No adult mode

Millions of community characters with unlimited free text chat

The default starting point: unmatched variety and the most generous free tier in the category.

The original AI friend, built around emotional connection

Still the strongest product for people who want one companion and a real feeling of continuity.

The most empathetic free AI, with unlimited voice

Completely free, genuinely warm, and no upsell wall. Not a roleplay product, but an excellent listener.

A clinically grounded wellbeing companion

A companion that is honest about being a tool rather than a relationship.

AI journal that reflects back with personalized prompts and insights

The strongest AI journal in the directory: 4.7★ from 5,000+ users, emotional pattern analysis, speak-or-type entries.

ByteDance’s no-code bot builder

Build and ship custom AI chatbots to 8+ channels with plugins and workflows — a create-your-own toolkit, not a fixed companion.

An open-weight model with a surprisingly strong free chat

Not a companion, but its free, capable chat and long memory make it a credible daily AI friend.

A fast, private European AI assistant

Mistral’s free assistant with web search, image generation and memory — a credible daily chat companion with EU data residency.

Memory, voice mode and the strongest general model

Not built as a companion, but its memory and voice mode make it a legitimate daily chat partner.

Google assistant with image, video and live voice

A general assistant that doubles as a companion: strong memory, Imagen image generation, Veo video and a Live voice mode.

Free character chat that runs locally or in the cloud

The most generous free tier in the category: unlimited chat on locally run models, 600 cloud messages a day, no card required.

A character engine for intelligent NPCs

A developer platform for personality, memory, emotion and voice — build your own interactive characters for games and apps.

Self-hosted AI platform with personas, RAG and a 500k+ community

The power-user pick: run any model locally or in the cloud with zero data retention and full control.

Alibaba’s free flagship assistant with image and video

A near-frontier free assistant: image and video generation, voice chat and 119+ languages — a strong daily chat companion.

Voice-first AI companion built specifically for mental health

The best-funded wellbeing companion ($93M raised): therapeutic memory, weekly insights and a purpose-built psychology model.

miHoYo's free desktop AI companion blending letter chat, music generation and a live wallpaper

A free, polished ambient companion from the Genshin studio: piano performances, MIDI-to-music-video generation and pen-pal letters.

A desktop companion robot designed for older adults

The clearest example of companionship as a product with real-world purpose.

Free chat on 130+ open-weight models

Not a companion, but a free, transparent chat front-end over Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek and Mistral that doubles as a daily AI friend.

Open-source chat UI with a community agent marketplace

A serious open-source option: self-host it, plug in any model, and browse community personas — more assistant than romantic partner.

AI journal for mental wellbeing with 50+ thinking frameworks and AI Minds

Journaling plus cognitive training: mental-model prompts, personality mirroring and encrypted privacy-first design.

Free chat with Zhipu's GLM frontier models

A capable free general assistant — the closest free peer to DeepSeek for everyday chat.

The most careful conversational partner of the big models

Best for nuanced, long-form conversation; it will decline romantic roleplay firmly.

A voice-first AI companion built for older adults

Voice-driven companionship with scam detection and family alerts — the standout eldercare option in the category.

A reading companion for early readers

A well-executed, unambiguously safe AI companion for children.

A screen-aware gaming companion that plays along with you

A gaming-focused companion that reads your screen and roleplays along, with voice, Live2D-style visuals and a Romantic mode on higher tiers.

Moonshot AI's free assistant, now on the K3 model generation

A generous free general assistant from Moonshot; strong on long documents and agentic work.

Microsoft's AI companion with GPT-5 class models baked in

The free assistant already on every Windows PC and in Edge; Pro unlocks priority models for $20/mo.

An SFW AI boyfriend who remembers your life and texts first

Memory-first, strictly safe-for-work AI boyfriend with proactive check-ins — a rare no-NSFW option for iPhone.

A search-first AI with cited, conversational answers

Less a companion, more a research sidekick, but its free tier and cited answers make it a handy daily AI.

An AI dating assistant that drafts the perfect reply

A dating coach, not a companion: screenshot a conversation and get context-aware replies for Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and more.

AI characters that live in your group chats

A multiplayer twist: add customizable AI characters to Discord, Telegram or the web with persistent memory, free.

Character depth built around an AI boyfriend

One of very few sites that treats male companions as the main product rather than an afterthought.

Anime-focused AI chat and image generation

A fandom-first platform: anime character chat plus strong image generation, aimed at otaku communities.

ByteDance's everyday AI assistant that plans, schedules and answers

Formerly Cici AI: a polished free assistant for chat, planning and daily tasks from ByteDance.

A personal AI agent with Deep Memory that builds mini-apps for you

A personal companion-agent rather than a character roster; free during its current rollout.

Personalized AI bedtime stories for children

Kid-safe story generator: the child becomes the hero, with narration and gentle morals.

Free unlimited AI image generator with no sign-up

Exactly as advertised: unlimited free image generation in the browser, no account needed.

AI wingman for dating-app messages, IRL openers and profile polish

The most complete dating assistant: openers, replies, IRL intros, ask-outs and polite breakups, with tone controls.

An AI dating simulator to practise romance safely

From the Replika makers: a judgement-free space to practise flirting and relationships with AI crushes — not a sexbot.

AI self-care panda that tracks mood and coaches you in real time

A free wellbeing companion with a memorable mascot: mood tracking, voice check-ins and CBT-style coaching.

A personal AI that maps your memories, people and priorities

Personal-knowledge-flavoured companion with strong memory tools; pricing is only shown inside the app.

Unlimited chat with a structured memory system

Cheap, memory-first, and one of the few sites that lets the free tier actually test memory.

A personal AI that learns from you

A digital-memory companion and "digital twin" that learns your voice and stores your memories — productivity first, not romance.

A voiced alien companion that is refreshingly un-creepy

The most interesting voice-first companion to appear recently: friendship without romantic framing.

An emotionally intelligent companion with voice calls and mood tracking

Wellbeing-first companion with a memory graph and fine-grained emotion detection; Pro is $3.99/mo or $29.99/yr.

An AI mental-health companion built on CBT techniques

Therapy-flavoured chat that helps you reframe thoughts and track moods; strictly 18+.

Mobile companion for friendship, flirting or roleplay

Cheap on the annual plan and flexible in tone, with a browser app alongside the mobile ones.

AI-generated personalized bedtime stories with the family as characters

Instant custom bedtime stories: cast family members, pick a genre, get a printable tale.

Talk to AI clones of real people — or build a clone of yourself

Not a fantasy companion: Delphi clones creators and experts so you can chat with (or as) a real persona.

Human-feeling conversation and voice, minimal visuals

Pick this for conversational warmth; skip it if you care about images.

Build and train your own AI companion from scratch

A build-your-own companion toolkit: train custom AI pets with your own datasets, custom voices and image generation.

A judgment-free AI therapist in your pocket

Conversational mental-health support with CBT underpinnings; pricing stays inside the app.

Personal AI dating coach for profile, chat and date prep

A pocket dating coach: profile feedback, message help and date coaching with a warm persona.

AI dating app that predicts mutual attraction before you match

AI matchmaking for real dating: Iris learns your type from photos and preferences to surface mutual-attraction matches.

Kawaii-style AI girlfriend chat with a huge Spanish-speaking audience

2.1M+ downloads of anime-flavoured companion chat, strongest in Mexico, India and the Philippines.

Voice-first personal agents built to sound present, not just correct

Started as a voice demo; now a mobile preview of four named agents that still lead the field on presence.

AI dating assistant that writes openers and replies for dating apps

A focused dating-message copilot: generate openers and replies tuned to the conversation context.

Story-driven social roleplay with author-built worlds

A thoughtful, moderation-friendly take on AI roleplay that stays firmly in narrative territory.

The long-running, community-taught chat bot

A chat bot since 2002 with replies crowdsourced by users across 81 languages — playful company, not a deep companion.

A daily diary powered by AI analysis and mood insights

Simple AI diary with mood tracking and readability insights; free tier with limits.

Face-to-face video calls with a friendly AI

A neat demonstration of realtime video conversation; useful, if shallow.

A wearable pendant companion that listens and talks back

Hardware, not an app: the Friend 2.0 pendant is an always-listening AI companion you wear on a cord.

Spanish-friendly AI girlfriend chat for LatAm users

A simple, customizable AI girlfriend aimed at Mexico, Colombia and Argentina; free to start with IAP.

Free assistant reachable from WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger

Zero-cost and everywhere, but shallow as a companion.

The long-running chatbot that keeps winning Loebner-style tests

A chat curiosity with a distinctive personality; not a relationship product.

A companion inside the chat app you already have

Convenient and free; treat it as a novelty rather than a companion.

The original AI chat partner, still online

Historical interest mostly, but it is free and it does not pretend to be a person.

An AI boyfriend for iPhone who texts, calls in one of twelve voices, and reaches out first.

iPhone-only AI boyfriend app with short-bubble texting, voice notes, real-time calls in twelve voices, voicemail, photos from his day, and a readable memory notebook. Free tier caps you at 10 sent messages per day; calls need a subscription.

Free AI face rating & stylist — score your photo, then glow up with Mia

Free, no-account face rating scores a photo out of 10 via 478 landmarks; Mia, an AI stylist, suggests hair, color, glasses and outfit try-ons on your photo. Tools are free; credits pay for Mia replies, try-on images and the full report. No subscription.

Voice and text AI girlfriend chat with long-term memory, safe-for-work.

SFW AI girlfriend chat with voice replies, long-term memory and custom companion creation. Free tier gives 100 lifetime texts and 50 voice replies; subscriptions from $6.99/mo add unlimited text plus monthly credits. Explicitly no adult content.

Live video and voice calls with AI characters you pick or build: their face on screen, answering in real time, and you can interrupt. Free daily text allowance.

Prelulu puts characters on camera: live video and voice calls where they answer in real time, plus text chat and a character builder. Free daily text allowance; paid plans from $9.99/mo. Web, iOS and Android.

AI familiar with long-term memory you control — tarot is one of her tools

Not a character library: one familiar, Maevera, keeps a continuing conversation and writes at most one diary page a day — delete it and she forgets. Tarot (love, yes-or-no, daily, fortune) and a Bazi calculator are her skills.