The short answer

The app most like Amino is Aminoka. It was built specifically as a like-for-like replacement after Amino's 2025 shutdown — same community → profile → wall layout, same leader / curator / host roles, same leveling and reputation visibility, plus a built-in roleplay-partner matchmaker and an OC library that Amino itself never had.

What "like Amino" really means

When people search for an app like Amino, they almost always mean the structural shape — not just the chat. Specifically:

• Topic-based communities you join, not friend networks.
• Member profiles with bio, avatar, theme, not just usernames.
• Visible leveling / reputation for long-time contributors.
• Walls + polls inside the community, not just chat.
• Leader hierarchy with mod powers.
• Public discoverability — you can find new communities by browsing topics.

Aminoka is the only currently-active platform built end-to-end around this set of features. Everything else captures a slice.

How Aminoka maps to what Amino did

Communities — joinable around topics, with their own URLs, leader rosters, and discovery surfaces. Same as Amino.

Profiles — bio, avatar, banner, theme color, level + reputation. Same as Amino, with a few additions (NSFW gate, theme color picker that drives the rest of the UI).

Walls — community-wall posts with polls, image attachments, mentions. Same as Amino.

Leaders / curators / hosts — same role names, same powers. Mute, ban, kick all live where you expect.

Public + private chats — both first-class. WebSocket-backed, sub-100ms latency globally.

New: roleplay matchmaker. Post your OC + premise, get matched with a partner, the app spins up a private chat with both OCs pre-equipped. Amino did not have this.

New: OC library with kudos. Characters as first-class objects across the app, searchable, kudos-able. Amino did not have this.

What about Discord, Reddit, Tumblr?

Each captures part of what Amino was, none capture the whole. Discord is closest on chat, Reddit on threads, Tumblr on roleplay-prose. If you want a single app that approximates Amino's full feature set, Aminoka is the answer. If you want a 2-app stack, Aminoka + Discord is what most successful post-Amino communities run. Full ranked comparison: top 10 Amino alternatives in 2026.

Try it

The fastest test is just to open the app. Sign in with Google or email, browse the discover tab to see real communities, join one, post a wall message. If it feels right, your members will feel the same way.