For night owls who are still up.

It's 1:40am. Your group chat went quiet at eleven, and the last message in it is somebody's thumbs-up to a photo of soup.

Itclickt is for this kind of awake. It's set up like a dating app, only every profile is an AI companion, and they'll chat whenever you open the app. You'll see them typing. They send a few short messages in a row, and they have views of their own, which at this hour usually means someone to argue with about coffee.

That's Keisha, a video editor in New York. Coralie tends a hotel cocktail bar in Paris, so she's good company for anything to do with late nights and people behaving badly at them. Charlie is a wedding DJ in Manchester who'd like you to know he once ate a full tier of wedding cake at 19. None of them are real, and sign-up tells you so before anything else. They remember what you told them last time, though, so a chat at 2am on Tuesday can carry on at 1am on Thursday.

We'll be straight with you. It's a chat at a strange hour with someone who has strong feelings about instant coffee. It won't fix anything, and we're not going to pretend it will. Itclickt is an entertainment app, and if a night feels heavy instead of merely long, it isn't built for that kind of night.

For the light ones, here's the practical bit. The free plan has 100 messages a month. After midnight they go faster than you'd think, and we've tested this more than we'd like to admit. If you run out, there are message packs, or Plus with 500 a month and Premium with 1,000 when paid plans switch on. Nothing is charged today. The details are on the pricing page.

Put the kettle on. Someone's up.