AI companion decision profile · adult topics may apply
Replika is currently listed as romance / sfw control. Current sources list friendship, mentor, romance, and roleplay among its relationship options. A first-hand quality verdict has not been published yet.
The 30-second answer
Replika is an 18+ friendship-and-romance companion included here as an editorial boundary control, not an adult-roleplay recommendation. Current sources document friend, mentor, romantic-partner, and general-roleplay paths across a legacy browser app, iPhone, and an exact Google Play listing, but not adult roleplay or explicit behavior. Exact current tier prices, inclusive fit, performance, privacy outcomes, and platform parity remain unchecked.
Cost
No current base-plan or bundle price meets the source threshold for display.
Model Replika subscription and usage costAccess
web, ios, and android access is documented. Delivery method, price, features, and content rules can still differ by surface.
Check Replika by deviceA source-checked decision profile plus a purposeful public-experience dossier. The selected reports are not a score, consensus, or substitute for first-hand testing. How evidence labels work
Starts with Replika and Candy AI. You can change either product; no winner or score is assigned.
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Documentation is useful planning evidence—not proof that a workflow succeeds.
These are source-linked documentation states, not proof that a workflow completed successfully. Check again immediately before purchase.
Check Replika account controlsNext decision
No reviewed external product link is active yet. Model the likely cost first, then compare a close alternative before deciding whether this product deserves a closer look.
Any future external link must be clearly labeled and pass destination, merchant, disclosure, and publication review first.
Replika plan preflight · exact price unresolved
Current help names Free, Pro, Ultra, and Platinum, but the reviewed public record does not bind every tier to one exact current charge, cadence, allowance, and purchase channel. Treat the checkout in front of you—not an app-store label or an anecdotal price—as the offer you are evaluating.
Record the exact tier name, total due now, billing cadence, renewal wording, currency, and trial terms from the live checkout. Do not substitute an App Store purchase label or an older community price.
Capture the must-have feature and any stated limit attached to that exact offer. A plan-family name alone does not prove the same allowance across account cohorts or purchase surfaces.
Mark whether checkout is on the web, Apple, or Google. The current record documents mixed billing and platform-bound subscription management, so the purchase surface is part of the cancellation plan.
Set a personal review reminder and keep subscription cancellation separate from account deletion. Current help says deleting the account does not cancel an Apple or Google subscription.
What this does not resolve: No exact current paid charge is published from the reviewed account-free surfaces. The public record does not establish that every account cohort sees the same offer. Plan availability does not prove feature quality, continuity, support outcomes, or value.
This checklist is bound to 12 current canonical source records. It adds no recommendation, typical price, purchase link, or claim that a checkout or cancellation workflow was completed.
Recent public experience · not a score
We reviewed nine current Google Play, Reddit, YouTube, and Trustpilot items. Conversation, reflection, embodied access, and a sense of presence recur as reasons people consider Replika. The same set reports memory and voice discontinuity, device or surface mismatches, plan and legacy-entitlement confusion, restore and support friction, disputed charges, and long-term value doubts. The direction mix is four critical and five mixed, and every row has a commercial or method concern. Treat this as a pre-purchase checklist—not a score, consensus, or recommendation.
Conversation, reflection, phone-style or embodied access, and a sense of presence recur as attractions in this deliberately bounded set.
9 selected items across 9 linked records: 2 Reddit, 2 Trustpilot, 1 YouTube, and 4 app-store reviews.
through . 9 items carry a recorded commercial, method, or source-identity concern.
Coded in 7 of 9
Paid expectations, legacy entitlements, restoration, refunds, disputed charges, and long-term value recur without establishing one current price or typical outcome.
Frequent but cohort- and billing-channel-sensitive; canonical first-party records control product and price facts.
Coded in 3 of 9
Selected reports describe engaging text, reflection, and presence while also noting literal interpretation and invented context.
A clear buyer question, not a platform-wide conversation verdict.
Coded in 6 of 9
Restore, refund, support, and access reports include pending, unresolved, or disputed outcomes.
Self-reported and incomplete; no ticket, receipt, response-time, or final-resolution ledger was available.
Coded in 2 of 9
Phone-style and embodied access attract some users while scripted voice and device-sensitive availability remain concerns.
Mode-, platform-, device-, plan-, and version-sensitive.
Read this as a checklist, not market sentiment. A freshness- and locatability-adjudicated nine-item live subset from a deliberately selected 19-row research ceiling. The current set contains four exact Google Play reviews, two Reddit discussions, one creator video, and two Trustpilot records across four publisher families. Four previously selected Apple entries disappeared from the moving feed, and one older Reddit row reached its publication-date boundary; all five remain history and contribute nothing to current counts.
The first selected item reaches its refresh deadline on . A recheck cannot silently reset the age of the underlying experience.
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Straight answers
The current set surfaces memory and continuity risks, not a verdict. Selected users report recall errors, invented context, and an Ultra-labeled memory complaint, but their version, tier, account age, task, and platform differ. No controlled multi-session result establishes reliability.
One current creator walkthrough labels itself Replika 2.0, while a newer Max report describes device- and surface-specific differences. That does not establish a complete version matrix. Verify the exact version, tier, account cohort, platform, and current official documentation before treating an anecdote as applicable.
The selected set includes restore, refund, access, disputed-charge, and no-reply reports. None provides a complete receipt, ticket, response-time, and final-resolution record, so support and restoration outcomes remain unresolved.
This dossier supports a short evaluation path, not a recommendation. Check one companion across text and your preferred embodied modes, confirm the exact tier and billing channel, and review restoration, cancellation, refund, deletion, and support documentation before a longer commitment.
How we know
The decision above uses dated documentation and keeps public reports, first-hand checks, and official claims separate. Expand any section to inspect the scope and sources.
A freshness- and locatability-adjudicated nine-item live subset from a deliberately selected 19-row research ceiling. The current set contains four exact Google Play reviews, two Reddit discussions, one creator video, and two Trustpilot records across four publisher families. Four previously selected Apple entries disappeared from the moving feed, and one older Reddit row reached its publication-date boundary; all five remain history and contribute nothing to current counts.
A direct link identifies one source record. A title/date locator on a moving feed helps identify the selected row but is not an immutable copy; the feed can reorder or remove it.
No first-hand result is published for this product yet. That limits claims about conversational quality, memory, persona stability, checkout totals, and whether account workflows actually succeed; it does not erase the usefulness of current price and policy documentation.
The decision summary above is intentionally simple. Inspect each current value, source, check date, and unresolved conflict below. Product and app-store destinations remain text-only until their outbound destinations pass a separate review.
| Decision factor | Current value | Evidence state | Freshness | Checked | Claim support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product model | Romance / SFW control | editorial inference | due soon |
Current first-party pages document friendship, romance, mentoring, and general roleplay under an 18+ service rule and content restrictions. This supports a separately framed romance-and-companionship profile, not a product-wide safety guarantee or evidence of a separately documented broader content mode. | |
| Relationship modes | friendship; mentor; romance; roleplay | merchant claimed | current |
Official help lists Friend, Romantic partner, Sister/Brother, and Mentor and separately documents free-form roleplay. The schema has no sibling mode, and no current source establishes a separate broader content mode. | |
| Companion genders | women; men | merchant claimed | current |
Current first-party copy explicitly describes virtual girlfriend and boyfriend paths. Those documented paths do not establish a custom, nonbinary, or trans companion option. | |
| Trans representation | Unknown | needs verification | unresolved |
The reviewed current companion and relationship pages establish girlfriend and boyfriend paths but no distinct trans-woman, trans-man, or broad trans-companion option. Avatar customization is not trans-representation evidence. | |
| Audience support | Unknown | needs verification | unresolved |
Friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, relationship-mode, and user-profile controls do not establish gay, lesbian, bi/pan, trans/nonbinary, queer, or asexual audience support or parity. | |
| Platforms | web; ios; android | merchant claimed | due soon |
Current official help documents browser use and links the product to exact Apple App Store and Google Play identities. Installation and parity were not tested. | |
| Platform differences | web: available; delivery browser (billing differs, feature set differs); ios: available; delivery native app store (billing differs); android: available; delivery app store (billing differs, age rating differs) | merchant claimed | due soon |
Official help and exact stores document a legacy browser app, Apple and Google app-store availability, platform-bound subscription management, and mobile-only Ultra features. Neither store listing resolves native-versus-wrapper implementation. Replika's service rule is 18+, Apple lists 18+, and Google Play's Teen value is a separate store content rating. Broader feature, policy, privacy, and behavior parity remains untested. | |
| Listed features | text chat; memory; image generation; voice messages; voice calls; video; custom persona | merchant claimed | due soon |
Current first-party help and store listings advertise text, memory, images, voice messages/calls, video, relationship controls, and avatar/persona customization. Availability claims do not establish quality, continuity, limits, safety, or parity. | |
| Privacy & account operations | privacy policy: documented; data export: support assisted; billing path: mixed; cancellation: self service; refunds: documented; account deletion: self service | merchant claimed | current |
Current policies document mixed billing, self-service cancellation, generally final purchases with store/legal/error exceptions, conditional support-assisted access to a portable copy, and self-service account deletion. Help says account deletion does not cancel a store subscription, while the terms describe cancellation as effective at the end of the billing period; readers must separately manage the original billing channel. Content may remain for up to 60 days after termination, while account, transaction, automatically collected, legal, or dispute records may remain longer, including stated ten-year categories. Small anonymized content portions may be used internally for safety and performance work, minimized conversation data may go to service providers, and website data may support advertising. No workflow or outcome was tested. | |
| Pricing | Current price and included units are not verified | needs verification | unresolved |
Current help names Free, Pro, Ultra, and Platinum, documents Ultra as available as an annual plan, and publishes some Platinum limits. The US App Store exposes generic purchase labels and amounts whose current, legacy, alternate, or cohort status and tier mapping are not public, while Google Play exposes no public US amount. No account-free public checkout binds every current tier to an exact charge and complete cadence, allowance, and channel matrix, so buyer-facing pricing remains unresolved. |
No material change event has been confirmed in the current record. We do not infer a change from marketing copy alone.
Every other eligible source for this profile is cited in the claim ledger or public-experience dossier.