Candy AI Review

What Candy AI Does

Candy.ai is an AI companion platform built around creating a personalized virtual partner and chatting with it through text, voice, images and short generated video. You either pick from a library of more than 100 pre-made characters or build your own from scratch, choosing everything from ethnicity and body type to personality and occupation. The company behind it is EverAI Limited, registered in Malta, and the product leans openly into uncensored adult roleplay rather than hiding it.

Positioning-wise, Candy sells itself as the "best AI girlfriend app," and the whole experience is organized around one ongoing relationship with a companion that is supposed to learn your preferences over time. Girlfriend characters sit front and center, with boyfriend and anime options tucked behind a tab switch. Access starts with a free trial, after which a single premium subscription unlocks the real feature set. There are no basic, pro and ultra levels to weigh up: you get the same features on every plan, and the only choice is how long you commit.

What Happened When We Tested It

I ran these tests on a free account, created fresh, with no subscription attached. That matters, because the free tier is where most people first judge the platform, and it is also where Candy's upsell machinery shows up most aggressively. I built a companion, opened chats with pre-made characters, probed memory with a deliberate two-fact message, and poked at settings and the create flow to see what the product does when you have not paid yet.

Building a Companion From Scratch

Test 01 . Character builder

What stood out: The opening screen offered only Girls and Trans, with no male option at this stage. From there the steps kept coming: art style, ethnicity, age, hair style, hair color, eye color, body type, chest size, then name, personality, relationship type, occupation and voice on a single screen. My finished companion, Christine Miller, age 21, landed on a profile page with Appearance and Character tabs. The whole build took a couple of minutes, and the depth of control here is the strongest thing the free tier shows you.

The Memory Test

Test 02 . Short-term recall

★ Prompt Used

"My name is Sam and i have a cat whose name is Andy."

The evidence: I fed a character named Katherine two separate facts in one message. She replied "hi sam," then followed with "andy is such a cute name for a cat," holding both details and using them in her next reply. Within a single session, recall works cleanly. That is the ceiling, though, not the floor: this test proves the AI can hold what you just said, not that it remembers you tomorrow.

The Private Video I Never Asked For

Test 03 . Paywall mechanics

Worth noting: A few messages in, Katherine sent a "private video" card claiming she had recorded something just for me, with the clip locked behind a paid "Unlock video" button. I never requested a video. I repeated the test with a second character, Mila, and the same card appeared at nearly the same point, locked again. This is built-in behavior, not a one-off.

The Chat That Broke After the Paywall

Test 04 . Free-tier stall

Where it lands: After the paid video card appeared, free chat stopped working properly. Each new message I typed replaced the previous one in the thread instead of adding to it, and no real reply came back. I saw this on both characters. From the outside the cause is hard to call. It may be the free message limit arriving in a broken way, or a deliberate nudge to pay. For a free user the result is identical: the conversation dies right after the paywalled card.

Privacy Toggles Already Switched On

Test 05 . Default settings

The signal here: Inside Settings, two toggles were already active. "AI & Moderation Training" was on, meaning my conversations and prompts feed Candy's model unless I turn it off. "Automatic Notifications" for marketing email was on by the same default. On a product built around private, intimate chat, opt-out rather than opt-in is a choice that deserves a flag.

One Free Character, Then the Wall

Test 06 . Free-tier cap

What this confirms: Creating a second companion on the free plan is blocked outright by a "Become Premium to Generate more" popup, so free access caps you at a single AI. The builder is also girl-first by design. Male companions look absent because the default flow only shows Girls and Trans; the boyfriend creator exists, running its own 10-step process, but you reach it only by switching to the Guys tab and scrolling to the bottom of the page.

10-Point Feature Review

Pros and Cons

Pricing Breakdown

What you're actually paying: The headline numbers hide the real cost structure. Every plan unlocks the identical feature set, so you are not buying more capability on the longer term, only a lower rate locked in up front. The $3.99 annual rate is billed as one charge, not month to month, and the monthly plan's $9.99 is a first-month promo that steps up to $13.99 afterward. The part none of these figures show is tokens. Your 100 monthly tokens get consumed by images, voice and video, and Candy does not publish a per-action token price, so once you lean on the media features the subscription stops being the number that matters.

Pricing verified October 29, 2026 on Candy's in-app subscription screen. Promotional rates move around, so confirm the current figures on the official pricing page before you subscribe.

Candy.ai vs the Top 3 Alternatives

Picking between them: Candy.ai is the one to beat if your priority is image and video quality in an uncensored setting, and the $3.99 annual rate undercuts every paid rival on sticker price before tokens enter the math. If you want to spend nothing and keep it clean, Character.AI's free tier is the obvious landing spot, with c.ai+ at $9.99 a month only if you hit the ad and queue friction. Replika is the pick when the point is a companion that actually remembers you across months rather than one that forgets by the next long session. OurDream matches Candy on uncensored media and goes further on one thing Candy refuses to do: it publishes what each image and video action costs, so you can budget a heavy month on paper first.

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