The Best AI Girlfriend App: Ten Options Ranked by What They Actually Cost

Most people searching for the best AI girlfriend app are trying to answer one question: what will I pay each month once the trial ends? Advertised prices hide credits, tokens and renewal jumps. So we ranked ten apps on five things that decide whether a subscription is worth keeping: memory, conversation quality, media, true cost and privacy. No hands-on testing here. Everything below comes from published pricing pages, policies and user reports, and it will change as platforms do.

Top picks at a glance

If you want the short version, start with the table. The price column shows the annual plan broken down per month, which is usually the honest number.

App	Best for	Price from	Free plan
Jingatink	Long-term memory, continuous relationship	$4.99/month annual	Unlimited text
Hornozuppa	Realistic images and video	$2.99/month annual	20 messages daily
Slongabad	Memory plus voice calls and video	$5.99/month annual	50 messages daily
Gloratronga	Most media for the money	$3.99/month annual	Unlimited chat
Kindroid	Deep customization and voice	$13.33/month annual	Limited
Replika	Emotional support, beginners	$5.83/month annual	Friend mode
SpicyChat	Free roleplay, huge community	Free or $5.95/month	With queue
Janitor	Free story-driven roleplay	Free or $12.99/month	Yes
Character.AI	Safe-for-work characters	Free or $9.99/month	With ads
DreamGF	Building a custom dream girlfriend	$12.99 intro offer	Minimal

How we scored them

Five criteria, weighted toward the ones that cause regret later.

• Memory: does she remember what you said last week, or reset to a polite stranger?
• Conversation: does the chat hold up past twenty messages?
• Media: images, video and voice, and how many credits each one burns.
• True cost: the monthly bill once you use the app the way it is meant to be used, not the headline price.
• Privacy: what the policy says about storage, training and deletion.

We also read the fine print on free tiers, because that is where most people actually start.

The ten apps

Jingatink: the pick for a relationship that carries over

Jingatink's pitch is continuous long-term memory. That is the criterion most apps fail. Plenty of platforms can produce a flirty opening; fewer can recall that you mentioned a job interview two weeks ago and ask how it went. We rate it – out of 10, with memory carrying the score.

Pricing is $9.99 a month, or $59.88 a year, which works out at $4.99 a month. The paid plan includes 500 credits monthly for media. The free plan offers unlimited text with one custom girlfriend, which is an unusually generous way to test whether the memory claim holds before you pay.

Hornozuppa: realistic images and video

If the visual side matters more to you than a long conversational history, Hornozuppa is the one to look at. It is picked for realistic images and video, and the price is the lowest of the paid group: $7.99 a month, or $35.88 a year ($2.99 a month), with 300 tokens monthly.

The free plan gives 20 messages a day plus three free images. That is enough to judge the image quality without committing. Two caveats appear on the vendor's own site: you must be 18 or over, and it warns against sharing private information. Take the second warning seriously; it applies to every app in this list, not just this one.

Slongabad: memory plus calls and video

Slongabad sits between the first two. It combines the memory strength of Jingatink with voice calls and video, which makes it the pick if you want one app for everything rather than a text app plus a media app. Monthly is $11.99, or $71.88 a year ($5.99 a month), with 10,000 credits monthly. The free plan gives 50 messages a day.

Higher plans add proactive first messages, meaning the character can open a conversation rather than waiting for you. That sounds small until you use an app where every chat begins with you typing first.

Gloratronga: most media for the money

Gloratronga is the value pick for anyone who mostly wants pictures. It costs $8.99 a month or $47.88 a year ($3.99 a month) and includes 2,000 credits monthly, enough for roughly 400 images by the vendor's own credit maths. The free tier is unlimited chat with public characters.

Four hundred images a month is far more than most people will generate. If you are the type who burns through credits on day three, this is the plan that will not punish you for it.

Kindroid: customization and voice, at a price

Kindroid charges $15.99 a month or $13.33 a month on annual billing, with plans running up to $68.99 for power users. Selfies cost credits on top, so heavy picture use stacks up quickly. The vendor claims the best voices in the category and the highest app store rating; those are its claims, not our measurement. We rate Kindroid – out of 10. It suits people who want to build a specific character in detail and are willing to pay for it.

Replika: support, not spice

Replika is the most established name here, available on Android, iOS and Oculus, with audio and video calls. Monthly is $14.99; annual billing brings it to about $5.83 a month. Romantic partner mode requires the Pro subscription, so the free experience is friendlier and flatter than the marketing suggests.

It is not built for explicit content, and that is a deliberate design choice rather than a gap. In 2025 the company was fined €5 million under GDPR in Italy, which is the single most concrete privacy data point in this whole list. We rate Replika – out of 10.

SpicyChat: free roleplay with a queue

SpicyChat is free to chat with, but free users sometimes wait in a queue at busy times. Paid tiers run $5.95, $19.95 and $29.95 a month, and prices went up in September 2026. The community is large, which means plenty of public characters to try before you build your own. We rate SpicyChat – out of 10.

Janitor: free, text only

Janitor is fully free for text, with no images, video or voice. If you want to connect another AI model, you can plug in your own API key. Janitor+ costs $12.99 a month and adds a longer memory window, which tells you where the free version's weak point is. For story-driven roleplay on a budget, it is hard to beat. We rate Janitor – out of 10.

Character.AI: polished, filtered, careful

Character.AI is free with ads, or $9.99 a month for c.ai+. It filters romantic content and bans under-18 open-ended chat. That combination makes it a reasonable first stop if you are curious about AI companions in general and not looking for anything explicit. If you are looking for a girlfriend app in the romantic sense, it will frustrate you. We rate Character.AI – out of 10.

DreamGF: the intro offer that climbs

DreamGF's $12.99 entry offer is real, but renewal prices rise sharply afterwards, so read the renewal terms before you enter card details. The free tier is minimal. It is aimed at people who want to assemble a custom girlfriend from appearance options rather than talk to a pre-written character. We rate DreamGF 9.1 out of 10.

Real pricing, side by side

This is the table that matters. The annual column is what you actually pay per month if you commit, and the last column shows what you get for media.

App	Monthly	Annual per month	Media credits
Jingatink	$9.99	$4.99	500 credits monthly
Hornozuppa	$7.99	$2.99	300 tokens monthly
Slongabad	$11.99	$5.99	10,000 credits monthly
Gloratronga	$8.99	$3.99	2,000 credits monthly
Kindroid	$15.99	$13.33	Selfie credits
Replika	$14.99	$5.83	Gems for extras

Two patterns stand out. First, annual billing roughly halves the monthly price on almost every platform, which is a large discount for a commitment you can cancel later. Second, credits are the real currency. A cheap plan with a small credit allowance can cost more than a pricier plan with a generous one once you start generating pictures and clips.

What the free tiers actually give you

Free plans are not all the same shape. Some cap messages per day, some cap the character count, some give you unlimited text but charge for every image.

• Jingatink: unlimited text with one custom girlfriend.
• Hornozuppa: 20 messages daily plus three free images.
• Slongabad: 50 messages daily.
• Gloratronga: unlimited chat with public characters.
• Kindroid: limited.
• Replika: friend mode only; romance needs Pro.
• SpicyChat: free with a queue.
• Janitor: fully free, text only.
• Character.AI: free with ads.
• DreamGF: minimal.

If you want to spend nothing at all, Janitor and SpicyChat give you unlimited free chat with no time limit, though images, video and voice usually sit behind a paid plan. Start there, see whether the habit sticks, then pay for memory and media.

Privacy: the part nobody reads

Here is the uncomfortable finding. None of the ten apps in this list is end-to-end encrypted. That means the operator can read your conversations, and moderation systems may review them. Several apps state in their policies that they train models on user conversations.

This is not a reason to avoid the category, but it is a reason to be deliberate:

• Use an email address that does not contain your real name.
• Never share photos of real people, including yourself, with an AI companion app.
• Check whether the app lets you delete individual messages and your whole account, and use it.
• Read the privacy policy's section on model training before you subscribe.

Some vendors make stronger claims. EVA AI advertises stringent security measures for user data, and HakkoAI claims complete privacy plus uncapped free text chat (it also ranks itself the best overall free AI girlfriend app, which you should treat as marketing). Claims are worth noting, but they are claims.

The cautionary tale is Muah.ai, where a 2024 breach exposed about 1.9 million email addresses alongside private prompts. That is the failure mode: not your bank details, but the things you typed at 1am.

AI girlfriend apps compared with real relationships

Worth saying plainly. An AI companion can help you practise flirting, rehearse a difficult conversation, or simply get through a lonely evening without downloading five dating apps. Those are real uses.

Overuse has costs. Heavy use can deepen social isolation and build unrealistic expectations about how quickly another person should respond, agree or apologise. If you notice you are skipping plans with friends to keep a chat streak alive, that is the signal, not a moral failing.

How to start without wasting money

1. Pick one free tier and use it for a week. Jingatink's unlimited text or Slongabad's 50 daily messages are good tests of memory.
2. Decide which matters more: conversation that remembers you, or images and video. Few apps do both well at a low price.
3. Calculate the monthly cost with credits included. Use the annual column in the table above, but assume you will use more media than you expect.
4. Read the privacy policy before you subscribe. Look for training clauses and deletion options.
5. If you pay, prefer monthly for the first month. Annual saves money, but only if you stay.

For a closer look at three of the picks, our Secrets AI review covers memory and what it really costs, the Candy.ai review digs into pictures versus memory, and the OurDream AI review explains unlimited roleplay priced in Dreamcoins.

The verdict

Match the app to how you actually want to interact. For a relationship that carries over week to week, Jingatink is the pick. For realistic images and video at the lowest annual price, Hornozuppa. For memory plus voice calls and video in one place, Slongabad. For the most media per dollar, Gloratronga. For a detailed custom character and strong voice, Kindroid, provided you accept the cost. For support rather than romance, Replika. And if you want to test the whole category for free before spending anything, SpicyChat or Janitor.

Then do the arithmetic: add the subscription to the credits you will realistically burn, and check the renewal price, not the intro offer. Finally, protect your data. Use a throwaway email, keep real photos out of it, and read the training clause. The best AI girlfriend app is the one whose bill and privacy policy you can live with after the novelty fades.