About My Virtual Girlfriend

By Jerry Shlocks · Last reviewed

What this site is for

My Virtual Girlfriend is my field guide for anyone eyeing AI companion apps: chat apps built around a character who might be your friend, your girlfriend, your partner or your co-star in a story. Everything here starts from the questions people have right before they type in their email or card number. What will it cost me in the end?

How far does a free account go? Is adult roleplay on the table? How will the charge read on my bank statement? Is it easy to walk away?

Those answers are usually scattered across pricing screens, help articles and long terms of service. They also keep moving. I gather them in one spot and stamp each with the day I last looked.

The whole site is me, Jerry Shlocks. I launched it in 2026, and my name sits under everything I write. There is no crew of faceless writers here, and no board of editors hiding behind the logo. Mail sent to the site comes to me, and I write the replies myself.

The readers I have in mind

My readers are grown-ups who are curious about AI companions and would like to pick one without regrets. Some want a friendly voice after work. Some want a co-writer for roleplay and fiction. Some ran into a paywall three messages in and are hunting for an app that treats free users better.

Some simply want to know what all the buzz is about before spending anything. Any of those reasons is a good one, and I will never ask you to explain yourself.

And I mean everyone, whoever you are and whoever you are into. This is an LGBTQ+ friendly site, and wherever the facts let me, I note whether an app lets you build a character your way or quietly assumes a single type of user.

What ties my readers together is that nobody enjoys a nasty surprise. Think of a free plan that dries up on the first evening, an annual plan billed in one hit, a picture that needs extra coins, or a charge that tells your bank more than you would like. The whole site is built to catch those moments before they catch you.

This whole corner of the web grew up quickly. Fresh apps launch every month, older apps rewrite their filters, and pricing turned from a single subscription into layers of plans, coins and extras. A lot of reviews fell behind.

Some read like marketing copy, and some describe weeks of hands-on time nobody spent, with the same invented scenes passed around between sites. Readers' questions, meanwhile, stayed short and down to earth.

My aim is to answer them clearly and honestly, and now and then the honest answer is that the information simply is not out there yet. A plain "not known yet" beats a bold guess that ends up costing you.

Because the same few worries come up again and again, each review keeps a slot for every one of them. Is this app legit, and which company runs it? Will it still know who I am next week? Does the charge name the app?

Does the free allowance refill daily, or is it one and done? Can I cancel from my phone, or do I need a browser? If I cannot answer one of these, the review tells you that openly.

Where the facts on these pages come from

Every app gets its own record in a small database. The record holds each plan with its price, what a free account gets, how often billing repeats, the rules on content, which devices it runs on, the privacy terms and how to cancel, and each line has a check date plus a link to where I read it. Nearly everything comes straight from the app's own pages and terms.

Where those pages say nothing, I look at what well-known review sites report, weigh them against one another, and mark it on the page as a finding from other reviewers.

Above the record sits my own time with the apps. Every app reviewed here has lived on my phone at some stage between 2023 and 2026, 34 with a paid plan, 56 on free accounts only. Each review tells that story with the months and, for the paid ones, the amounts, and its label shows which of the two it was.

I keep those two sources separate on purpose. Official pages are where a company commits to things in writing: prices, allowances, renewal rules, refund terms, what content is allowed and how your data is handled. That is where most regrets in this space start, and it shifts often, so those facts get read again from scratch; the most recent full pass was in September 2026.

My own notes cover what a chat actually feels like, and whenever a page brings in other reviewers' findings, it names whose findings they are.

Apps tried
90hands-on, 34 with a paid subscription
Total paid
$1,349subscriptions on my personal card
Apps on file
78each price has a check date
Latest hands-on
FunFun AI

Pulled from the review database at build time. Every page shows the same figures. How I check the apps

How I organised the site

I arranged My Virtual Girlfriend around the decisions you actually face, not around the categories the apps pick for themselves.

  • Reviews cover a single app: its price, how the free start works, the content rules, billing details, privacy and its catch, topped by the review label.
  • Top lists each tackle one need, like a free AI girlfriend, good memory or adult chat, and say why each app made the cut.
  • Versus pages line up two or more apps on the facts that set them apart.
  • Coupons show a code or discount only for as long as its check date stays recent.
  • Help guides handle everyday questions, like how to cancel or where your chat history ends up.
  • Status pages deal with "is it down?" when an app refuses to load.

Every one of these pages draws on one shared set of records, which is why a price you see in a list matches the one in a comparison and the one in the review, down to the date.

Each page opens with the search people actually type, like "is this app safe" or "free AI girlfriend", then pulls in each matching app's record. Facts come up top: how the free start works, what it costs and the one policy that matters most for that search. After that I explain things in everyday language and spell out each app's catch.

Offer boxes sit between paragraphs rather than stacked in a pile, and every box is labelled with the app it links to.

Nothing goes live until the build has checked it. The build makes sure each price in a table matches a record, that none of those prices is over thirty days old, that every link has a real page at the other end, that the text sticks to the site's wording rules, and that every testing claim is backed by a dated log. A page that fails any of that stays unpublished.

Topics I stay away from

I am not a therapist, a doctor or a dating coach, and I will not pretend an AI companion can stand in for the people around you. Apps made to imitate real people without their permission are not covered here, and I talk about content in terms of levels rather than acts. I never post images of people generated by these apps; screenshots only ever show menus, settings or pricing.

I also never take credit for work I did not do. A page only describes life inside a paid plan if I actually held it, and a review of an app I only used for free says exactly that. The label and the dated notes on each review make the difference clear.

Keeping pages current

Prices here jump around, sometimes twice in a single month, so something correct in April can be off by October. That is why each fact carries its own check date and why the build refuses to show any price last checked over thirty days ago. An outdated number just drops out rather than leading you astray.

Whenever I update a record, all the pages that draw on it get rebuilt together. The date shown at the top of each page is the day I last went over its facts, which is not necessarily the day the text was written.

What the review labels mean

Three labels exist, and each review wears one. The first, "Hands-on test, paid plan", marks the 34 apps where I held a paid plan. The second, "Hands-on test, free tier", marks the 56 where the free plan was all I had.

A third label exists for desk reviews, meaning pages built only from official sources and other reviewers, and right now no review uses it. Each reviewed app also gets my score out of 10, spread over seven weighted criteria and based on my own use plus its official pages. The rules for all three labels are in my editorial policy.

Meet the founder

By Jerry ShlocksAuthor and tester Last hands-on check Last reviewed How we review the apps

I am Jerry, a library technician from California and a long-time fan of AI girlfriend apps. I love girls, this site is LGBTQ+ friendly, and I write the guides I wanted when I started: what each app really gives you, what it costs and who it suits.

Covering AI companions since 2026

Common questions about My Virtual Girlfriend

Do you pay for the apps you review?

Some of them. Out of the 90 apps reviewed here, 34 had a paid plan from me and 56 never left the free plan, at various points from 2023 to 2026. The label on each review tells you which, and the review lists the months and, for paid plans, the cost. The prices and policies shown come from each app's official pages, checked in September 2026.

How do you make sure a price is right?

Every price is copied from the app's own pricing screen or its app store page and saved with the date and a source link. After thirty days without a fresh check, the price is hidden until I look again. If your checkout shows something else, let me know your country, since several apps price by region.

Does an app that pays you get a kinder review?

No fact changes for a partner. Every app's prices, free tier, policies and catch come from the same sort of record. The only place money plays a role is list order, and only on some lists: when apps fit a topic equally well, a partner may be placed higher. The affiliate disclosure goes through this in full.

How do I ask for a correction?

Send an email to [email protected] naming the page, the claim and where you saw the right fact. If the record is wrong, I update it with a new date, rebuild the affected pages and add the fix to the corrections page.

How the site keeps the lights on

My Virtual Girlfriend runs on affiliate commissions. Certain links earn the site a small cut when you join an app through them. You never pay extra for using one of those links, and some partners even knock the price down. That money comes from the app's budget, never from you.

It pays for the domain, the server and the hours spent refreshing hundreds of dated facts. What it cannot do is purchase a fact. For a partner, the price, the free plan, the content rules and the catch all come out of its record the same way they do for an app that has never paid a cent.

Money only touches how some lists are ordered, and I spelled that out in the affiliate disclosure so there is no guessing involved. A short version also sits at the foot of each page.

Browsing and your data

No account is needed to read anything here. The newsletter is optional; once sign-up opens, it will want only your email address, and every issue will carry an unsubscribe link. When you follow a partner link, the app only learns that you arrived from this site, and none of what you typed here goes along. The full story is in the privacy policy.

How to reach me

Email [email protected] or head to the contact page. I am glad to hear about mistakes, questions about a page, dead links and new prices sent by companies. Corrections always jump to the top of my list, since a wrong price takes real money out of a reader's pocket.

Fixes go into the record and get logged on the corrections page with their date, so anyone can check what was changed and on which day.

Things I turn down

No company gets to pay for a changed fact, a hidden catch or a claim slipped into a page. Companies may send new prices or links to updated policies, and I treat those like any other source, dating them when they land in a record. Sponsored posts written by an app, reviews drafted by an app's staff and reader testimonials I cannot verify never appear here.

Why it is just me

Plenty of sites in this space come from teams that stay hidden, and a few make up their author altogether. I chose the opposite. A single person moves more slowly than a newsroom, and for this topic I think that is a fair price.

One person means one rulebook: the same standards for each record, the same labels across the site and one name accountable for every page. It also means you always know where to send a complaint, and the answer comes from the same person who wrote what you are complaining about.

Companion apps come in different kinds

AI companion apps are not all the same product, and I do my best not to treat them as one. Some center on a long bond with a single character and put memory above everything. Some are giant catalogues of user-made characters meant for roleplay.

Some lean on pictures, voice or video and charge coins for those on top of a plan. Some permit adult roleplay, while others ban it no matter what you pay. Every page tries to name what sort of app it covers before comparing it, since a comparison is only fair between apps aiming at the same goal.

For the same reason, there is no generic "best AI companions" list on this site. Instead you get the best pick for a free start, for memory, for a small budget, or for when adult roleplay is the point. Every entry says why it made the list and what staying on it will cost you.

An app that shines on one of those lists may be a bad match elsewhere, which the page will point out.

What I promise you

My Virtual Girlfriend is going to grow at its own unhurried pace, and I am happy with that. Every review and every score I have given rests on my own dated notes. Each page will be upfront about its nature and the sources behind its facts, and each number will show the day I last checked it.

It is a small promise, which is exactly why I can keep it. If a guide like this is what you were looking for, I am so glad you found it, and thanks for sticking with me to the bottom of the page.