Wingman
The best documented dating assistant here, with two published minimum ages that disagree.
Not published
- Free tier
- No card
AI dating, and the two very different things people mean by it
Search for AI dating and you get two products that share almost nothing. One is software for meeting real people: profile writers, opener generators, photograph enhancers, conversation coaches. The other is a relationship you have with the AI itself, sometimes framed as practice, sometimes not framed as anything at all.
This hub covers both, which is a change made on 9 September 2026. It previously covered only the second and said so on the page. That boundary was drawn when this site was organised around what its vendors produced, where a tool that writes your dating profile genuinely did not belong. Under a directory of companion and dating software it belongs here, and half the people searching the term were being told to look elsewhere for the half we could have covered.
Both kinds are compared on the same checkable things: what it costs, what happens to what you write, and what the vendor's own terms prohibit, each with the date it was checked.
Best for, by what you can check
Each line is one fact from the listing, not a ranking. Where several listings pass, the first in editorial order not already named above is shown, and the count says how many passed. The price line is the one exception, and names the lowest figure.
Never listedClothing removal from photographs of real people, sexual imagery of real people, and anything involving minors. Refused permanently, and refused by the schema rather than by a promise. What we will not list
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Compare AI Dating apps
ROAST
Deletes your face data after 90 days, and never says whose face you are allowed to upload.
Not published
- No card
Blush
A dating simulator whose privacy notice is current and whose terms are three years old.
Not published
- Free tier
- No card
DatePhotos AI
The only photo generator here whose terms prohibit uploading someone without their consent.
Not published
- No card
YourMove AI
Deletes uploads on a stated schedule, and sets no minimum age anywhere in its terms.
Not published
- Free tier
- No card
Nothing matches those filters. to see all 5.
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Trust and terms, side by side
The facts that decide whether to trust a tool rather than whether to try it. Every value is taken from the vendor's own published pages on the date shown on each listing. A blank is never a guess: where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says so.
| Tool | From | Age check | Trains on your content | Deletion | Filtering | Minors policy | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wingman | Not published | Self-declared at signup | Not documented | In account | Strict filtering | Published | Delaware, United States, based in Portland, Oregon |
| ROAST | Not published | Self-declared at signup | Not documented | In account | Strict filtering | Not published | France, registered office at 33 bis rue Doudeauville, Paris 75018 |
| Blush | Not published | Self-declared at signup | Not documented | In account | Moderate filtering | Not published | Delaware, United States, operating in San Francisco, California |
| DatePhotos AI | Not published | Self-declared at signup | Not documented | By request | Strict filtering | Not published | United States |
| YourMove AI | Not published | None stated | Yes | By request | Strict filtering | Not published | Terms state the prevailing law of the Netherlands |
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What this hub covers
What qualifies
- Either the relationship is with the AI itself, or the product exists to help a person date other people
- A product someone can sign up for, rather than a prompt, a technique or a feature request
- Publishes terms and a privacy policy at citable URLs, so the claims can be quoted and archived
- No credible reporting of the product generating sexual content involving minors
What it does not cover
- Apps that scan dating sites for a specific person's profile
- Surveillance products aimed at a named real person. We will not send traffic to them regardless of category, and this exclusion did not change when the hub widened.
- Human dating apps that added AI matching
- The AI is a feature inside a service for meeting real people, and the product is still a dating app. Reviewing those is somebody else's job and the fact tables here would tell you nothing useful about one.
- Anything built on a real person's likeness
- Photo tools that improve your own pictures are in scope. Tools that generate or alter images of somebody else are refused outright. Our content policy explains why.
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What decides it in this category
The comparison that matters is not the same in every category. These are the questions that separate a good choice from a bad one here specifically, and why each one earns its place.
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Which of the two products it actually is
This decides whether anything else on the page is relevant to you. A relationship simulator and a profile writer answer different needs and share no useful specification. Every listing states which kind it is in the first line, because the search term does not.
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What happens to what you write
It matters in both halves and for different reasons. A simulator holds a long personal conversation. A profile writer holds your photographs, your age, your location and your answers about what you want. The second is arguably the more sensitive record and is usually the less carefully documented.
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Whether a price is published before signup
Several products in both halves of this category put no readable number in front of an unregistered visitor. Where a price exists but cannot be read without an account or a rendering pass, the listing records that as gated rather than leaving the field blank.
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Whether the output is presented as yours
Specific to the profile-writing half and worth checking. Some vendors claim a licence over text and images produced through the service. That is a real term to read before putting the result on a profile that represents you.
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Age verification, which is not the same as an age policy
Almost every vendor publishes a policy about minors and almost none checks anything beyond a tick box. The gap between the two is worth knowing before you read a strong policy as a strong safeguard.
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What vendors here do not publish
Findings from assessing every candidate in this category against the same checklist, including the ones that are not listed. A gap that every vendor shares is a fact about the category rather than a complaint about one product.
- This hub is the newest on the site and its coverage is incomplete. The relationship-simulator half draws on vendors already assessed here; the tools-for-real-dating half is a vendor set nobody has researched yet, and no listing appears until it has been.
- Retention is rarely stated as a number in either half, and the profile-writing half is typically worse documented despite holding more identifying material.
AI Dating FAQ
What is an AI dating app?
Two different things, and the term does not distinguish them. One is a relationship with an AI character that continues across sessions, sometimes framed as practice for dating real people. The other is a tool that helps you date real people: writing your profile, suggesting openers, improving your photographs. This hub covers both and every listing says which kind it is.
Can an AI dating simulator help me date real people?
Some vendors frame their product that way and none of them publishes evidence for it. ClickTug records the claim as a claim, with the wording the vendor used and the date it was read, and does not repeat it as a finding. If a product's marketing says it builds confidence, that is marketing until somebody measures it.
Are AI dating profile writers safe to use?
The question worth asking is what they keep. A profile writer takes your photographs, your age, your location and your answers about what you want, which is a more identifying record than most chat products hold. Read the retention terms and check whether the vendor claims a licence over the output before it goes on a profile that represents you.
Why did this hub change what it covers?
It covered relationship simulators only, because this site was organised around what its vendors produced, and a profile writer raised none of the questions the fact tables measure. When the site reorganised around companion and dating software on 9 September 2026, that reasoning stopped applying, and half the people searching the term were being sent away from the half we could have served. The old boundary is recorded above rather than quietly deleted.
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What ClickTug will not list
Every directory in this category claims a standard. Ours is written as the four things we refuse, rather than as a promise to be careful, because a standard nobody can check is the same as no standard at all.
- Refused at domain level
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- Assessed, not listed
- 35
- Explicit media hosted
- 0
These refusals are permanent. They apply regardless of how much traffic the category would send, and each one is enforced by the software that stores these listings rather than by anybody remembering it.
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Clothing removal from photographs of real people
The field that records this on a listing has exactly one legal value: not offered. There is no value that means yes, so a tool with that capability cannot be described by our schema, cannot be saved, and cannot be published. It is a shape in the data model, not a rule anybody has to remember to apply.
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Sexual imagery of a real, identifiable person
Including public figures, and including any product that builds a character from an uploaded photograph of somebody. A tool that puts a real person's face into adult material is refused on the same grounds, whatever the vendor calls the feature. Invented characters from a text prompt are what this directory covers, and that distinction is the whole line.
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Anything involving minors, or people presented as minors
In any context whatsoever. A second word list fails this build on every page, including the pages written to state the refusals, which is why those pages describe this without using the vocabulary such products market themselves with. Credible reporting that a product generated this material excludes the vendor no matter what its own terms claim, because a policy page is a statement and a product is evidence.
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Intimate images shared without the subject's agreement
Services that distribute that material are refused, and so is anything sold around it. If a listed service has been used against you, the removal request page is linked from every page on this site, is never hidden behind a menu, and is acknowledged by a person within 48 hours.
Refusals are enforced at the domain level as well as the word level, because a service can rename itself out of a word list overnight and keep the same infrastructure. Every vendor we assessed and turned down is named on assessed but not listed, with the reason and the date, including the ones refused on something they published themselves.
We do not chase the excluded keywords either, and they carry more search volume than everything ClickTug does cover. That is the trade: a smaller market, and a directory that is still here in five years. ClickTug also hosts no explicit images or video at all. Listings use vendor logos, interface screenshots and dashboards, and the build rejects any image loaded from a host other than our own.