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. It is useful for comparing documented facts, but it is not yet a scored or longitudinally tested review. How evidence labels work
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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.
Community synthesis has not been added yet. We will not turn a handful of anecdotes into a consensus. This section will publish only after its source set, date range, selection method, disagreements, and sponsorship signals are recorded.
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 | current |
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 | current |
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 | current |
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 | current |
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.