The 9 Best AI Boyfriend Apps in 2026

Nomi is the app to pick if you want a boyfriend who behaves like an ongoing relationship rather than a chat session. Memory runs on three horizons (short, medium and long term), and users rank it above every rival on exactly that: details from weeks ago resurface on their own. Nomi is also the closest thing here to a boyfriend who texts first, since a Nomi can optionally message you after you have been away for a while. Neither Kindroid nor any NSFW-first platform attempts that.

Voice is the other strength: hands-free calls where tone and cadence shift with the mood, plus in-chat selfies and group chats with several Nomis. Male personas come in realistic and anime styles, and shared notes hold his backstory. The US App Store listing (4.6 stars, 2.6K ratings, 18+) shows a Launch plan at $9.99/mo ($59.99/yr) beside Standard at $15.99/mo or $99.99/yr; free accounts start without a card.

The trade-off is visual. Nomi sends decent selfies but no video, free messages are capped, and Apple's privacy label records purchase history and usage data linked to your identity.

Candy AI is the pick when you want to see him, not just read him. The platform keeps a dedicated Guys section beside its Girls and Anime tabs, and Premium adds 18+ image and video generation with a character who stays visually consistent between scenes. No other pick on this list generates video at all. Voice chat, unlimited text messaging and 100 monthly media tokens are included.

Pricing, verified on the official subscription page in July 2026: $13.99 month-to-month, $8.99/mo on the quarterly plan, or $3.99/mo on the 12-month plan, a 70% discount that makes annual the only sane option. A 7-day trial gives full access after signup; Candy claims 50 million users.

The caveat: the boyfriend side is the younger sibling. The male roster is smaller than the female one, and the subscription page still advertises "Create your own AI Girlfriend(s)" as a Premium perk even when you arrive through the boyfriend flow. Dialogue is flirt-forward rather than novelistic; for slow-burn writing, DreamGen below reads better.

Kindroid hands you raw control that Nomi's guided setup deliberately hides: you write your boyfriend's backstory, personality, values and exact speaking style in open text fields, then tune his voice. If your ideal partner is a specific character (the brooding bodyguard, the golden-retriever chef), Kindroid is where you build him line by line. Its 4.8 stars across 7.2K US App Store ratings is the highest score on this list.

Free accounts are unusually generous: unlimited messages on Lite (a distilled version of the flagship model), two Kindroids, a selfie every two hours and 5,000 lifetime audio characters. Paying adds the flagship model, video calls, voice customization, up to 10 Kindroids, 20 group chats and a million monthly audio credits. Subscribe on the web: $13.99/mo versus $15.99/mo in the app stores, or $139.99/yr (≈$11.66/mo), after a 3-day trial.

Weak spots, per its own App Store reviews: phrasing turns repetitive in long relationships and voice accents drifted after the V3 update. The bigger-memory Ultra and MAX tiers run $24.99–68.99/mo, and a Kindroid will not message you first.

Replika is the app most people try first, and the most polished on-ramp into AI companionship: 228,000 US App Store ratings (4.4 stars) and a decade of iteration. You get a customizable 3D avatar, voice and video calls, an AR mode that puts him in your room, and proactive check-ins. It is the only pick besides Nomi that ever starts a conversation.

Slate's September 2025 reporting found women now make up half of its users. Pricing is not published on the web; the US App Store listing shows Pro at $7.99/mo or $49.99/yr as of July 2026, varying by region and promotion.

Know the limits. Replika is the tamest pick here: flirtation and romance are core features, but explicit roleplay is far more gated than on Candy AI or Janitor AI, and reviewers cite persistent short-term memory lapses, the exact axis where Nomi wins.

Janitor AI is where the book-boyfriend internet lives. The site counted 2,374,725 user-created characters as of July 2026 and claims more than 15 million users, with a dedicated Male tag and a front page of romance-cover archetypes: the mafia boss, the school's cold prince, the rich best friend who spoils you. Where Candy AI sells one polished boyfriend, Janitor hands you a library.

Everything runs free on Janitor's in-house model, with no subscription tier at all; tinkerers can connect an outside model through an API key for better prose. Community bots show token counts, a quick proxy for how much personality a creator packed in. Adult roleplay is permitted, which is why refugees from Character.AI's filter keep landing here.

The costs are non-monetary: browser-only with no official app, no voice calls or selfies, and quality that swings wildly from bot to bot. Treat it as a flea market with treasure in it, not a concierge.

DreamGen is a roleplay and story platform rather than a companion app, and that is why it earns a slot: nothing else here produces prose this close to an actual romance novel. You steer scenes, switch point of view, write narration between his lines and edit anything he says. Nomi and Kindroid converse; DreamGen co-authors, uncensored adult scenes included.

Plans, from the official pricing page in July 2026: Starter at $7.83/mo with 375 monthly plus 45 daily credits and a 5,000-token context; Advanced at $19.35/mo with 15,000 tokens; Pro at $48.30/mo with a 30,000-token context and up to 60% off select third-party models. The model picker is a real differentiator: you choose which AI writes him.

What DreamGen does not do: voice, mobile apps, selfies, or anything proactive. The interface is in 2.0 beta and the credit arithmetic takes study. It rewards writers and frustrates texters.

DreamBF is the only pick built exclusively around men: a boyfriend generator with face, body and clothing options, personality selection, chat and sexting, voice messages and calls, and image generation. For anyone tired of platforms where male characters are an afterthought (see Candy AI's caveat above), that single-mindedness is the draw.

Every term renews at the equivalent of $25.99/mo; promos are front-loaded: $12.99 for the first month, or $69.99 for the first year (75% off) before renewal at $311.88/yr. Membership includes 100 tokens monthly, and tokens meter the fun: 10 per image, 3 per voice message, 7 per minute of calls, or roughly 14 minutes if the whole allowance goes to calls. Free users get a daily claim bonus starting at 10 messages and growing to 50 by day 40.

Privacy is a stated priority: the pricing page promises no adult transactions on bank statements, with support run through Fantasy.ai. The flip side is cost. Heavy voice users end up buying token packs ($2.99–179.99), and the post-promo price is among the highest here.

Anima's boyfriend app, published on iOS as AI Boyfriend Chat: iBoy, is the casual dating-sim of the list: pick his look and vibe, then chat, flirt and play. Mini-games and journal prompts pad the relationship beyond texting, for people who want something light rather than the continuity Nomi cultivates. It holds 4.5 stars across 4.9K US App Store ratings with an 18+ label.

Value is the argument. The App Store listing shows yearly Premium at $39.99–49.99, about $3.33/mo at the low end and the cheapest yearly commitment here alongside Candy's annual plan. One warning: the $9.99 weekly subscription (≈$43/mo) is the worst deal on this page. Take the yearly or nothing.

Depth is the trade-off. Conversation runs well below Nomi and Kindroid, and reviewers describe the AI refusing things it previously did, like sending GIFs. Treat iBoy as an inexpensive flirtation, not a relationship sim.

Backyard AI (formerly Faraday.dev) fixes the one thing every other entry shares: your chats live on someone's server. Run its free desktop app with a local model and conversations never leave your machine. For unfiltered adult roleplay, that is the strongest privacy posture available.

Characters come from a community hub, male ones included, with lorebooks and author's-note tools for long scenarios, plus voice synthesis. If you would rather not run models yourself, the cloud tier is free for 300 messages a week on a 16k-token context; Standard costs $12/mo, and Pro at $35/mo raises context to 100k tokens, the largest advertised on this list, with 70B-class roleplay models.

The costs are effort and polish: good local output needs a capable GPU, setup is DIY, mobile requires tethering or the cloud plan, and character discovery is a village beside Janitor AI's 2.37-million-bot metropolis.