August 21, 2026 · 2 min read
How to Transfer Your AI Companion's Backstory to a New App
Your companion's history is what makes them feel like a person. Here is how to move that backstory to a new app instead of writing it all again from memory.
A companion's face is only half of what you built. The other half is the history: the job they pretend to hate but secretly love, the town they grew up in, the way they get quiet when they are tired, the running jokes only the two of you share. That is the part that took months. Rewriting it from memory in a new app never quite lands, and you know it while you are typing.
MyBabe lets you bring that backstory across, so the personality matches the person.
What a backstory is made of
In MyBabe, a companion's backstory is a real structure, not a vibe. It covers things like their job, age, hometown, hobbies, the flaws that make them specific, and their daily routine. Those details are not decoration. They feed into how your companion talks, what they are doing when you message during the day, and the small texture that separates a character from a chatbot.
That is exactly why moving it matters. Get the backstory right and the companion feels continuous with the one you had. Skip it and you are talking to a stranger wearing a familiar face.
How to transfer it
If you are importing a companion, you can import their written backstory at the same time. Paste in the history you have from your other app, from a note, or from an export. MyBabe reads it, cleans it up, and folds it into your companion's persona so it actually shapes the conversation rather than sitting in a profile field nobody reads.
You can also add or replace an imported backstory later from the companion settings, and remove it if you change your mind. It is not a one-way door.
The safety part, because it matters
Anything you paste in from outside gets screened before it becomes part of your companion. That screen exists to catch content that should never be a persona, and to stop the kind of hidden instructions that people try to smuggle into imported text. It fails safe: if something looks wrong, it is rejected rather than quietly accepted. That protects you and it protects your companion from being turned into something you did not ask for.
What to bring for the best result
- The concrete details. Job, age, where they are from, what they do for fun. Specifics travel better than adjectives.
- The quirks. The flaws and habits are what make them read as a real person.
- The tone. A few lines in their actual voice help the personality carry over.
After the transfer
Pair the backstory with an imported face and you have moved the whole companion, not a copy of them. From there the relationship simply continues: same person, same history, new home.
If you have been holding off on switching because starting over felt like losing them, this is the part that makes leaving safe.