Jupi Alternatives: 7 Chat Apps Beyond the 3.0 Town Game (2026)

Kindroid (8.6/10) answers three of Jupi's limits. It runs as an iPhone app, an Android app and in the browser; its moderation rules allow NSFW and erotic roleplay for adults, where Jupi's filters block sexual content; and the subscription covers voice calls and live avatar video, where the Kindroid can see your camera or a shared screen, paid for in audio credits. Designing your own character, a Pro perk on Jupi, is the whole app here: you write each Kindroid's personality, key memories and greeting. Subscribers also get 20 group chats and invite-only Rooms that hold at most 10 people and 11 Kins. Kindroid's privacy policy rules out selling or sharing personal data, and a deletion takes effect 24 hours after you ask. On the US App Store, Standard is $159.99 a year or $15.99 month to month.

What you give up:

The town and a free start. There are no jobs, homes or mini-games and no ready-made residents to walk up to, and free use since October 1, 2026 means 50 messages, once, before a 3-day trial or a plan. The yearly plan costs $10 more than Jupi's $149.99, the Ultra and MAX memory add-ons are monthly extras, and refunds are at Kindroid's discretion.

Nomi AI (8.5/10) publishes its free limits: 2 images and 50 messages a day, with no credit card, no end date and memory included. One account works on the web, iPhone and iPad (iOS 15 or later, so it also suits iPhones that can't install Jupi's iOS 18 build) and Android. Standard's yearly price, $99.99 (about $8.33 a month), is $50 below Jupi's yearly plans and adds unlimited messages, voice calls, ten Nomis and ten group chats. Where Jupi gives no price per feature, Nomipedia lists credit costs: 1 per extra selfie, 6 per SD video, 100 per extra Nomi slot. Text chat is advertised as unfiltered.

What you give up:

Ready-made characters and a game. You build each Nomi from a backstory, images stay clothed on every plan, voice and group chats need Standard, and Nomi has no live video calls. It refunds payments only at its own discretion.

EVA AI comes nearest to Jupi's dating side. It keeps romance non-explicit, as Jupi does (its Terms ban sexually explicit content), and builds a relationship over time: as you chat, each character's mood and relationship status change, and character profiles have Gifts and Mood Boosts tabs. You choose a partner from ready-made female and male characters or design one by gender, age, ethnicity and hair, then text or talk. Unlike Jupi, it is on Google Play as well as the App Store (5M+ Android downloads), and a year of Premium costs $47.99, about $4 a month against Jupi's $12.50.

What you give up:

Jupi's higher score and the town. Our score for EVA AI is 6.7/10, against 7.6 for Jupi. Each romantic message costs 2 Neurons, bought separately (500 for $9.99), gift prices show only in the app, there is no web app, and the iPhone app also needs iOS 18. Its Terms make store purchases final, and EVA's privacy policy lists developing its AI among the uses of your text and voice messages.

Romantic AI (7.6/10, the same score as Jupi) suits people who came to Jupi for its old character catalog. It runs on the web, iPhone (iOS 15.1 or later) and Android, with a tag-searchable catalog of ready-made AI girlfriends, boyfriends and anime characters and a creator in photo-realistic or anime style. An NSFW toggle decides whether adult chat is on, so filtered or not is your choice, and Premium unblurs "spicy" replies. Premium costs $44.99 a year on the US App Store, about $3.75 a month and $105 less than Jupi's yearly plans.

What you give up:

Calls and a clear price for extras. Romantic AI describes text-and-photo chat with no voice or video calls, while Jupi's residents talk back. Hearts pay for photos, audio and gifts, and, much like Jupi with its credits, Romantic AI doesn't say how many each one costs. Subscriptions are final except for errors, age is self-declared, anonymised chat text is used for model training with no opt-out in the terms, and the Android app contains ads.

Replika (7.4/10) keeps a little of Jupi's life-sim feel without the explicit side. You dress an avatar, buy clothes and room items with coins or gems, and talk by text, voice call or video call; phones get an AR mode and Meta Quest a beta app. Text chat is free with no cap stated, and annual plans are $49.99 or $69.99 on the US App Store, about $4.17 to $5.83 a month. It runs on iPhone (iOS 17 or later), Android and the web. On data, Replika says chats sent to outside AI providers are de-identified first and those providers are contractually barred from training on them; messages are kept up to 60 days after an account ends.

What you give up:

Variety. It is one Replika per account, against Jupi's 1,300+ residents. Pro is needed for the romantic relationship status, voice calls and unblurred selfies, the App Store list leaves the tier behind most prices unnamed, and all purchases are final. Its terms bar pornographic content, as Jupi's filters do, and Italy's privacy regulator fined its maker €5 million in 2025.

SpicyChat AI (7.8/10) replaces what the pre-3.0 Jupi advertised: a big catalog of fantasy characters, close to a million of them by SpicyChat's own count, filterable by tag. Your own characters can stay private, be unlisted or go public. For game-like stories, Lorebooks and Rulebooks add keyword-triggered world notes and stats like trust, money or HP, and group scenes hold 2 to 10 characters. The plan table lists unlimited free messages and character creation, and $60 a year removes ads. Adult roleplay is allowed under written rules that ban minors, real people and non-consent.

What you give up:

An iPhone app. Apple removed SpicyChat's iOS app in August 2025, so on iPhone you use the website, which can be added to the home screen; Android gets an APK from spicychat.ai, not Google Play. There are no voice calls, text-to-speech needs the $29.95-a-month tier, the free plan keeps a 4K context, fees can't be refunded after your first login, and the terms allow operators to read messages. In some regions NSFW stays locked until an age check.

At 9.1/10, SweetDream AI carries the top overall score in our ratings. It keeps two things Jupi players use, calls and gifts, and lifts the filter: its terms allow adult content. Premium adds AI phone calls, in the browser or to your own number, and video calls with SweetDream's featured characters, paid for in tokens; the site also has virtual gifts and XP rewards. Unlike Jupi's credits, the main actions have published token prices: an image costs 8, a video 80 and a voice message 3, with 400 tokens a month included in Premium. You can design a character's looks, voice and personality for 50 tokens, and it runs in any browser, Android phones included.

What you give up:

Price and an app. Premium's last listed weekly price, $12.99, comes to about $56.29 a month (Jupi's weekly plan is about $43.29), and the yearly plan was $179, $29.01 more than Jupi's, though SweetDream has shown different price lists during 2026. It has no store app on either platform, video calls are limited to featured characters, age is self-declared, and a payment is refunded in full only if 10% or less of its tokens were used.