Is there an AI for being my girlfriend?

Free AI girlfriend apps: what you get without paying

A free AI girlfriend is a trial, not the whole relationship. Of the three apps listed here, one gives you daily messages and images free and keeps voice calls, unlimited chat and extra companions for subscribers. One lets you chat free but sells the relationship status, voice messages and selfies in its paid plan. The third gives a new account a one-time preview of 50 messages, then goes read-only.

Base plans list at $7.99 to $15.99 a month on the US App Store, or $49.99 to $159.99 a year; higher tiers and credits for selfies or voice cost extra. Check the website before you pay in the app: one of them says buying there is usually cheaper than through the app stores.

AI girlfriend chat: texts, voice calls and memory

An AI girlfriend chat feels like texting someone who always answers. You type or send voice notes, she replies in seconds in the personality you set and sends AI-generated selfies, and all three apps listed here can message you first. Live voice calls are where the paywall sits: two of the three put calls in the subscription, and the third charges for voice messages.

Memory decides whether it feels like a relationship or a reset. All three remember facts from past chats, two let you write a backstory she keeps, and on two of them the bigger memory tier costs extra on top of the base plan. If you want help texting real matches instead, that is a different job.

Create an AI girlfriend: what you can customize

To create an AI girlfriend you fill in a profile: a name, a look, personality traits, a backstory and the facts she should always remember. Or you skip most of it and let her personality form as you talk. The same setup makes a boyfriend, a friend or a mentor, and two of the apps listed here sell room for more than one companion.

Leave real people out of it. One app listed here bans, in its terms, setting up a companion as any identifiable person, living or dead, without that person's written consent, and names current and former partners explicitly. Talking to someone who has died is its own question.

Dating an AI: what the research says

Dating an AI is more common than it sounds: in a 2025 survey of nearly 3,000 US adults by BYU's Wheatley Institute, 19% had chatted with an AI meant to simulate a romantic partner, including 31% of men aged 18 to 30. It can help. In experiments led by a Harvard Business School researcher, an AI companion eased loneliness about as much as talking to a person, mostly because people felt heard.

The long run looks worse. In a four-week MIT Media Lab and OpenAI trial with 981 people, those who chose to use the chatbot most reported more loneliness and dependence and less time with real people, though the study cannot say which came first. A 2025 Harvard study found companion apps met more than 37% of goodbyes with guilt, pressure or bait, lifting engagement up to 14-fold.

AI companion apps are for adults: age checks and the new laws

Every app listed here is rated 18+ on the US App Store, two run age checks in the app, and all three bar minors in their terms. Common Sense Media found nearly three in four US teens had tried an AI companion and says no one under 18 should. In 2025 Italy's privacy regulator fined the maker of one app listed here €5 million, partly for years without an age check.

The US rules land on the companies. New York has required companion apps since November 2025 to spot talk of suicide or self-harm, point users to crisis services and remind them every three hours that they are not talking to a person. California added crisis rules in January 2026, plus AI reminders and a sexual-content block for known minors. In a crisis, call or text 988 in the US.

being my girlfriend: quick answers

Is there an AI boyfriend app too?

Yes, and it is usually the same app: you decide who your companion is when you create it, with the same memory, voice and prices. One app listed here puts it in its App Store subtitle: confidant, girlfriend, boyfriend. In the survey above, 23% of women aged 18 to 30 had chatted with an AI boyfriend or girlfriend.

Can an AI just be your friend instead?

Yes. All three apps listed here can be set up as a friend, and one of them now calls itself 'the AI friend to do life with' and charges for its relationship status setting. If you mostly need someone to talk hard feelings through with, our AI therapy page covers the apps built for that.

Is an AI girlfriend just a chatbot?

Yes: a language model with a persona, a memory of you and usually a voice and a face. When she says she missed you, that line is generated like any other, and companion apps are built to keep you talking. The FTC opened an inquiry in September 2025 into how seven companies' chatbots act as companions and how they make money from engagement.

Is there an AI girlfriend with no sign up?

A few free web chats let you start without an account, but every app listed here asks for one, because her memory of you lives in the account and so does the age check. If privacy is why you want to skip it, sign up with a separate email and keep your full name, workplace and other people's photos out of the chat.

Are AI girlfriend apps safe for your privacy?

Only as safe as the company's servers. In October 2025, researchers found two companion apps had left 43 million messages and more than 600,000 images and videos from over 400,000 users on a server anyone could open. Two of the three apps listed here also declare on their App Store privacy labels that some data may be used to track you across other companies' apps. Type nothing you could not stand to see leaked.