Best AI Companion Apppicks one app per reason, instead of ranking twenty

If you want a single answer, Candy.ai — it was the most consistent over long-term use and its free tier is big enough to judge before paying. But the better question is what you want it for: Girlfriend GPT wins on customisation, and Joi wins if you would rather not pay at all.

Candy.ai in our testing, by a clear margin over a gap of several weeks. Every platform in this category works from a rolling window plus a summary rather than a full transcript, so none of them remembers everything — the difference is how gracefully they lose the rest.

Joi, if 'free' is the constraint: it has the most generous allowance we have measured and voice works without a card on file. Every other free tier here is best understood as an extended demo rather than a way to use the product indefinitely.

Some do, some restrict it to paid tiers, and some refuse regardless. Policies also change without announcement, so we re-check against the live product rather than leaving an old answer in place.

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