Jerry Shlocks

The guides that turned up again and again made big promises, left out what one picture really costs and stayed quiet about how the charge reads on your bank statement. I wanted a place that puts those boring but important details up front, run by an actual human who signs her name on every page.

This page walks you through my process, including how my notes become a score out of 10. To me that beats any badge. If you can see where a number came from, you get to decide how much weight to give it. If you can see what a page leaves out, you know where to keep your guard up.

My day job is library technician, so filing things away with dates and sources is second nature. I have also been a fan of these apps for years, I love girls, and everyone is welcome here: this is an LGBTQ+ friendly site. When the facts give me room, I zoom in on three things: how comfortable and inclusive an app feels, how discreet its billing is, and what its free tier truly offers.

If the official material says nothing about a point, I look at what other review sites say and check them against one another. Those findings are labelled on the page as reports from other reviewers, never dressed up as my own experience.

The pages themselves are generated out of those entries. Table prices, plan names on cards and the note on how a charge looks on your statement all come from the record, and nobody retypes them. That way a changed price updates on every page in one go.

A price that has gone thirty days unchecked gets hidden automatically, so it never lingers out of date. That rule makes every month a bit busier, and it is the rule I would defend hardest.

Each review shows a label at the very top telling you which kind of use sits behind it.

My notes belong to me, and the facts belong to the apps. A note written in 2024 describes how an app felt to me back then; current prices, plans and policies come from each app's official pages as I checked them in September 2026, and where then and now differ, the review shows both. No page claims more than my notes actually say.

I would much sooner be honest about that than pass off a quick skim of pricing screens as a week of hands-on testing. You have every right to know what sort of page is in front of you.

It saves the content policy word for word, lists the devices the app works on, notes whether an email address alone is enough to sign up, and records whether the privacy terms allow your chats to be used for training. If two sources clash, I keep both, each with its date, until one is confirmed, and meanwhile the page goes with the more cautious of the two.

What official pages cannot tell you is how much warmth a character has at midnight, whether its memory still holds a week later, or how fast it answers on a crowded evening. That part comes from my own notes, for the plan and the months I had, and when a page brings in other reviewers' reports, it says clearly that those are theirs.

About the number beside each app: it is my score out of 10, spread across seven weighted criteria and drawn from my own use together with the official pages. Lists are not ranked by that score, though, and my affiliate disclosure sets out how list order is decided and where money can play a part.

Whoever you are and whoever you love, you are an adult making your own call, and I am not here to lecture you. What I will do is show you the price before any sales pitch, the catch before any button, and the free option first wherever an app has one.

I keep my tone plain and organised, with a bit of warmth. Numbers beat vague words every time: "$12.99 a month, with images charged in tokens on top" tells you far more than "a bit pricey". When I give an opinion, I label it as my take on the facts. When a page is not sure of something, it admits it.

Billing notes cover the name on your statement and how to cancel, as far as that is known. The verdict says who the app suits and who should look somewhere else. Lists use a shorter version of the same layout, with one entry per app.

If anything seems wrong, I want to hear it. Use the contact page or send an email to [email protected]. I fix errors fast and note each one on the corrections page.

Two: tokens. The monthly price usually covers chatting but not pictures, voice or video, which run on a separate currency that disappears quickly. Three: how the charge is named on your statement, which might or might not give away what it was for.

All three sit near the top of every review, and if one is not known, you will see "Not known yet" there instead of a made-up answer.

For a partner, the price, free tier, content rules and catch all print from a record checked with the same care as one for an app that has never paid anything. I lay out all of the rules in my editorial policy.

List order is the one place money can make a difference, and I prefer to say so up front. If several apps suit a topic equally well, a partner may be moved up. Nothing changes in the record behind any entry: the prices I checked, how much the free tier allows and the catch are identical, paying partner or not.

Offer cards skip the downsides because they are tiny sales boxes; the whole story, catches included, lives in the page text and the full review.

Partner links include a small tag that tells the app you came from here; your name and whatever you typed while here never travel with them.

Finally the correction is logged: the date, the error, and the page's new wording. I never slip in a quiet edit and pretend nothing happened. An open correction stings a little; a secret one breaks my word, and I will choose the sting every time.

If you were the one who caught it, I will gladly credit you by first name, or leave your name out if you would rather.

That goes for changes made by the apps, too. If a free plan gets smaller or content rules get tighter, I do not hang on to the old wording for old times' sake. The record is updated, the date moves forward, and the page describes what the app lets you do now, not what it let you do when I first wrote about it.

Pulling it together into one place takes space. I put the answers up high and the fine print lower down. Stop reading the moment you have what you need.

Meanwhile, each page is open about what it is: my dated notes side by side with a close reading of what every company puts in writing, and a check date beside every fact. If that is the sort of guide you were hunting for, I am really happy you are here. If you wanted someone who has paid for every single subscription, I am not that person: I know most of the apps here from their free plan, and each review is clear about it.