---
type: entity
entity_type: company
name: "DigiFrens"
domain: internet-finance
status: active
founded: 2025
headquarters: "Unknown"
website: "https://digifrens.app"
twitter: "https://x.com/DigiFrens"
key_people:
  - role: "Founder / Lead iOS Engineer"
    name: "Unknown"
key_metrics:
  funding_target: "$200,000"
  total_committed: "$6,600"
  futardio_status: "Refunding"
  launch_date: "2026-03-03"
  close_date: "2026-03-04"
tracked_by: rio
created: 2026-03-11
---

# DigiFrens

DigiFrens is an iOS AI companion app that combines animated avatars (3D VRM, 2D Live2D, and Gaussian Splatting photorealistic models) with a persistent memory system and evolving personality architecture. The app is currently in TestFlight beta and attempted a futarchy-governed fundraise on Futardio that failed to meet its $200K target.

## Timeline

- **2026-03-03** — [[digifrens-futardio-fundraise]] launched on Futardio seeking $200K for team expansion and feature development
- **2026-03-04** — Fundraise closed in refunding status with $6,600 committed (3.3% of target)

## Product Architecture

DigiFrens differentiates through:
- **Memory system**: 9 parallel retrieval strategies including graph-based spreading activation, on-device CoreML embeddings, 90-day emotional timeline
- **Living User Model**: Persistent cognitive graph tracking beliefs, values, goals, emotional triggers with 8 types of bidirectional inference
- **Personality evolution**: HEXACO trait modeling where avatar personality shifts based on conversations
- **Privacy-first**: Full on-device operation option (Apple Intelligence, local LLMs, on-device embeddings)
- **Multi-provider AI**: Supports 6 AI providers including Apple Intelligence (free), OpenAI, Claude, local LLMs via LEAP SDK, OpenRouter

## Relationship to KB

- [[futardio]] — fundraising platform used
- [[MetaDAO]] — parent organization of Futardio
- Demonstrates futarchy-governed fundraising for consumer AI applications
- Tests market appetite for AI companion apps with advanced memory/personality systems versus simpler chat wrappers like Replika and Character.AI