Replika AI Review

What Replika AI is

Replika, by Luka, Inc., is an AI companion app that has been rebuilt around emotionally intelligent conversation, memory, and personalization. Users can chat about daily life, call or video chat their Rep, receive selfies, and shape the avatar's appearance and personality. The app highlights memory of relationships, routines, and interests, with the stated goal of helping users flourish.

Replika offers a free limited tier and paid plans, Pro, Ultra, and Platinum, with features like image generation, voice messaging, background calls, daily gems, training mode, and realistic selfie videos. It is available for iOS, Android, and web. App Store prices range from $7.99/month and $49.99/year for paid plans.

What it costs

Month to month runs $7.99. Paying for a year drops the effective rate to about $4.17 a month ($49.99 billed once), a saving of roughly 48%.

Usage is metered rather than flat: Gem currency; Backpack of Gems $5.99; Pro includes daily gems. That allowance, not the plan price, decides your real monthly cost.

Privacy and data

• The account can be deleted from settings.
• You can sign up without handing over an identity.
• Conversations are stored on their servers.
• Your data may be used to train their models.

Account deletion removes data permanently, but profile/message content may be retained up to 60 days and financial records for 10 years. Chats are stored; anonymized/small message portions may be used for Replika safety model training; third-party LLM providers are barred from training on data.

Source: the published privacy policy.

Content and safety policy

• Real-person likenesses: Not stated.

How the filter behaves in a live conversation is a separate question, and one only a hands-on session can answer.

Who should skip it

Those wanting purely anonymous use or a guaranteed immediate data purge, since account deletion retains some data for limited periods.