How to remove the chat filter on PolyBuzz, honestly

What the official pages do say about PolyBuzz is useful, though:

• Free text chat uses the Standard model with ads; new users also get two voice plays and a single picture free
• The FAQ calls chat "free, unlimited, and private", and no daily message cap is published
• Paid tiers start at Poly Standard and climb through Premium to Ultimate
• You can use it on the web and in apps for iOS and Android

Notice what is missing from that list: any line about the content level changing when you pay. That is the part I want you to take away. A soft policy here is a product choice, not a glitch you can fix from your side, and I'd judge the app on that basis.

My take: for romantic, flirty roleplay with community characters, PolyBuzz is a pleasant free start and I have no quarrel with it. If you want fully explicit text chat as an adult, though, you are fighting the design, and that rarely ends well. The better move is an app whose policy says yes.

Coming up next, a side-by-side table sets PolyBuzz beside five apps whose content policies differ, so you can see where each one stands before you commit an evening to any of them.

If you are also moving on from Character AI while you sort this out, my walkthrough on clearing out old Character AI chats covers that side of the tidy-up.

I don't hold that against PolyBuzz. Plenty of people want exactly this: a character hub with a big cast, custom characters and a gentle ceiling. It only becomes a problem when you expect something the policy was never designed to do.

• Poly Standard, the entry tier: weekly at $4.99, monthly at $9.90, or $99 for a web year
• Poly Premium: $19.90 a month or $199 a year, with stronger memory models, unlimited voice listening, no ads and priority chat
• Poly Ultimate: $29.90 a month or $299 a year, adding models like Permanent Memory, Overture, Lumina, Conqueror and Saga
• None of the three lists a change to the content policy

My opinion on the ladder: the weekly Standard plan is the one I'd skip. At $4.99 a week it works out to $21.62 a month, which is more than monthly Premium, and Standard's own feature list isn't even itemised. If the ads are what bothers you, Premium monthly is the honest buy, and monthly keeps you free to walk away.

What I would not do is pay for Premium or Ultimate hoping it quietly loosens the rules. Nothing on file supports that, and the refund rule is strict: a completed purchase is not refunded without due reason. Paying to find out the hard way is the expensive route.

If you want the full picture of plans, memory and the free start, my PolyBuzz review with plans and content level goes through it piece by piece. The feature matrix below lines up memory, voice, images and group chat across all six apps.

Here is how I'd sort them, by where the adult content sits:

• SpicyChat: allowed on its policy, with unlimited text chat free on the Default model, plus ads and possible waiting lines
• Nomi AI: allowed, and its free plan never ends, with 50 daily messages, no ads and memory as a listed feature
• OurDream AI: allowed, with 55 Dreamcoins to start at 1 per message, and group chat
• Candy AI: paid plans only, from €13.99 a month, with voice calls and memory
• GirlfriendGPT: paid plans only, and Premium at $15.00 a month lists NSFW chat

For someone coming from PolyBuzz, my first pick is SpicyChat. It is the closest in shape: roleplay, custom characters, group chat and a free plan with no published message cap, much like the one you are leaving. The difference is the policy. Its billing name, NDAI.CHAT, is also fairly low-key, which I like.

If you care more about one steady companion than a big cast, Nomi AI is where I'd look. The free plan has a limit of 400 characters per message, which is a little tight for long roleplay, but 50 daily messages give you a fair sense of the chat before any money goes in.

Candy AI and GirlfriendGPT make more sense once you know you'll pay, since their adult content sits behind the paywall. Candy AI's 12-month plan is 70% off at the moment, €47.88 billed yearly, but I'd still start monthly until you're sure.

Two calm cautions before you switch. Only Nomi AI lists iOS next to the web, and only Nomi AI and GirlfriendGPT list Android, so you may lose the app-store comfort PolyBuzz gives you. And each has its own refund rule, some of them strict, so read the cancel steps first.

For a longer shortlist with prices and content levels, see my ranking of apps like PolyBuzz with other content policies. OurDream AI gets a quick fact box right after this section.

Look at OurDream AI, summarised in the box just above. Joining costs nothing, and its free plan names 55 Dreamcoins as the opening balance, one per message sent. Its help centre adds that it does not currently offer free dreamcoins, so that number may change. Either way, treat it as a taste; nobody stays there for free.

At $19.99, Standard Monthly removes the message cap, adds pictures and video, and tops you up with 1,000 dreamcoins every month. On the yearly plan, $119.88, the cost drops to $9.99 a month. I think that is fair value, but only once you know you like it.

Compare the other free starts. SpicyChat keeps text chat unlimited on its free plan, which is the closest thing to PolyBuzz's free chat. Nomi AI resets to 50 free messages every day. GirlfriendGPT offers 20 bonus messages that never lapse, 10 extra per Daily Login and 30 coins for signing up.

Candy AI gives the least of the five before you pay: a few free messages, and that is it.

So what would I do with a small budget? Start free on SpicyChat or Nomi AI and see whether the chat style suits you. If it does and you want images too, set aside one monthly fee and treat it as a one-month experiment.

Price-wise, PolyBuzz Premium at $19.90 a month lands close to OurDream AI's Standard Monthly at $19.99. For similar money, one buys memory and no ads under a soft policy, and the other buys unlimited messages under a policy that allows adult content. That, to me, is the real choice behind the question.

The billing names on file are DREAM STUDIO LLC AL for OurDream AI, EverAI for Candy AI, NOMI.AI for Nomi AI and NDAI.CC for GirlfriendGPT, so you know in advance what your bank statement will say.

If you get stuck on cancelling, refunds or deleting data for any of these apps, my app-by-app help guides walk through each one in plain steps.

Trying to get around an app's content rules breaks its terms, and breaking the terms can get an account banned. On PolyBuzz, that account may hold custom characters and long chats you have built up. It may also hold a paid plan, and the refund rule says a completed purchase is not refunded without due reason.

That is a lot to put at risk for a trick the company can close at any time. And unlike a plan you cancel, a ban is not something you get to schedule: you lose access on the app's timing, not yours, with whatever you had built still inside.

There is also the quality side. Even when a workaround seems to work for a while, you are pushing a model against its own design, and memory is already the soft spot. The records show memory scaling by tier, and a soft policy on top of that is not a recipe for a smooth story.

My advice if you feel the app changed under you: don't chase it with settings that aren't there. Look at what the app offers officially today, decide if that still suits you, and if not, move to an app with a policy that fits.

I want the ratings on this site to reflect that too. A clear, soft policy costs no points in my book; a misleading one would. My page on checking and scoring apps explains the rest, content policy included.

Just treat it as a romance app with a gentle ceiling, and use a second app for anything beyond that.

If you paid for a PolyBuzz plan hoping it would unlock more, I'd cancel before the next renewal. Renewal happens on its own if you haven't cancelled by the period's final day. On iOS, cancel through the Settings app under your Apple ID subscriptions; Android users do it from the Play Store app, under its subscriptions menu.

Don't count on a refund, and leave a few days of margin before renewal. If you bought a yearly plan on the web, set a reminder now for a week before it renews; $199 or $299 is a painful surprise to find on a statement for an app you no longer open.

That shared ceiling is actually useful to know. It means the choice is never between two hidden settings; it is between a gentler app you enjoy and a different app built for what you want. For the Character AI side, see my piece on Character AI and NSFW.

One last kind word, since this topic can feel awkward to search: as a grown-up, wanting adult content is nothing to feel odd about. Where I draw my own line is at bending an app's rules to reach it. Keep PolyBuzz for what it does well, choose a second app whose policy says yes, start on its free plan, and read the refund rule before you pay anything at all.