Joi AI Alternatives: 7 Picks for Price, Privacy and Apps (2026)
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Quick answer
Candy AI is the closest swap: explicit chat, images and video in a browser, with plan prices on the page and unlimited text chat included. Nastia AI keeps chats and media private, with no public profiles or feeds. FantasyGF's paid plans never charge tokens for texting. Kindroid adds iPhone and Android apps. SpicyChat AI is the best free option and, like OurDream AI, serves UK users after an age check.
Joi AI alternatives at a glance
| Platform | Our score | Best for | Free plan | From | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joi AIThe app you're leaving | 8.6/10 | — | Yes | $19.99/mo | — |
| Candy AI | 8.5/10 | Best like-for-like swap with prices on the page | Yes | $13.99/mo | Joi AI vs Candy AI |
| Nastia AI | 8.5/10 | Best for keeping chats and media private | Yes | $11.99/mo | Joi AI vs Nastia AI |
| FantasyGF | 8.6/10 | Best for unlimited explicit texting at a fixed price | Trial only | $12.99/mo | Joi AI vs FantasyGF |
| Kindroid | 8.6/10 | Best with iPhone and Android apps | No | $15.99/mo | Joi AI vs Kindroid |
| SpicyChat AI | 7.8/10 | Best free alternative for adult roleplay | Yes | $5.95/mo | Joi AI vs SpicyChat AI |
| AI Peeps | 9.0/10 | Best for cheap unlimited chat kept out of AI training | Yes | $8.99/mo | Joi AI vs AI Peeps |
| OurDream AI | 7.9/10 | Best for UK users who want images and video | Yes | $19.99/mo | Joi AI vs OurDream AI |
Scores come from our reviews (how we score). “From” is the cheapest plan billed monthly as listed in each review's pricing; “—” means we hold no fixed monthly price for it (for example, weekly or yearly billing only).
Why people leave Joi AI
Prices only appear after you sign up
Joi shows Premium and Neuron prices only once you have an account, and its terms say they vary by region, plan length, character, promotion and 'other factors'. Monthly Premium was listed at $19.99 on Oct 10, 2026; Joi publishes no public price list to check that against. Candy AI, FantasyGF, Nastia AI, OurDream AI and SpicyChat AI show plan prices on public pages before you register, and AI Peeps prints its prices on its own comparison pages and wiki.
Explicit messages, photos and videos cost Neurons on top of Premium
Joi's terms list romantic, erotic and sexually explicit messages, visual content and adult scenarios among the services Neurons pay for, outside the subscription: reading one romantic message costs 4 Neurons, a photo view up to 120 and a video view up to 1,900. One video at that maximum uses 95% of a 2,000-Neuron pack. The picks for this reason include unlimited text chat in a plan with a published price (SpicyChat even on its free plan), so a long explicit conversation costs nothing extra.
No phone app, and joi.com is closed in the UK
Joi is web-only: its publisher's only App Store and Google Play app is EVA AI, which bans explicit content. And a notice on joi.com says the site is unavailable to users in the United Kingdom until Joi has an age-verification system that complies with UK law.
Joi can make your characters public and uses chats to develop its AI
Joi's terms say every character you generate, including its likeness and personality, belongs exclusively to Joi, and that Joi may, at its sole discretion, move a character from private to public visibility. Joi's privacy policy also lists improving replies and developing its AI as uses of your text and voice messages. Nastia AI has no public profiles or feeds, so nothing you make there can be switched to public; AI Peeps keeps NSFW media private, and its privacy policy says chats holding personal data stay out of the training of AI Peeps' own models.
Minor-coded pages in joi.com's own sitemap
Joi's terms ban any character 'plausibly depicting a person under 18' in a sexual context. Yet on Oct 24, 2026 joi.com's sitemap listed four image-generator landing pages with 'loli', 'teen' or 'young' in their addresses. On the same day, the public sitemaps of Candy AI (3,848 addresses), Kindroid and Nastia AI listed none with those words. That covers page addresses only, not every character or image on those sites.
The 7 Joi AI alternatives
Candy AI: best like-for-like swap with prices on the page
Candy AI covers the same ground as joi.com in a browser: explicit chat with more than 100 ready-made characters (Candy's figure) or one you design in its Create My AI builder, plus images, short clips made from images, voice messages and beta voice calls. The difference is the bill. Plan prices sit on Candy's public subscriptions page: $13.99 a month ($9.99 the first month), $26.97 a quarter or $47.88 a year ($3.99 a month). Every Premium plan includes unlimited text chat, so explicit messages are not charged one by one as Joi's romantic messages are, plus 100 tokens a month for media. Candy is run by EverAI Limited in Malta. Our score: 8.5/10.
What you give up:
No licensed creator characters (Candy bans images that resemble real people), only 5 free messages, and a refund request must arrive within 24 hours of paying. Like Joi, it has no app-store app, and the token cost of an image or clip is shown only after login.
Nastia AI: best for keeping chats and media private
Joi's terms let it switch a private character to public. Nastia has no public profiles or feeds at all: chats and generated media stay private, and each chat can be downloaded from its settings. Prices are public. The Unlimited plan, $15.99 monthly or $99.95 for a year (about $8.33 a month), lets you message without limit and tops up media with 400 tokens daily and a 3,000-token monthly bonus, and allows up to 5 companions plus voice cloning. Its free plan keeps one companion with no card required and no expiry. Where local law requires it, an outside provider checks age by face estimate, card or ID. Run by Nastia Cybernetics in France. Our score: 8.5/10.
What you give up:
Companions send voice messages but take no live calls, there is no app-store app, and Nastia refunds nothing unless the law says so or a technical fault stopped delivery. Uncensored selfies and videos need Unlimited, and characters based on real people are banned.
FantasyGF: best for unlimited explicit texting at a fixed price
On FantasyGF's paid plans, texting never costs tokens. Premium runs $12.99 monthly, $29.99 per quarter or $69.99 per year (about $5.83 a month) and includes 100 tokens a month; at the lowest published rates that is enough for up to 50 pictures, 16 videos or 12 minutes of calls. It publishes the token price of each action (pictures from 2, videos from 6, calls 8 a minute), and unused tokens don't expire. The character builder takes realistic or anime looks, a voice from 36 presets and a personality, or a written description. Our score, 8.6/10, matches Joi's.
What you give up:
Free accounts get 16 messages and blurred NSFW pictures; clips with sound or at 720p run 16 to 141 tokens each; age is self-declared; there is no app-store app; and a subscription can be refunded only until the next billing period begins.
Kindroid: best with iPhone and Android apps
Joi runs only in the browser. Kindroid has an iPhone app, an Android app and a web version at kindroid.ai, and its moderation guidelines permit NSFW content and erotic roleplay for adults. The subscription includes voice calls, live avatar video calls, custom voices, selfies and short video selfies, plus layered long-term memory. On the US App Store the subscription is $15.99 monthly, $42.99 per quarter or $159.99 per year (about $13.33 a month). Age is checked through the payment method, or with Yoti for flagged free accounts. Our score: 8.6/10.
What you give up:
The unlimited free tier ended on Oct 1, 2026; new accounts now get 50 messages once (15 in some regions) before they must start a 3-day trial or pay. Web prices appear only at checkout, refunds are at Kindroid's discretion, and selfie credits are capped even on paid plans. You write your own character rather than browsing a big catalogue.
SpicyChat AI: best free alternative for adult roleplay
Nothing in SpicyChat's plan table caps messages or character creation on the ad-supported free tier, and SpicyChat puts its community library at almost a million user-made characters. Paying is optional: Get A Taste ($5.95 a month) removes ads and adds a Memory Manager, and True Supporter ($19.95) adds automatic memory and conversation images. It runs in the browser and as an Android APK from spicychat.ai. It also serves the UK, where NSFW content opens after a third-party age check, usually a video selfie; SpicyChat applies the same rule in France, Italy, Australia and 26 US states. Our score: 7.8/10.
What you give up:
No video generation or voice calls, a 4K context on the free plan (roughly the last 20 messages, SpicyChat estimates), no refund once your login has been used, and terms that let operators read chats. Photorealistic pornography and real-person bots are banned.
AI Peeps: best for cheap unlimited chat kept out of AI training
Text chat is unlimited on all three paid AI Peeps plans, the cheapest being Peep Chat at $8.99 a month ($7.49 billed yearly). Images cost 10 PeepCoins and videos from 40, rates AI Peeps publishes, with 300 coins a month on Peep Chat per AI Peeps' comparison pages; coins you buy never expire. Under its privacy policy, chats and creations containing personal data are not used to train AI Peeps' own models, and NSFW media stays private (public profiles must be safe for work). Free accounts get a daily message allowance with NSFW roleplay allowed. Character cards and chat history import from Character.AI, SillyTavern, Chub, JanitorAI and RisuAI. Our score: 9.0/10.
What you give up:
Web only, monthly coins don't roll over (Joi's quota does), refunds are case by case, and age is confirmed by a click-through rather than a check. AI Peeps Lab is a sole-trader business in Italy.
OurDream AI: best for UK users who want images and video
Where joi.com turns UK visitors away, OurDream lets them in after an independent age-assurance check, which its safety page says it runs in the UK, Australia and other places whose law requires one. The Premium plan is $19.99 monthly or $119.88 yearly ($9.99 a month) and comes with unlimited messages plus 1,000 DreamCoins each month, and the coin price of each action is published: 10 coins buy 2 images, 100 buy 5 seconds of video, and a call minute costs 50. A free account includes 10 image generations without a card. Its community library is reviewed before characters go public. Our score: 7.9/10.
What you give up:
Video and calls drain the allowance (a month's 1,000 coins equal 20 call minutes, or 50 seconds of video), more coins can be bought only while you subscribe, refunds are discretionary, your images blur after you cancel, and there is no app-store app.
What Joi AI still does better
More thorough age checks than three of the picks: Joi uses VerifyMyAge (a background email check, a selfie age estimate or an ID) and says it keeps no ID copies, while FantasyGF and AI Peeps rely on self-declaration and Candy AI on an age gate with extra checks only where local rules require.
Licensed likeness characters: Joi sells what it calls official digital duplicates of real celebrities, and its terms require the people portrayed to sign a likeness agreement. None of the picks advertises anything like it.
Unused monthly quota rolls over to the next month, yearly plans included, per Joi's help centre. AI Peeps' monthly coins don't roll over, and Candy AI's tokens must be used within their billing period.
Our score for Joi is 8.6/10, with 9.5 for Character Depth. Among the picks, only AI Peeps (9.0) scores higher; FantasyGF and Kindroid tie at 8.6.
If you're leaving Joi AI because…
| Reason | Try |
|---|---|
| Prices only appear after you sign up | Candy AI, Nastia AI, FantasyGF, SpicyChat AI, AI Peeps, OurDream AI |
| Explicit messages, photos and videos cost Neurons on top of Premium | FantasyGF, Candy AI, Nastia AI, AI Peeps, SpicyChat AI |
| No phone app, and joi.com is closed in the UK | Kindroid, SpicyChat AI, OurDream AI |
| Joi can make your characters public and uses chats to develop its AI | Nastia AI, AI Peeps |
| Minor-coded pages in joi.com's own sitemap | Kindroid, Nastia AI, Candy AI |
What Joi's Neurons buy, next to the picks' credits
A Joi bill has two parts. Premium is the subscription; Neurons pay for what it leaves out, and Joi's terms list romantic, erotic and sexually explicit messages among those items. Neuron packs (500, 2,000 and 10,000) are priced only after sign-up, so a Neuron can't be converted into dollars from public information. What can be compared is what each plan includes:
| Platform | Plan | Chat on that plan | Media allowance and rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joi AI | Premium: price shown after sign-up | Romantic messages not covered by the plan: 4 Neurons each to read | Up to 120 Neurons per photo view, up to 1,900 per video view |
| Candy AI | Premium, $13.99 a month ($9.99 the first month) | Unlimited text | 100 tokens a month; per-item costs shown only after login |
| FantasyGF | Premium, $12.99 a month | Unlimited, no tokens | 100 tokens a month: 50 pictures at 2 tokens, or 16 videos at 6 |
| Nastia AI | Unlimited, $15.99 a month | Unlimited | 400 tokens a day plus 3,000 bonus tokens a month |
| AI Peeps | Peep Chat, $8.99 a month | Unlimited | 300 PeepCoins a month; 10 per image, from 40 per video |
| OurDream AI | Premium, $19.99 a month | Unlimited | 1,000 DreamCoins a month, enough for 200 images or 50 seconds of video |
| SpicyChat AI | Free (with ads) | Unlimited | No video; conversation images from True Supporter ($19.95 a month) |
Joi's help centre says unused Premium quota rolls over to the next month, which partly offsets the per-item model. Neurons spent or left over in the current month are not refunded when you cancel.
Refunds and cancelling: Joi's rules against the picks'
Joi says a plan can be cancelled only on the website where it was bought, that cancelling takes effect from the next subscription month, and that a chargeback can lead Joi to hand over your private chats as evidence that the charge was valid. Before you switch, it helps to know that none of the picks is generous either:
| Platform | Refund rule, per its own policy |
|---|---|
| Joi AI | Within 14 days, and only for proven card fraud, one mistaken Neuron purchase or Joi ending your plan |
| Candy AI | Within 24 hours of payment, 20 or fewer tokens used, card payments only; EU and UK residents can cancel a first purchase within 14 days, paying for what they used |
| FantasyGF | A subscription only until its next billing period begins; token packs considered individually if asked within 7 days |
| Nastia AI | Only where the law requires one or a technical error stopped delivery; a plan can be paused for up to 90 days instead |
| Kindroid | At Kindroid's discretion; App Store and Google Play purchases go through Apple or Google |
| SpicyChat AI | None once your login has been used; no partial months |
| AI Peeps | Case by case; a recent plan with little use is usually eligible, per its wiki |
| OurDream AI | At its discretion for defects reported within 14 days; a 14-day withdrawal right for EEA, UK and Swiss consumers; no refunds on crypto |
Since every one of these policies is strict, try a pick on its free tier or for one month before committing to a year. Full cancellation steps for Joi are in our Joi AI review.
Coming from joi.ai, the safe-for-work Joi
joi.ai is a separate, safe-for-work version of Joi whose terms ban sexual and adult-themed content. If that is the Joi you used, the adult-focused picks above may be more than you want. Two companion apps that work without adult content: Nomi, free for 50 messages a day, with clothed-only images on every plan and apps for web, iPhone and Android, and Replika, with free text chat, terms that bar pornographic content and apps for iPhone and Android. Joi's publisher also makes EVA AI, a phone app that uses Neurons too, 2 to read each romantic message; see EVA AI alternatives.
Two look-alike names are unrelated to Joi: 'JOI: Meet New People' on the App Store is a local-events app from another developer, and joiai.it.com is a separate site, not joi.com or joi.ai.
If you used Joi for its creator 'digital duplicates'
Joi's About page offers official digital duplicates of real celebrities; on joi.com the characters tagged Celebrity include adult performers and online creators, each of whom must sign a likeness agreement under Joi's terms. Some are sold as paid add-on subscriptions that need Premium. None of the seven picks advertises licensed likenesses: Candy AI, Nastia AI, OurDream AI and SpicyChat AI ban characters or images based on real people, FantasyGF bans impersonating them, and Kindroid bans using a real person's likeness without permission. The nearest substitute is designing your own character, in Candy AI's Create My AI builder, FantasyGF's builder (realistic or anime looks, or a written description) or a free-form Kindroid. Side by side: Candy AI vs Joi AI, FantasyGF vs Joi AI and Joi AI vs Kindroid.
Joi AI alternatives: FAQ
Is there a free alternative to Joi AI?
Yes. SpicyChat AI's free tier puts no cap on messages or on the characters you create, per SpicyChat's plan table, and shows ads. Nastia AI lets you keep one companion free, without a card or an end date, and AI Peeps' free accounts can roleplay NSFW within a daily message quota. Joi's own free Basic tier gives limited access and 6 lifetime image generations.
What is the closest app to Joi AI?
Candy AI. Both are browser sites that mix explicit chat, a character catalogue plus a builder, generated images, short videos and voice. Candy publishes its plan prices ($13.99 a month, or $3.99 a month billed yearly) and includes unlimited text chat with 100 tokens a month; Joi shows prices only after sign-up. Candy has no licensed creator characters. See Candy AI vs Joi AI.
Which Joi AI alternatives work as a phone app?
Kindroid runs as an iPhone app, an Android app and on the web, and permits NSFW roleplay for adults; after a 50-message preview, the monthly plan costs $15.99 on the US App Store ($159.99 for a year). SpicyChat AI has an Android APK on its website but no iOS app. Joi's publisher, Novi Limited, also makes EVA AI, a phone app whose terms ban explicit content.
What can I use instead of Joi AI in the UK?
joi.com is closed to UK visitors until Joi has a UK-compliant age check. SpicyChat AI and OurDream AI both run third-party age checks for UK users instead of blocking them: SpicyChat unlocks NSFW content after a check, usually a video selfie with ID as the fallback, and OurDream checks age before granting access.
Which Joi AI alternatives have video calls?
Joi's terms say its video-call feature varies by device, region and plan. Kindroid's subscription includes live avatar video calls, and Candy AI's Candy Roulette pairs you with a random AI character on video for 5 tokens a minute. Outside this list, SweetDream AI puts live AI phone calls and video calls with its featured characters in Premium, which was listed at $12.99 a week on Oct 10, 2026.
Is Joi AI safe?
Joi is run by Novi Limited, a registered Cyprus company (HE 407352), uses VerifyMyAge for age checks and had no entry on Have I Been Pwned as of Oct 24, 2026. Its privacy policy says chats are used to develop its AI, and on the same date joi.com's sitemap listed 'loli'- and 'teen'-titled generator pages that conflict with its own rules on minors. Details are in our Joi AI review.
How do I cancel Joi AI before switching?
On the website where you bought the plan, go to Settings → My Subscriptions, pick the subscription and follow the steps. Joi's refund policy says cancelling takes effect from the next subscription month and that Neurons are not refunded. Cancelling Premium leaves add-on subscriptions to individual characters running, though you lose access to them until Premium is active again. Refund requests must come within 14 days and cover only proven card fraud, a one-time mistaken Neuron purchase or Joi ending your plan.