AI girlfriend safety guides

Safety questions about AI girlfriend apps come down to a short list: who the app is for, what it collects, how long it keeps messages, whether you can delete and export, and what the policy says about training and providers. Those answers change over time, so every guide states the policy it read and the date it was checked.

Start with the checklist

The Are AI Girlfriends Safe? checklist covers the questions to ask before subscribing and how to verify an app’s claims without taking a policy at face value.

App-by-app safety guides

Each guide below reviews a single app’s age policy, data collection, retention, deletion and export options, and moderation language. Riho publishes these guides and is transparent about that interest. Guides separate policy language from verified behavior and flag anything that is unknown. The line after each link is the short verdict from that guide, and the guide itself has the policy dates and sources.

• Is Replika safe? It is 18+ and unusually specific about retention, with messages processed for up to 60 days after you leave, but no export flow is documented.
• Is Nomi safe? It is 18+ and promises deletion within about 28 days, but sign-in requires a Google or Apple account and its policy leaves training use unclear.
• Is Kindroid safe? It is 18+ and has the clearest feature documentation of the group, but its legal page dates from June 2024 and shared content may not be fully deletable.
• Is Candy AI safe? It is an adults-only service, and its privacy notice says outside AI providers may receive your messages and de-identified chats may train its models, so keep identifying details out of the chat.
• Is Character AI safe? It depends on your age band and what you share, and the company’s October 2026 Chapter 11 sale adds a question about who ends up with your data.
• Is Anima safe? It is as safe as its current legal pages, which include a privacy policy and an underage policy, but retention, training and age checks could not be verified.
• Is DreamGF safe? It is a GDPR-documented service for adults with erasure and portability rights, though its homepage claims about encryption could not be verified.
• Is HeraHaven safe? It is a real 18+ service that is fine to test with a nickname, but its privacy policy allows chat data to be kept for five years after you erase your account.
• Is Nastia safe? It is 18+, but its privacy notice dates from January 2023 and says little about how long chats are kept or whether they train models.
• Is Janitor AI safe? It is an 18+ platform whose September 2026 privacy policy sets no retention period and doesn’t say whether chats train models, and its age checks apply only in Australia, Brazil and the UK.
• Is Talkie safe? Its terms set a minimum age of 14 while the App Store shows 18+, its terms say content is not pre-screened, and its export page lists account details and no chats.

What Riho does

Riho is an iPhone girlfriend app for adults. The privacy page explains what the website forms collect and how the iPhone app handles your data, and in the app you can read what she remembers about you.