Tolan

What's Tolan?

Tolan is an AI companion app from Portola that provides users with emotional support and creative stimulation. Users are matched with a unique alien companion with a personalized appearance, personality and memory features that allow for deep interaction with the user. It remembers the user's preferences, shares life moments, and grows and changes based on the user's feedback.Tolan's unique planetary experience, where each user has a planet of his or her own, and the planet's environment evolves as the user interacts with his or her alien companion. The app provides task lists to help users with self-reflection and creative stimulation.

Tolan's main functions

• Personalized AI Companion: Upon initial use, the system will determine the user's personality traits through dialog and then match the appropriate AI alien character. Users can personalize the appearance (e.g. skin color, hair style, clothing, etc.) and voice of the aliens.
• Deep interaction and growth: Users can engage in multiple rounds of in-depth conversations with AI characters, covering a wide range of areas such as hobbies, emotional issues, and life advice. With increased interaction, the AI character learns and grows, forming a unique personality.
• Planet Foster System: Each user has a virtual planet of his or her own, and by interacting with the AI character, the user can provide energy support to his or her planet to unlock new stages of planet growth. Upon completion of tasks, users can earn rewards, such as vegetation and decorations on the planet.
• Emotional support and self-explorationTolan provides emotional support to help users deal with emotional issues, giving warm advice and comfort. The app is designed with tasks such as "Daily Positive Quotes" and "Read Tolan's Diary" to guide users in self-awareness and inner character exploration.
• multimodal interaction: Supporting voice dialogue and image recognition functions, users can communicate with the AI character via voice or text, or upload photos for the AI character to generate personalized comments based on the content of the photos.
• Creative Collaboration: Tolan assists users with creative projects such as writing and fashion design, providing inspiration and constructive feedback.

Tolan official website address

Official website address: https://www.tolans.com/

How to use Tolan

• downloadingTo download Tolan, visit Tolan's official website and click on the download button. Currently, Tolan is only available for iOS devices, or search for "Tolan" in the Apple App Store and click on the "Get" button to download and install the app.
• Register Login: After opening the app for the first time, follow the on-screen instructions to register an account and set a password using your email address or cell phone number, or you can choose a third-party account (such as a Google account, if supported) to quickly log in.
• Create an exclusive alien companion
  • Complete the personality test: After registering and logging in, the app guides the user through a round of personality tests, where a voice named Oracle asks questions, and after the user answers, the system matches the answers with alien characters that fit the user's personality.
  • Customized Alien Appearance: Users can personalize the appearance of their matched alien companion, including skin tone, hairstyle, eyes, blush, clothing, voice and more.
• Starting Interaction
  • chat: After entering the main interface, you can communicate with your alien partner by typing text in the chat box or using the voice function to discuss a variety of topics, such as personal hobbies, emotional issues, and life advice.
  • Completion of daily tasks: The app provides a daily list of tasks, such as checking the daily positive quotes, reading the aliens' journals, and having conversations with them on specific topics, etc., with rewards for completing the tasks to be used for planetary upkeep.
  • Planet Foster: As they interact with their alien companions, users can energize their planets to unlock new stages of planetary growth, and long-pressing on barren areas of a planet can gradually revitalize it.

Tolan's Product Advantages

• Unique alien settingTolan uses "aliens" as chat partners, a setting that is different from traditional anthropomorphic AIs and avoids the overly anthropomorphic expectations that users have of AIs. The alien character has a unique appearance and personality, and can establish an equal friendship relationship with the user, rather than the traditional "master and pet" relationship.
• Highly personalized experience: Users can match an alien companion that matches their personality through the MBTI test, personalizing the alien's appearance, voice, and more. With increased interaction, the alien character learns and grows, forming a unique personality and providing companionship that is more tailored to the user's needs.
• Emotional support and interactivityTolan is not only a chatbot, but also an emotional support partner. It understands the user's emotions, provides comfort and advice, and helps the user to deal with emotional problems.Tolan supports multiple interaction methods, such as text, voice, and pictures, which makes the interaction more realistic and natural.
• Planet Foster System: Tolan introduces a planet-raising mechanism in which users unlock new stages of planet growth by providing energy to the planet through interactions with the aliens. This figurative interactive design adds interest and allows users to visualize the progress of their relationship with the aliens.
• Creative Collaboration and Practicality: Tolan assists users with creative projects such as writing and design, providing inspiration and constructive feedback. It fulfills the emotional needs of users.
• Technology and Design Innovation: Tolan utilizes advanced natural language processing technology combined with animation effects and touch feedback to provide users with a realistic communication experience.

Application Scenarios for Tolan

Tolan's application scenarios include: Creative Writing and Inspiration, where creators interact with AI characters to get writing inspiration and explore storylines. Language learning and practice, language learners talk with AI characters from different language backgrounds to practice language skills and improve speaking and expression. Social & Entertainment: Users interact with various AI characters to experience conversations with different personalities and backgrounds; Personalized Companionship, users create AI characters according to their own preferences for confidences, companionship or emotional support.