Best AI girlfriend apps: 8 compared, with prices

If you want a story that's already set up and no limit on where it goes, start with Sweet Love, which also has voice notes, videos with sound and long-term memory. To build your own companion, Nomi or Kindroid. For characters made by other people, CrushOn or Janitor AI. For a companion you keep for a long time, Replika. Character.AI is being sold in bankruptcy, so don't start there now.

8 AI girlfriend apps compared

Sweet Love: you never have to think of a first line

Most chat apps hand you an empty box and wait. Here every girl has a few stories already open, so you walk into something that's already moving instead of inventing a reason for her to talk to you.

Chinatsu wants one normal date. A summer festival, a yukata, pressed to your side.

Summer Festival

Chinatsu · Yoshiwara's top soap girl

Chinatsu wants one normal date: a summer festival, in a yukata, pressed to your side.

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The elevator stalls between floors with you and Grace inside, and she's scared of the dark.

The Stuck Elevator

Grace · A kind, caring nurse

The elevator stalls between floors with you and Grace inside. She's scared of the dark…

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You reply and the story moves. How far it goes is up to you, and nobody tells you to slow down. Sweet Love has voice notes, videos with sound, anime and realistic looks, long-term memory, gifts, items, custom characters and custom stories, and she messages you first.

There's nothing to download. On a computer it opens in your browser, on a phone the button opens Telegram, and without Telegram you can open app.sweetlove.ai. Free is generous: 30 messages to start, then 30 a day, 2 free voice notes a day, 10 diamonds when you sign up and your first 5-second silent video. CrushOn gives you 100 messages a month. A membership gives you unlimited messages, photos without blur and 10 free voice notes a day. Membership is US$19.99 for 3 months, about US$6.66 a month, less than Janitor AI, Nomi, Kindroid or Replika, and it comes with 90 diamonds, which with your 10 from signing up is enough for a custom character. A year is US$49.99, about US$4.17 a month. 30 diamonds for US$1.99 buy voice notes and short videos, and you can spend them on a custom character and story. What each app gives you for free is in free AI girlfriend apps.

The App Store app called "Sweet Love - AI Chat Story" belongs to someone else. 18+ only.

Voice notes and videos with sound: she does more than type

Every girl on Sweet Love has her own voice, and her tone follows her personality and her mood. Her voice drops when she's shy, she laughs when she's happy, and she leans in and whispers right in your ear. It sounds like a real person talking to you, not a machine reading text off a screen.

Any photo she sends can turn into a video with sound. The picture moves, and you hear her voice and the room around her for 5 or 10 seconds, so a quiet moment at home or a laugh on a rooftop feels like you were standing there. Videos with sound start at 30 diamonds.

Anime and realistic: one girl, two gorgeous looks

Sweet Love's realistic photos look like they came out of a real camera: the skin, the hair, the lamplight in the room, the light by the window, the neon at night. Every shot looks like a film still you'd stop scrolling for. The anime look is just as polished, and you can switch between the two whenever the mood hits.

Long-term memory, gifts and items: your relationship keeps moving

Sweet Love has long-term memory. She remembers the nickname you gave her, your secret words, your job and your life, and how far the two of you have gone together. Come back after a week or a month and she picks up right where you left off, like she's been waiting for you.

Give her a wedding dress, an oiran kimono or a police uniform and she changes into it for you, and a cat-ear gummy gives her cat ears. Book a snowy mountain onsen or set off rooftop fireworks and the story and her photos move there with you.

The Instant Camera gets you a photo of her right now, and Dimension Jump turns a photo from anime to realistic and back again.

She messages you first, and knows how long you've been gone

With Sweet Love, you don't have to send the first message. Stop replying in the middle of a chat and a few minutes later she speaks up on her own. Stay away for a day and she writes to you at the time you usually come, with a selfie of where she is right now. A few days pass, then a week, and she comes looking for you again. At Christmas and New Year she sends a photo in a holiday outfit.

When you come back, she knows how long you were gone. Three days in your life is three days in the story. She asks where you went, teases you, or tells you what happened while you were away, like someone who was really waiting for you. See which other apps do this in AI that texts you first.

Custom characters and custom stories: make a girl that's only yours

Build your Sweet Love custom character realistic or anime, and set her face shape, eyes, hair style and color, body, makeup, outfit and earrings from hundreds of options. If something's missing, describe it in your own words or start from a reference picture. Her name, background, personality and voice are all set up for you. A custom character is 99 diamonds.

Write a few lines about what you want to happen, and it becomes a full story with its own scene art and opening that she plays out. Any girl can star in one. A custom story is 29 diamonds.

Candy AI: pictures and video

18+ images and videos are part of the subscription, which also includes 100 tokens a month. The price depends on where you are.

CrushOn and SpicyChat: characters made by users

CrushOn runs on characters made by users, with 100 free messages a month and plans from US$4.9/month billed yearly.

SpicyChat tags characters NSFW and Mature. There's a free plan with ads, and US$5.95/month removes the ads. More adult-focused options are in NSFW AI chat.

Janitor AI: community character cards

Characters come from community cards, you pick your own, and you can plug in your own model. Rated 18+, with Janitor+ at US$12.99/month. Good if you like setting things up yourself.

Nomi and Kindroid: build your own

Nomi is unfiltered and uncensored, free to start with no credit card, with plans from US$9.99/month. Kindroid is rated 18+, with a subscription at US$15.99/month. Pick these if you want to shape the personality, the backstory and the way she talks before the first real conversation.

Replika: a long-running companion

Replika is rated 18+, from US$7.99/month. It's the one to pick if you want a companion you keep coming back to for months.

Character.AI: not the place to start now

It bans sexual content and nudity. The company filed for bankruptcy on October 12, 2026 and is being sold, with the sale expected to finish between late November and early December. If no buyer keeps it running, it could close. More in is Character AI shutting down.