Choose Tolan if
- You use an iPhone and want an app.
- You would rather be given a character than design one.
- You like its world: an alien friend from a planet of its own.
Kwik L’IRIS and Tolan, compared.
Tolan is an alien companion for iPhone, made by Portola and launched in 2025. Like ours, it is built as a friend and not a partner. The difference is in who shapes the character, and where it lives.
What is compared
Kwik L’IRIS
Tolan
Made by
KWIK L Inc, Denver, Colorado.
Portola, San Francisco.
Since
2026.
2025.
Where it runs
Any browser, on a phone or a computer. Nothing to install.
An app for iPhone.
The companion
A character you design from nine, with your own iris for eyes.
An alien character, matched to you through a personality interview.
The relationship
A companion. Not romantic, not sexual.
A friend and guide. Not presented as romantic.
Memory
A Ledger of every line it keeps, yours to read, change or clear.
See its own pages.
Your words
Never sold, never used for advertising, never used for training.
See its privacy notice.
Price
Free to design and to meet. Plus $12 a month, Pro $29. On a public page, in your own money.
A subscription. In 2025 it was reported at $10 a month, or about $70 a year.
Checked on October 6, 2026.
Choose Kwik L’IRIS if
- You want to design the character yourself, down to its eyes.
- You are on Android or a computer, or want pages in Hindi or Arabic.
- You want to read, change and clear everything it remembers.
- You want to try it free before any plan: design it, save it, and meet it with 10 messages.
Questions
Is there a companion like Tolan for Android?
Kwik L’IRIS runs in any modern browser, so it works on Android phones, iPhones and computers, with nothing to install. For where Tolan itself runs today, see its own site.
How is Kwik L’IRIS different from Tolan?
Tolan matches you with a character. In Kwik L’IRIS you design one from nine, choose its look, and give it your own iris for eyes. Both are built as companions, not partners.
How this page was written
Everything here about Tolan comes from its own site and from GeekWire’s reporting, checked on October 6, 2026. Prices and platforms change, and its App Store page has today’s. We have not set its conversations beside ours, and we make no claim about which is better company: that is for you to judge. If something here is out of date, write to support@kwikl.com and we will correct it.
Sources
Tolan is a trademark of its owner. Kwik L’IRIS is not affiliated with Portola, and this page is not endorsed by it.