Candy AI Review: Features, Pricing & My Test Results

Candy AI (candy.ai) is an adult AI girlfriend app. You chat with one of about 269 characters or build your own, then ask for photos, videos and calls.

It has more features than any app I've tested: voice notes, group chats, a scene studio, an outfit shop, achievements and more. Most of the media is paid for with tokens.

It's made for adults. Many characters open with flirty lines, and adult photos and videos are allowed.

What it costs

Prices as listed in October 2026. Every plan has unlimited text chat. Extra tokens come in packs, from 100 for $9.99 up to 11,470 for $499.99. That's about 10 cents a token.

What things cost in tokens

What I think

Chat, photos and calls are good value. The 12-month plan is cheap, and a photo costs about 40 cents.

Video is where it adds up. 100 tokens a month is about three videos. Outfits in the shop cost 75 to 189 tokens, and creator content packs about 285.

Charges show as 'EverAI' on your statement. More in the pricing test results.

What it offers

The Character Studio (in beta) lets you set almost everything: age, body, hair, eyes, skin, freckles, makeup, clothes and background. Then you write her personality, her first message and pick a voice. There's also a quicker mode and 342 ready-made looks to start from.

Building Lucia, step by step

I made Lucia: Latina, 27, slim, curly auburn hair, green eyes, light freckles, tan skin, a knit sweater, at a city café. She's a caring illustrator from Seville with a grumpy cat called Churro.

Candy AI Character Studio with the generated base look of Lucia at a street café

Candy AI Character Studio personality step with Lucia's character context and greeting

Her look came back in about 18 seconds, and it was free. You get six free tries. Almost every choice showed up: the curls, the auburn hair, the freckles, the tan skin, the sweater and the café.

Candy AI base look of Lucia with curly auburn hair, freckles and a cream knit sweater at a street café

The one miss: her eyes came out hazel, not the clear green I picked.

The result

Bringing her to life cost 10 tokens and took about 12 seconds. Candy wrote her bio from my text, and she was ready to chat.

Candy AI chat with the custom character Lucia and her profile card

She looks great: real, warm and just like my brief, apart from the eyes. Her first message didn't fit, though. It was a generic flirty line ('are we behaving?'), not her caring side. You can edit it.

In chat she was spot on. Over 24 replies she never slipped. Asked about pets: 'Oh yeah, Churro. He's a grumpy old cat who hates everyone but me.' Asked about home, she missed Seville's orange trees.

Candy AI chat with Lucia talking about her cat Churro, Seville and drawing

One thing to know: in a new chat, you can't ask for photos until she likes you more. The relationship starts at 'Stranger' and photos unlock at 'Friend'. She still sent me one on her own.

What could be better

Get the eye colour right, and write a first message that fits her personality. The details are in the customization test results.

What it offers

Text chat with lots of settings: six chat models, reply length, a texting style (short texts or long replies), narration and your own style notes. Characters also message you first, with photos and voice notes.

Candy AI default chat settings with media preferences, chat models and response length

What I found

Replies are a bit slow. They took about 3.3 seconds, and arrive all at once instead of word by word. One message never got a reply.

Memory is perfect. I told three characters a made-up name and three things about me. After 31 messages, all three remembered everything.

Dahye even remembered on a call. Asked where she'd travel, she said: 'Lisbon, because you grew up there. I want to see the places you told me about.'

They never left character. Dahye stayed a shy exchange student, Harriet the new girl at the office, and Kenzie a cheeky creator. The only odd moment came in a quick extra chat, when Harriet answered a beach question with 'Here's the photo.'

The timings are in the chat test results.

What could be better

Faster replies. AIGirlfriends.ai answered almost instantly in my tests.

What it offers

Photo and video buttons in every chat. You describe the scene in the chat, then press Image or Video. There are six poses for photos, and videos are 15 seconds long with sound.

What I found

The photos look very real, and Dahye had the same face in every one. Most matched the scene I asked for, but one office scene came out on a sofa. Each took 20 to 55 seconds.

Candy AI: four generated photos of the character Dahye Hwang in different scenes

The video is excellent. I asked for Dahye reading in a library. She turns pages and points at the book, smoothly, with the same face from start to finish. And it has sound.

Candy AI: ten frames from a generated video of Dahye reading in a library

The numbers are in the image and video test results.

What could be better

Faster photos, and cheaper videos: each one costs about $3.

What it offers

Call any character from the chat, for 3 tokens a minute. Characters also send short voice notes in chat.

What I found

I called Dahye, Harriet and Kenzie and asked each the same 8 questions. They answered in about 1.5 seconds, which feels like a real call. A call takes about 6 seconds to connect.

Candy AI: voice call with Dahye shown in the chat window

The voices sound natural and lively. Now and then a word sounds a little computer-made. Listen for yourself:

The voice notes in chat use the same voices, in clips of about 6 seconds. The full numbers are in the voice test results.

What could be better

A little less of the computer sound on some words.

There are about 269 characters: realistic women, anime girls and guys. There are also 'Digital Twins' of real adult creators.

The number is good, but many characters share the same few stories, like step-family and 'friend's mom' set-ups. So it feels smaller than it is.

Candy AI has more extras than any app I've tested. None of them add to the score, but here's what each one does.

• Voice notes: characters send short voice messages in chat.
• Messages first: characters send messages, photos and voice notes on their own.
• Group chats: chat with 2 or 3 characters at once.
• About you: profiles that tell characters who you are.
• Gifts and reactions: send gifts and react to messages with emoji.
• Candy Studio: build a short scene with a helper called Copilot. Clips are 5 seconds and cost 40 tokens.
• Build video: pick a character, an action and a place, and get a video.
• Candy Shop: outfits your characters wear, bought with tokens.
• Collection: every photo and video you've made, saved by character.
• Achievements: 134 goals with points, like sending 1,000 messages.
• Shorts: a series of adult episodes to watch.
• Private Content: paid photo and video packs from creators.
• Candy Creators: Digital Twins of real creators you can chat with.
• Candy Cams: live cam shows with real performers.
• Invite rewards: 100 tokens when a friend you invite upgrades.
• Help bot: a Candy assistant in your chat list answers questions.
• No feed: there's no social feed of character posts.

Candy AI achievements page with 134 achievements, points and chat goals

Candy AI is the most complete AI girlfriend app I've tested. The characters remember everything, never break character, and come with real-looking photos, smooth video with sound and quick calls.

Two things to know before you pay: replies take about 3 seconds, and the media costs tokens on top of the plan. If you make a lot of videos, the 100 monthly tokens won't last long.

My rating is 4.8 out of 5. Every number and screenshot is in the full test results, and you can see how it compares on my ranked list.