Editorial Policy: Where My Facts Come From and How I Fix Them

Prices, plans and policies are taken from each company's own pages and terms, each with the date it was read, and anything picked up from other review sites is credited to them. Nothing on the site pretends a test took place when it did not, and each review wears a label so you know what sort of page is in front of you.

Below come those rules one at a time. Cataloguing things is my day job, and I trust a rule more when anyone can hold it up against the page they are reading. So if a page and this policy ever disagree, assume the page has the mistake, and please drop me a note through the contact page.

• My own notes. What each app showed me, on its free plan or a paid one, jotted down with the month and, whenever money went out, the amount. The oldest go back to 2023, and a review prints them with their dates.
• Official pages. Pricing screens, help centres, terms of service, privacy policies and store listings published by the app itself. Whatever comes from them keeps its link and the day it was read.
• Other reviewers. Where the official material is silent, I look at what established review sites say and hold their reports up against each other. A point that only they support is phrased as "other reviewers report", so it never reads like something I saw.

If two sources clash, the record stores both, each with its date, and the page goes with the cautious version until one is confirmed. An app's own page beats a review site. For current prices and plans, a recent official page also beats my notes, since a note from 2024 shows the app as it looked back then; the review prints both and tells you which is which.

If they match, the price goes into the record with its date and link. If they do not, both stay on file, and the page shows the pricing-screen figure plus a note until the gap is explained. Annual plans get saved twice, once as the full charge and once as a per-month figure, so a page can print both and you always see how large that single payment is.

Free allowances take more care, since no two apps count them alike. One app hands you a message count, another gives you coins that each action burns at its own rate, and a third simply goes quiet after a few replies with no warning at all. I record the allowance in whatever unit the app uses, and the page translates that unit into plain words. No number published means the page says so; nothing gets made up.

• Hands-on test, paid plan. I was on a paid plan with this app, and the page shows my dated notes along with the amount. 34 reviews have this label.
• Hands-on test, free tier. I never left the free plan; my dated notes are on the page. 56 reviews have this label.
• Desk review. Nothing paid for yet, so it is written only from official pages and other reviewers. At the moment no review on the site has it.

The label matters more than it looks. It tells you how much weight to give the things no official document can settle: what a character is like to talk with, whether its memory survives a week, how fast it answers. On a review with the free-tier label, every statement about a paid plan is credited to the official pages or to other reviewers.

The date you see under a page's title marks when its facts were last confirmed, which is not necessarily when the words were written.

If an app stops taking new users or closes, its record is flagged, its prices come off the pages, and its page tells you what changed and when.

Some apps keep their prices behind a login, and some charge differently depending on the region. In those cases the record notes the region and the screen that the figures came from. If you live somewhere else, your checkout may show other prices, and the pricing section flags that wherever it makes a difference.

Each reviewed app has my score, 0 to 10 with one decimal on every criterion, drawn from my own time with the app and from what its official pages say today.

The breakdown by criterion sits beside the review label, so you can tell whether a strong result comes from conversation, price or privacy. A closed app gets a poor reliability mark. Marketing pages alone never earn an app a score, and joining a partner programme will never lift one.

A score does not set an app's position on a list. Lists are built around their topic: apps are picked and ordered by how closely they fit it and how complete their checked facts are, and the score is simply shown next to each entry. Among the apps that fit best, one with a partner programme may sit higher.

That is the one place money comes in, and the affiliate disclosure covers it in full. What money cannot touch is the record: each entry shows its checked prices, policies and free-tier numbers in the same way, whether or not a commission is involved.

The catch shows up three times, in the body of the review, in its pros and cons, and in its billing notes, always written calmly and without fuss.

Offer cards are the compact sales boxes with a button in them. They carry no cons, since a box that size is no place to weigh anything up. The full story sits in the text around the card, and the catch always comes before any point where you need to decide.

I aim each catch at the reader it really hits. "Images cost extra" barely registers for someone who just wants to talk, yet it is a big deal for someone who is here for pictures. So the page names who should care and gives them options: pick another plan, change a setting, or look at an app that deals with it better.

Even a catch that will bother only a few readers is still written down, just lower on the page.

And no price in an offer box is ever typed in by hand: offer boxes pull their prices from the record, so a card and the database always agree.

You will not find crude anatomy terms, slurs or tags lifted from adult video sites. These apps run age checks for good reasons, and nothing here works against them. The content notice sets out what My Virtual Girlfriend covers and what it chooses to leave alone.

After that, the change goes on the corrections page with the date, the old wording and the new one. I do not fix things quietly and act as if the page had been right from the start.

If you spot a problem, the contact page and my email both work. A dated screenshot of a pricing screen is the quickest route to getting a record put right. Please add which country you are in, too: several apps price by region, and a fix that is true in one country can be wrong in the next.

Every correction gets a reply from me, including the ones where the page turns out to be fine already, so you know your message landed.

That can make My Virtual Girlfriend look plainer than other sites in this category, where reviews often read like diaries covering weeks of testing. Plenty of those diaries could not possibly be true. I would rather earn your trust slowly with a modest claim I can back up than quickly with a grand one I cannot. Everything on this page exists to keep me to that, one page after another.

My Virtual Girlfriend is a one-person site, run by Jerry Shlocks, so messages land with me directly. Corrections, questions about a page and requests from a company all reach me the same way, through the contact page or the email address in the footer. Companies may send updated prices or links to new policies, same as any reader; they go through the same checks, and no company can pay to have a fact changed.

One last thing about tone. I write these pages for adults who have already made up their minds to explore AI companions and simply want the facts, straight. Nobody here will lecture you about loneliness or stick a warning in every paragraph.

What you get on each page is the price first, then the free start, then the catch, and finally the label, whoever you are and whoever you enjoy talking to.