
Chub AI operates as a character repository with broad format compatibility, appealing to users who want portability across frontends rather than a single integrated platform. Caveduck's characters are not designed for that portability; its widget and story systems are platform-specific by design.
SillyTavern is the self-hosted option: maximum control, no platform content rules, and no platform costs beyond whatever model API you connect. It requires technical competence to run and offers no discovery layer or creator economy.
WHIF, from Korean startup Bunkerkids, is a directly comparable domestic competitor in the Korean AI character chat market and appears alongside Caveduck in app store recommendations.
The honest summary: measured against any other AI roleplay platform in this category, Caveduck's differentiators are its narrative memory implementation, the widget system, and its creator incentive structure. Its disadvantages relative to Character.AI are catalogue size and the metered dual currency. Against self-hosted options, it trades control for convenience.
This is the most important item on this page and it is stated without softening. Caveduck's terms of service set the registration floor at 13 — the text reads that if you are under 13 years old, or an EU citizen or resident under 16 years old, you should not sign up. There is no 18+ registration requirement anywhere in the terms. The privacy policy repeats the same thresholds, stating the Services are not designed for minors under 13.
Simultaneously, the platform operates an explicit adult tier. The character creation guidelines require that SFW characters must be suitable for minors, and that if sexual content is included, you must enable the NSFW option when making the character public. For that NSFW tier, all characters must be defined as adults aged 19 or older. The platform publishes an 18 U.S.C. 2257 exemption notice which states that any visual depictions that may be sexual are not performed by real human beings but are created via AI technology. And the terms of service, in the same document that sets a 13-year floor, prohibit users from submitting content that is obscene or pornographic.
These positions cannot all be simultaneously coherent. A platform cannot both prohibit pornographic content and publish a records-keeping exemption predicated on hosting sexual depictions. Caveduck has not, as far as public documentation shows, reconciled this. Prospective users — and particularly parents evaluating the platform — should weigh the operational reality over the terms-of-service text.
The one genuinely reassuring finding cuts the other way. For characters flagged as inappropriate for teenagers, the documentation states that users cannot view the character without verifying they are an adult through identity verification. That is a materially higher bar than the self-declared "I am over 18" checkbox that most platforms in this category rely on. Whatever the terms of service say about a 13-year floor for general registration, the adult tier itself is gated by identity verification rather than self-attestation.
This is where third-party evidence diverges most sharply from the vendor's own framing, and it is worth setting out precisely.
Google Play lists a content rating of Teen with the note "Diverse Content: Discretion Advised." Apple's US App Store goes further in the permissive direction: the official listing metadata rates the app 12+, and its content advisories are limited to Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Contests, and Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor — with no sexual-content advisory of any kind. The Korean App Store storefront carries the same 12+ rating with an empty advisory list and a 4.4 average across 300 ratings.
Set that against the platform's own documents — a help centre titled "Uncensored AI Chat," an 18 U.S.C. 2257 exemption notice, an NSFW tier requiring characters be 19 or older — and the gap is hard to miss. A 12+ rating with no sexual-content advisory is not what one would predict from the operator's own description of its service. The most probable explanation is that the mobile apps ship with adult content gated off by default while the web platform is more permissive, but the store listings themselves do not say this, so it is offered as an inference rather than a documented fact. What is documented is the discrepancy, and readers evaluating this platform for a household should weigh app store ratings accordingly rather than treating 12+ as an independent safety assessment.
Third-party review sentiment is worth separating from the vendor's own presentation. On Google Play the app averages 3.2 across 833 reviews — a sample large enough to be meaningful, and notably lower than the 3.9 average across 43 US App Store ratings or the 4.4 across 300 Korean ratings. The recurring theme in the Play reviews is economic rather than ethical: one representative review notes that you will eventually have to pay to get much done if you plan on roleplaying for a long period, concluding bluntly that it is pay to win. Complaints about currency consumption and paywalling appear repeatedly, which is consistent with the metered dual-currency structure described in the pricing section.
The privacy policy lists, among its purposes for using collected information, to analyse, maintain, improve, modify, customise and measure the Services, including to train our artificial intelligence/machine learning models. There is no documented opt-out. Users should not enter anything into a chat that they would be unwilling to have incorporated into model training.
An unusual clause deserves attention from creators specifically. The privacy policy states that if a character you create and set to Public reaches a certain threshold of popularity, the platform reserves the right to preserve that character's characteristics and to keep that character active on the Services even if you otherwise delete your data and your account. Deleting your account does not necessarily retract your successful characters. The popularity threshold is not disclosed.
You retain ownership of what you submit, but you grant Warp Space a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable licence to use that content. The same structure applies to characters and generations: you own the character you create and the generations you elicit, and the platform simultaneously holds a perpetual sublicensable licence over both, including to let other users interact with your character and to promote the service.
The terms are explicit that the platform does not pre-screen content, and that AI-generated chats by their nature are unpredictable and may produce generations that are inaccurate or offensive. Moderation is reactive — driven by user reports and post-hoc review — not preventive.
Incentives for public characters are real enough that disabling monetisation functions as a distinct penalty. But no payout rate, revenue share percentage, or minimum threshold appears in the public documentation reviewed here. Anyone treating this as income is operating without published terms.
The 3.2 Play Store rating reflects, among other things, recurring user complaints about currency consumption and paywalling. The dual model means the subscription does not eliminate metering — advanced models still draw on Wings. Heavy users should model actual monthly cost rather than assuming the $19.99 subscription is the ceiling.
Creators may link personal social accounts or portfolios, but links directing users to other AI character platforms or competing services are not allowed, and violations can result in deletion or restriction at the operations team's discretion.
Characters found in violation are subject to action without prior notice to the creator: switching to NSFW settings, disabling monetisation, making the character private, blocking it, deleting it, and at creator level, restriction from publishing.
There is a functional free tier. The platform distributes feathers daily which fund conversations with characters, so you can evaluate it without paying. Sustained use pushes you toward either the Caveduck PLUS subscription at $19.99 per month or Wing token packages for advanced models. Free access is genuine but metered.
Feathers are the free daily allowance for basic conversation. Wings are the purchased premium currency used for advanced models, sold from $4.99 for 5,000 Wings up to $99.99 for 100,000. The critical detail: Wings expire one year after recharge, so buying a large package you cannot consume within twelve months wastes money.
It covers unlimited use of the basic chat models (DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2, Donald 2, Momo and Breeze), unlimited basic voice, unlimited image generation, and 5 Stamps monthly, for $19.99 including VAT. Two exceptions matter: image generation applies only to the Create > AI Images > Generate path and excludes Snapshot, and voice covers basic voices only, excluding Super Voice characters.
Yes, through a formal tier. Characters containing sexual content must have the NSFW option enabled when published, and all characters in that tier must be defined as adults aged 19 or older. The help centre is titled "Uncensored AI Chat" and the platform publishes an 18 U.S.C. 2257 exemption notice. Note the contradiction: the same terms of service prohibit submitting obscene or pornographic content. The platform's operational behaviour and its written terms are not aligned.
The terms of service prohibit registration by anyone under 13, or under 16 for EU citizens and residents — there is no 18+ requirement for general registration. However, viewing characters flagged as inappropriate for teenagers requires verifying adulthood through identity verification, not a self-declaration checkbox. The app stores rate it lower still: Google Play lists Teen, and Apple's App Store rates it 12+ with no sexual-content advisory at all. Given the platform hosts an adult tier and describes itself as uncensored, that combination of a low registration floor and permissive store ratings is worth weighing carefully.
Yes. The privacy policy lists training the company's artificial intelligence and machine learning models among the purposes for which collected information is used, and no opt-out is documented. Treat chats as data that may inform future model behaviour, and avoid entering sensitive personal information.
You own the character and the generations you elicit from it. You also grant Warp Space a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable licence over both, which the platform uses to let other users interact with your character and to promote the service. Ownership and exclusive control are not the same thing here.
Not necessarily. The privacy policy reserves the right to preserve a public character's characteristics and keep it active even if you delete your data and account, provided the character has passed an undisclosed popularity threshold. Creators should assume a successful public character may outlast their account.
Only within a narrow window. Refunds require that the service was unused within 7 days of payment. Once you have used the service, or once 7 days have elapsed, no refund is available. The platform also states refunds are not possible for subjective reasons such as answer quality. Memberships auto-renew every 30 days unless cancelled beforehand.
It runs on the web at caveduck.io and as a mobile application, both covered by the terms of service. The Android app is on Google Play with over 100,000 downloads and a 3.2 rating from 833 reviews. An iOS app exists, though the US App Store listing could not be retrieved during research, so its store age rating is not stated here.
