Guide
Best AI Girlfriend Apps in 2026
Seven AI girlfriend apps compared on the things you notice after a week, not the first five minutes.
September 25, 2026 · 9 min read
An AI girlfriend app is a character who remembers you, talks the way you built her to talk, and is there whenever you open the app. First, the disclosure: we make AmorLink, and it sits at number one below. We hold ourselves to the same rule for every app on this list, ours included: real weaknesses stay in, and every claim about a rival comes from that rival's own website.
We checked all seven apps on September 17, 2026, reading each one's homepage and pricing page, and its help centre where it had one. Rival prices carry the month we saw them. AmorLink's price is read live from our own plans, so it is current whenever you load this page. We don't link to the other apps; their names are enough to find them.
How we picked
Every app here lets you build or pick a female AI companion and hold an ongoing conversation with her. What separates them is everything past that first chat, so we compared five things:
- Memory. Does she carry your name, your stories and your preferences into next week, or does every session start from nothing?
- Building her yourself. Whether you can shape her looks and personality from scratch, or only pick from a fixed catalogue.
- Photos and video. Whether she can send pictures of herself that actually look like her, and what a short video of her costs.
- The free tier. Whether you can hold a real conversation for free, or “free” means a handful of messages before a paywall.
- Price. The cheapest way in that's actually advertised, not buried behind a login or a countdown discount.
AmorLink is first because it's ours and because we think it balances those five best. It isn't the cheapest, and it doesn't have the largest catalogue, and its own card says so. After it, the order is our judgement of how well each app covers the list.
1. AmorLink
Best for: One AI girlfriend who actually remembers the relationship, with photos and short video of her along the way.
Strengths
- Remembers what you tell her and carries it into every future conversation instead of restarting cold.
- Build her from scratch — looks, personality and how she relates to you; creating her and her first portrait are free.
- Photos and short video that keep her face consistent, with a choice of video quality per clip.
- Group rooms: bring a second companion into the same conversation (Premium and above).
- Pay with crypto or Telegram Stars, so nothing about it has to touch a card.
Weaknesses
- Voice is her written message read aloud, not a live phone call.
- The free tier is enough to date her daily, but her more intimate photo moods and the exclusive companion roster need a paid plan.
- No card checkout as of September 2026 — it's crypto or Telegram Stars, unfamiliar if you've used neither.
- A newer app than most of this list, with a smaller companion catalogue than the community-built libraries some rivals run.
Free: Free daily messages with no card; creating your own companion and her first portrait are free.
Price: free daily messages, 50 free Sparks at signup; paid plans from $9.99/mo
2. Candy AI
Best for: People who want the most complete package — chat, voice, photos and video — and don't mind a subscription for it.
Strengths
- A mature, detailed character builder: ethnicity, body, personality, voice and hobbies.
- Voice messages, plus voice calls in beta.
- Photos of your companion that can be turned into short video clips.
- Pays by card, crypto, Apple Pay or Google Pay — more checkout options than most apps here.
Weaknesses
- The free account stops at 5 messages total, one custom character and one image.
- 100 tokens a month on every paid plan are shared across images, video, voice and extra characters; heavy use means buying top-ups.
- Its own homepage says "over 100 characters" — not the biggest catalogue on this list.
Free: 5 messages in total across all characters, one custom character and one image.
Price: from $3.99/mo billed yearly ($13.99 month to month) (checked Sep 2026)
3. OurDream AI
Best for: People who want pictures, video and voice calls in one subscription and are ready to pay from day one.
Strengths
- One subscription covers unlimited messages plus image and video generation.
- 1,000 coins a month included, which also pay for voice calls.
- A detailed builder and a large library of user-made companions and scenarios.
Weaknesses
- No real free tier: every message costs a coin without a subscription, and free coins only come from referrals and events.
- Cancel, and your images and videos are blurred again until you resubscribe.
- Its own help centre says content flagging "is a bit too sensitive right now and may flag safe content."
Free: A free account exists, but every message costs a coin and pictures need a subscription.
Price: from $9.99/mo billed yearly ($19.99/mo month to month) (checked Sep 2026)
4. DreamGF
Best for: People who'd rather build an à la carte girlfriend and pay only for the photos, voice and calls they actually generate.
Strengths
- A detailed builder for physical attributes, personality and style.
- Photos generated in real time inside the chat, plus voice messages and calls.
- States "100% Privacy (No adult transactions on bank statements)" and faster, unblurred image generation on paid plans.
Weaknesses
- Tokens — its currency for photos, voice and calls — are, by its own pricing page, "available for purchase only to premium members," so a free account can chat but can't unlock any media.
- The advertised entry price is a limited-time offer that roughly doubles once the introductory period ends.
- No group chat or multiple-companion feature is mentioned anywhere on its site.
Free: A free trial to create a companion and chat; photos, voice and video all cost tokens, which only paying members can buy.
Price: an initial $12.99 charge, then $25.99/mo (checked Sep 2026)
5. Secret Desires
Best for: People who want real-time voice calls with their AI girlfriend without hunting for a separate voice tier.
Strengths
- Voice calls advertised as real-time, back-and-forth conversation, not just voice messages.
- A memory system described, in its own words, as ensuring "recent conversations stay fresh and detailed, while older chats get naturally summarized into key memories."
- A public pricing page with three tiers spelled out — no login needed to see it.
- A free account to build a companion and start chatting, no payment required to begin.
Weaknesses
- Hearts — needed for images, video and some chat engines — have no stated free-tier allowance anywhere on its pricing page.
- Voice cloning and its strongest chat engines are locked to the $13.99+ tiers.
- No group chat or multiple-companion feature is mentioned on its site.
Free: Free account with companion creation and messaging; images, video and voice draw on Hearts, which come with a paid plan.
Price: from $7.99/mo on Pro, with 10–20% off on quarterly and yearly billing (checked Sep 2026)
6. Lovescape
Best for: People who want one flat subscription for chat, photos and video, and will commit to a year for the real price.
Strengths
- Character creation, image and video generation, and voice messages are included from its entry Premium plan.
- "Hot roleplays" alongside plain conversation, not a purely SFW chat mode.
- A separate Creative Pro tier lets you publish your own AI characters and earn from them.
Weaknesses
- The 1-month price is nearly 2.5× the yearly-equivalent rate ($19.99 vs $7.99/mo) — a poor way to try it month to month.
- No-watermark downloads are listed only on its pricier Creative PRO tier ($24.99/mo billed yearly), not on the entry Premium plan.
- Chips, its currency for images and video, have no published top-up pricing on the subscription pages themselves.
Free: An account to create a companion and chat; images, video and most personalization draw on chips, which come with a paid plan.
Price: from $7.99/mo billed yearly ($95.88/yr), or $19.99/mo month to month (checked Sep 2026)
7. PolyBuzz
Best for: People who want an enormous free character library and don't mind ads, queues or a stricter filter until they upgrade.
Strengths
- Its own homepage advertises "Free, Private, and Unlimited AI Chat" across over 20 million characters.
- Character creation and image generation are free-tier features, not locked behind a subscription.
- A public three-tier pricing page (Basic, Premium, Ultimate) with every difference spelled out.
Weaknesses
- Its own site says it "strictly prohibit[s] public display of NSFW content" — a stricter public filter than most apps on this list.
- Free accounts queue for chat and get fewer daily avatar-generation attempts than paid tiers.
- Ultimate jumps to $55.20 a month, a large step up from Premium's $9.90.
Free: A free account with unlimited chat, character creation and image generation, but slower responses and a chat queue.
Price: from $8.25/mo billed yearly ($99/yr), or $9.90/mo month to month (checked Sep 2026)
Pick by what you want
Ranking seven apps into one order flattens a real difference: people want different things from an AI girlfriend. A few shortcuts, by what matters most to you:
- Memory first. AmorLink keeps the facts she learns about you and reuses them going forward, rather than selling a bigger context window on a higher tier. Secret Desires takes a related approach, summarizing older chats into shorter memories instead of dropping them outright.
- Photos and video matter most. Candy AI, OurDream AI, DreamGF and Lovescape each build their pitch around generated images and short clips of your companion; AmorLink adds a choice of video quality set per clip.
- You want to build her, not pick her. Every app on this list has some form of character creator, but how far it goes differs. AmorLink's free builder and its result are covered in the section below.
- You want the SFW-only end of this, if it exists. Two names worth knowing here didn't make our ranked seven because neither publishes a price outside a logged-in account, which we couldn't verify against our own rule for this list. Kindroid's homepage doesn't say “girlfriend” anywhere in its opening pitch — it calls itself “your AI friend who listens, remembers, and grows with you everyday,” and lists roles like study buddy and bedtime storyteller alongside roleplay partner. Nomi's own homepage makes a similar pitch — “build a meaningful friendship, develop a passionate relationship, or learn from an insightful mentor” — though its own site is explicit that it does not filter content (“built on freedom of expression... unfiltered and uncensored”), so don't take either as a promise of SFW-only chat. Read their own policies before assuming.
Build your own instead of picking from a catalogue
Every app in this list has a companion catalogue, and most people start there. But the alternative is skipping the catalogue and describing exactly who you want: Create your AI girlfriend walks through her style, looks, details, figure and personality in five short steps. Building her is free, and so is her first portrait; a free account keeps her and lets you start talking.
Our step-by-step guide to creating an AI girlfriend screenshots every step of the builder if you want to see it before you commit to five minutes with it.
Browse first
If you'd rather see who already exists than describe someone from scratch, Explore AmorLink's companions filters the full catalogue by category, age and tags like Romantic, Dominant or MILF. Open a profile, press Start chat, and she sends the first message; no card, no commitment past confirming you're 18 or older.
Chatting uses your free daily messages and never spends Sparks, AmorLink's credit for pictures and video. Plans and packs are on the pricing page.
Weighing us specifically against the app people compare us to most? AmorLink vs Candy.ai goes point by point, including where Candy.ai is ahead.
AI girlfriend apps: common questions
What is the best AI girlfriend app?
There isn't one answer, because apps optimize for different things: memory, photos and video, price, or how much you can build yourself. We rank AmorLink first below because it's ours, and we say so; after that the order is our judgement of how well each app balances memory, media, privacy and price, with every app's real weaknesses listed alongside its strengths.
Are AI girlfriend apps free?
Most let you start free, but "free" varies a lot. Candy AI's free account stops at 5 messages; DreamGF's tokens for media are purchase-only for premium members, and OurDream AI's free coins come only from referrals or Discord events, not a purchase. AmorLink, Secret Desires and PolyBuzz let you keep chatting free within daily limits or a queue, and creating your own companion is free on every app in this list.
Which AI girlfriend app has the best memory?
It depends on what "memory" means to the app. Some sell it in tokens — a bigger context window on a higher tier — while others summarize old chats into a shorter memory as you go, which is what Secret Desires describes doing. AmorLink keeps the facts she learns about you, like your name, your work and what you like, and brings them into every new conversation rather than measuring a window.
Can I create my own AI girlfriend?
Yes, on every app in this list — AmorLink, Candy AI, OurDream AI, DreamGF, Secret Desires, Lovescape and PolyBuzz all let you build a custom companion rather than only picking a premade one. On AmorLink, building her and generating her first portrait are both free; our step-by-step guide walks through each choice.
Read the how-to guideAre AI girlfriend apps safe?
The realistic risks are about data and money, not the fictional character. Check whether an app states plainly what it stores and whether deleting your account really erases your conversations, and watch credit-based apps closely — tokens, coins, chips and Hearts are all easy to overspend without noticing. Choose an adults-only app and don't hand over more payment detail than the price actually requires.
Build her in a few minutes. Chatting is free, and there is no card to enter.