Tolan: the companion that deliberately is not human

What is Tolan?

Tolan is an iOS companion app whose character is a cartoon alien rather than a person. You talk to it by text or voice, and it builds a memory from your conversations. It is operated by AQP, Inc. trading as Portola, of Beaverton, Oregon. The design is the argument: where most companion apps aim at realism, this one puts big eyes and a cartoon planet between you and the illusion.

At a glance

Product identity

What Tolan claims, and what we found

Each row is a claim the vendor makes on a public page, beside what the same vendor's other pages say. Where two of their documents disagree we record both rather than choosing one. All checked 9 Sept 2026.

Pricing

Nothing is published on tolans.com. The App Store listing shows Tolan Lite Membership at 11.99 US dollars and a Relay Boost at 2.99, alongside several older tiers marked as such, from 4.99 up to 69.99. The listing does not state billing periods, so the interval is visible only at the purchase sheet. ClickTug records the price as not published on the vendor's own site and quotes the store figures rather than treating an in-app purchase list as a pricing page.

There is a limited trial for new users, extendable by completing tasks such as inviting a friend. What the trial includes and how long it lasts are not published, so the allowance is unverified rather than described. Full access requires a subscription, which the FAQ states plainly.

Refunds: Purchases are in-app, so Apple's refund process applies. Portola publishes no separate refund terms.

Platforms

iOS, verified from the App Store listing. Portola's own FAQ does not state Android support and ClickTug found no Google Play listing it could confirm, so this is recorded as iOS only until that changes.

• iOS

Feature matrix

Absence of evidence is not recorded as absence of a feature. Anything that needs an account to confirm is marked not tested rather than "no".

Privacy and data

Conversations are logged and used to build the companion memory, held on Portola servers. No retention period is published as a number. Deletion is self-serve in the app or by email. The only training statement is a carve-out saying Google Workspace data is not used to train models, which says nothing about conversations, so training is recorded as not documented. The App Store privacy card declares data used to track you across other companies apps, and lists user content among the data linked to you and used for advertising.

Privacy disclosure

What the vendor lets you know before paying

This measures disclosure, not quality. A good product can document nothing, and that is worth knowing separately from whether it is any good.

Content policy and safety

Tolan documents its output filtering asstrict filtering, and its age policy as self-declared at signup.

Tolan does not offer clothing removal from photographs of real people. ClickTug does not list tools that do. Its stated position on the likeness of real people is that it is blocked outright.

What the vendor prohibits

• Use by a child without the consent of a parent or legal guardian
• Unlawful use of the service under the terms of service

This is a deliberately non-romantic, non-explicit product and its filtering is strict, but the age control is a self-declared date of birth rather than a check.

Vendor acceptable use policy · ClickTug content policy

ClickTug verdict

The clearest answer in this hub to a question the rest of the category dodges: what a companion should look like. Tolan makes its character a cartoon alien, ships a Family Plan with a published trust and safety FAQ, and gives minors break reminders and filtered conversation. Then the paperwork undercuts it. No price on its own site, no retention period as a number, no commitment that conversations stay out of training, and an App Store card declaring cross-app tracking for advertising. A product designed this carefully deserves policies to match.

Hands on

How Tolan compares

Every figure on the right is computed across the 34 tools ClickTug currently tracks, at the moment this page was built. They are facts about this catalogue rather than about the market, and they move as it grows.

Quick answers about Tolan

Generated from the same records as the tables above, so an answer here cannot contradict a figure there. Questions only appear when the answer says something specific to this product.

Is Tolan free?

There is a free tier. New users get a limited trial that can be extended by completing tasks such as inviting a friend. Neither the length of the trial nor what it includes is published.

How much does Tolan cost?

No price is published. No price appears anywhere on tolans.com, including the FAQ, which says only that full access requires a subscription. The figures below are the in-app purchases published on the App Store listing, which is where a buyer actually sees them.

Does Tolan require a credit card to start?

No card is required to reach the free layer. One is needed for any paid plan.

Does Tolan offer refunds?

Purchases are in-app, so Apple's refund process applies. Portola publishes no separate refund terms.

Does Tolan have an app?

Yes, on iOS.

Can Tolan run locally?

No. It is a hosted service, so everything you write reaches the vendor's servers.

Can I delete my Tolan account?

Yes, through a control in the account rather than by asking support.

Is Tolan actually uncensored?

Not entirely. ClickTug records it as strict filtering, and the prohibited list above says what it refuses.

What company owns Tolan, and where?

AQP, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon, United States. Publishing an identifiable counterparty is worth noting: several tools in this directory name no company at all.