Is the AI boyfriend app market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▲ Growing
- Visits, year on year, without PolyBuzz
- -2.0%
- Visits, last six months
- +21%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- +69%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 16 AI boyfriend app sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 17 million visits. Much of the year’s change is one site, PolyBuzz; without it, visits are about level on a year ago.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 3185% in a year while another lost 85% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI boyfriend app market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 16 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google17Mvisits+54% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US8.8Msearches+69% vs October 2025
- Top five sites96.1%of visitsfastest grower: Candy AI
- Expected in November17Mvisitslikely 16M to 19M
- The AI boyfriend app market is growing as of October 2026.
- The 16 AI boyfriend app sites RankDude tracks got 17,118,719 visits from Google search in October 2026, 54% more visits than in October 2025, or about the same without PolyBuzz.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 8,784,930 times in September 2026, 69% more searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI boyfriend app sites get 96.1% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI boyfriend app site over the year: Candy AI, +3185% (18.1K to 596K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: SupaFriends, -85% (6.3K to 978 visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 17M visits, likely between 16M and 19M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI boyfriend app sites than a year ago?
Up 54% on a year ago; down 3% on September 2026
Only because of PolyBuzz. The 16 tracked AI boyfriend app sites got 17,118,719 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 54% more visits than in October 2025, or about the same without PolyBuzz, and 3% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was September 2026, with 17,663,787 visits; October 2026 is 3% below it. In the US, visits were 4,411,589, up 43% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI boyfriend app sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
17M
+53.8% on a year ago
United States, this month
4.4M
+42.8% on a year ago
Two-year high
18M
September 2026
US share of visits
25.8%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
More visits than a year ago means new people are still finding AI boyfriend app sites through Google. Most of that growth is one site, PolyBuzz; without it, visits are about level on a year ago.
2.Are people searching for AI boyfriend app sites by name?
Up 69% on October 2025; 8.8M name searches a month in the US
Yes, more than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI boyfriend app sites 8,784,930 times in September 2026, 69% more searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai boyfriend” itself gets about 22,200 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI boyfriend app sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI boyfriend app sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are up 69%. This number does not change when Google reshuffles its results, so it is the most reliable sign of growth on this page.
3.Which AI boyfriend app sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 96.1% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 99.4%
The five most-visited AI boyfriend app sites get 96.1% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Candy AI, from 18,141 to 595,949 visits (+3185%). Steepest fall: SupaFriends, from 6,347 to 978 visits (-85%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Candy AI596K visits+3185%
RomanticAI272K visits+491%
PolyBuzz10M visits+145%
Kindroid68.8K visits+70%
SpicyChat2.3M visits+31%
Falling fastest, year on year
SupaFriends978 visits-85%
Chai65.8K visits-80%
Anima AI54.7K visits-71%
Nomi.ai44.8K visits-67%
Replika51.2K visits-55%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.