Sesame for a voice in a quiet home
Updated November 9, 2026
Sesame's app gives you a choice of four ready-made agents, named Maya, Miles, Simone and Charlie. Sesame says each one has "a distinct personality, a point of view, and memory that grows over time," and you can talk to them by voice or text.
What you say by voice and by text feeds the same memory. In Incognito mode nothing is kept in memory or on Sesame's servers. The agents can also look things up online, take notes and set reminders.
- Where it runs
- Sesame app
- How you talk
- Voice or text
- Characters
- Four ready-made agents
- Incognito mode
- Nothing saved to memory or Sesame servers
- Messages first
- No published claim
Best if what you miss most at home is hearing a natural-sounding voice.
Sesame vs Hallie for lonely stretches
Sesame is the best fit here for talking out loud. Hearing a voice in a quiet room is a different kind of company from reading a text. What it doesn't publish is a way to reach out to you, so you still start each conversation in its app.
Hallie is text-based, lives in iMessage or Google Messages, remembers you and checks in first. For company that comes to you during a lonely stretch, Hallie ranks first.
Where Sesame appears
- AI companion for living alone: ranked #3
- AI to talk to when lonely at night: ranked #3
- AI friend for lonely weekends: ranked #4
Sources
- Sesame: official siteSesame's homepage for its voice agents, which it describes as everyday conversation partners on iOS and Android, with eyewear coming later.
- Sesame: App Store listingThe App Store listing for Sesame, describing four ready-made voice and text agents with continuous memory, web search, notes and reminders.