Comparison

Lore vs GoVoko

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

Head to head
About

Lore

Create and chat with unique AI characters, explore interactive stories, and engage in personalized conversations. Design your own personas with detailed backgrounds and conversation styles, or discover characters shared by the community. Shape your AI interactions with custom settings for a richer storytelling experience.

Highlights
  • Create original AI characters
  • Chat with fictional AI
  • Explore community-shared characters
  • Design detailed personas
  • Customize chat backgrounds and formatting
  • Adjust response length and conversation style
  • Organize conversations with custom titles
Features
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Lore is a place to create original AI characters, explore interactive stories, and have personalized conversations. Discover fictional characters shared by the community or design your own with detailed personalities, backgrounds, conversation styles, and model preferences. Create personas that help characters understand the context of each conversation, then personalize chats with custom titles, backgrounds, formatting, response-length controls, pinned messages, and memory tools. Lore is designed for thoughtful character creation and story-focused conversations. Creators have room to develop richer backstories, clearer behavior, and more consistent personalities. What you can do in Lore: - Chat one-on-one with fictional AI characters - Create private or public original characters - Explore characters shared by the community - Create personas for different story contexts - Import characters you own or have permission to use - Adjust response length and conversation style - Customize chat backgrounds and message formatting - Pin important messages to preserve context - Refresh responses to explore another direction - Organize conversations with custom titles Lore is community-driven. Features are shaped by creator feedback, user suggestions, and the needs of people who enjoy interactive storytelling and character creation. Whether you are developing an original character, continuing a fictional story, exploring an alternate timeline, or looking for a personalized AI conversation, Lore provides tools to shape each experience. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getlore.eu/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://getlore.eu/terms-of-service

About

GoVoko

Features
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GoVoko is an AI companion that gets to know you and remembers your shared moments. Chat in real time with distinctive fictional AI characters. Explore branching stories, build relationships, and create your own characters and interactive scripts. Features: • English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese UI and chat • AI conversations with memory and character voice • Diverse characters, branching stories, and relationship progress • Tools to create a personal character and player-authored story • Clear point costs and balance before paid actions All characters are fictional and generated with AI. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Lore4 screens
GoVoko4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: GoVoko at none against Lore's shown. GoVoko also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lore sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and GoVoko sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lore ships an update weekly, GoVoko daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lore versus GoVoko: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoreGoVoko
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB52 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMaximilian JaroscakJICHUANG DIGITAL LLC

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Lore

Subscriptions3
  • Lore Pro Weekly2 variants$5.997 Days
  • Lore Pro Monthly1 Month trial$14.991 Month
  • Lore Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
One-time9
  • 400 Ink Pack$0.99
  • 950 Ink Pack$1.99
  • 2700 Ink Pack$4.99
Show 6 more
  • 3200 Ink Pack$4.99
  • 6000 Ink Pack$9.99
  • 13000 Ink Pack$19.99
  • 15000 Ink Pack$19.99
  • 35000 Ink Pack$49.99
  • 40000 Ink Pack$49.99
6 purchases

GoVoko

Subscriptions2
  • VIP 會員(月費)$7.991 Month
  • VIP 會員(年費)$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • 1300 點數$9.99
  • 3300 點數$24.99
  • 6600 點數$49.99
Show 1 more
  • 13500 點數$99.99

Questions

Is Lore free?
Lore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GoVoko free?
GoVoko is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lore or GoVoko have ads?
Lore shows ads; GoVoko does not.
Which is updated more often, Lore or GoVoko?
Lore ships an update weekly, and GoVoko daily. Most recently, Lore was updated on October 24, 2026 and GoVoko on October 25, 2026.

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