AI Girlfriend Apptests the AI girlfriend apps before you hand one your credit card

Candy.ai is our current top pick overall: it holds a character together longest, its image generation stays consistent, and its free tier is usable enough to judge the product before paying. Girlfriend GPT is the better choice if you want to write the character yourself, and Joi has the most generous free tier if you are only finding out whether this format suits you.

Free tiers are real, but they are almost always metered — a daily message allowance, a handful of images, or voice locked behind the paid plan. What differs is how usable the free tier is before the meter runs out. We report that limit for every app rather than repeating the word 'free' from the landing page.

Several do, and several advertise that they do while refusing more than they admit. The important detail is that filter policy changes without announcement: an app that accepted a scene last month may refuse it today. We re-check the NSFW section against the live product instead of leaving an old answer in place.

Usually more than the headline figure, which is typically promotional, annual-divided-by-twelve, or a tier that excludes the feature you came for. Every review here reports what we were charged at renewal, and whether cancellation was straightforward — that second part is where several otherwise good apps lose their recommendation.

It varies more than most users expect, and it matters more here than in most software. Some platforms encrypt conversations and honour deletion requests; others retain logs indefinitely and reserve the right to use them for training. We read the privacy policy of every app reviewed here and report retention, training use, third-party sharing and deletion.