Comparison

Best AI Companion 2026 and the Best AI Companion App Honestly Compared

We build Aroused, so read this knowing that. But the comparison below sticks to what each platform is publicly known for, marks the features we have not shipped yet, and names the cases where a competitor is the better pick today.

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What actually separates companion apps

Customization depth

Can you design a person, or pick from a shelf? Look for personality control, not just avatars.

Memory

The feature that makes it a companion at all. Ask how much it recalls a month later, and check whether it is capped by tier: Kupid AI's own paywall sells memory as a duration, at 48 hours on the entry plan and one week on the middle one.

Tone and taste

Most apps are explicit-first or sanitized-flat. The tasteful adult middle is nearly empty. See how the adult AI chat category actually splits.

Privacy and age assurance

Where chats go, whether adults-only is enforced, and what happens when you ask to be deleted. Read the policy rather than the marketing: SoulFun's own privacy policy sets the floor at 13 and states no 18+ rule anywhere, and Joyland AI's terms set the same floor of 13 while its consent dialog names 211 advertising partners.

Billing terms

Read what a lifetime deal actually promises. Lovescape's own terms define lifetime as the duration of the service's commercial availability rather than yours, and say that if the service is discontinued no refunds are provided.

Platform	Price anchor	Known for	Where it falls short
Candy.ai	~$13/mo annual	Visual companion building, large roster, NSFW-forward	Explicit-first tone; discretion and taste are not the product
Replika	~$20/mo Pro	The original companion app, wellness angle, long history	Shallow customization, muted romance, dated feel
Nomi.ai	$15.99/mo, $99.99/yr	The deepest long-term memory in the category, several companions, group chat, an 18+ floor and a dated privacy policy	No price on its own website; all payments nonrefundable by policy; a credit currency on top of the subscription
Joyland AI	No public price	Huge free character catalog, novels, group chat, mobile apps	Age floor of 13 in its own terms; heavy advertising and analytics stack
Character.AI	Free + ~$10/mo	Huge character variety, strong writing, big community	Not adults-focused, heavy filters, no companion ownership
GirlfriendGPT	$5, $10 or $35/mo	Cheapest paid entry in this table, big community catalog, image generation, a named operator and a public bug bounty	No tier contents published anywhere; explicit-first framing; markets no filters while its own FAQ warns against bypassing them
Infatuated AI	$9.99/mo, or $6.99/mo on 12 months	Publishes a full per-action price list; image, one-click video, talking video and voice all included and cheap on the annual term	Token-metered, and its plans page and terms disagree on whether a message costs one token or two; no refunds at any tier
Yodayo / Moescape AI	$9.99 to $39.99/mo (US App Store)	The strongest art side in this table by a distance, publishes a context window for every chat model, and pays character authors a 20% commission	Its content policy bans pornographic material in chat as well as art, and it publishes no price on its own website at all
Nastia AI	Not published anywhere public	Group chats with several companions at once, voice messages, image and video generation, and native iOS and Android apps, all in one account	Prices are shown only inside the app after signup, its terms are governed by French law, and two of its pages say purchases are non-refundable while a third offers a fourteen-day review
Secrets AI	Not published anywhere public	Image and video generation, lifelike voice calls, group chats and personas, four billing terms, and a library it advertises as more than a million companions	Its entire front-end contains no price at all, the only dollar figure it publishes is a $70 affiliate payout, chat extras are metered in credits called Moments, and its legal pages do not render at all
HeraHaven AI	$19.95/mo or $79.80/yr, plus Luna packs from $10.95	Unlimited texting on its one plan, generated pictures and videos from pictures, voice messages, explicit content and crypto payment	Its 500 monthly Luna cover two videos, every charge is non-refundable, chat data is kept five years after account deletion, and its price sits behind a sign-up wall
PepHop AI	$4.99 to $29.99/mo, or $35.93 to $215.93/yr	The cheapest cost per message in this table, near a fifth of a cent, a large public library of user-made characters, and a flat 40% off every annual term with no invented list price	Refunds are generally not offered under a policy last updated in January 2024, its pages start three advertising trackers before the app loads, and the checkout link its code builds points at an unrelated domain
DreamGF AI	$12.99 first month, then $25.99/mo on every term, plus token packs	A deep visual builder and one of the stronger image generators in the category, with unlimited messages from the first paid month	Every discount applies to the first bill only, 100 monthly tokens cover about ten images, refunds end at first use, and its policy reserves a $1.99 monthly maintenance charge on past buyers
OurDream AI	$19.99/mo or $119.88/yr (Premium); $59.99/mo or $359.88/yr (Deluxe)	Unlimited messages plus images, video and voice calls from $9.99 a month billed yearly, a large public library of user-made characters, and a 14-day quality guarantee on refunds	1,000 monthly coins cover about ten videos, the Deluxe tier and coin prices appear only in its checkout code, and its homepage promises end-to-end encrypted chats that its privacy policy does not describe
JuicyChat AI	$12.99/mo or $93.99/yr paid once (Premium); Deluxe and Diamond prices not published	A large community character library, video on Deluxe, up to 1M-token memory models on Diamond, and an annual plan that is a single payment with no auto-renewal	Refunds end 24 hours after payment or at first use of anything, monthly coins expire, support runs through Discord, and its pages load Meta and X pixels plus affiliate trackers
Dopple AI	Free with ads; Dopple+ $9.99/mo or $71.88/yr	Thousands of fictional and community characters, a native iPhone app, and one of the cheapest paid years in this table	A general platform whose website terms admit users from 13, a perpetual license to your chats for AI training and targeted ads, AdSense and ad pixels on the page, and no refund policy
Caveduck AI	Free with earned Feathers; Caveduck PLUS $19.99 every 30 days; Wings $4.99 per 5,000 on the web	A huge creator library with stories, lorebooks, voice and pictures, unlimited basic-model chat on PLUS, and a written 7-day refund policy	Claude, Gemini and GPT models stay on the Wing meter even with PLUS, adult characters need a yearly identity check, and its terms license what you create forever
ChatFAI	Free tier of 500 messages a month; Basic $9, Premium $29, Deluxe $59 a month ($99 / $290 / $590 a year)	One of the cheapest entry plans in this table, a public character library, group chats, voice messages, a Discord bot and an API	Basic memory is limited, refunds are generally refused, cards only, and its help center promises no logs while its privacy policy describes usage data and ad remarketing
Xoul AI	Free with daily energy and ads; Green $7, Purple $14, Gold $28 a month on the web ($9 / $18 / $36 in the iPhone app)	A storytelling library of characters, worlds and group scenes, relaunched in September 2025, with unlimited base-model chat on the $7 plan	Explicit content is banned, purchases are non-refundable, the app charges about 29% more than the web, and it is off Google Play in the US
GoLove AI	Pro $19.99 a month or $119.88 a year, Ultra $59.99 a month (US prices); stars for images and video from $9.99	A gallery of 350+ ready-made characters with explicit images, video and a live mode, all in the browser	Refunds only within 24 hours, stars expire with the plan, the full character creator is still "coming", and data is kept six years after you leave
Harpy Chat	Free models with no message cap; Harpy Max $7.99 a month or $79.90 a year, up to $27.99 with 60,000 credits	A large community catalog with group chats, lorebooks and a model picker, one of the most generous free tiers in this table	Premium models run on credits, base Max includes none, fees are non-refundable once you log in, and the privacy policy is an undated template
Generic NSFW bots	Free / tokens	No filters, no rules	No age assurance, unclear data handling, quality roulette
Aroused	From $6.50/mo billed yearly	Deep one-at-a-time design, memory-first, tasteful adults-only	Smaller catalog than the browse-first apps; one companion at a time by design

Competitor prices and traits from each platform's own pages or app store listing, rechecked September 2026; check their sites for current numbers. We will update this page as we ship.

Pick a competitor if…

→You want a shipped, mature product today: Replika and Character.AI have years of polish.
→You want explicit content: that is Candy.ai's lane, deliberately not ours.
→You want free above all: Character.AI's free tier is generous, with filters to match.
→You want the deepest long-term memory across several companions at once: that is Nomi, and we say so on the Nomi AI review and alternative page, which also has its real prices.
→You want the cheapest paid entry into a large explicit catalog: that is GirlfriendGPT at $5 a month, and what its tiers do and do not tell you is on the GirlfriendGPT alternative page.
→You mainly want generated images and video rather than long conversation: Infatuated AI bundles both from $6.99 a month on an annual term, though it meters chat in tokens and contradicts itself on the rate, which we take apart on the Infatuated AI alternative page.
→You want image and video generation, voice calls and a very large character library, and you do not mind a credit meter on top of the subscription: that is Secrets AI, which is broader than we are, though it publishes no price on any public surface and its refund rules live in its interface rather than a readable policy, both of which we document on the Secrets AI alternative page.
→You are optimizing purely for cost per message and want a big library of characters other people wrote: that is PepHop AI, which is genuinely cheaper than we are at every tier, though refunds are generally not given, its top tier still caps you at 16,000 messages a month and three advertising networks measure the visit, all documented on the PepHop AI alternative page.
→You chat a lot and also want pictures, video and voice calls with characters, and you will pay a year up front: that is OurDream AI, whose $119.88 year includes unlimited messages and is better value than our unlimited tier, though its 1,000 monthly coins cover about ten videos, as broken down on the OurDream AI alternative page.
→You want a big library of community-made characters and a year you cannot forget to cancel: that is JuicyChat AI, whose $93.99 Premium year is a one-time payment with no auto-renewal, though only Premium has a public price and refunds end at first use, as set out on the JuicyChat AI alternative page.
→You want to chat with famous fictional characters for free, or for the price of one of the cheapest paid years around: that is Dopple AI, whose Dopple+ is $71.88 a year, though its terms license your chats for targeted ads, as we set out on the Dopple AI alternative page.
→You role-play for hours with creator-made characters and stories, and want unlimited messages on one flat fee: that is Caveduck, whose $19.99 PLUS covers its basic models without limit, though the premium models, Super Voice and scene pictures are paid in Wings on top, as priced on the Caveduck AI alternative page.
→You chat casually with lots of fictional characters and want the cheapest paid plan that still allows adult chat: that is ChatFAI, whose $9 Basic plan gives 1,500 messages a month, though character memory is only "limited" below the $29 Premium plan and refunds are rarely given, as read on the ChatFAI alternative page.
→You want many stories rather than one relationship, and a cheap flat plan for them: that is Xoul AI, back since its 2025 relaunch, whose $7 Green plan on the web gives unlimited chat on its base model, though nothing is refundable and the iPhone app charges more for the same plan, as priced on the Xoul AI alternative page.
→You roleplay with many community characters, often in group scenes, and mostly want a free tier that does not run out: that is Harpy Chat, whose free models have no message cap and whose Max plan starts at $7.99 a month, though refunds end once you log in, as priced on the Harpy Chat alternative page.
→You want explicit images and video from a big gallery of ready-made characters, and will spend a monthly image budget: that is GoLove AI, whose Pro plan is $19.99 a month for a US visitor with 50 stars (one per image, five per video), though refunds close after 24 hours and unused stars expire, as priced on the GoLove AI alternative page.
→Generated pictures of the companion you designed are what you are paying for, and you want unlimited texting alongside them: that is DreamGF AI, whose image side is stronger than ours, though its $12.99 first month renews at $25.99 on every billing term and images are metered in tokens, all laid out on the DreamGF AI alternative page.
→You want generated pictures of your companion, videos made from them and explicit chat on one plan with unlimited texting: that is HeraHaven AI, though its 500 monthly tokens cover about two videos, nothing is refundable and chats are retained for five years after deletion, all documented on the HeraHaven alternative page.
→You want group chats with several companions at once, voice notes and video in a single phone app: that is Nastia AI, which does more than we do on breadth, though you cannot see what it charges until you are inside it and its terms point at the courts of France, both of which we document on the Nastia AI alternative page.
→You want anime art and video generation with character chat beside it: that is Yodayo, now sharing one platform and one rulebook with Moescape AI, and the content rule that decides whether any of its plans suits you is on the Yodayo alternative page.
→You want deep memory and generated selfies on your phone: see the Kindroid alternative comparison.
→You want tens of thousands of community bots on mobile: Chai, weighed up on the Chai AI alternative page.
→You want scene roleplay rather than a companion: the best roleplay AI comparison ranks them on memory and filters.
→You would rather browse characters other people wrote than design one: the AI character chat apps comparison covers the big public libraries.
→You want the romance framing for any gender: the romantic AI chatbot page walks through it.
→You want collectible anime characters and voice on a phone: Linky, and what it costs once coins are involved, on the Linky AI alternative page.
→You want explicit content rather than adult themed: which platforms permit it and what each one still refuses, on the NSFW AI chat comparison.
→You want the widest feature set, images, voice and calling from one subscription, and will trade privacy assurances for it: Muah AI, whose 2024 breach and 2022 dated terms we set out on the Muah AI alternative page.

Pick Aroused if…

→You want to design one companion deeply instead of browsing a thousand shallow ones.
→You want adult warmth with taste: romantic, flirtatious, never pornographic.
→You want an AI companion with long term memory included on every plan, not sold as a higher tier.
→You care about privacy, age assurance and honest pricing more than about being first.
→You want steady company for the quiet hours: what the research says about an AI companion for loneliness.
→You want it on a keyboard rather than a phone: which apps run in a desktop browser, on the AI companion for PC page.
→You are still working out whether you want a companion at all: what an AI companion is, and how it differs from an assistant or a character chat.
→You want to try before deciding: try the demo, then start free.

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