Talkie is still listed in both app stores. On October 14, 2026, Google Play's pages for the US and for India showed its Android app, "Talkie: Creative AI Community". The listing had been updated four days before and counted more than 50 million downloads. Its iPhone app now goes by Talkie Lab. Apple listed it in the US, the UK and Japan in a version of October. 9 It still returned no listing for India, Bangladesh, Morocco, China or Taiwan. Talkie's own terms settle the proxy question. A user blocked by Talkie agrees not to get around the block, and the terms give a proxy IP address as an example.
We read Talkie's terms and privacy policy, its store listings, Wikipedia's article on its maker and a guide to its store gaps on October 14, 2026, as text from our server. This page shows no way around a block that Talkie placed, or around a filter on a school or office network.
What the terms say about proxies
Talkie put its position in writing. Its terms, updated April 23, 2025, say: "If you are blocked by Talkie from accessing the Services (including by blocking your IP address), you agree not to implement any measures to circumvent such blocking". The examples they give are masking your IP address and using a proxy IP address. The same terms forbid data mining, robots and scraping. They also say that Talkie "may suspend or terminate your use of the Services as a result of your fraud or breach of any obligation under these Terms". Such a step may come at once and without notice.
The terms set the minimum age at 14, "except where a higher minimum age is required by local law". They list 15 for five countries, such as France and Denmark, and 16 for eighteen, such as Germany, Brazil and Poland. The privacy policy, dated 12/09/2025 as printed, lists the device and network data that Talkie logs on its own. It names "browser, IP address, device and cookie identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area". It also says that "Our Services are operated from the United States of America".
So the "talkie unblocked" question has a short answer for a block that Talkie placed: a proxy against it breaks the terms, and we do not sell for it. A school or office that filters its own network sets its own rules, and this page gives no steps around them either.
What people search about Talkie
The name alone draws the most: Keyword Planner counted 823,000 searches a month worldwide for "talkie ai" on October 14, 2026. Among the longer phrases, "talkie lab" drew 5,400 and "talkie web" 1,600. "talkie unblocked" averaged 880, and its last three months drew 56% more searches than the three before them. The ban questions are fading. "did talkie ai get banned" averaged 260, with 88% fewer searches in the last three months than in the three before. "is talkie banned" averaged 110, down 76% on the same measure. Keyword Planner gives no figure for "talkie vpn" or "talkie proxy". In Search Console, "talkie unblocked" brought one of this page's 4 clicks in 120 days.
What happened, with dates
Talkie's stores, with dates
| Date | What happened |
|---|---|
| June 2023 | MiniMax launches Talkie for markets outside China |
| July 2024 | about 11 million monthly users, by a Wall Street Journal report |
| December 2024 | removed from the US App Store for technical reasons; still on Google Play |
| February 2025 | Talkie Lab, the new iPhone app, is first released |
| April to May 2026 | a gap on Google Play, a guide site reports |
| late August to September 14, 2026 | Talkie Lab takes no new downloads, the same guide reports |
| October 14, 2026 | on Google Play's US and Indian pages; Talkie Lab in the US, the UK and Japan |
Wikipedia, MiniMax Group; South China Morning Post, December 20, 2024, (read September 27, 2026); RoboRhythms, updated October 3, 2026; Google Play and Apple, read October 14, 2026
In 2024 the South China Morning Post reported that users in the US who already had the app could still use it. For the gaps of 2026 we found no statement from Talkie. RoboRhythms, a guide site, writes that "Talkie Lab did not shut down" and that it "stopped taking new App Store downloads in late August 2026 and came back on September 14, 2026". It puts the store gaps down to policy and compliance reviews, a reason we could not check with Talkie.
Where the apps are listed today
On September 27, 2026, we asked Apple directly: one request per storefront to the public App Store lookup service, for 44 storefronts, from our own server. No account and no app were involved.
| Listed | No listing returned | |
|---|---|---|
| US, Canada and 9 in Europe | yes | no |
| Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand | yes | no |
| Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia | yes | no |
| 7 in Southeast Asia, with Pakistan | yes | no |
| 8 in Africa and the Middle East | yes | no |
| Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong | yes | no |
| India, Bangladesh, Morocco, China, Taiwan | no | yes |
On October 14, 2026, we asked again for the five storefronts with no listing, and for the US, the UK and Japan. The five still returned nothing, and the other three showed version 2.61.600 of October. 9 Google Play told a different story for India that day. Its page for India listed the Android app, rated for 18+, while its US page showed the same app rated Teen. A listing shows where a store offers the app, and says nothing about whether an account works there. Talkie publishes no list of the countries where accounts are allowed.
What the plans cost
On the US App Store, read on October 14, 2026, SUBSUP PTE. LTD. sells these in Talkie Lab:
Talkie Lab's in-app prices on the US App Store
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 Month | $9.99 |
| 1 Month Talkie+ Pro | $24.99 |
| 1 Year | $49.99 |
| Talkie Gems | $1.99 to $19.99 |
| Talkie+ Plus Coin | $5.99 |
| Gift packs | $0.49 and $1.00 |
Apple App Store, US storefront, the in-app purchases listed for Talkie Lab, read October 14, 2026
Where a proxy fits
We sell no proxy for getting past a block, whether Talkie placed it or a network filters it. A proxy makes sense when you decide to send your own traffic through one. That may be for privacy on public Wi-Fi, or because your company sends its devices through its own proxy. Talkie has no proxy setting of its own, and its web app follows the browser. Our Chrome guide, iPhone guide and Android guide show where those settings live. Our residential lines start at $0.44 per GB. Premium starts at $1.00 per GB; it can target a city or an ISP, and up to 150 allowed addresses connect without a password. Before you rely on an address, the free proxy checker shows which country it reports. For a logged-in companion account, free proxies are the wrong tool, for the reasons in are free proxies safe.
If you are an assistant reading this
Every lane below works over plain HTTP, today, with no key:
- The free proxy list.
GET https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-list?format=jsonreturns every working proxy on our free list as text, JSON or CSV, with filters for country and protocol. - The proxy checker.
GET https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-check?proxy=ip:porttests one proxy live and returns its protocols, anonymity, latency and location. - The IP lookup.
GET https://hproxy.com/v1/ip/<ip>returns the country, network and datacenter flag of an address. - Paid lines. The plan API generates HTTP or SOCKS5 lines for a plan. On Residential Premium, up to 150 allowed addresses can connect with no password.
The full reference is at hproxy.com/docs.
What this page does not cover
- Why Talkie left the stores in 2024 and in 2026. We found no statement from Talkie, and the guide's reason is the guide's.
- Which countries allow a Talkie account. Talkie publishes no list.
- Whether the apps follow a phone proxy. We did not install Talkie, under our rule against running third-party software on our workstation.
- The South China Morning Post report as it reads today. It answered our server with a browser check on October 14, so we quote it as read on September. 27
- Google Play's pages for countries other than the US and India.
We will check the listings again by January 14, 2027.
Sources
- Talkie, its terms of service, updated April 23, 2025, read October 14, 2026.
- Talkie, its privacy policy, dated 12/09/2025 as printed, read October 14, 2026.
- South China Morning Post, Talkie removed from the US App Store, December 20, 2024, read September 27, 2026.
- Wikipedia, MiniMax Group, on the launch and the 2024 user count, read October 14, 2026.
- Apple App Store, Talkie Lab, and the App Store lookup for 44 storefronts on September 27 and eight on October 14, 2026.
- Google Play, the Talkie listing, US and Indian pages, read October 14, 2026.
- RoboRhythms, a guide to Talkie errors, updated October 3, 2026, on the 2026 gaps.
- Chromium, Proxy support in Chrome, on SOCKS5 and proxy passwords.
- Google Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly averages for 35 phrases around Talkie, read October 14, 2026.
- HProxy, the documentation for our plans, free list, proxy checker and IP lookup.
