Tested, scored, and told straight
Most tools aren't worth your evening.
We pay for the subscription, use it for days, and publish the score. Read the verdict in five seconds or the whole teardown in twenty minutes.
Product verdicts
Score out of 5, what it actually costs, and who it's for.
Eudaio
Best for people who want visible relationship progression, inspectable memory, and companions with their own activity states.
Nomi AI
It builds a better file on you than anything else in this wave, and then it does not read it.
Candy AI
The characters are among the best written we have tested and the money behaviour is among the worst we have scored.
Janitor AI
A free tier that ships unlimited explicit text, generation controls and bring-your-own-model at no cost, attached to a $12.99 upgrade that measurably does not do what it says.
Method
We pay, we use it, then we score it.
Paid subscriptions on our own money. No press access, no vendor demos.
Same weighted categories every time, so a 4.0 means the same thing twice.
Every review says what broke and where the score lost points.
Insights
Context the product pages can't hold.
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