Best free AI girlfriend apps, test driven

No AI girlfriend app is fully free, but a few give you enough to decide before you pay. On paper, Secrets AI has the clearest free plan at 20 messages a day, DreamGF’s daily bonus grows to 50 messages if you return every day, and JanitorAI gives unlimited free chat if you don’t need a girlfriend-style app. The rest offer a taster of 10 to 20 messages, or a trial that turns into a subscription. All details are from official pages checked on Oct 25, 2026.

This is a test drive guide. I read the free plan terms and official pages; I did not pay, and I have not counted the messages myself. Where a limit is only visible after sign-up, I mark it.

How I picked these (on paper)

Each app below had to meet these conditions on its official pages:

• It lets you start without paying, with a free plan, a free preview or a free account.
• It has a written rule against real-person images and deepfakes.
• It says something about what free includes. Apps that publish actual numbers rank higher.

Apps with affiliate programs come first where the facts back it up. When a non-paying app gives you more for free, I say so. Each app carries a paper score from ten checks against its official pages until a paid crash test replaces it. More on my method at How we test.

The free plans, app by app

Secrets AI: clearest free limits

Secrets AI’s wiki lists its free tier in plain numbers: 20 messages a day (resetting daily, with a maximum of 100 for custom characters), a 500-character message limit and basic memory, as checked Oct 25, 2026. Free accounts get 0 Moments and cannot buy them, so images, video and custom characters are off. The tier table ticks audio calls, but calls cost 50 Moments a minute, so whether free users can call is unclear. When you upgrade, Premium is $19.99 a month or $109.99 a year, and sale discounts can apply to the first billing period only. Read the Secrets AI test drive.

Candy.ai

Candy.ai offers a free account and its homepage says to “start slow with the free trial”, but no official page states what the trial includes or how long it lasts. Premium lists “unlimited text messages”, which suggests free messaging is capped. When it becomes paid, the 1-month plan is EUR 9.99 for the first month, then EUR 13.99; the 12-month plan is EUR 3.99 a month (EUR 47.88 a year), both promotional EUR prices. Refunds are only possible within 24 hours if you used 20 tokens or fewer. See the Candy.ai test drive.

GirlfriendGPT

GirlfriendGPT’s plan copy describes the free tier as “Free 20 messages”, limited in-chat pictures and limited custom characters. Its privacy policy says you have to register after “a free test of a few messages”. Paid plans start at $5 a month for Basic per the homepage FAQ, though those prices may be outdated because the plan names don’t match the current plan copy. It is one of the few free tiers that mentions pictures at all. More on the GirlfriendGPT test drive.

Dream Companion

Dream Companion’s terms say free users can create 1 character and send a limited number of messages, “typically between 10 to 20”, and can earn extra credits by completing tasks. Voice is paid, and images and video are listed under Premium. The only price shown on Oct 25, 2026 was a sale figure of $0.19 a day on the yearly view. If privacy on a free account matters, its homepage says it does not currently use chats to train its own models. Details on the Dream Companion test drive.

Swipey AI

Swipey AI’s free tier needs only an email, no card, and includes creating a character, the gallery, basic chat with platform characters and the explore feed. Its pricing page calls the free tier “intentionally limited”, and voice, images and video are Premium only. The terms mention a free message allowance with inconsistent wording (“up to five (10) messages”), so the real number is unclear. Premium is $7.99 a month, the cheapest monthly upgrade on this page. See the Swipey AI test drive.

Nectar AI

Nectar AI’s FAQ lists a free plan with the character creator, AI chat and “a limited number of image generations”. Premium adds unlimited messaging, extended memory and HD image and video, which suggests free messaging is capped too. Prices sit behind a login and official blog posts conflict, so I list none. Adult areas are open only to verified users aged 18+, and the method is not described. Read the Nectar AI test drive.

DreamGF: free if you come back daily

DreamGF’s homepage FAQ answers “Not at the moment” to a free trial, but creating an account is free and there is a daily claim bonus. It starts at 10 messages, grows by one message for each day in a row and reaches 50 on day 40; miss a day and it resets to 10. Voice messages and calls are on Premium. When you upgrade, the monthly plan is $12.99 for the first payment, then $25.98 a month, so the renewal is double the headline. See the DreamGF test drive.

OurDream AI: free sign-up, not a free plan

OurDream AI lets you join free, but each chat message costs 1 dreamcoin, and free coins come only from referrals, contests and Discord events. Images and video need a subscription. In practice it is a paid app with a free account. The subscription is $19.99 a month or $9.99 a month billed $119.88 a year, with 1,000 dreamcoins a month and unlimited chat on standard models. More on the OurDream AI test drive.

Lovescape

Lovescape offers sign-up, but no official page I found describes a free tier or its limits. Its paid plans are clear: Premium at $19.99 a month, or $7.99 a month on 12 months (billed $95.88), shown as discounted prices on Oct 25, 2026. Chips can only be bought by subscribers. Treat it as a paid app until the free limits are published. See the Lovescape test drive.

JanitorAI: the most free chat, if you can do without the extras

JanitorAI has no affiliate deal with me, and for pure free chat it beats every app above. Its help center lists unlimited chats on the free tier with the built-in JLLM model and about 9k tokens of context, and says free access will stay. It is a character chat site, not a girlfriend app: no images or voice in the free tier, and stronger models need your own API key. Read the JanitorAI test drive.

CrushOn.AI

CrushOn.AI’s free plan lists 100 message credits a month, unlimited free models, 8K memory and a 200-message history per character. Chat history is deleted after 7 days of inactivity, and reviewers on Trustpilot say unlocking 18+ content asked for card details and a US$0.99 charge. Standard is $5.99 a month if you upgrade. See the CrushOn.AI test drive.

Kindroid: a preview, then a trial that bills you

Kindroid has no ongoing free plan. New accounts get a one-time preview of 50 flagship messages (15 in some regions), 5 selfies, 5,000 audio credits for voice messages and up to 2 Kindroids, but no calls. After that the account goes read-only. The optional 3-day trial needs a payment method and converts to paid unless you cancel, and Standard is $15.99 a month on the US App Store. Details on the Kindroid test drive.

Quick comparison

All from official pages, checked Oct 25, 2026. “Not published” means the service does not state it.

Where free turns into paid

Most of the surprise bills in this category come from the step between free and paid, not from the free plan itself. Watch for these.

Trials that need a card. Kindroid’s 3-day trial needs a payment method and converts to a subscription unless you cancel. Swipey AI and Secrets AI free tiers don’t ask for a card. Candy.ai’s trial terms are not published.

First-payment prices. DreamGF charges $12.99 for the first month, then $25.98. Candy.ai’s monthly plan is EUR 9.99, then EUR 13.99. Secrets AI says sale discounts can apply to the first billing period only. Set a reminder before renewal.

Refund windows are short or absent. Candy.ai allows requests within 24 hours with 20 tokens or fewer used. Swipey AI says purchases are final except where law requires. Kindroid handles refunds case by case.

The free plan you can’t top up. Secrets AI free accounts can’t buy Moments, and OurDream AI and Lovescape only sell credits to subscribers. Free means text only on most of these.

“Unlimited” after paying. Paid plans often say unlimited messages, but images, video and voice still cost credits. See best AI girlfriend apps with images and best AI girlfriend apps with voice for those costs.

How to stretch a free plan

• Pick one app and go daily. Secrets AI resets 20 messages every day; DreamGF’s bonus only grows if you don’t skip.
• Write shorter messages. Secrets AI caps free messages at 500 characters, so long messages get cut, not saved.
• Keep chats active on CrushOn.AI. Free history is deleted after 7 days of inactivity.
• Use a separate email. Free accounts carry the same privacy terms as paid ones. Candy.ai, Secrets AI and OurDream AI say they use chat data to train or develop their models.

For more free options beyond girlfriend apps, see free AI sex chat.

Left off on purpose

These have free starts but are not recommended:

• Kupid AI: the subscriptions page lists 15 free messages, but its terms don’t mention real people or deepfakes.
• Nomi: a free start with a daily quota of messages and images (number not published), but no specific deepfake clause.
• DarLink AI: its terms mention a free tier with unpublished limits, and I found no explicit rule against sexual images of real people.
• SoulGen: calls itself free in its site title, but the pricing page lists no free plan or free credits.
• Muah AI: a browser demo works without login, but a 2024 breach exposed about 1.9 million email addresses plus AI prompts, per Have I Been Pwned. Don’t use it.

Moving away from Candy.ai’s unclear trial? The Candy.ai alternatives page compares paid features too, and the full ranking is on best AI girlfriend apps.