Skip to content How it works Content Filters — Why AI Companions Refuse, and What "Uncensored" Means How filtering works in AI girlfriend apps, why refusals appear mid-scene, and why the permissive ones still have a hard floor. Why Your AI Companion Invents Memories You Never Shared Confabulation explained: why an AI girlfriend describes things that never happened, why it defends them, and the habits that reduce it. Images, Voice and Video — How the Media Side Actually Works Why the chat model and the image model are separate, why faces drift between pictures, and why media is always the first thing to be capped. How AI Companion Memory Works — and Why It Forgets The three mechanisms behind AI companion memory — facts, summaries and context — and the specific way each one fails. How an AI Companion Actually Writes Its Reply Tokens, sampling and temperature explained without maths — and how each one causes a specific behaviour you have already noticed. What Is an AI Girlfriend App, and What Is Actually Running Inside It A plain explanation of what runs inside an AI girlfriend app — the model, the character sheet and the filter — and what each one causes. Choosing an app Character Builders — What Actually Matters When You Create a Companion Which builder settings change the conversation and which are decoration, plus how to write a character that survives past week two. Choosing Your First AI Girlfriend App: Five Questions That Narrow It Down Five questions that cut a shortlist down to two — what you want from it, filters, platform, what you will really pay, and how to leave. How to Read an AI Girlfriend App's Feature List What "memory", "unlimited", "voice" and "uncensored" actually mean on a pricing page, and the one question that settles each. Switching AI Companion Apps Without Starting From Zero Nothing exports between these apps — but a character is a description. Here is what to copy down and the order that avoids losing it. Browser or App Store — Where AI Companions Actually Live Why so many AI companions are browser-only, what the store version restricts, and how the choice changes daily use. Free AI Girlfriend Apps: What the Free Tier Actually Gets You What free tiers actually give you, what runs out first, and how to tell a real free product from a three-day trailer. Privacy & safety Account Security for AI Companion Apps Why these accounts are worth taking, what these apps typically do not protect, and the four changes that matter most. Deleting an AI Companion Account — What Goes and What Stays The order that works — export, cancel, delete, verify — and which parts of your data survive a deletion request anyway. What Happens to the Images an AI Companion Generates How generated images are stored and served, why the URLs are often public, and what a deletion request does and does not remove. Payment Privacy — What Shows Up on Your Statement Billing descriptors, prepaid cards, payment wallets and the trade-offs of each, plus what to check on the first statement. Using an AI Companion on a Shared Device The mechanical ways these apps surface on shared devices — autocomplete, sync, notifications, downloads — and the fix for each. What Your AI Girlfriend App Knows About You Four checks before you sign up: what is collected, who can read it, whether it trains a model, and what a deletion request removes. Prices & plans What Image Generation Really Costs You Why images are metered, how credit bundles are priced, and the arithmetic that tells you whether an all-inclusive plan is cheaper. Monthly, Annual or Credits — Which AI Companion Plan Loses You Least How the three billing models work, who each one is priced for, and the order that costs you least when you are new to an app. Are Premium Tiers Worth It The four things upper tiers sell, which two genuinely change the product, and the test that tells you whether to upgrade. Refunds, Cancellations and Chargebacks Store purchases, direct billing and EU withdrawal rights compared, plus the order to try things in and when a chargeback is justified. Why the Same App Costs Different Money in Different Countries Regional tiers, VAT, conversion fees and store commission explained, and why a VPN is a bad way to chase a lower price. What AI Girlfriend Apps Cost in 2026 — and What the Price Hides Published prices for the apps we test, plus the four charges that sit on top of them — credits, intro pricing, tier gates and annual lock-in. Relationships & wellbeing AI Companions and Loneliness — What They Do and Do Not Fix The kind of loneliness these apps genuinely help with, the kind they cannot, and how to tell which one you are in. Using an AI Companion to Practise Conversation The parts of conversation an AI companion can genuinely rehearse, the parts it cannot, and exercises that transfer to real people. Setting Boundaries With an AI Partner Why AI companions agree with everything, what that distorts, and a handful of rules that keep the habit enjoyable rather than default. Taking a Break From an AI Companion What a week off tells you that nothing else can, how to pause without losing the character, and why coming back feels flat. Telling People You Use an AI Companion The partner question, the friends question and the workplace question, with the one test that settles most of it. When the Novelty Fades — Fixing an AI Companion That Got Boring The three reasons an AI girlfriend feels flat after a month — summary decay, your own routine, and the wrong app — and what each one needs.