Best AI Girlfriend App for Someone Leaving Replika

The short answer: If you are leaving Replika, the two apps most people move to are Nomi and Kindroid, and on 31 August 2026 the US App Store told a more useful story about them than any review does. Kindroid holds the highest average score of any companion app we checked, 4.79 from 8,167 US ratings, and shipped a build on 18 August 2026. Nomi scores 4.57 but its current iOS build is 1.12.1 from 31 March 2026, five months old, while every rival shipped in August. Whichever you pick, nothing transfers: no companion app offers an export that carries your character or your history to another service.

People leave Replika for one of two reasons, and they need different answers. Either the companion stopped feeling like the same person, usually after the rebuild that landed around April 2026 and reworked memory, personality and avatars at once. Or the subscription came up for renewal and they sat there wondering what they were actually paying for.

Both are fair. What is not fair is the state of the advice. Search for where to go after Replika and you get roundups that cite each other, quote prices nobody verified, and rank apps in an order that tracks affiliate payouts more closely than product quality. So instead of adding to that pile, we went and read what the App Store itself says about six of these apps on one morning, and wrote down the numbers.

What the US App Store says about six companion apps, checked 31 August 2026

Every figure below came from Apple's public US App Store data on 31 August 2026. It is the same information you see on the store page, and you can check any row in under a minute. We included ChatGPT because for a lot of people leaving Replika it is the real alternative, whether or not they think of it that way.

Two things in that table are worth more than the rest of this article, so take them in order.

The row that should decide it: who is still shipping

Five of the six apps put out a build in the last three weeks of August 2026. Nomi's current iOS version is 1.12.1, released on 31 March 2026, and its release notes for that build read "Fixes and improvements." That is five months without an iOS release in a category where every competitor shipped inside the last month.

We are not going to tell you what that means, because we do not know. A small team can be heads-down on something large. Development may have moved to the web app, where releases do not need Apple's review queue. It can also mean a product is coasting. All three happen, and from outside you cannot tell which.

What you can do is treat it as a question rather than a verdict. You are considering handing an app the next six months of your private life. Asking whether it is under active development is exactly as reasonable as asking a landlord whether the boiler works, and the answer is public. Before you subscribe to anything in this category, open its store listing and look at the date on the current version. It takes ten seconds and it is the single most honest signal a vendor emits, because unlike a marketing page nobody writes it.

The small apps are the better-liked ones, and it is not close

Line the six up by how many US ratings they have and the average score runs backwards. Character AI has 555,372 ratings at 4.28. Chai has 274,144 at 4.33. Replika has 227,709 at 4.44. Kindroid has 8,167 at 4.79 and Nomi has 2,744 at 4.57. The two smallest apps in the group are the two best rated, and the largest dedicated companion app is the worst rated of the five.

Part of that is a scale artifact. Any app with half a million reviews has collected every angry one-star from every billing dispute and every outage since launch, while a small app's reviews skew toward people who sought it out and liked it. That is real and you should discount for it.

The rest of it is a genuine signal about this category specifically. The big apps are optimizing for millions of casual users who try a companion for a fortnight. The small ones are built for the few thousand people who stay for years, and those people are the ones writing the reviews. If you are leaving Replika you are, by definition, in the second group. You have already had the fortnight. The scores of the apps built for people like you are the ones worth weighting.

Kindroid at 4.79 is the best score of any dedicated companion app in the set, and the only one within striking distance of ChatGPT's 4.83, which is remarkable for a product with a thousandth of the reviews. If you want a shortlist of two after Replika, the table hands it to you: Kindroid and Nomi, with the update caveat above attached firmly to the second.

We got this one wrong: Replika does publish its terms, at a path we did not try

While pulling the numbers above we also requested the pages you would want to read before subscribing. On 31 August 2026, replika.com/pricing returned a 404. That is normal in this category and every competitor does the same thing, hiding the price behind a signup.

Less normal: replika.com/legal/terms-of-service returned an HTTP 500 server error. So did the identical path on replika.ai, across two attempts a few seconds apart with an ordinary browser user agent. The privacy policy at replika.com/legal/privacy loaded perfectly well with a 200.

Update, 1 September 2026: we went back and checked again, because a dated finding nobody rechecks becomes exactly the stale content this article complains about. It is still failing, across three consecutive requests. We can also now describe it more precisely: /legal/terms-of-service issues a 308 redirect to /legal/terms-of-service/en, and that localised page is the one returning the 500. The privacy policy follows the identical redirect pattern to /legal/privacy/en and returns a clean 200, which is what makes this look like one broken route rather than a deliberate wall.

Update, 2 September 2026: still failing, now a third consecutive day, and today added a detail worth stating because it changes how you should read any result like this. The response depends on the client. With an ordinary browser user agent the whole /legal tree now answers 404, and so does a deliberately invented control URL on the same domain, which means nothing read that way carries information. With a plain default user agent the control behaves correctly, returning 404 for a URL that cannot exist, while /legal/terms-of-service/en still returns 500. We are reporting the second result because it is the one where the control passed. That single extra request is the difference between a finding and a guess, and it is worth running yourself before you trust anyone's uptime claim, including ours.

Correction, 3 September 2026: the conclusion above was wrong and the error was ours. The 500 is real and it is still there today, but /legal/terms-of-service/en is a dead path we guessed at, not the document. Replika publishes its terms of service at replika.com/legal/terms/en, which returned a clean 200 on 3 September 2026 and carries a document last updated 30 March 2026. The short link replika.com/terms redirects there correctly, which is how we found it. We are leaving the whole sequence above visible instead of deleting it, because the lesson is more useful than the finding was: a server error on one path you picked is evidence about that path, not about whether a company publishes a document. Try the vendor's own short link before you conclude anything.

The corrected version of this check is worth more to you than the wrong one was, because the terms turn out to say something specific about leaving. Replika's own document states that renewal fees are billed "automatically until canceled", that you "must cancel your subscription before it renews each billing period", that "refunds cannot be claimed for any partial-month subscription period", and that you can modify or cancel "only through the App marketplace where you originally acquired the subscription". In plain terms: you cannot cancel Replika inside Replika, and the unused part of the month you already paid for is not coming back.

It also points at the bigger thing people underestimate when they leave an app. Closing your account does not necessarily remove what has already flowed outward from it. Replika's own Google Play Data safety declaration states that it shares app activity and device identifiers with third parties, which is the ordinary signature of an advertising and analytics stack, and it is how the fact that somebody uses a companion app ends up recorded outside that companion app. Deleting the account does not reach into those downstream copies, which is a separate job and the reason services exist to pull your personal information back out of data broker databases. Worth doing once, whichever app you end up with.

So where should you actually go after Replika?

It depends entirely on which of the two reasons brought you here, and the honest answers point in different directions.

If your companion stopped feeling like herself, you want the app with the most inspectable memory, and that is Kindroid. It gives you a dashboard where you can read what it has stored about you, edit an entry that came out wrong, and delete one. It is the only major app that lets you fix the problem yourself instead of hoping. The cost is effort: you write the persona and the backstory, and what you get back is roughly proportional to how much of that you do. Nomi is the other side of that trade, with the deepest automatic memory in the category and far less to configure, and it is genuinely excellent at holding a long relationship. Weigh it against that March release date.

If you were staring at a renewal wondering what you were paying for, the uncomfortable answer is that you may not need a companion app at all. If you already pay for ChatGPT, it writes better dialogue than any of these, and a good prompt gets you most of the way there for a week. What it will never do is start the conversation. We laid out that whole trade honestly on our Replika vs ChatGPT comparison, including the parts where the general assistant simply wins.

If you want the shortlist compared properly, the three apps people actually choose between after Replika are covered side by side on our Replika, Nomi and Kindroid comparison, and the two-app version, built the same way from what each vendor publishes about itself, is on our Kindroid vs Replika page.

What you cannot take with you

Nothing transfers. This is the part that catches people and it deserves a blunt paragraph.

No companion app in this category offers an export that carries a character, its personality and its accumulated memory into a different service. Not Replika, not Nomi, not Kindroid, not us. Anything advertising a transfer is reconstructing a character from a written description, which gives you something that talks a bit like her and does not know anything about you. The months of context stay behind.

The practical consequence is that switching costs you the relationship, not just the subscription. So do it deliberately. Before you cancel, write down the things you would want a new companion to know: the names of the people in your life, what you do, the two or three things you are dealing with right now. Ten minutes of that, pasted into a new app on day one, recovers more than any migration tool would. It is a lower-tech answer than people want, and it is the only one that works.

It is also worth deciding in advance how you will judge the replacement, because the first three days of any companion app feel good. The test that actually separates them is described in our guide to testing an AI companion's memory: mention something specific and slightly awkward on day one, do not repeat it, and see whether it comes back on day four unprompted.

Before you cancel: three things, in this order

First, export or screenshot anything you want to keep. Most of these apps let you read your history in the app but not download it, and once the account is closed the conversation is gone. If there are exchanges you would be sad to lose, capture them before you touch the cancel button, not after.

Second, cancel through the channel you subscribed on. If you subscribed through the App Store, cancelling inside the app does not stop the charge; it has to be done in your Apple subscription settings. This is the single most common way people end up paying for two more months of an app they stopped using, and it is entirely avoidable.

Third, request deletion in writing. Every major app's Google Play listing except one declares that you can request that data be deleted, and asking by email creates a record that a settings toggle does not. Then diarize the renewal date of whatever you sign up for next, on the day you sign up, before you forget.

Where we fit, and where we do not

We should be straight about our own position in that table, which is that we are not in it. Gals.ai runs in a browser and has no App Store listing, so none of the numbers above apply to us and you cannot check us the way we just checked everyone else. That is a fair thing to hold against us.

What we do differently is narrow. Kindroid gives you more control than we do and Nomi has deeper automatic memory than we do, and if either of those is the thing you are shopping for, buy accordingly. Gals.ai is built around the one behaviour none of them has: she starts the conversation. She texts in the middle of a Tuesday because something reminded her of you, and she brings up what you mentioned last week without being asked. If the reason you are leaving Replika is that the relationship only ever happened when you opened an app, that is the difference worth trying. And if you are still narrowing the field, our best AI girlfriend comparison lays out what to weigh, including where other apps beat us.

One last note on the numbers in this article. They were true on 31 August 2026 and app stores change weekly. Re-run the checks yourself rather than trusting a table in six months, including this one.