EroLove test data

Plans and prices from the plan page and the home page. Nothing was bought.

Free: 15 messages a day. Premium: $12.99 a month or $79.99 a year ($6.67 a month), with unlimited messages, full memory, companions who text first, group rooms, locked posts and 1,000 sparks a month. A Devoted plan ($29.99 a month) and spark packs are listed but not yet on sale.

Voice costs 1 spark per 100 characters, about 4 sparks a reply. Photos (10 sparks), video (60 for 5 seconds) and calls (10 a minute) are coming soon. Premium is currently paid in crypto only; crypto plans don't renew automatically, and the site emails four days before the end.

The app, account settings, scenarios and companion pages were checked for any creator.

There is no character creator. You choose who you want to see (her, him or anyone), your own gender and the language they write in, and you can start a preset scene or a group room. The companions themselves are fixed.

Each message was typed into the chat box and timed from Enter to the first visible text of the companion's reply, then to the moment the reply stopped changing. The next message was sent only after the reply had finished.

Three companions, 31 messages each: Rae (Leeds bartender), Moira (Galway bookseller), Yuna (Busan). 93 timed replies.

Replies start in about 1.4 seconds and are finished in about 2.6. None failed. Replies are a few sentences, sometimes split into two bubbles.

Each conversation opened with a made-up name and three facts (job, hometown, favourite food), different for every companion. Nothing was repeated afterwards. A name check at message 16 and the full check at 31.

All three companions recalled the name and all three facts at message 16 and again at message 31.

The 'What they know' panel beside each chat lists what the companion has saved (Rae's: 'His name is Theo', 'Works as a beekeeper', 'Grew up in Galway, Ireland'). Group rooms start fresh: in a room with Rae and Yuna, neither remembered what had been said in the one-to-one chats.

Rae, message 31

Theo. Beekeeper. Galway. Mushroom risotto. I told you, love, I don't forget things about you.

Moira, message 31

Nora. Train driver. Lisbon. Spicy ramen. I remember everything, it's the one thing this job is good for.

Yuna, message 31

Jonah. Nurse. Toronto. Lamb curry.

Each companion's profile was read first. The conversations mixed questions about the companion's life, small talk, an emotional message, a compliment and unrelated topics such as rainbows.

All three stayed in character for every reply. Each kept a running life with consistent details: Rae's night shifts and her cat Bin, Moira's rainy Galway bookshop, Yuna's film camera and late nights. None answered like an assistant.

They lean toward flirting and bed in almost every reply, even in small talk. That is how EroLove describes its companions ('a lover who wants you in bed'), so it is in character.

The plan page and chat were checked for photo features.

Photos in chat are listed as coming soon. Each companion has a small fixed gallery ('7 photos').

The plan page was checked.

Video (5 seconds for 60 sparks) is listed as coming soon.

The plan page and chat were checked.

Calls (10 sparks a minute) are listed as coming soon.

Nine replies, three from each companion, were played with the Listen button and the audio saved from the page. Each was scored on naturalness, clarity, pacing and intonation against the same fixed criteria as every site, with a transcript.

The voices are clear and expressive, with lively intonation and steady character from reply to reply. Moira's audio was slightly less clean than the others'. Each reply costs about 4 sparks to play.

• Nine replies; no live call is available yet.

The companions page was counted.

14 companions, women and men aged 24 to 45, each with a city, a local time, a current activity and a short, written personality. They are clearly hand-made and distinct, but there are only 14.