Talkie is the companion app that briefly out-downloaded Character.AI in the United States: built by the Chinese AI company MiniMax, operated of record by SUBSUP Pte Ltd in Singapore, on the web at talkie-ai.com and in iOS and Android apps, and ranked by Sensor Tower as the fourth most downloaded app in the US in the first half of 2024. In December 2024 it vanished from Apple's US App Store, which is the event behind most searches for a Talkie proxy, and it has come and gone from the stores since under the name Talkie Lab.
This page sorts the Talkie questions into the ones an address answers and the ones it does not. The store is not one of them. The web app is the answer to the store question, and we checked that it loads from everywhere we tried. Region eligibility is undocumented and the terms name proxies, which puts it outside what we sell. What is left is the ordinary case of a filtered network, and we cover that properly.
The removal, and what came back
The South China Morning Post reported on 20 December 2024 that Talkie had been removed from Apple's US App Store due to unspecified technical reasons, that MiniMax said it would get it fixed soon, and that the app remained accessible on Google Play. The listing that exists today on the US App Store is Talkie Lab, from SUBSUP Pte Ltd, rated 18+, with in-app purchases including a monthly plan and a Talkie+ Pro plan. Third-party reporting describes a further removal from Google Play between April and May 2026 and a return by August 2026, and describes region as the most common trigger users report for eligibility denials; none of that is documented by Talkie itself, so treat it as reports.
None of it is an address problem. Which store you see, and what it lists, follows the country of your Apple or Google account. A proxy changes the network path and leaves the account where it is. If the app is missing from your store, the fix is the one MiniMax built for exactly this: the web app.
The web app loads from everywhere we tried
talkie-ai.com is a full web version of the service, and it is the practical route around any store gap. On 24 August 2026 we sent 50 fresh proxies from our free proxy list to it. The site served its ordinary page to all 21 exits that reached it, no Cloudflare challenge, no block, and the responses carried no Cloudflare headers at all. Talkie's edge is among the most permissive we measured; compare Character.AI, which refused half of the same kind of exits in our earlier run, or Poe, which challenged a third.
Reaching the page is not the same as an account being eligible, and we cannot tell you what Talkie checks at sign-in, because Talkie does not say. What we can say is that the wall people meet on Talkie is not at the network edge.
A clean, static IP changes
Reaching talkie-ai.com on a filtered network
school, office, a restrictive ISP
Where a paid account appears from
one place, every day
It does not change
Which App Store or Play Store you see
your Apple or Google account's country
A region eligibility denial
undocumented, and the terms name proxies
The age rule
not for under-14s per the privacy policy; 18+ on iOS
A block Talkie placed on you
circumvention is forbidden in the terms
What the terms say about proxies
Talkie's terms of service, updated 23 April 2025, prohibit modifying, copying, framing, scraping, renting, selling or making derivative works from the service and its content, and prohibit data-gathering and extraction methods. The clause that matters here reads, in substance, that 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, with masking your IP address or using a proxy IP address as the examples given. The privacy policy, updated 12 September 2025, says the services are not intended for anyone under 14 or under the minimum age local law requires.
That clause is why we will not sell a proxy for an eligibility denial. If Talkie has decided that a region or an account is out, an address bought to appear from elsewhere is the measure the contract names. We describe the mechanism because people ask; we do not take the order.
The case that fits
An account in good standing, in a country where Talkie is offered, on a network that filters the app or the site: that is a reachability problem, and a proxy solves it. For the web app, the address is set in the browser or system-wide (Chrome, Windows); for the phone app, in the Wi-Fi network's settings (Android, iPhone), where it applies to that network alone and not to mobile data. The address should be static, yours alone, and kept from sign-in to sign-out, because a companion account with a history in it should not look like it moves between countries. The proxy checker confirms the exit's country before the first login. Free proxies are a check of whether the site loads and nothing more, for the reasons in are free proxies safe.
Where HProxy fits
For that case, a fixed ISP address, $2.70/IP a month and used by nobody else, or a residential session in a country where Talkie is offered, from $0.44/GB, charged on use with no KYC, is the small purchase that fits. For the store, use the web app; for a region denial, read the terms; for anything to do with age, no. Those are the honest answers, and they are shorter than most proxy pages because most of what people want from a Talkie proxy is not something an address can give.
Sources
- South China Morning Post, Chinese-owned Character.AI rival vanishes from US App Store, 20 December 2024: the removal, MiniMax's statement, Google Play availability, and the Sensor Tower ranking.
- Apple App Store, Talkie Lab - AI Playground: developer SUBSUP Pte Ltd, 18+ rating, in-app purchases.
- Talkie, Terms of Service, updated 23 April 2025, and Privacy Policy, updated 12 September 2025: the scraping ban, the IP-block circumvention clause, the operator of record, and the age rule.
- RoboRhythms, Talkie AI not working: third-party reporting of the 2026 Google Play removal and return and of region-related eligibility denials (user reports, not documented by Talkie).
- HProxy measurement, 24 August 2026: 50 free proxies from our list pointed at https://www.talkie-ai.com/; all 21 exits that reached the site received a normal page; no Cloudflare headers observed.