Companion apps are sold on a feature list and bought on three things: what you actually get besides text, what it costs, and whether you can find that out before handing over an email address.
That last one is worth leading with. Candy AI does not show a price until you sign up. It is not alone, and it is not a scandal, but it does make comparison harder than it needs to be. So this page states, for each alternative, what is included and whether the price is readable in advance.
Every figure below was read from the vendor’s own page and carries the date it was checked on its listing.
The short answer
| If you want | Try | Price visible? | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photos, video and voice calls | AI Angels | Yes | 12.99 dollars |
| A named company and crypto | Honeybot | Yes | 11.99 dollars |
| Memory that persists | Kindroid | Yes | 15.99 dollars |
| A free allowance first | GirlfriendGPT | No | Not published |
| A written no-training promise | AICupid | No | Not published |
| Images and video together | Soulkyn | No | Behind an age gate |
None of the six asks for a credit card to create an account.
AI Angels, the closest match
Unfiltered companion chat with photos, video and voice calls, from a named Estonian company, and one of the few here that prints a price on a page you can read without an account. At 12.99 dollars a month it sits in the middle of this list on cost and at the top on transparency.
If what you liked about Candy AI was the combination of chat and generated images, this is the nearest equivalent that lets you check the price first.
Read the full AI Angels assessment
Honeybot, if payment matters
11.99 dollars, an operating company named and located in Nevada, and a stated position on which courts hear a dispute. Card payments run through one processor and cryptocurrency through another.
That redundancy is worth more in this category than it sounds. Card processors withdraw from adult services at short notice, and a vendor with a second route is one whose account still works next quarter. The refund positions differ between the two payment routes and the terms say so, which is more transparency than the average here.
Read the full Honeybot assessment
Kindroid, if continuity matters more than pictures
The most expensive on this page at 15.99 dollars, and the only one with persistent memory across sessions plus voice. It also runs on web, iOS and Android simultaneously, which is unusual when both app stores restrict adult content.
Kindroid uses third-party age verification rather than a checkbox. That cuts both ways: it is a real signal about how the vendor operates, and it means signup asks more of you than anything else here.
Read the full Kindroid assessment
GirlfriendGPT, if you want to try before deciding
Companion chat with voice and images from a named Canadian company, with a small free allowance so you can see the output quality before committing.
The price is not published anywhere ClickTug could find. That is recorded as not published rather than filled in with a figure from a review site, because a number nobody has to honour is not a price.
Read the full GirlfriendGPT assessment
AICupid, if training is your concern
States plainly that your content never trains a model. That is unusually direct for this category, where most policies simply do not address the question, and it is the single most common gap ClickTug records across every listing.
The trade is that it never states a price either.
Read the full AICupid assessment
Soulkyn, if you want video as well
Uncensored companion chat with images and video, behind an age gate that also hides the price.
Worth knowing: Soulkyn’s blocked-content wording is near-identical to that of several other vendors in this category, operating under different companies in different countries. ClickTug records the clause and its apparent authorship as separate facts, because a well-drafted clause tells you about the template it came from rather than about the vendor using it.
Read the full Soulkyn assessment
What to check before you pay
Three things decide the value here and all three are on every listing:
What a free account actually includes. Almost no vendor in this category documents message limits, image allowances or companion counts. They are learned by hitting them.
What happens to your companion if you stop paying. Continuity is what the subscription sells, and no vendor assessed states whether the character and its memory are retained, exportable or deleted on cancellation.
Whether your conversations train the next model. Distinct from retention and often confused with it. A service can delete your messages and still have learned from them.
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