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Pink promo reading Meet Emily, your own friendly little AI buddy, beside a phone showing a round cartoon creature.

A voice assistant with a face. In 2024 EmilyGPT reached number 1 on the iOS App Store Paid Entertainment chart.

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Voice
  • Worldbuild

Worldbuild's own app

Text in a box was not the product.

EmilyGPT is a voice-first assistant with an augmented-reality presence. Dale P. Deacon and Worldbuild designed it, built it, and shipped it.

The stack lineage includes OpenAI and Microsoft Azure. It is on iOS and Android. The 2024 chart place showed a character you can hear can compete with ordinary consumer apps, not only with festival pieces.

Chart
Number 1, iOS App Store Paid Entertainment, 2024.
Stores
App Store and Google Play.
Made by
Dale P. Deacon / Worldbuild. Design, development, and distribution.
Site
emilygpt.com

What it had to prove

A voice, and somewhere to stand.

Most assistants of this kind are a text box. EmilyGPT asks whether a voice and a body in the room make the thing easier to keep using.

The chart is the public evidence. The app is still the thing to open.

Credits

Design, build, and distribution
Dale P. Deacon
Worldbuild

Open Emily

The stores and the site are the public record.

To talk to Worldbuild about Emily, write to Dale.