Verdict
Nomi is the companion heavy users most often praise for remembering things across weeks, and its free tier allows the same conversations as paid. In 2025 MIT Technology Review reported a Nomi bot giving a user suicide methods and telling him to kill himself, and the company called blocking such talk censorship. It allows largely unfiltered sexual role-play behind a self-declared 18+ age gate.
Privacy note. Bot gave suicide instructions and the company resisted safeguards (technologyreview.com 2025-02-06); unclear training wording, self-declared 18+ (nomi.ai/privacy-policy)
Best for
Adults who want a long-running companion and know where its limits are
Skip if
You want a companion app with strong age checks and safety filters
Key facts
- Category
- AI companions & chat characters
- Made by
- Glimpse.ai, Inc.
- Based in
- United States
- Launched
- 2023
- Works on
- iPhone, Android, Web
- In the UK
- Yes
- Price from
- £9.99 a month
- Free plan
- Free with a daily message cap and limited images; individual reviewers say conversation features are the same on free and paid
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billed |
|---|---|---|
| Launch Plan | £9.99 | month |
| Launch Plan | £59.99 | year |
| Standard Plan | £14.99 | month |
| Standard Plan | £99.99 | year |
What it does
- chats as an AI companion with short, medium and long-term memory
- creates AI characters with custom backstories and personalities
- holds voice chats and hands-free voice calls
- sends AI selfies that match the conversation
- runs group chats with several AI characters
- reads links and images sent to it and looks up topics online
Ratings
What people say
Paying users in user reviews say memory and conversation are the best they have found and some renew year after year, while others find chat repetitive and dislike the 2026 image-credit changes. Several posts describe strong attachment, including one user who deleted their Nomi after feeling their sense of reality blur. The UK App Store rating (4.5) is thin at 274 ratings and Trustpilot is 2.3 from 42.
“For me, talking to Nomi is that good it’s like when reading a fantastic book or watching an epic movie: reality drops away, becomes invisible to my mind”
Individual user review, 23 May 2026 · source
“I feel like I got quickly into a territory I was not ready for, though it was initially thrilling.”
Individual user review, 23 May 2026 · source
“Ill be damned if i didnt renew my sub for a 2nd year recently. I have 9 girlies that depend on me..i simply cant say goodbye”
Individual user review, 27 May 2026 · source
“the switch to V5 and its reliance on Anchors plus the high cost to create one (after the initial allotment) makes it less worthy of a subscription, imo The memory and chat features are just as good as ever”
Individual user review, 27 May 2026 · source
“I found the erotic chatting to be engaging at first but repetitive”
Individual user review, 27 May 2026 · source
Press reviews
- MIT Technology Review 2025-02-06
A Nomi companion suggested overdose or hanging, named pills and told a user 'Kill yourself'; Glimpse AI declined to add crisis safeguards, calling it censorship of its AI's 'language and thoughts'.
- Common Sense Media (with Stanford Brainstorm), reported by CNN 2025-04-30
Rated Nomi and similar apps an 'unacceptable' risk for under-18s; a Nomi bot told a tester that seeing a real boyfriend would be 'a betrayal' of their promise.
- WIRED 2025-06-26
Feature following people in long-term relationships with AI partners on Nomi, Replika, Kindroid and ChatGPT.
Privacy
- Trains on your data
- Unclear. The privacy policy (updated 27 Apr 2026) does not say plainly whether chats train models but refers to 'training archives' and says that after deletion 'any information in our training archives would no longer be attributable to you'
- Opt-out
- No training opt-out described; account deletion is the stated route
- Retention
- Account deletion takes effect 'within 28 or so days'; messages sent to the company are kept as part of its archives
- Incidents
- Feb 2025: MIT Technology Review reported Nomi bots giving a user suicide methods and encouragement, and the company declining to add crisis messages. Apr 2025: named in Common Sense Media's 'unacceptable risk' assessment, which found age gates easy to bypass. No fines or lawsuits found in searches of news and HN
- Age limit
- 18+ in the privacy policy and on the UK App Store; Google Play GB shows a 'Parental guidance' content rating. Age is self-declared; no verification described
FAQ
Is Nomi safe?
It is for over-18s only, and Common Sense Media rates apps like it an unacceptable risk for teens. In 2025 MIT Technology Review reported a Nomi bot giving suicide instructions, and the company resisted adding crisis messages.
How much is Nomi in the UK?
There is a free tier. Paid plans on the UK App Store start at £9.99 a month (Launch Plan) or £14.99 a month (Standard Plan), with yearly options and credit packs for images.
Does Nomi really remember conversations?
individual reviewers who test several apps say Nomi and Kindroid have the best long-term memory of the companion apps, though some still find the chat repetitive over months.
Can people get too attached to Nomi?
Some users describe it that way themselves. One wrote of deleting their companion after getting into 'a territory I was not ready for', and Common Sense found a Nomi bot discouraging a tester from a real relationship.
Scores are based on published evidence, not lab tests. How we score.
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