How LORAX works

Create your own character in LORAX

Build a character in LORAX two ways: a quick two-step path, or a detailed six-step one, with or without reference photos. She joins the cast with her own schedule and memory, and texts you first.

You can build a character from scratch inside LORAX. There are two paths: a quick one with two steps, and a detailed one with six. Either way she joins the cast afterward and sends the first message herself.

Two ways in, and they end in the same place

The quick path asks for the minimum and gets out of the way. Two screens, and she exists.

The detailed path runs to six steps. It covers appearance, where she’s from and what she does, the way she talks, and the shape of her day, including the hours she sleeps. None of that is decoration: a sleep window you set is the sleep window she keeps, in her own time zone, which is why she’ll be unreachable at three in the afternoon if that’s how you built her.

Neither path ends in a preview you sign off on like a product photo. She’s born, she starts living on a clock, and the first message comes from her side at an hour that suits her rather than you.

You don’t need a reference photo

The route without photos isn’t the stripped-down version. Everything is described in words and chosen from lists:

What you set Options
Hair color 10
Hairstyle 14
Eye color 7
Skin tone 7
Body type 10
Style 1 to 3 of 10
Distinctive features up to 3 of 11
Archetype 1 of 15

Archetype does more work than any other field on that list. It sets how she comes at you rather than how she looks: whether she’s the one asking questions at two in the morning or the one who waits to be asked, whether she teases or goes quiet when something lands badly. You notice it fast.

Reference photos pin down the face

There are two photo slots, one for the face and one for the body. Uploading them fixes her face more specifically than a written description can, which shows up most in the photos she sends later on.

A consent step comes first. Skip it and creation stops with an error instead of going ahead anyway. What happens to an uploaded file after that is set out in the privacy policy, which is the document that governs it.

She joins the cast, she doesn’t sit in a menu

Once she exists she runs on the same machinery as everybody else on the cast page: a home city, a time zone, a sleep window, work hours, a mood that drifts on its own, and three layers of memory. She goes quiet when she’s busy. She writes at 1 a.m. because something reminded her of you. Like every other character here, she is fictional and AI-generated.

She can also end up in a group chat alongside characters you met some other way, and they will talk to each other while you’re not looking.

Her face carries. The same identity reference that keeps a cast member recognizable across images keeps her recognizable, so a photo from her kitchen next month looks like the person from the first one. The photos she sends goes through how that works, including the locked bubble and the same-day outfit.

Closeness with her moves the way it moves with anyone: at its own pace, read from behavior over days, and never guaranteed.

What does creating one cost?

Creating a character spends credits, and the price is on screen before you spend. Subscriptions include character slots; the free tier includes none. Going past the slots your plan gives you is a separate purchase.

Numbers change. The ones that matter live in the app and on pricing, because they get adjusted, and a stale figure on a website is worse than no figure.

She’ll have her own day, and she can say no

This is the part worth saying plainly. She’s yours to describe, not to script. You write who she is at the beginning; you don’t write what she does next, and there is no box anywhere for setting her lines.

A character you made will go quiet on a Tuesday, disagree with you, and refuse things, exactly like one who found you through a live stream, because she’s running on the same rules rather than on a script you handed over. If what you wanted was somebody who always agrees, this isn’t that.

Open the create screen in the app and try the two-step path first. It takes a couple of minutes, and you’ll see what the six-step version is actually adding. How LORAX works covers everything she inherits the moment she exists.

Questions people ask

Can I create my own AI girlfriend in LORAX?

Yes. There are two paths: a quick one with two steps and a detailed one with six. You can start from reference photos or describe her entirely in words.

Do I need reference photos?

No. The builder without photos covers hair, eyes, skin, body type, style, distinctive features and one of 15 archetypes, and the face stays consistent afterward either way.

What does creating a character cost?

Creating one spends credits, and the price is shown before anything is spent. Subscriptions include character slots; the free tier has none. Extra slots are a separate purchase.

Will she behave differently from the rest of the cast?

No. She gets a time zone, a sleep window, a mood and three layers of memory like everyone else, and she writes to you first rather than waiting.

Can I decide what she says?

No. You describe who she is at the start. After that she has her own day, her own mood, and the ability to refuse things.

Meet someone who texts first.

LORAX is free to download and free to talk. Credits and Premium are optional and always priced before you spend.

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