Every European AI companion reviewed
Utrecht, Netherlands
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users wanting a private, uncensored AI companion under EU data protection
Selira offers uncensored companion conversation with AI image generation, and any generated image can be turned into a short video on paid plans. Its free plan includes unlimited chat rather than a capped trial, which makes it one of the easiest apps here to judge before paying.
The reason to prefer it over Character.AI or Replika is jurisdictional rather than featural. Selira operates from the Netherlands under GDPR, so the conversation transcript — which is a psychological record of whatever someone brings to it — is processed by an EU-established company with defined purposes, a right of access and a right of erasure that attaches to a real entity. A US operator falls under the CLOUD Act regardless of server location.
It offers a free tier with premium plans above, so evaluating it costs nothing. The questions worth asking before subscribing are the ones that apply to any operator in this category: how long conversations are retained, whether account deletion removes them, whether conversation data trains models, and what appears on a card statement. None of that is unique to Selira; it is simply what to check.
What Selira does well
- Uncensored chat with image and video generation
- Dutch operator, EU jurisdiction under GDPR
- Free tier for evaluation before subscribing
- Unlimited chat on the free plan
- Right of erasure attaches to an EU-established company
Where Selira falls short
- Retention and training policies need reading before signing up
- Premium features behind a subscription
- Conversational consistency varies as with all such apps
- Smaller operator than the US incumbents
Standout feature. Unlimited free chat plus image and video generation, under Dutch jurisdiction.
France
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: French speakers wanting natural conversation rather than character roleplay
Simone positions differently from most of this category. Rather than emphasising character creation and roleplay, it leads with natural conversation — companionship as dialogue rather than as persona play — with custom personalities available for people who want them.
That distinction matters more than it might sound. Someone looking for a character to inhabit a scenario and someone looking for a conversation that feels natural want different things from the same technology, and apps optimised for one tend to disappoint at the other. Simone is aimed at the second.
It is operated by Agentik SAS in France, so processing sits under GDPR in an EU member state — relevant because conversations of this kind are among the most personal data anyone produces. There is a free tier with premium plans above it. As with everything in this category, the practical test is twenty minutes of actual conversation: whether it stays coherent, remembers what you said earlier and avoids repetition is not something a feature list can tell you.
What Simone does well
- Aimed at natural conversation rather than roleplay
- Custom personalities available
- French company, EU jurisdiction under GDPR
- Free tier for evaluation
- Different positioning from the character-focused rivals
Where Simone falls short
- Less roleplay and character depth than rivals
- No image generation emphasised
- Premium features behind a subscription
- Smaller feature set than Selira
Standout feature. Built for conversation rather than character play — a different product from most of this category.
Switzerland
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users wanting a customisable AI companion under Swiss data protection
Darlink offers a customisable AI companion experience with image generation and custom personas, which places it alongside MyLovely AI and Xeve.ai on features. The distinguishing fact is where it operates from.
Darlink is Swiss, which means Swiss data protection law applies under an EU adequacy decision rather than GDPR directly. That is a genuinely strong privacy regime — Swiss data protection is frequently regarded as stricter than the EU's — and transfers from the EU are lawful without standard contractual clauses. It is not intra-EEA processing, which matters to a small number of people with specific requirements and not to most.
For conversations of this kind, the jurisdiction question is not academic: what someone says to a companion app is a record of their private life, and which country's law governs its handling determines what rights they actually have. Switzerland is a good answer to that question. There is a free tier with premium plans, and the same pre-subscription checks apply — retention, deletion, model training and what appears on a card statement.
What Darlink does well
- Custom personas with image generation
- Swiss data protection, often stricter than GDPR
- Adequacy decision means lawful EU transfers
- Free tier for evaluation
- Customisation depth comparable to the best here
Where Darlink falls short
- Swiss adequacy rather than intra-EEA processing
- Retention and training policies need checking
- Premium features behind a subscription
- No voice messages
Standout feature. Swiss data protection — a regime frequently stricter than GDPR, applied to conversations that deserve it.
Olching, Bavaria, Germany
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users who want a customisable German companion and roleplay chat
Xeve.ai leans towards roleplay and character customisation, which is a different emphasis from Simone's conversational focus and closer to what people arriving from Character.AI usually expect: characters you define and scenarios you play out rather than a single companion persona. It also offers live AI video chat with spoken replies, plus image and video generation paid for with credits.
It is built by Jay Web Development & Services in Olching, Bavaria, so processing sits under German data protection and GDPR — the strictest interpretation in the EU, and applied here to conversations that are among the most personal anyone generates.
The service itself runs on Google Cloud in Belgium, and the privacy policy names US providers for AI replies and voice under the Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. For someone who cares specifically about a German operator rather than EU jurisdiction generally, it is the option in this category.
There is a free tier, with a membership from $12.99 a month ($7.09 a month billed yearly) above it, so evaluation costs nothing, and the practical test is the same as everywhere here: whether characters stay consistent across a long conversation and remember earlier context. It is a small operator, which cuts both ways — less scale and support depth than the US incumbents, and a correspondingly smaller organisation holding the data.
What Xeve.ai does well
- Roleplay focus with customisable characters
- German company, German data protection under GDPR
- Free tier for evaluation
- Character customisation depth
- Small operator holding a small amount of data
Where Xeve.ai falls short
- Small operator with limited support depth
- Some AI and voice providers process data in the USA
- Premium features behind a subscription
- Character consistency varies as with all such apps
Standout feature. German data protection applied to roleplay chat — the strictest EU interpretation, in the most personal category.
Madrid, Spain
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users wanting a customisable AI companion inside EU jurisdiction
MyLovely AI provides a customisable AI companion with image generation and custom personas, operated by PromptRepublic S.L. from Madrid — which puts it squarely inside EU jurisdiction with GDPR applying directly rather than through an adequacy decision.
Its feature set sits alongside Darlink's and Xeve.ai's: persona customisation, image generation, companion chat, free tier with premium plans. What separates apps in this category in practice is not the list but the conversation — whether a character stays coherent over a long exchange, remembers what was said earlier and responds without collapsing into repetition. That varies more between apps than any specification, and it is why trying two free tiers is the honest method.
The reason to prefer any of these over Character.AI or Replika remains jurisdictional. A companion transcript is a psychological record created continuously, and having it processed by a Spanish company under GDPR rather than a US operator under the CLOUD Act is the substantive difference. Before subscribing, check retention, whether account deletion removes conversations, whether conversation data trains models, and what appears on a card statement.
What MyLovely AI does well
- Customisable personas with image generation
- Spanish company, intra-EEA processing under GDPR
- Free tier for evaluation
- Right of erasure attaches to an EU entity
- Feature set comparable to the leaders here
Where MyLovely AI falls short
- Voice, photos and video draw on a token allowance
- Small operator with limited support depth
- Retention and training policies need checking
- Premium features behind a subscription
Standout feature. Madrid-based and intra-EEA — GDPR applies directly rather than through an adequacy decision.
Germany
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users who want to build characters and play out scenarios
Dream Companion leans towards character creation and roleplay rather than a single fixed companion, which is a different experience from the apps built around one persona you return to. You define who you are talking to and what the situation is, and the character holds that frame.
Image generation accompanies the chat, so a character has a consistent visual identity rather than existing only as text — which is what most users arriving from Character.AI expect and what a purely conversational product feels thin without.
It operates from Germany, which means German data protection under GDPR applied to conversations that are among the most personal anyone produces — and Germany applies the strictest interpretation in the EU. Free tier with premium plans above it, so the conversational quality can be assessed before paying. As with every operator in this category, check the retention period, whether account deletion removes conversations, and what appears on a card statement before subscribing.
What Dream Companion does well
- Character creation with scenario roleplay
- Image generation gives characters a consistent identity
- German company, strictest GDPR interpretation
- Free tier for evaluation
- Deeper roleplay focus than single-persona apps
Where Dream Companion falls short
- Small operator with limited support depth
- No voice messages
- Retention and training policies need reading
- Premium features behind a subscription
Standout feature. You build the character and the scenario — closer to collaborative fiction than to a chat assistant.
Dublin, Ireland
Free tier with premium plans
Free tier
Best for: Users wanting a customisable companion inside EU jurisdiction
Soulkyn AI offers companion and roleplay chat with custom characters and image generation, operated by Cube Digital Media Ltd from Dublin — which puts it inside the EU with GDPR applying directly rather than through an adequacy decision.
Its emphasis is customisation: defining a character rather than selecting one, with generated imagery giving that character a consistent appearance across a conversation. On features it sits alongside Darlink and MyLovely AI, and as everywhere in this category the thing that actually differs between apps is not the feature list but whether the character stays coherent across an hour of conversation.
It is a young platform, and that belongs in any honest description: less track record than the established names, a smaller user base, and the stability that implies. The free tier makes that easy to judge for yourself. The usual pre-subscription checks apply — retention, deletion, whether conversation data trains models, and the billing descriptor.
What Soulkyn AI does well
- Custom characters with generated imagery
- Irish company, intra-EEA processing under GDPR
- Free tier for evaluation
- Uncensored conversation without a US operator
- Right of erasure attaches to an EU entity
Where Soulkyn AI falls short
- Young platform with limited track record
- Smaller user base than established rivals
- No voice messages
- Premium features behind a subscription
Standout feature. Dublin-based and intra-EEA, so the transcript sits under GDPR directly rather than under an adequacy finding.
Santa Venera, Malta
Free trial (up to 5 messages); monthly, quarterly or yearly subscriptions with a monthly token allowance (amounts shown at checkout)
Best for: Users wanting multimodal companion chat — text, voice, images and video
Candy.ai combines text chat with voice, AI-generated images and video and a library of over 100 pre-built characters, alongside tools to build a custom one. That multimodal range — voice and video together, not just images — is broader than most of this category, Selira included, and matched here only by Xeve.ai and MyLovely AI.
It is operated by EverAI Limited, registered in Malta, so conversations sit under EU jurisdiction with Maltese courts named in the terms of service for disputes. Malta is a full EU member state, which puts Candy.ai alongside the intra-EEA operators here rather than the Swiss adequacy case.
There is a free trial capped at 5 messages, after which access runs on monthly, quarterly or yearly subscriptions with a monthly token allowance for images and voice notes; the site does not publish the actual amounts before checkout, so budget-conscious users will need to check pricing at checkout rather than on the marketing page. As with every operator here, read the retention and model-training sections of the privacy policy before committing a card.
What Candy.ai does well
- Voice, image and video generation alongside chat
- Large library of pre-built characters plus a builder
- Malta-based operator, EU jurisdiction
- Free trial before any payment
- One of the broadest multimodal feature sets in this list
Where Candy.ai falls short
- No pricing amounts published before signup
- Token-based billing adds a layer to compare against flat subscriptions
- Retention and training policies need reading
- Larger, more commercial operator than most names here
Standout feature. Text, voice, image and video in one companion, a format range only Xeve.ai and MyLovely AI match here.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Founded 2023
Free unlimited text chat; paid upgrade for images, voice and premium features
Best for: Users who want to try unlimited text chat before paying anything
Kupid AI leads with a free tier that is more generous on its face than most of this category: unlimited text chat with any companion, with images, voice messages and other premium features held back for paying users. For someone who wants to test conversational quality at length before committing, that free-chat depth matters more than a feature list.
It is operated by SNB Technologies LTD, registered in Cyprus (company HE 447805, registered June 2023) and its privacy policy explicitly sets out GDPR rights for EU residents. That places it inside the EU alongside the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Ireland-based operators already in this list, rather than in adequacy territory like Darlink.
The trade-off is the same one that applies to every young operator here: no specific hosting location or certification is named on the company's own pages, and premium pricing is only shown after registration. Test the free tier at length, then decide whether the images and voice features behind the paywall are worth it.
What Kupid AI does well
- Unlimited free text chat, not a capped trial
- Custom character creation
- Cyprus-registered operator, GDPR rights stated explicitly
- Image generation and photo sharing on the paid tier
- Registration and incorporation both independently verifiable
Where Kupid AI falls short
- Voice and images locked behind a paid upgrade
- No hosting location or certification named
- Premium pricing only visible after registration
- Smaller, younger operator than the US incumbents
Standout feature. Unlimited free text chat rather than a capped trial, a free tier only Selira matches in this list.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Founded 2020
Mobile app (iOS/Android); in-app plans from about $12/month up to $47.99/year, plus optional credit packs
Best for: Users who want a companion as a phone app rather than a website
EVA AI is the one entry here without a web chat: it exists as iOS and Android apps only, built around a customisable companion with memory and both text and voice conversation. For someone who wants a companion that lives on their phone the way a messaging app does, rather than a browser tab, that is the actual differentiator, not a feature checkbox.
It is operated by Novi Limited, registered in Cyprus since February 2020 — an older registration than Kupid AI's, though Novi also runs an unrelated affiliate-marketing product, so the company is not a single-purpose AI companion operator. Its privacy policy states GDPR rights for EU data subjects directly.
Because there is no pricing page on evaapp.ai, the numbers here come from Apple's own App Store listing of EVA AI's in-app purchases: a premium subscription from roughly $12 a month up to $47.99 for twelve months, plus optional one-off "Neuron" credit packs. App reviews describe that credit system as easy to run through quickly, which is worth weighing before subscribing.
What EVA AI does well
- Native iOS and Android apps rather than a browser-only product
- Memory-based companion with text and voice
- Cyprus-registered operator, GDPR rights stated explicitly
- Longer-registered company than most names in this list
- In-app pricing is at least verifiable via the App Store listing
Where EVA AI falls short
- No web chat: mobile app only
- No pricing page of its own to check before downloading
- Credit-based add-ons on top of a subscription, per user reviews
- Operator also runs an unrelated affiliate-marketing product
Standout feature. The only companion here built as a phone app first, with no web version at all.
