Companion AI apps in Canada: everyday conversation and costs

Nomi is built around companions whose fictional background can grow over time. Backstories, shared notes and Mind Maps give you dedicated places to shape that background, so you don't have to keep restating it in chat. That suits someone who likes coming back to a familiar character. These are features, not proof of flawless recall or of any particular emotional understanding. A small invented scenario is enough to try the format without turning the account into a personal archive.

Free accounts get 50 messages a day, with each input capped at 400 characters. Standard raises the input limit to 800 characters and allows up to 10 companions and 10 group chats. Calls need paid access. So a brief written check-in sits on one side, and group stories or voice routines on the other. If you mostly want to talk with one recurring persona, there's no reason to pay for extra characters just because the slots exist.

The Canadian iOS listing shows Standard Plan Yearly at CA$129.99 and the quarterly term at CA$49.99. A CA$19.99 Standard Plan entry appears with no interval printed, so don't assume it is a monthly price. Credits are a separate, optional purchase: 100 credits cost CA$12.99 in that storefront. You need an active subscription to buy them, they don't expire, and they are used after any daily allowance runs out. Try the included features first, then decide whether extras add anything you want.

Under the policy, deleting the account removes personal information in about 28 days, with stated exceptions. Nomi also says plainly that chats are not end-to-end encrypted. However reassuring the dialogue sounds, keep confidential work or family information out of the fictional background. If you cancel, the subscription stays active until the term ends, and downgrading to free makes voice features read-only. The Nomi account and plan review explains how these controls fit together.

Replika puts a stable avatar at the centre of the conversation. Free access includes chat and avatar customization. Pro adds activities, voice messages, calls and relationship-status options. It may appeal to someone who would rather return to a familiar interface than browse a large community catalogue. The feature list describes ways to interact. It does not show that the character will understand a particular concern or respond the same way every time.

The tiers above Pro differ in real ways. Ultra adds self-reflection features and lets you save messages to memory, along with claimed conversation improvements. Platinum has its own allowances, including 100 Training Mode uses and 50 Read Mind uses per week. Those weekly counts are entitlements, not measures of psychological insight. Pick a tier for an activity you expect to use. A higher plan name is not evidence of a more caring or dependable companion.

The Canadian storefront lists an Annual ULTRA item at CA$114.99, among several subscription labels and prices. A generic annual or monthly entry doesn't tell you which tier you'll get. Replika says paid plans have no free trial, so don't mistake free chat for a trial of a paid tier. Check the plan name and the renewal screen together, and don't guess a Canadian web price from an iOS listing.

You can delete saved memory items one at a time, but clearing the whole conversation history means deleting the account. The privacy policy allows up to 60 days for profile and conversation data after the contract ends, and some records kept for legal reasons last longer. Even if you delete the account, you have to cancel the subscription through the channel you paid with. If you like the avatar routine, learn these exit details before it becomes a habit. The Replika review explains how its feature tiers and data controls differ.

Character.AI combines community characters, custom personas and live voice calls. Free accounts have unlimited messages, though busy periods can mean a waiting room. That makes it a good fit for varied fictional conversation, not just one continuing avatar. A community character's description is a creative premise, not proof of expertise. For companionship, choose an invented adult persona and treat any advice it gives as generated dialogue.

Memory features let you organize selected background. Free accounts get 15 pins and Lite gets 30, while c.ai+ includes full private Lorebooks. This is narrower than a claim that the app remembers everything: pins keep the material you choose, and a bigger allowance doesn't mean better overall recall. Lite costs US$4.99 a month. c.ai+ is listed at US$9.99 a month or US$94.99 a year, and what you actually pay in Canada depends on the purchase channel.

The company's business situation matters more than small differences between subscription features. On October 12, 2026, Character.AI announced a voluntary Chapter 11 process aimed at a court-supervised sale. It said operations and subscription billing would continue, and warned that it would wind down if no viable sale could be reached. If you're thinking about a long prepaid term, weigh that uncertainty directly. A chat screen that works today says nothing about how the service will run after the sale process.

The announcement says export and deletion controls are still available. If losing access would matter to you, keep copies of your own fictional writing. Age assurance may use Persona, which is described as keeping biometric data for 7 days; that figure does not cover how long ordinary chat records are kept. A paid account is still subject to the platform's content rules and age checks. Character.AI offers a wide range of conversation formats, but any purchase now has to take the company's stated plans into account.

Janitor AI offers custom and community characters for fictional conversations. Its official iOS publisher is JanitorAI INC, which helps when similarly named apps show up in a store search. The listing describes an English interface and requires iOS 15.5 or later. Those details tell you whether this app suits your device. They don't mean every website or app using the name comes from the same publisher.

The Canadian App Store lists Janitor+ at CA$17.99 per month and CA$129 per year. These are two separate billing options; the annual figure is a yearly payment, not a monthly charge. The US listing shows US$12.99 monthly and US$99 yearly, and those shouldn't stand in for the Canadian amounts. When comparing costs, stick to one storefront and one term, then check the tax and renewal details that channel shows you.

The app is free to install and has optional in-app purchases, but the public listing gives no reliable number for free messages. A free download doesn't tell you how much you can chat each day. Before choosing Janitor+ for a regular routine, look at what the account offers without paying and what the subscription unlocks. Don't assume that custom characters also come with live calls, permanent memory or the same access on every platform.

Apple's privacy information comes from the developer. The listing says data is not linked to identity, but that label isn't a promise that conversations are anonymous or never kept. The app has an 18+ rating and lists age-assurance controls. For a Canadian adult, the clearest points are the named publisher, the English interface, the supported operating system and the clearly labelled local subscription terms. Keep the character's background fictional, and choose the app for the conversation format you can see, not for a broader package you imagine from the subscription name.

Talkie supports custom and community characters, but on iOS it is listed as Talkie Lab - AI Playground. The seller is SUBSUP PTE. LTD. The iOS description includes image, video and audio creation as well as characters. So the exact product name matters: if you want ordinary conversation, check which version you're installing, and don't assume the web, Android and iOS feature sets are the same.

The Canadian Apple listing shows a 1 Month item at CA$12.99, a 1 Month Talkie+ Pro item at CA$34.99 and a 1 Year item at CA$69.99. The generic labels tell you the billing intervals, not that the benefits match across versions. Compare an annual purchase with the plan it actually corresponds to, not automatically with the pricier Pro item. Storefront tax details and the renewal confirmation are still part of the decision.

Free access has ads and in-app purchases. The listing gives no fixed daily message allowance, and the visible Gem purchase labels don't say how many actions each purchase covers. If Gems appear in your account, check their quantity and use before counting on them as a conversation budget. A low subscription price is a poor deal if it pays for a different activity from the one you had in mind.

Talkie's FAQ admits that earlier conversation may be forgotten because of technical memory limits. For an ongoing companion, that's worth knowing: keep your own outline of the character and expect to repeat context sometimes. The policy ties retention to purpose and legal duties instead of a single fixed deletion period. Store subscriptions are cancelled in the original Apple or Google subscription settings. The Apple app is rated 18+, and this comparison is for adults; the rating isn't permission for every possible kind of content.

Nastia is a web-based companion that you can also install as a progressive web app. The free plan includes one companion and daily token limits, but no published number. So check the current allowance yourself, and don't read the nearby "unlimited" wording as a promise of unrestricted free chat. For a simple text routine, what matters is the gap between what the free account allows and what the paid Unlimited plan covers.

Unlimited is listed at US$15.99 a month, with applicable taxes added under the terms. Its marketing mentions unlimited text messages, voice messages and custom voices. A voice message is not a live call. Persistent memory is also advertised, with no verified context size or retention guarantee. These descriptions point to features worth checking, but they can't tell you how naturally the companion handles a long conversation or how much background it will remember.

The account controls have to be used in order. You can't delete an account with an active subscription, so you cancel first. The documented path is the profile menu, then Membership and Manage, then the cancellation control in the Danger Zone, then confirmation. Paid access lasts until the term ends. Deleting the account is a separate step in the account settings and needs a typed confirmation and your password. If you like to clear out unused accounts, know this sequence before signing up for a recurring plan.

Nastia's privacy policy keeps data while the account is open and lets some records outlast deletion. Enforcement records can be kept for up to 7 years, or longer if the law requires. In countries with extra age verification, the service says it receives the result, time and country of the check, not the identity image. That statement covers age checks only, not the privacy of conversations in general. If you're an adult looking for a web companion, weigh the text allowance, the memory description and the account-removal steps together, and keep confidential personal material out of the character's story.

SpicyChat is a character-conversation platform run by NextDay AI. The free tier allows 3 personas, and the paid tiers allow 10, 50 and 100. Persona capacity matters if you want several invented roles or story backgrounds, but it says little about how long or good any single conversation will be. For companionship, one focused fictional adult character may serve you better than a big collection kept only because the plan allows it.

A pricing change on September 8, 2026 set new monthly prices of US$5.95, US$19.95 and US$29.95, and annual terms of US$60, US$199.95 and US$299.95. Eligible existing subscriptions can keep legacy pricing until they are changed or lapse. So a price quoted by an older subscriber may be correct for that account but not what a new account would pay. Check the subscription date and tier behind any review or screenshot before comparing costs.

The new-plan comparison lists context sizes of 4,000, 8,000 and 32,000 tokens across the paid tiers. A context window is the material the model can use while generating a reply; it is not permanent personal memory. The service offers an iOS progressive web app and an official Android APK. PixelChat is a separate app, so its store listing doesn't describe SpicyChat's installation or account terms.

You can cancel through Manage Subscription in your profile. Access lasts until the paid period ends, and cancelling doesn't delete the account's content. Charges appear as NDAI.CC. A Canadian price with confirmed provincial tax is a separate question from the US-dollar plan comparison. If you're considering it for ordinary fictional conversation, pay only for the persona and context features you need, and understand the recurring charge before choosing an annual term. A large catalogue doesn't make every character a good match for the tone you want.