Neconyan
My SillyTavern fork. The Cutest LLM RP Frontend™, now on 1.5.0.
Neconyan
v1.5.0 · Released
My own fork of SillyTavern and SillyBunny, with its own interface, defaults and direction. Character chats, notes, writing tools and model settings all live in one cat-themed workspace that works on a phone as well as it does on a desktop. You bring the model, either a local backend or an API key - no model access or credits come with it.
I run it on a small server and use it mostly from my phone, so phones aren't a squashed desktop here. You can choose browser or server replies in Settings → Chat & messages → Replies. The browser is the default; server replies and their after-reply Agents can finish after you close the page. A few things still need it open, like in-browser WebLLM models and Kokoro voices.
It reads the same character cards, chats, lorebooks, personas and presets as SillyTavern, so bringing your stuff over is a starting point rather than a rebuild. I only pull in the upstream bits I want though, so some things look and behave differently, and extensions that depend on SillyTavern's page layout might not work. If you want SillyTavern with everything working exactly like upstream, use SillyBunny instead.
- Four ways to chat: Roleplay, Conversation, Meower and Story Mode.
- Catelier for character and lorebook drafts. It asks questions before writing, and nothing reaches your library until you choose 'Save to library'.
- Purrks give characters switchable traits, moods and scene directions. Simple Mode hides less-used controls while you get settled; 'Show all features' brings them back.
- Notebooks for character drafts, places, scene plans and session journals, right next to your chats.
- Scratchpad, a side chat with Miso, Taro, Nori or your own assistants for planning a scene or checking continuity. Nothing you write there ends up in the story.
- Pura's Director Preset 16.0 and The Ethereality Express 1.1 come bundled as the default presets. The trackers and randomisers ship as agents instead of preset toggles.
- The Android app runs the whole thing on the phone itself, so no Termux and no computer. It needs Android 11 or newer on a 64-bit ARM phone, Android System WebView 124 or newer, and about 2 GiB free.
- The iPhone app keeps its server and chats on the phone too. It needs iOS 17 or newer and signing with your own Apple account; it isn't on the App Store. A free account needs to re-sign it every seven days. iPhone setup and limits.
- On a computer it runs on Bun or Node.js, with launchers for Windows, macOS, Linux and Termux. Git installs check for updates on launch; supported source ZIP installs can now update from inside the app too. Default address is
http://127.0.0.1:4433/.
Screenshots
Real screenshots from 1.5.0, at desktop and phone sizes ·
These are staged demo chats, notes and Scratchpad discussions, so don't read too much into the replies.
What's Different
The stuff I actually wanted out of a frontend
Replies Can Keep Going When You Leave
Switch Replies to Server in Settings → Chat & messages, and replies and their after-reply Agents can finish after the page closes. Browser replies are still the default. I use the server option because phone browsers kill tabs constantly. On the standalone phone apps, the operating system can still stop the app under memory pressure.
Phones Come First
Labelled controls, a bottom chat bar, a sliding menu and a sign-in that can remember your device for 30 days. Simple Mode hides the less-used controls while you get settled; 'Show all features' brings them back without enabling or disabling anything. You can hide, show and reorder the bottom-bar buttons too.
Four Modes
Roleplay is the classic chat, with a cat asleep on your messages. Conversation is texting your characters like a friend, with a Pals list, group chats, branches and characters who can be busy or offline. Meower is a tiny social timeline where your cast posts, replies to each other and runs polls about snacks. Story Mode turns the chat into continuous prose.
Catelier and Purrks
I wanted somewhere to work on a character before putting it in the library. Catelier asks questions, drafts character fields and lorebooks, and lets you review each change before saving. Bring material from Notebooks or work through it with Scratchpad. Purrks add switchable traits, moods and scene directions to your cards; extracted traits and imported Orb fragments start switched off.
Notebooks
Somewhere for the character drafts and scene plans you'd otherwise lose in a text file. Templates, folders, properties, a read view, and links between notes and to your lorebooks. You can open it beside a chat, and the assistants can edit notes if you let them.
Scratchpad
A side chat with Miso, Taro, Nori or your own assistants that never adds its discussion to the story. Round table asks up to three at once, each on their own connection. Share a note, character or persona and ask for changes: Scratchpad can propose edits to every character field, persona details and Scenario Notes with their pictures. You review each change before saving. Individual Markdown blocks have their own copy button now.
Mewmory and Pawthfinder
Mewmory keeps track of story events and characters; Pawthfinder picks relevant lore. Jev, the model choosing what to retrieve, has saved presets and can use a cheaper connection than your replies. You can adjust memory focus and how much recent chat to consider, inspect and correct memories, or let the model choose lore without automatic keyword matches.
Assistants and a Tour
Miso, Taro and Nori each come in male, female and neutral versions. They can use tool calls to make characters with portraits, edit lorebooks and adjust presets, and since 1.1.1 they can build agents for you too. The short First paws tour walks you through the basics, and you can hide it.
Chat Links
Copy a link to an exact saved chat, branch included, and bookmark it. Optionally keep the address bar on the chat you're viewing, or reopen your last chat on launch. Both are off by default.
It's Cute
Calico themes, cats napping on your messages and a pixel cat on Home. That was the whole point, really. There are also AMOLED Black, Windows 98 and Windows Aero themes if you'd rather not, and every bundled theme is checked for readable contrast.
Your Data Stays Yours
Same file formats as SillyTavern for characters, chats, lorebooks, personas and presets, and no telemetry. Back up your old install and use a separate data folder when you move over.
Agent Stack
Small models doing the boring work so the good one can write
In-Chat Agents
An agent is a stored prompt with its own conditions, stage, connection profile and output handling. Toggle them, group them, import and export them. Each one can run on a different model than your main chat, which is the part I use most - a cheap model doing tracker work while the expensive one writes prose.
The Pipeline
Agents can run before the reply to add rules or trackers, alongside it for commentary, or after it for a second pass over the finished text. The after-reply pass is where proofreading and prose polishing happen.
Companion Agents
Companions make their own model calls and store the results instead of touching your reply - that's how the tracker panels get filled in. They can run all at once or one at a time. Parallel if you're impatient like me, sequential if your provider starts complaining about rate limits.
Built From the Presets
Every bundled tracker agent uses the same prompt and regex as its toggle in Pura's Director Preset 16.0 (SillyTavern) or The Ethereality Express 1.1, so the cards look the same either way. That's why the Neconyan preset can stay lean.
Proofreader and Prose Polisher
Both come installed and switched off until you want them. They run after the reply and rewrite the finished text as a second pass, so the main model doesn't have to get everything right in one go.
Ask for One
If none of the bundled ones fit, describe what you want to Miso, Taro or Nori and they'll make the agent for you.
Thinking Reply Recovery
For the model that thinks and then forgets to answer. Enable this Agent to write the missing reply automatically, or run it on an earlier thinking-only message. Agents also support opening text to continue from and backup connections after refusals.
What Ships Right Now
Every Pura tracker and randomiser, the Ethereality Express trackers and Doors & Dice menus, formatting helpers, content toggles, preset groups, and companions like Expressions and Plot Compass.
Included Tools
Things that come in the box
They update with Neconyan, and you can turn any of them off under Extensions → Manage extensions. Full list with versions and who made them.
Chatting and Writing
Story Mode
Turns a saved chat into a continuous manuscript.
Meower
A private social timeline for your cast.
Guided Generations
Steer the next reply with a short instruction.
Deep Swipe
More control over swipes. By Rurijian.
Dialogue Colours
Gives each speaker their own dialogue colour.
Quick Image Gen
Generate images from inside a chat.
Input History
Bring back what you typed earlier.
Characters, Prompts and Lore
BotSearcher
Search supported character-card sites and import cards straight into Neconyan.
Prompting Lab
Compare prompts, caching and macros side by side.
World Info Lab
Test, trace and manage lorebook activation.
Lorebook Distiller
Trim and tidy lorebooks.
Preset Tools
Helpers for model and prompt setup.
Chat Completion Tabs
Splits the chat completion settings into tabs. By Rivelle.
Prompt Tags
Configurable XML-style boundaries around prompt sections.
Macro Enhanced
Utility, logic, state, lorebook and custom macros.
Keeping Things Safe
Chat Archive
Keeps old chats tidy and findable.
Card & Lorebook Time Machine
Older versions of your cards and lorebooks, with a comparison view and restore.
Debugger
Diagnostics for when something breaks. On by default, and you can turn it off.
Looks
Regex Agent Themes
Change how tracker and companion panels look.
Termeownal UI
An optional terminal look with a pixel kitty that follows your palette.
What's New
Since 1.0. Full changelog on GitHub.
1.5.0
Released
- Added Catelier for character and lorebook drafts, with questions before writing, field-by-field review, Notebook material and Scratchpad collaboration. Nothing reaches your library until you save it.
- Purrks give characters switchable traits, moods and scene directions, with extraction from cards and Orb fragment imports. Imported Purrks start switched off.
- Scenario Notes can have full-size portraits. New messages use the active note's picture; earlier messages keep theirs.
- Scratchpad can propose changes to every character field, persona details and Scenario Notes, including their pictures. Each change waits for your review.
- Thinking Reply Recovery writes the missing answer after a thinking-only response. Agents get opening text, refusal backup connections and more reliable saved change histories.
- Jev gets saved presets for Mewmory and Pawthfinder, with separate retrieval connections and more control over memory focus and recent context.
- Preview layouts and shell styles before applying them. Added Starlight Conservatory, Sunken Reef, 30 more Accent Profiles and controls for hiding and reordering bottom-bar buttons.
- Dice Roller now lives with Companions. Chat Archive is more compact, and startup, typing and library browsing do less repeated work.
- Fixed DeepSeek v4 thinking controls, NanoGPT Claude thinking levels, Windows account imports and Android startup and export crashes. Supported ZIP installs can update inside the app.
- A safe start screen helps after repeated failed starts. Optional background memory saving releases older off-screen messages while you're away; it starts switched off.
1.4.0
Released
- Added the standalone iPhone app for sideloading on iOS 17 or newer.
- Scene Director chooses speakers for group scenes, 'Let them talk' continues for up to eight replies, and Ensemble splits one generated scene into character messages.
- Browser or server replies are selectable in Settings. Server replies and after-reply Agents can finish after the page closes.
- Mewmory gets recent-message controls, clearer memory previews and archive search. Added Vitals, Prompt Adherence Checker and Parallel Off-Screen (Extended), all switched off initially.
- Added Dice Roller, movable Companion windows, separate fonts for chat and headings, and sidebar button ordering.
1.3.0
Released
- Scratchpad supports your own assistants, copied from character cards or written from scratch. Keep up to 24 in your library and put up to three at a round table.
- Added global Scratchpad instructions and Random replies, gave the included assistants stronger personalities, and shared automatic cleanup across chats.
- Scratchpad reads character cards in full now. The optional Current preset section shares your Roleplay preset, with every module in order and whether it's on or off.
- Restyled Conversation as a messenger, with replies appearing as they're written and live token counts on messages. Providers that send the whole reply at once still work.
- Page, chat and swipe animations follow what you tapped, and Safari slides start from the first frame. Reduced-motion settings still apply.
- Added cat pairs, Windows 98 pixel coats and dark backgrounds. The bottom bar width no longer follows the page width.
- Reduced the freeze after opening long chats, limited browser caches and cut repeated token-counting work.
- Roleplay prompts built on the server now save prompt variables; Macro Enhanced commands that need the browser no longer run there. One bad file no longer stops transferred-data repair.
- Added a World Info Lab shortcut to Lorebooks, and notices stay up for at least five seconds before closing themselves.
- Fixed the Whisper reading layout, Guided Generations previews, repeated Agents recovery checks after changing chats, dialogue colour deletion and Notebooks lists that wouldn't close while still opening.
- Refreshed the screenshots, added Scratchpad to the gallery and updated the handbook and assistants' app-help reference.
1.2.5
Released
- Reorganised Agents, with Quick settings on each card and shared edits for selected agents.
- Added Character Authenticity Checker, an optional reply rewriter for keeping characters in character. It starts switched off.
- Scratchpad can propose character cards from a discussion or notebook. You review the changes before saving.
- Character Expressions supports separate sets for people sharing a card, named speakers, custom expression lists and better image cleanup.
- Slash-command scripts can run during replies without losing your draft.
- Rebuilt Formatting, kept Connections status compact and made Companion actions easier to reach on phones.
- Added a dark Windows XP Olive theme and separate sleeping-cat choices for each side of the chat.
- Android export fixes, smoother drawers, and more German, Italian and Portuguese translations.
1.2.0
Released
- Scratchpad and Notebooks talk to each other now. Ask Scratchpad from a note shares that note, or just the bit you selected.
- Renaming a chat keeps its Scratchpad sessions.
- Rebuilt the Persona page.
- Note templates show which one you picked, and notes have a Delete button.
- Tab accepts a Notebook link suggestion on list lines.
- Chat Archive loads on big libraries instead of giving up.
- The phone menu doesn't throw you back to Home anymore.
- A lot more of the interface is in Portuguese.
1.1.1
Changes recorded in the project changelog
- Added Scratchpad, a side chat for planning stories with Miso, Taro and Nori.
- Chat links, and an option to reopen your last chat on launch.
- The assistants can make agents for you.
- AMOLED Black theme.
- Slimmer bottom chat bar, and more character cards fit on screen in the phone list.
- Dismissed tour invitations stay dismissed after a reload.
- Preset names don't get translated anymore, so picking, renaming and deleting presets works in every language.
1.1.0
Released
- Added Notebooks, with assistant edits and links to your lorebooks.
- Windows 98, Windows Aero and Windows Aero Light themes.
- Roleplay replies use your configured reply length, and a quoted context size can't block them anymore.
- Italian and German translation fixes.
