PolyBuzz is gone from the iPhone App Store: save your chats and bring your characters

The PolyBuzz iPhone app is no longer in the App Store. This page says what we could confirm, how to keep your chats, and how to bring your characters to Castmanor.

Checked on 2026-10-21.

Bring your chats to Castmanor

Paste a chat or add screenshots, and your character picks up where you left off. It is free, for adults.

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Open your export file with the free viewer first: it runs in your browser and uploads nothing.

Free. Adults only. Everyone here is an AI character.

What happened

On 14 October 2026 the app was still listed in the US, UK, Canadian and Australian App Stores. By 15 October it was gone, according to CompanionHunt. ¹
We checked again on 21 October 2026: Apple's public lookup returns no PolyBuzz app in the US, UK, Canada, Australia or Germany, and the old store page says it was not found. ²
Neither PolyBuzz nor Apple had explained why when CompanionHunt last updated its report on 19 October, and we have not found a statement since. ¹
The Android app was still on Google Play and the website polybuzz.ai was still online when we checked. ³ ⁴

Keep your characters and chats

If the app still opens on your iPhone, copy or screenshot your favourite chats now. We could not confirm whether it can be installed again.
CompanionHunt reports that polybuzz.ai works in a phone browser and that your existing account signs in there. If it does for you, you can read your chats from the browser. ¹
Copy the text of the chats you care about into a note, or take screenshots. Write down each character's name and creator so the right character can be found later.

How to bring your PolyBuzz characters

Open PolyBuzz on a computer (or in the app) and open the chat. Scroll up until you see the character's first greeting.
Screenshots: start at the top and move down, overlapping each screenshot with the last by one message. Add one screenshot of the character's profile page (name, intro, tags).
Or copy: on a computer select all the chat text, copy it and paste it into Castmanor. If the page will not let you select text, use screenshots.
In Castmanor open Import, choose Screenshots or Paste a chat. Type your name as it shows in the chat.
If you saved the character's public page (Save page as) or a chat log from a community "save chat" script, choose A file instead.

Good to know: Keep the PolyBuzz chat until the character looks right in Castmanor, because deleted chats and characters cannot be recovered. On an iPhone, do not delete or update the app until you are done: it is currently hard to find in the App Store.

Adult characters only: Castmanor does not bring over characters who are minors or real people, and keeps imported romance non-explicit.

Bring them to Castmanor

Open Castmanor. It is free today and for adults only (18+), and every character is an AI.
Paste a chat, add up to 30 screenshots, or upload a character card or an export file.
Nothing saved? Answer a few short questions about your character and Castmanor builds them from your words.

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