PolyBuzz (formerly Poly.AI) Alternatives: 7 iPhone & NSFW Picks (2026)

SpicyChat AI (7.8/10) is built like PolyBuzz: a public catalogue of user-built characters, which SpicyChat numbers at almost a million, browsable by tag, plus a creator for your own bots, which can stay private, unlisted or public. SpicyChat's plan table puts no cap on free messages or character creation. The Get A Taste tier ($5.95 monthly, $60 yearly) drops the ads and adds a Memory Manager for hand-written, pinnable memories of up to 250 characters each. Where PolyBuzz bans sexual content, SpicyChat permits adult roleplay, with written bans on minors, real people and non-consensual scenarios. Scenes can hold 2 to 10 characters, and Lorebooks (keyword-triggered world notes) and Director Mode (out-of-story instructions) help steer long stories.

What you give up:

A store app on iPhone, here too. Apple removed SpicyChat from the App Store in August 2025; iPhone owners now open spicychat.ai in Safari or save it to the home screen, and Android users install an APK downloaded from spicychat.ai, since it isn't on Google Play. The free and $5.95 tiers share a 4,096-token context, which SpicyChat puts at roughly 20 recent messages, and automatic Semantic Memory starts at $19.95 a month. There are no voice calls. SpicyChat's refund policy rules out refunds once the login has been used, and where local age-check laws apply (the UK and 26 US states among them), NSFW stays off until an outside provider confirms you are an adult.

Kindroid (8.6/10) has native iPhone and Android apps plus a web version, which covers the gap PolyBuzz left on iPhone. Its moderation guidelines explicitly permit NSFW content and erotic roleplay for adults; paying verifies age, and flagged free accounts go through Yoti. Memory comes in layers: long-term memory that consolidates past chats automatically, Cascaded Memory, Learned Context notes you can edit, and journal entries recalled by keyphrase. The standard subscription includes all of them and is listed on the US App Store at $15.99 monthly or $159.99 yearly (about $13.33 a month), while PolyBuzz charges $29.90 a month for Ultimate, its only tier with Permanent Memory. Subscribers also get voice calls, live avatar video calls, 20 group chats and a choice of models led by Polaris.

What you give up:

An ongoing free plan and a ready-made catalogue. Kindroid retired its free Lite tier on October 1, 2026: a new account's free use is a single preview of 50 messages (15 in some regions), after which only the 3-day trial or a subscription keeps it going. You write each Kindroid yourself (name, avatar, personality, greeting), with AI drafting as a shortcut, instead of choosing from a public library like PolyBuzz's. Refunds are at Kindroid's discretion, and web prices show only at checkout.

Nomi AI (8.5/10) is the pick for a free plan that doesn't end: Nomi publishes the limit (50 messages and 2 images a day), asks for no card and includes memory, on iPhone and iPad, Android and the web under one account. Recall is built in layers (short-, medium- and long-term), and Mind Map 2.0 turns what a Nomi has linked together into a graph and a searchable table that you can edit. Paying means Standard: $99.99 for a year (roughly $8.33 a month, within a dollar of PolyBuzz Basic's $99 yearly price) or $15.99 month to month; it removes the message cap and adds voice calls, group chats and room for up to 10 Nomis.

What you give up:

A browsable character library and explicit images. Nomi has no public catalogue of ready-made bots; every companion starts from a backstory you write. Nomi markets its text chat as unfiltered, yet bans nude images on every plan. Free messages max out at 400 characters, voice and group chats are Standard-only, and Nomi refunds only at its own discretion.

AI Peeps (9.0/10) suits PolyBuzz creators who already keep character cards. It reads cards from Character.AI, SillyTavern, Chub, JanitorAI and RisuAI, can bring chat history across as well, and counts more than 100,000 community characters by its own figures. Any paid plan removes the per-message cost, beginning with Peep Chat ($8.99 a month; $7.49 a month if billed yearly). Free accounts can use adult roleplay too. Media has a published price list in PeepCoins, 10 per image and 40 or more per video clip, and AI Peeps says failed generations cost nothing. Voice messages and live voice chat are included, and paid plans add group chats with several Peeps.

What you give up:

Phone apps and one predictable bill. AI Peeps is a browser platform (installable as a web app) with no App Store or Google Play chat app, so it can't stand in for PolyBuzz's Android app. The free daily message allowance is unpublished and shrinks to 10 for people who hit it several days running, subscription coins reset each month, only Peep Pro ($29.99 a month) lets you edit memories, and refunds are judged case by case.

Romantic AI (7.6/10) fits PolyBuzz users who picked characters rather than wrote them and want an app from the store. Its catalogue of pre-made girlfriend, boyfriend and anime characters can be filtered by tag, and a character builder offers photo-realistic or anime looks; it runs in the browser and as iPhone and Android apps. Adult chat is controlled by an NSFW on/off switch, with "spicy" replies unblurred on Premium. The US App Store lists Premium at $14.99 monthly or $44.99 yearly; the yearly plan is about $3.75 a month, less than half of PolyBuzz Basic's $99 year.

What you give up:

Calls, a large creator community and clear prices for extras. Romantic AI's terms and app listings mention no voice or video calls, and our Community score for Romantic AI is 5.5, against PolyBuzz's 7.5. Hearts, a second currency, pay for photos, audio clips and gifts at rates Romantic AI doesn't publish. Subscriptions are final unless there was an error or technical fault, the Android app contains ads, and anonymised chats feed its model training.

SweetDream AI (9.1/10) leads our overall ratings and answers PolyBuzz's two weakest categories: our image and video scores are 9.0 and 9.5 for SweetDream, 4.0 and 4.0 for PolyBuzz. SweetDream lists a token price for each action in advance: 8 tokens for an image, 80 for a video, 3 for a voice message. Premium comes with 400 tokens a month and unlocks live AI phone calls and video calls, the latter with featured characters only. Premium members can also design a character's looks, voice and personality, anime styles included, and SweetDream's terms allow adult content.

What you give up:

Low prices and store apps. On the list recorded on October 10, 2026, weekly Premium billing costs $12.99 (about $56.29 a month), the 3-month plan $79 and the yearly plan $179 (about $14.92 a month); SweetDream has used several price lists in 2026, so the checkout figure is the one that counts. It runs only in the browser. Without Premium you're limited to a daily message allowance and SweetDream's ready-made characters, video calls are limited to featured characters, and a full refund is guaranteed only if 10% or less of a payment's tokens were used.

Replika (7.4/10) is for PolyBuzz users who never wanted adult content and do want a native iPhone app; it has been on the App Store since 2017, with Android, web and Meta Quest (beta) versions too. Texting your one companion costs nothing, and Replika states no message cap. Paid plans on the US App Store begin at $7.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly, which works out to about $4.17 a month. What your Replika remembers sits in a Memory tab, where entries can be viewed, added and deleted, and Pro unlocks voice calls, the romantic relationship status and image generation.

What you give up:

Variety and adult roleplay. You get a single companion per account and no character library to browse, and the terms prohibit obscene or pornographic content. The App Store listing doesn't say which tier each price buys, every purchase is final, and Italy's data-protection authority fined Replika's maker, Luka, €5 million in 2025.