I built an iOS AI voice companion with a 3D face that talks back (opens in new tab)

Most "AI companion" apps give you a chat bubble. I wanted a face. Scowld is an iOS app where you talk to an animated AI companion and it talks back, in its own voice, with a 3D character on screen. Under the hood it bundles an Amica/Arbius frontend running Three.js and three-vrm, so the avatar is a real VRM model with lip sync, idle animations, and expressions, not a static sprite. The SwiftUI app wraps that experience: an iOS composer where you type or speak, a character that reacts, and sav...