All the apps we have tested, ranked by overall score. Filter on whatever matters to you.
24 apps
The most reliable memory and the least robotic conversation in our test.
Best for : Long-running relationships, where the companion has to remember months of context.
The deepest customisation on the market, for people who enjoy tinkering.
Best for : People who want to write the personality, the voice and the visual style themselves.
The best-known app, and the most polished first hour.
Best for : Beginners who want a gentle, well-designed first experience.
Millions of user-made characters, and the cheapest subscription in the ranking.
Best for : Trying dozens of personalities without committing to a single relationship.
A European operator with a data policy you can actually read.
Best for : Uncensored chat without handing your conversations to an anonymous shell company.
Images first: the visuals are the product, the conversation is the wrapper.
Best for : People who mainly want consistent generated images of a character they designed.
A character builder with a chat bolted on, spanning photorealism and anime.
Best for : People whose priority is designing a character in detail and keeping it consistent.
The most complete adult companion: chat, images and video on one subscription.
Best for : Getting images and video of the same character without stacking two subscriptions.
The only one here selling the video call as the main product, and an EU operator.
Best for : People who want video calls rather than text, from an operator you can reach in Europe.
Built for mobile, endless bots, almost no friction.
Best for : Casual phone chatting, hopping between bots like a feed.
A memory-first companion, deliberately calm and unstimulating by design.
Best for : Daily conversations closer to journalling than to roleplay.
200,000 community bots, adult content on by default, and ads.
Best for : Digging through an enormous catalogue rather than building a character.
Collectible characters, playful mechanics, and a young, very active community.
Best for : Playful, no-commitment chatting with a strong visual identity.
Anime-leaning adult roleplay, with the writing to back it up.
Best for : Written adult roleplay where staying in character matters more than pictures.
Unfiltered anime and fantasy, for people who want that register and nothing else.
Best for : Adult anime and fantasy roleplay, committed all the way.
Photorealistic companions and unfiltered video, and nothing else.
Best for : Adult photorealism, when the conversation is only a pretext.
A community AI companion app, generalist and unremarkable.
Best for : People who want a male companion as seriously as a female one, which few apps offer.
Sells its memory as the headline, and your conversations as training data.
Best for : People who want a conversation that remembers, and are not bothered by how the data is used.
Voice calls billed at 30 tokens a minute, on a 100-token monthly allowance.
Best for : People who want 4K images and will not use the voice calls.
A simple, cheap mobile companion with no ambition beyond that.
Best for : A light, low-cost first try on mobile.
A brand spread across several apps, of very uneven quality.
Best for : Trying an AI girlfriend from a mobile store rather than the web.
Gamified roleplay, decent images, and a limited-time discount that never ends.
Best for : People who prefer ready-to-play roleplay scenarios to a blank page.
Plenty of generated images, not much behind them.
Best for : Image-led mobile use, when Candy.ai feels too web-bound.
The most convincing voice on the market, sold by the week to hide the bill.
Best for : People who come for the voice and know how to refuse weekly billing.