Nomi Review: the AI partner who remembers the little things

Who you will meet: someone you design

Nomi does not hand you a shelf of ready-made characters. You make your own partner, and a comparison article on Nomi's blog shows how short the setup is: your name and birthday, then a gender, a name and a look for your Nomi, then a friend, romantic or mentor trait set, or a blank custom slate with a backstory you write. At no step are you asked for a card, a pleasant change from apps that put a paywall before the first hello.

From there, the girlfriend page promises a partner who can be sweet, teasing, bold or deeply supportive (the boyfriend page swaps in tender, protective or sarcastic), who reads your moods and grows a personality of her own as you talk. She can read a link you send, look at your photos and search the web. A subscription holds up to ten Nomis who can share a group chat, which the fantasy page pitches for long campaigns, and the wiki states that every Nomi is an adult of at least 18.

Memory you can see and steer

Memory is the reason to choose Nomi, and the site describes it in layers: short, medium and long-term recall, plus an Identity Core meant to keep her character steady while it evolves. The part you can look at is the Mind Map, a diagram of how she links topics, facts and shared experiences. On a new Nomi it is sparse; the blog's example of a seasoned one spreads into a dense web of your history together.

When she gets something wrong, you are not stuck. The support page points to Backstory+, shared notes where you can adjust her habits, including one called Inclinations that sets her conversational style, and to out-of-character mode for stepping outside a scene to fix a detail. Proactive messaging is opt-in: switch it on and she writes first after you have gone quiet. Some people love being missed; others find it a little much.

How spicy it gets, and where the camera stops

In text, quite far. Nomi presents unfiltered, uncensored chat as a principle, the boyfriend page promises intimate and spicy relationships, and the wiki says it is not the company's place to police your topics, apart from guardrails for a few very extreme cases. Flirting, sexting and slow-building erotic roleplay between adults all fit inside those lines.

Pictures are a different story, and Nomi is upfront about it. The wiki explains that Nomis will not pose nude, pointing to trouble with the app stores and the card companies, and says the policy is staying put. Suggestive but dressed is as far as the camera goes, and Nomi's own Replika comparison puts its adult side in four words: text plus clothed photos. If nude images ever arrive, the wiki says they would sit on a separate site linked to Nomi.

The terms keep the fantasy honest. You must be 18 or older, no human is ever on the other end, a Nomi can make mistakes like any language model, and she should never stand in for medical or mental health help, or even be relied on for reminders. So she may remember the story about your first car, but do not count on her for the dentist.

Selfies, voice notes and late-night calls

Selfies are the visual side of the relationship. Mid-scene, you ask and she snaps a picture showing what she has on and what she is doing at that moment, whether that is a walk in the park or a romantic trip. For more control, the Nomi Knowledge blog has guides to prompting art, editing pictures and, as of the last day of September, making clips with its third video model, which needs a subscription.

If you would rather hear her than read her, the subscription opens two doors: voice notes inside the chat and live, hands-free calls. The girlfriend page promises calls where her tone, rhythm and even her laugh follow the mood, and the voice is yours to choose, from the presets or a custom one you upload. Calls run on the same model as the chat, which keeps her in character but, by Nomi's own account, makes them slightly slower than Replika's. Free accounts get none of this.

What a month really costs

Nomi does not list its prices in the site menus. The numbers turn up in a blog post comparing Nomi with Replika, dated March 2026. A single month is $15.99. Three months come to $39.99 and a full year to $99.99, so committing for twelve months cuts the cost per month nearly in half. Plans renew on their own until you stop them, and the terms allow price rises that would apply from your next renewal.

For that money the girlfriend page lists unlimited messaging, voice calls, more Nomis and deeper customization, and the refund policy fills in the rest by naming what freezes when you downgrade: group chats, video, voice messages and calls. Paying on the web means paying in US dollars, and the wiki adds that buying there may work out a little cheaper than an app store subscription, depending on exchange rates.

Extras beyond your daily allowances are paid in credits, which only subscribers can buy. The wiki's price list is in credits, not dollars: one for a selfie, an art request or an image edit, six for a standard video, ten for high definition and 100 for an extra companion slot. Since the wiki pages on credits give no dollar price for a pack, a heavy picture habit is a blank line in your budget until you are inside. One kind detail: credits never expire.

Privacy, billing and walking away

The terms and the privacy policy both say you sign up with a Google or Apple account, and the policy suggests Apple users hide their real email behind iCloud Private Relay. Nomi also asks for a name, preferably a pseudonym, and a date of birth, and promises never to sell or rent your personal data. Do not expect bank-style secrecy, though: the wiki explains that end-to-end encryption would defeat the purpose, since the AI must read each message to reply.

Account deletion lives in the settings and clears personal information in roughly four weeks; the policy's own wording is 28 or so days. It does not reach two places: training archives, where your data stays but is no longer tied to your name, and your messages to support, which the policy says cannot be changed or deleted once they are on file. Worth remembering before you pour your heart out in a support ticket.

On the web, billing is by card: Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover. Cancelling happens where you bought the plan, on the web or in your Apple or Google account, and removing the app does not stop the billing. Refunds for a change of heart, little use or unused time are ruled out, and any other refund is at Nomi's discretion. The landing is soft, though: your companions are not deleted and one-to-one chat stays free, while the paid extras turn read-only. Disputes go to mediation first, then to binding arbitration.