Two things collided. Give someone a character that's theirs and they'll pour identity, pride, and trash talk into it. And we never stopped thinking about Microsoft's Comic Chat from 1996, where your messages played out as a comic strip. It proved people would let a character speak for them — the tech just couldn't do it well yet. The honest personal version: we like ragging on our friends, and text is a terrible instrument for it. A good taunt deserves a face and a body, not a gray bubble. Text chat is lossy. In person, most of what you're saying isn't the words. It's your face, your body, your delivery. Text deletes all of that, and every patch we've invented for it — emoji, GIFs, adding "lol" so nobody thinks you're serious. Sarcasm misfires, jokes need insurance, and the funniest person you know sounds exactly like everyone else. We're putting the delivery back into typing, without making you do any extra work.

Griple, Inc.

Full Contact Chat

Full Contact Chat