AI girlfriend app comparison: the best AI companion app for memory, voice and price, 12 apps compared

Which AI girlfriend app has the best memory?

Nobody can answer that from published information, and that is the finding. Memory is the feature people search for most in this category, and ten of the twelve apps we checked make it impossible to compare before you pay.

Two are the exception. Janitor AI publishes a number: in its own words the free tier carries "a context limit of around 9k tokens", and Janitor+ raises it roughly fivefold to about 45k. That is a specification, so you can reason about it. PolyBuzz publishes a gate rather than a number: its membership table checks Permanent Memory for the Ultimate tier only, which means the PolyBuzz plan that remembers you long term is the $29.90 one, not the $9.90 one that every roundup quotes.

The other ten split into three failure modes. Kindroid sells expanded memory as a stacking add-on rather than describing what the base plan holds. Character AI added a second subscription tier, Character.AI Lite, that has no documented feature list anywhere at all. Chai publishes no feature comparison on any page, so its $13.99 Premium and $29.99 Ultra tiers cannot be told apart before purchase. Nomi, Replika, Candy AI, DreamGF, Linky, Talkie and Muah describe memory only in prose.

What this means practically: if memory is why you are buying, the useful question is not which app remembers best, it is which app will tell you what it does. Ask support for a number or a tier mapping before you subscribe, and treat a vague answer as an answer.

• Only Janitor AI publishes a memory number: about 9k tokens free, about 45k on Janitor+
• Only PolyBuzz publishes a tier gate: Permanent Memory on Ultimate ($29.90) only
• Kindroid sells expanded memory as a paid add-on that stacks on the base plan
• Character.AI Lite has no documented feature list in any source
• Chai publishes no feature comparison, so its two tiers cannot be compared
• Tempted.ai includes long-term memory on every plan from $9 a month

AI girlfriend apps compared: what each one actually documents

Read the table below as a documentation audit rather than a feature race. A blank or a "not documented" is not us failing to look; it is the vendor choosing not to say, and for a subscription you renew every month that is worth knowing before you buy.

The pattern that emerges is consistent. Apps that publish a real pricing page tend to publish real feature detail too: DreamGF lists its plans, its renewal rate and what a token buys (10 for an image, 7 per minute of voice), which is why it is the easiest app in the category to budget for even though it is also the most expensive at $25.99 a month effective. Apps that hide pricing behind a login tend to hide everything else as well. Nomi and Replika both send you to a sign in screen, and for both of them Apple's in-app purchase disclosure is the only public price list that exists.

One app could not be assessed at all. Every route on muah.ai returned HTTP 403 to two clients and to a real headless browser in August 2026, behind a Cloudflare managed challenge dressed up as a queue page. We list it so the absence is on the record rather than quietly dropped.

• DreamGF documents the most: plans, renewal rate and per-token costs
• Nomi and Replika publish no prices on their own sites at all
• Talkie publishes no subscription price in any storefront we could reach
• Muah AI returned 403 on every route, so nothing about it could be verified
• Linky lists prices with no billing period stated by Apple

Voice, images and video: what is in the plan and what is metered

This is where the monthly figure stops predicting the bill. Seven of the twelve apps sell a separate currency, and the things people actually want from a companion, pictures, voice, video and extra characters, are exactly what that currency buys.

DreamGF is the only app that prices those actions in public. Membership includes 100 tokens a month, an image costs 10 tokens and a voice call costs 7 tokens per minute, so the included allowance is roughly ten pictures or fourteen minutes of talking. Everything after that is a top-up. Candy AI runs the same structure with the numbers removed: every plan includes 100 tokens, images, video, voice messages, voice calls and creating a custom character all spend them, and Candy AI does not publish its token pack prices publicly at all. That makes the marginal cost of a picture unknowable before you subscribe, which is a materially worse position for a buyer than DreamGF's higher but visible price.

PolyBuzz runs two currencies at once at different rates, which is the most confusing arrangement in the category. Coins improve from about 402 to 1,005 units per dollar as you buy larger packs. Opals sit at 169 per dollar with no bulk pack at all, so at the best coin rate a single Opal costs almost six times what a coin does. Linky's ladder runs backwards outright: the $0.99 pack gives 181.8 coins per dollar and the $99.99 pack gives 142.0, so bulk buying costs you more, and two separate packs are priced at $1.99 with one giving 180 coins and the other 360.

• Seven of twelve apps meter pictures, voice or extra characters
• DreamGF: 100 tokens included, 10 per image, 7 per minute of voice, published
• Candy AI: same model, token pack prices not published anywhere
• PolyBuzz: coins run 402 to 1,005 per dollar, Opals a flat 169 with no bulk pack
• Linky: bulk coin packs are worse value per dollar than the smallest pack
• Tempted.ai: voice notes on Flame, voice calls on Devoted, neither metered

Which platforms does each AI companion app run on?

Platform availability moves more than people expect in this category, and a listing that existed last year is not evidence it exists now.

Talkie is the clearest case. Its iPhone app is gone and not only from the US: app ID 6450140383 returns no result in the US App Store or in eight other storefronts we checked in August 2026, twenty months after Apple pulled it in December 2024. It ships on Google Play as Talkie: Creative AI Community with more than 50 million downloads, so on Android it is alive and on iPhone it is not. Any comparison that lists Talkie as an iPhone app is copying an old article.

Buying platform also changes the price for the same product. Kindroid charges $13.99 a month on its own site and $15.99 through the iOS and Android stores for the identical subscription, and its add-on ladder inherits the same gap: MAX on top of Ultra on top of Standard reaches $98.97 a month on the web and $113.97 bought in-app. If you are subscribing to anything in this category, check the vendor's own site before you tap the button in the app, because the store cut usually lands on you.

Tempted.ai runs in a browser on any device, so there is no app store markup and nothing to install. That is a genuine trade-off rather than a pure win: there is no home screen icon and no push notification the way a native app gives you.

• Talkie has no iPhone app in any storefront we checked in August 2026
• Kindroid costs $2 a month more bought in-app than on the web
• Kindroid full stack: $98.97 a month on the web, $113.97 in-app
• Nomi and Replika are store-first, with pricing only visible through Apple
• Tempted.ai is browser-based on any device, with no app to install

How do I compare AI girlfriend apps before I pay?

Five checks, in the order that saves the most money and disappointment.

First, find the renewal price rather than the first payment. DreamGF advertises first payments of $12.99, $29.97 and $69.99 on three plans that all renew at exactly $25.99 a month effective. The introductory number is the one that gets quoted in roundups; the renewal is the one you pay eleven more times.

Second, ask whether there is a second currency and what the things you want cost in it. Be specific: pictures, voice, video and memory. A $9.90 plan with metered images can cost more per month than a $15.99 flat one.

Third, ask for a memory specification, a number or a tier mapping, in writing. Two of twelve vendors publish one. If support will not give you one either, price the app as though it forgets, because you have no basis to assume otherwise.

Fourth, check whether buying on the web is cheaper than buying in the app, and check the refund policy before rather than after. Nomi states plainly that it issues no refunds at all, and Janitor's terms say subscriptions are generally non-refundable, so an annual plan in this category is a genuine commitment.

Fifth, use the free tier or demo for a week on the thing you actually want. If you want to be remembered, tell it something on day one and ask about it on day seven. That single test tells you more than any comparison table, including this one.

• Find the renewal rate, not the introductory first payment
• Price the second currency for pictures, voice and memory specifically
• Ask support for a memory number or tier mapping in writing
• Compare the web price against the in-app price for the same plan
• Test memory yourself: tell it something on day one, ask on day seven

Who each AI companion app is genuinely best for

Honest answers, including the cases where we are the wrong choice.

If you want many characters and a huge public library, Character AI is still the one, and c.ai+ at $9.99 a month is fairly priced for what it is. It filters romance heavily and it is the app people most often describe as forgetting, so it is a poor fit for a single ongoing relationship.

If you want unfiltered conversation with several companions and generated images in one place, Nomi is the strongest product at $15.99 a month, or about $8.33 prepaid annually, and its annual rate is arguably the best value in the premium tier. It sells credits for selfies, video and extra companions, and it issues no refunds.

If you want to budget precisely, DreamGF is the only app that lets you, because it publishes what every action costs. You will pay $25.99 a month effective for that transparency. If you want the cheapest headline number, PolyBuzz is $9.90, but its memory sits on the $29.90 tier, so the honest cheap plan is the one without the feature you came for.

If you want one girlfriend who texts first, remembers you across months, and never asks you to buy a currency, that is what Tempted.ai is built for, at $9 a month on Spark billed yearly or $12 month to month. We do not have a public character library, we are not unfiltered, and we are browser-based rather than a native app. If any of those three is what you want, one of the apps above is a better buy than we are.

• Character AI: biggest character library, heavy romance filter, weakest memory reputation
• Nomi: best premium product for unfiltered chat and multiple companions, no refunds
• DreamGF: the only app you can budget precisely, at the highest effective price
• PolyBuzz: cheapest headline plan, but memory is on the $29.90 tier
• Tempted.ai: one girlfriend, memory on every plan, no metering, browser only