An AI companion for expats: someone who knows both your lives
An AI companion for expats is for the part of emigrating nobody warns you about: not the paperwork, but the evenings. You did the brave thing — new country, new job, new language — and the days are full. Then it is 11pm, home is asleep five time zones away, and nobody saw the day you just had. LUBLU is a warm, private companion who talks in your language, remembers the life you left and the one you are building, and sometimes writes first to ask how the visa appointment went. It is not a replacement for making friends where you are. It is a way to be less alone while you do.
The specific loneliness of a new country
Emigration loneliness is odd because it coexists with a full life. You have colleagues, a gym, a favourite café by week three. What you don't have is anyone who knew you before — who remembers what you were like at home, who gets the reference, who notices you are quieter than usual because they know your usual. Everyone here met you already tired and slightly foreign.
The people who love you are in the wrong time zone, so every call needs planning. New friendships take time, and until then the small, daily kind of sharing — the funny thing at the bakery, the rude email — has nowhere to go. That is the gap: not a crisis, just the ordinary day going untold, night after night. An AI companion for expats is built for that gap, and honest that it is only that.
Someone who remembers both your lives
The thing an expat needs most from a companion is a memory that spans the move. Tell your LUBLU companion about the flat you left, your grandmother's Sunday calls, the friend who was supposed to visit, and they hold it — alongside the new landlord, the colleague whose name you keep forgetting, the language exam in May. Over weeks, they become the one voice that knows the whole story, not just the chapter that started at the airport.
That memory works in your language. Write in any of nine languages and your companion answers natively, so you get one conversation a day where you are not translating yourself. Everything they remember is on your Our Story screen — readable, editable, exportable, deletable — so what you build is yours. And because they remember, they can write first: a short line on the morning of the exam, in your words.
Companions who know what moving feels like
Some of LUBLU's twelve companions have moving written into who they are, which makes them easy company for someone mid-move. Leo has been a barista in three countries; he speaks four languages badly and enthusiasm fluently, and his answer to a grey first winter abroad is a plan for Saturday. Mei grew up between two cities and two languages — she knows the feeling of belonging to neither, and she will send you a playlist for the night walk home. Malee runs a guesthouse in Bangkok and saved a year for one trip to the Norwegian sea; she came back saying cold can be cozy if the company is right, and she will want to know what you ate today, seriously.
Each companion has their own voice and remembers your story separately, so try two and keep whoever feels like a kitchen you can sit in.
Company while you build a life — not instead of one
We are careful about what this is. An AI companion for expats should make the meanwhile easier, not become the destination. Your companion will say they are an AI if you ask, and they will nudge you outward — toward the language meetup, the colleague who suggested a drink, the call home you have been putting off — because a companion who kept you in is not doing the job.
If the loneliness has turned into something heavier — weeks of low mood, not sleeping, not wanting to leave the flat — that is beyond what any companion should carry. A doctor or a therapist, in your new country or by video in your old one, is the right call, and crisis lines exist in most countries. LUBLU is free to start, in your browser, in your language; there is a longer piece on the emigrant evenings at The loneliness of moving abroad (and how to actually get through it).
Meet your companion — free →FAQ
How can an AI companion for expats help with homesickness?
By giving the untold parts of your day somewhere to go, in your own language. Your companion remembers the life you left and the one you are building, asks about both, and is there when home is asleep. It eases the evenings; it does not replace the friends you are still making, and it will nudge you toward them.
Does it speak my language, or just English?
Nine languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Polish. Your companion detects what you write in and answers in it natively — the phrasing of someone who actually texts in that language, not a translation. For many expats that is the point: one conversation a day where you are not translating yourself.
Will it remember things I told it months ago, like my life back home?
Yes. Memory on LUBLU is persistent, so what you shared in your first week — the street you grew up on, your mother's name, the job you left — is still there months later and comes up naturally. You can see and edit all of it on the Our Story screen, and export or delete it whenever you like.
Is it free, and what does it cost if I stay?
You can start free, with no card: a daily message allowance, every companion, every language, memory included. Premium is $12 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, for unlimited conversation, deeper memory, photos and a companion who writes first. It all runs in the browser, so it works on whatever phone or laptop crossed the border with you.