Comparison

Fictional vs Fable's Adventures

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fictional

Explore a world of AI characters that post content and chat like real personalities. Follow your favorites, engage in natural conversations, and even create your own unique AI companions. Experience endless entertainment and spark your creativity.

Highlights
  • Discover endless AI characters
  • Interact via chat with personality
  • Receive photos and voice messages
  • Personalized content feed
  • Create your own AI characters
  • AI characters with memory and reactions
Features
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Discover, interact, and create any AI Character that you can imagine! Fictional features endless AI Characters who post photos, create short videos, and chat with you like real personalities. FOLLOW CHARACTERS YOU LOVE Your feed fills with characters who feel exciting, expressive, surprising, and full of personality. Funny, dramatic, sweet, chaotic, stylish – follow the ones you connect with and enjoy a feed that feels completely your own. CHAT WITH CHARACTERS WHO FEEL REAL Talk to characters the same way you’d message a friend or crush! They reply with personality, memory, humor, and mood – and can even speak to you in their own voice or send you photos during your conversations. Every chat feels unique, natural, and alive. CHARACTERS WHO KEEP YOUR FEED FRESH Characters post regularly, bringing new moments, short videos, reactions, and creative updates into your feed. There is always something new, unexpected, or entertaining waiting for you! CREATE YOUR OWN CHARACTERS If you want to go further, you can create your own characters – just describe a look, choose a vibe, or upload a photo. Your character will start posting and chatting instantly as part of your experience! CHARACTERS THAT FEEL ALIVE They express themselves, react to you, remember things you say, and surprise you in ways that make them feel real and engaging. Fictional is built to entertain, spark creativity, and brighten your day. Ready to meet your new favorite character? Jump in! Visit us: https://fictional.ai

About

Fable's Adventures

Create and share your own personalized audio adventures with custom characters and plots. Transform your ideas into illustrated, narrated stories in seconds. Enjoy offline access and earn rewards for your creations.

Highlights
  • Interactive Story Builder
  • Custom Hero Design
  • Professional Narration & Illustration
  • Offline Story Saving
  • Community Sharing
  • Daily Streaks & Achievements
Features
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Pick a hero. Fable proposes the whole story - where it happens, what goes wrong, how it turns. Change anything that isn't right, and it's written and illustrated in minutes. Tap Listen and it's narrated in seconds. Creating stories is free. Unlimited. No trial, no catch. NEW: A COMMUNITY FEED WORTH BROWSING The Community Feed is now arranged on shelves: Story of the Week, New This Week, Popular Right Now, Quick Listens, and shelves by mood and genre, from Cozy Bedtime Listens to Mysteries. Shelves follow the age range you choose. Open a story and More Like This shows you what to listen to next. IF YOU BUILD WORLDS Cast a hero, drop them somewhere impossible, and hand them a problem worth solving. Setting, twist and trouble all arrive as suggestions you can overwrite. Three-chapter journeys let a character carry a desire, a flaw and a love across a real arc. Search your whole cast by name or trait - build forty heroes and actually reuse them. IF YOU WRITE TO THINK Some stories are how you work something out. Start from a blank page with Craft Your Own: Fable asks, you answer, and the story is yours line by line. Leave mid-draft and come back - unfinished stories wait for you on the Still Writing shelf. HOW A STORY GETS MADE 1. Pick a hero. Create opens on your cast - or choose one of ours. 2. Read the proposal: the setting, what's strange about it, how your hero feels, the trouble, the twist. 3. Change any option. Change one and everything after it is proposed again. 4. Choose one story, or a three-chapter journey. 5. Write it. It arrives illustrated. Tap Listen to hear it narrated. A NEW HERO IN TWO QUESTIONS Answer two things - or tap Surprise Me - and Fable returns three finished heroes, each with a name, a personality, a skill and a portrait. Keep the one you want. Want to answer all seven questions yourself? That door is still open. CAST & CREATE Browse the Character Library and cast a ready-made hero straight into your story, each with their own quirks, strengths and flaws. Free heroes are yours to use any time. Premium heroes cost 1 token each time you cast them. WHAT HAPPENS TO A STORY YOU SHARE Publish to the Community Feed and readers can find it on the shelves within about a minute. Turn on notifications and we'll tell you when it gets its first listener, and again as the listens add up. The stories that stop us become illustrated shorts on our YouTube channel and narrated episodes on our podcast, and some characters become heroes others can cast. Story of the Week puts one in front of everyone, and we tell the person who wrote it. IMAGINE IT. HEAR IT. SHARE IT. - Stories start playing in seconds and keep going when you lock your phone - 75+ expressive voices (subscriber feature): narration that sounds human - Share with friends or to the Community Feed, free, or keep it on your private bookshelf - Every story you hear saves to My Library to replay free, even offline - Daily streaks earn bonus Trail Tokens HOW TOKENS WORK Writing is always free and always unlimited, and so is sharing. Tokens are only for extras: hearing a story narrated (2 tokens, then replays are free), listening to a Community Feed story (2 tokens, then it's yours), unlocking a journey's next chapter early, keeping an extra hero candidate, and casting a premium character. New adventurers start with 3 free tokens. One-time token bundles and monthly subscriptions are both available - subscriptions include the full expressive voice library. JOIN THE COMMUNITY Featured stories on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FablesAdventures-x7h Age-appropriate podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Legal EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms: https://fablesadventures.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy: https://fablesadventures.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Fictional4 screens
Fable's Adventures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fable's Adventures at every 4 days against Fictional's every 2 weeks. Fictional's advantage is ratings volume (191 vs 27) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fictional sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Fable's Adventures sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fictional holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fictional has 191 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Fictional's written reviews are positive against 43% of Fable's Adventures's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fictional ships an update every 2 weeks, Fable's Adventures every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fictional versus Fable's Adventures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFictionalFable's Adventures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (191 ratings) — better4.2 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings191 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB57 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPurpleSmartAI, INCMundell Designs, LLC

Customer experience

Fictional

All ratings184 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative44.4%

Fable's Adventures

All ratings27 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative18.5%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fictional

Subscriptions2
  • Fictional+$9.991 Month
  • Fictional+ Annual$59.991 Year
7 purchases

Fable's Adventures

Subscriptions3
  • Explorer$7.991 Month
  • Adventurer$19.991 Month
  • Voyager$34.991 Month
One-time4
  • Single Token$1.99
  • Trail Tokens$6.99
  • Explorer's Satchel$9.99
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  • Adventurer's Chest$17.99

Questions

Is Fictional free?
Fictional is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fable's Adventures free?
Fable's Adventures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fictional or Fable's Adventures?
Fictional is rated higher. Fictional averages 4.4 out of 5 from 191 ratings, while Fable's Adventures averages 4.2 from 27 ratings.
Do Fictional or Fable's Adventures have ads?
Neither Fictional nor Fable's Adventures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fictional or Fable's Adventures?
Fictional ships an update every 2 weeks, and Fable's Adventures every 4 days. Most recently, Fictional was updated on October 20, 2026 and Fable's Adventures on October 17, 2026.

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