How we test AI companion apps.
Webandreview tests AI girlfriend and companion apps the way it tests dating platforms: on a paid account, with prices read at checkout, features tried one by one and screenshots taken by us. This page explains what is checked, how the costs are counted and how the work is funded.
Why AI companions
AI girlfriend apps sell the same thing dating platforms sell, a relationship, with the same opaque parts: a free tier that is a demo, a subscription with three durations, and a meter on top. Most of what is written about them is a brochure or a complaint. We wanted pages that answer the questions people type: is it free, what does it cost, what does a token buy, how do I cancel.
The method is the one we use for dating: read the checkout, read the terms, try the feature, take the screenshot. What changes is the unit. A dating subscription is a price per month; an AI companion app is a plan plus tokens, so every review counts what a conversation, an image or a voice call really costs.
We publish one site per app, under the Webandreview name, and each one is listed below with the reason it exists.
These apps are made for adults and are best used with moderation. Our view and the research are on the healthy use page.
Our AI companion sites
One site per app, built around the questions people actually ask about it.
candy-ai-wiki.com
The reference wiki for Candy AI, the companion app run by EverAI Limited in Malta: one sheet per character, one guide per question, prices read at checkout. Its job is simple: give people the facts before they pay, and the right habits after.
Open the wiki →- Subject
- Candy AI
- Operator
- EverAI Limited, Malta
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish
- Online since
- October 2026
- Prices
- read at checkout, every week
- Audience
- adults, 18+
- Characters
- new sheets added in batches
- Written by
- Sacha Bernard
Why it has its own site
Candy AI is less an app than a catalogue. It counts 247 characters, and each one is a small product of her own: a personality, an opening scene, unlock levels, sometimes a private pack, and a cost in tokens for every image, call or scene. Games with rosters this size have long had dedicated wikis, because a single review cannot tell you what one character says first or what an evening with her costs. Candy had no such reference, while people search for its characters by name every day.
Getting the facts right
A lot of what circulates about Candy AI is wrong or out of date. Promo code pages list codes for a checkout that has no code field: the real discounts are the 3 and 12 month plans and the bonuses on token packs. Articles call the app free without saying that the free plan stops after five messages. Prices are copied from old screenshots. On the wiki, every price is read on the checkout of our own paid account and checked again every week, every character quote comes from a real conversation, and the date of the last check sits at the top of every page.
Guiding people, not only informing them
An app that sells companionship deserves a reference that also talks about limits. The wiki says plainly when the free plan is only a demo and what a heavy month really costs. It explains how to cancel, how to delete an account, which name appears on the bank statement and which privacy settings are worth checking. Every page reminds readers that the app is for adults and points to our healthy use page: the research we rely on, simple habits, and where to find someone to talk to if it becomes hard to stop.
What it adds to the web
- A sheet for every character, with her first message quoted word for word and the cost of a typical session in tokens.
- Guides written from the questions people really type, from the first hour to closing the account.
- Comparisons with the seven apps people weigh it against, on the same six criteria.
- English, German and Spanish from the first day, for readers the official help does not address in their language.
The test, step by step
The same checks on every app, repeated when a plan or a price changes.
Paid account
We subscribe with our own card, on the plan a normal user would pick, and keep the account open for the whole test.
Prices from checkout
Monthly, quarterly and yearly plans, token packs and add-ons are read on the order page, in the currency the app shows us.
Free tier, really
We count what the free plan allows before the first paywall: messages, images, characters, calls.
Every feature, with its cost
Chat, memory, image generation, voice calls, video, live scenes: each one tried and priced in tokens.
Real conversations
Characters are tested with neutral messages and quoted word for word, not summarised.
Billing and leaving
Billing name on the statement, cancellation path, account deletion and what happens to the tokens.
How costs are counted
Three monthly profiles are priced for every app: chat only, chat with a few dozen images, and heavy use with voice and scenes. The included tokens are subtracted first, then the packs needed to cover the rest. The result is a range in the app’s currency, with the yearly plan shown separately because it changes the picture more than any feature.
- Plan prices from the checkout, for every duration offered.
- Unit costs read in the app at the moment of use: an image, a minute of call, a scene.
- Packs and bonuses counted as the app sells them, not as it advertises them.
- Nothing extrapolated from a help page we could not open ourselves.
How the rating works
No global score. Each review ends with a verdict in plain words and two short lists: who the app is for, who should pass. The criteria below are weighed in every verdict and revised when a re-test shows a change.
What AI companion apps tell you before you pay
Prices before sign-up, credits sold on top of subscriptions, renewal wording at checkout, refund rules and age checks at 20 apps, observed on one day without paying. Open dataset in CSV with a DOI, free to reuse.
How the sites are funded
Buttons and links to the reviewed apps are affiliate links. If a reader subscribes through them, Webandreview receives a commission from the app or from an affiliate network. The reader pays the same price.
- Affiliate links are marked and carry
rel="sponsored". - Apps do not see, edit or approve a review before it is published.
- Commissions do not change the method or the criteria above.
- No paid placement, no sponsored ranking, no display advertising.
Corrections and programs
If a price or a feature on one of our pages is out of date, write with the page address and we check it against the app. Affiliate programs in this field can reach the same address.
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