Replika vs myVirtual.love: NSFW, Pricing, Characters and Memory

Replika and myVirtual.love come up in the same search, but they are not the same shape of product. Replika is the category's biggest name, with more than 42 million users by its own count. It is built around emotional support, one persistent AI you shape over years, a 3D avatar and a mainstream brand. myVirtual.love is a newer EU-based platform built around uncensored intimate companionship, with a pick-or-create roster of anime and realistic characters plus images of your character as a first-class feature.

Ask which is better and the honest answer is that they do different jobs. Ask which is right for you and the answer depends on which of those jobs you want the product to do.

Most of the difference comes from what Replika removed from new accounts in February 2023 and never fully restored.

The short version if you only read one section

If you want a mainstream emotional-support companion, one persistent character you build across years, video calls with an avatar, a VR app and a brand your friends have heard of, Replika is closer to what you want. If you want uncensored intimate companionship, a roster of women, men and trans characters you can swap or create, 18+ photos without a blur filter and a modern EU product without a €5 million GDPR fine on its record, myVirtual.love is closer to what you want.

Pricing: two different shapes of subscription

Replika does not publish prices on its website. The numbers appear on the app's subscription screen and vary by region. The US App Store listing shows subscriptions at $7.99 and $14.99 a month, $49.99 and $69.99 a year and Replika Platinum at $89.99, without saying which plan is which. Gems for the in-app store are sold separately, from $0.99 to $19.99.

myVirtual.love publishes its prices on the /premium page, in euros for European visitors and in local currency elsewhere. Premium is €9.90/month on monthly billing or €2.99/month billed annually (€35.88/year in total). On monthly billing it includes 400 chat messages and 100 hearts a month; annual billing gives 150 messages and 150 hearts a month. The higher Maxxx tier is €24.90/month on monthly billing or €7.49/month billed annually (€89.88/year in total). It carries 1,200 messages and 200 hearts a month on monthly billing, or 400 messages and 300 hearts on annual billing, plus group chat, personas and improved memory recall.

For the money you get uncensored chat, 18+ photos in any pose, voice calls with your companion and the hearts that pay for them. Hearts never expire. A photo in chat costs 5 hearts; a call costs 5 hearts a minute.

At the entry level myVirtual.love's annual plan costs less than the cheapest yearly subscription on Replika's App Store listing (€35.88 against $49.99).

Replika layers a cosmetic microtransaction economy on top of the subscription. Coins earned in the app, plus gems bought in packs, are needed for room decor, clothing, personality traits and rarer avatar items, even for paying subscribers. myVirtual.love does not do this. Hearts on myVirtual.love are metered spending on images and voice calls; there is no separate cosmetic-currency loop.

Replika's free tier is friend mode: the Help Center puts romantic partner and the other statuses behind Replika Pro. myVirtual.love's free tier gives 5 chat messages a day, 3 scenes a day and up to 3 characters of your own without a card. Some accounts are also offered a free trial of the monthly plan (terms).

The NSFW situation, honestly

In February 2023 Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, ordered Replika to stop processing Italian users' data, citing missing age verification and GDPR concerns. Luka Inc, Replika's operator, responded by removing erotic roleplay for all users worldwide. After weeks of user protest, Luka restored it in March 2023, but only for accounts created before 1 February 2023, through older versions of the model those users can switch back to (Reuters via ThePrint). Accounts created after that date have never had erotic roleplay on Replika.

The Garante followed up with a €5 million fine, announced in May 2025, for processing data without a legal basis and for age checks it still found deficient (EDPB). It also opened a separate inquiry into how Replika's model was trained.

Today Replika sells itself as "the AI friend to do life with" on its homepage. Neither the site nor its App Store description mentions anything explicit. The app is rated 18+, yet explicit content is not part of what it markets on any tier. Anyone shopping for NSFW cannot count on Replika for it.

myVirtual.love takes the opposite position. NSFW chat, 18+ photos in any pose and uncensored intimate roleplay are first-class features, documented on the site and marketed as the product. Adult content opens after an age check by a third-party provider, as our terms set out. There is no version-history requirement and no legacy-account restriction.

If uncensored is what you actually want, Replika does not currently deliver it and has not for over three years. myVirtual.love does.

Luka also runs a separate product called Blush, launched in June 2023: a dating simulator with more than 1,000 AI characters (TechCrunch). It uses dating-app mechanics rather than open companion chat and is not marketed alongside Replika.

Character system: one persistent AI vs pick-or-create

Replika is one persistent AI you build over time. You cannot swap her. There is no roster. You create a single Replika at signup and shape her through conversation, levelling up and cosmetic purchases from the in-app coin and gem store. The whole Replika thesis is that the companion becomes uniquely yours through your shared history, not through the initial setup.

myVirtual.love is pick-or-create. You can pick from 245 ready-made characters, all viewable without an account: realistic women on the homepage, anime women at /ai-anime, men at /ai-boyfriend and trans women at /ai-trans. Or you build your own on /create, as a woman, a man or a trans woman.

The Create wizard asks for style (realistic or anime), ethnicity, age from 18 to 60, hair, eyes, body and up to 300 characters of details every picture should show, such as freckles or a tattoo. Then come the cards that decide who she is: Personality (nine archetypes from Sweet & Caring to Dominant & Commanding, or your own), Relationship (girlfriend, wife, colleague, neighbour and more), Occupation, up to six Kinks and her Voice. An anime build gets its own steps, with species such as catgirl, elf or vampire and anime personalities such as tsundere and kuudere.

Which architecture is right depends on what you want from a companion. If you want deep long-term continuity with one specific character you have shaped over years, Replika's model is closer. If you want the freedom to swap characters, run several, pick anime or realistic and match a look precisely, myVirtual.love's model is closer.

Anime, realistic and images

Replika has one visual style, its own rendered avatar, with no anime option. Its images are of that avatar in a scene rather than free-form pictures of a character.

myVirtual.love has anime and realistic as two first-class categories. Art style is the first choice on the Create screen. A picture comes back in the style you created her in: an anime companion produces anime images, a realistic companion produces realistic ones. In a chat you tap Ask Photo and she sends a new picture for 5 hearts, so Premium Monthly's 100 hearts buy 20 photos a month and Premium Yearly's 150 buy 30. The Studio renders her in the outfit, pose and place you choose for 5 hearts, or 8 at the highest quality. 18+ images in any pose are a documented feature of the paid plans.

Replika generates images of your avatar. myVirtual.love generates images of your character.

Voice and video

Both platforms have voice calls. myVirtual.love's come with Premium and Maxxx, cost 5 hearts a minute and use the voice you picked at Create.

Video is where Replika still has a moat. Replika offers video calls with your avatar on screen. Its App Store description also invites you to share what you see on video. A VR app, Replika - AI Friend, runs on Meta Quest headsets.

myVirtual.love has no video calls or VR. It has animated profile photos plus short films with its companions, about a minute each. Every film ends on a line from her and three replies to choose from. Your reply starts the chat. If a live video call or a presence in a headset is what you want, Replika is where that lives today.

Memory and long-term stability

Replika describes its current version, Replika 2.0, as the first full rebuild of the platform in its history, with a rebuilt memory architecture, real-time video calls and lifelike 3D avatars (Replika). Long-time users on r/Replika have reported mixed results after the switch, including memories that went missing.

myVirtual.love states its memory in numbers. She keeps 20 facts in mind on Free and Premium and 40 on Maxxx. You can open View Memories on her profile, pin the facts that matter most and correct the story so far. On Maxxx, separate chats with the same character can share one memory. Premium also lets you tell her about you once: a name and a line about yourself that she keeps in every chat.

The bigger issue is product volatility. Since February 2023, long-time Replika users have been through what the community calls "the lobotomy" (the erotic roleplay removal), the €5 million GDPR fine, a January 2025 complaint to the FTC from the Tech Justice Law Project, the Young People's Alliance and Encode accusing Replika of deceptive marketing (Tech Justice Law Project), a change of CEO (founder Eugenia Kuyda handed the role to Dmytro Klochko in 2025) and the 2.0 rebuild.

myVirtual.love does not have a comparable public body of complaints, partly because the platform is newer and its user base is smaller. Long-term memory quality on either platform is worth testing for yourself before you commit to an annual plan.

Which one should you pick

The honest split, by what the reader wants:

Pick Replika if you want:

• One persistent AI you build over years, with a continuity that a swappable roster cannot deliver
• The mainstream emotional-support product, with a community of tens of millions and social recognition
• Video calls with your avatar on screen and a VR app on Meta Quest
• The friend, mentor, sibling or spouse relationship modes as first-class product features
• A product that does not need NSFW to do its job for you (emotional support, journaling, conversation practice)

Pick myVirtual.love if you want:

• Uncensored intimate companionship, with NSFW chat and 18+ photos as first-class features
• A roster of 245 women, men and trans characters, or your own built on a structured Create screen
• Anime and realistic as first-class categories, with images generated in the style you picked
• Short films and animated photos of the companions, with no cosmetic microtransaction treadmill on top
• A modern EU product without a €5 million regulatory fine or an FTC complaint on its record

If what you actually wanted was what Replika offered before February 2023 and you have not been able to find it on Replika since, myVirtual.love is designed for that use in a way Replika structurally no longer is. If you came for one AI friend that grows with you over years and nothing explicit, stay with Replika.

Does Replika allow NSFW in 2026?

Not for new accounts. Erotic roleplay was removed in February 2023 and came back only for accounts created before 1 February 2023. Replika markets itself as an AI friend, with romance limited to a romantic partner status on its paid plans.

How much does Replika Pro cost?

Replika does not publish prices on its website. Its US App Store listing shows subscriptions at $7.99 and $14.99 a month and $49.99 and $69.99 a year, plus Replika Platinum at $89.99. Prices vary by region.

Is there a Replika alternative with NSFW?

Yes. myVirtual.love has uncensored chat and 18+ photos on its paid plans, with anime and realistic characters you can pick or create. Premium costs €9.90 a month or €35.88 a year.

Does Replika remember conversations?

Yes, Replika keeps a memory and rebuilt it for Replika 2.0, though some long-time users reported lost memories after the switch. myVirtual.love keeps 20 facts in mind on Free and Premium and 40 on Maxxx. You can view, pin and correct them.