Candy AI Alternatives: Pick the One That Fixes Your Complaint
Most people don't leave Candy AI because the pictures are bad. They leave because of the bill, the memory, or the refund policy. Here's the...
Both charge $19.99 a month. Secrets AI spends it on memory and continuity. OurDream AI spends it on images, clips and character building. Here is which one fits how you actually chat.
Two platforms, same headline price, opposite instincts. Secrets AI is built around a companion that remembers what you told it last week. OurDream AI is built around making things: characters, pictures, short clips. If you pick the wrong one, you will spend a month paying for features you never touch.
We rate Secrets AI 9.9 out of 10 and OurDream AI 9.7. The gap is small. The difference in what you get for your money is not.
Everything below comes from published pricing pages, terms of service, help centers and user reports. We did not buy subscriptions or run test accounts. Where a vendor makes a claim, we say so.
Pick Secrets AI if you want one partner, an ongoing story, and a memory that holds. Pick OurDream AI if you want to design characters, generate a lot of images, and try short video without burning your whole budget on it.
Secrets wins on memory, voice calls and privacy terms. OurDream wins on visuals, customization and value per credit. Both are web only. Neither is cheap once you start generating media.
| Category | OurDream AI | Secrets AI |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 9.7 | 9.9 |
| Memory | 7.9 | 9.9 |
| Images | 10 | 9.9 |
| Video | 9.9 | 9.9 |
| Voice | 7.9 | 8.9 |
| Customization | 10 | 8.9 |
| Value | 9.9 | 7.9 |
| Privacy | 6.9 | 8.9 |
| Monthly price | $19.99/mo | $19.99/mo |
| Cheapest paid | $9.99/mo yearly | $9.17/mo yearly |
| Credits | 1,000 dreamcoins/mo | 8,000 Moments/mo |
| Free tier | 1 dreamcoin per message, no media | 20 messages/day, no media |
| Group chats | Yes | Ultimate only ($39.99/mo) |
| App | Web only, add to home screen | Web only, installable PWA |
| Company | Dream Studio USA, Inc. (Delaware) | Secret Labs Inc. |
This is where the two platforms split hardest.
Secrets AI treats memory as a product feature with tiers. Free accounts get basic recall. Premium adds roughly 60% more short-term context and about four times the stored memories. Ultimate doubles the context again and stores six times more. There is a memory panel where you can rank what matters, correct facts and delete outdated details. Lorebooks, listed on Premium and Ultimate, hold world details. Time Travel lets you branch a conversation, and deleted messages take their linked memories with them.
Independent write-ups are less starry-eyed. One review calls the memory functional rather than deeply comprehensive. A blog post calls it shallow and inconsistent. Our own score sits at 9.9 โ good, not magic.
OurDream AI markets itself as unlimited AI roleplay. Memory is the weak spot. One blog says the platform knew the user well after three months of daily chatting, which is a real point in its favor. Independent tests tell a different story: the model leans on recent messages, and older plot points slip. Our score is 7.9.
Practical result: Secrets holds a story together across weeks. OurDream holds the last hour together well.
OurDream AI is the better media factory. In-chat images cost 5 dreamcoins. Standard images run 10 coins per two. Your 1,000 monthly coins cover roughly 200 images. Image quality gets compared to Candy.ai in user reports, and the Vivid model produces photo-like results. That is a serious amount of output for one plan.
Secrets AI charges 50 Moments per image, 100 at 2K resolution. Your 8,000 Moments stretch to about 160 pictures. Advanced mode accepts natural-language descriptions and up to five reference pictures, which is genuinely useful for keeping a character's face consistent.
Neither platform lets you upload your own photos. That blocks real-person deepfakes, and it is the right call.
| Media | OurDream AI | Secrets AI |
|---|---|---|
| Image | 5 coins in chat; 10 per two standard | 50 Moments; 100 at 2K |
| Video | 100 dreamcoins per 5 seconds, up to 60 seconds | Adult video 8 seconds at 720p, 600 Moments |
| Higher quality | Ultra video 200 coins; audio 20 coins per second | SFW clips 4-15 seconds, up to 4K, price varies |
| Clips per month | About 10 short clips on 1,000 coins | About 13 adult clips on 8,000 Moments |
| Calling | 50 coins per minute | 50 Moments per minute |
Video: OurDream charges 100 dreamcoins per 5 seconds and runs up to 60 seconds. Ultra video costs 200 coins, and an audio add-on runs 20 coins per second. A 1,000-coin month buys around 10 short clips.
Secrets adult video is 8 seconds at 720p for 600 Moments. SFW clips run 4 to 15 seconds, up to 4K, at prices that vary. That works out to roughly 13 adult clips per month.
On both platforms, video means generated clips. Neither does video calls.
Both charge 50 credits per minute. On OurDream that is 50 dreamcoins. On Secrets it is 50 Moments.
The difference is what the call does afterwards. Secrets takes calls in real time inside the same chat thread and supports over 70 call languages. Audio itself is not stored; only a transcript is kept, and that transcript feeds memory. One blog notes that Secrets calls and text chats share the same memory, so a phone call is not a separate relationship.
OurDream charges 5 dreamcoins for premium-voice narration per paragraph, and its voice score is the lower of the two at 7.9. Do the math on a long call: 20 minutes at 50 coins a minute uses your entire monthly coin allowance.
OurDream AI wins this one. Creating a chatbot costs 10 dreamcoins, and subscribers can publish characters for others to use. Customization scores 10.
Secrets AI gives you your first custom character free; extras cost 500 Moments each. Advanced personality editing is an Ultimate feature, not a Premium one. What Secrets does well is tone control: a per-chat Spice Level from Mild to Spicy, and response styles that switch from short texts to full paragraphs. Customization sits at 8.9.
If you like designing personalities, OurDream is cheaper and more open. If you like tuning how an existing character talks, Secrets gives you more knobs.
OurDream includes group chats at its standard tier. You pick who speaks by tapping a portrait or using an @-mention. The catch: the help center does not state which plan includes group chats. That is a question for support before you pay.
Secrets locks personas, proactive messages and two-to-three-companion group chats behind Ultimate at $39.99 a month. That is double the entry price for features OurDream includes.
| Plan | OurDream AI | Secrets AI |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0; 1 dreamcoin per message; no media | $0; 20 messages/day; no Moments |
| Premium monthly | $19.99/mo; unlimited messages; 1,000 dreamcoins | $19.99/mo; unlimited messages; 8,000 Moments |
| 3 or 6 months | Not published | $49.99 per 3 months; $89.99 per 6 months |
| Annual | $119.88/year ($9.99/mo) plus 1,000 bonus coins | $109.99/year ($9.17/mo) |
| Higher tier | Deluxe reported by third parties, not on official pages | Ultimate $39.99/mo or $319.99/year, 15,000 Moments |
Both monthly plans are $19.99. The yearly prices are close: OurDream at $119.88 a year works out to $9.99 a month and throws in 1,000 bonus coins upfront. Secrets at $109.99 a year is $9.17 a month.
Credits behave differently. OurDream's dreamcoins do not expire. Secrets' monthly Moments reset each cycle. Purchased top-ups on Secrets never expire, which softens the blow. Only subscribers can buy extra credits on either platform.
One caveat on OurDream: third parties report a Deluxe tier, but it does not appear on official pages. Treat it as unconfirmed.
The sticker prices are identical. The real cost shows up when you generate media.
On OurDream, 1,000 coins buys about 200 images or about 10 short clips. On Secrets, 8,000 Moments buys about 160 images or about 13 adult clips. Per picture, OurDream is cheaper. Per adult video clip, Secrets is slightly ahead.
The bigger trap is expiry. Cancel Secrets and your unused monthly Moments are gone at the end of the cycle unless you bought them separately. Cancel OurDream and your dreamcoins survive โ but your generated images and videos get blurred. You keep the credit, not the output.
OurDream gives you 1 dreamcoin per message. That is not enough to chat normally, and it produces no media at all.
Secrets gives 20 messages a day with no Moments. No images, no video, no calls. You can test the chat voice, nothing else.
Neither free plan tells you much about the paid experience. Budget for one month of either if you want a real answer.
You will see Secrets AI quoted at $9.99 a month in some blog posts. That figure matches a retired legacy Plus plan, not current pricing. The real entry price is $19.99.
OurDream gets cited as having a library of over 63 million characters by third-party guides. Its own homepage advertised over 11 million characters as of October 9, 2026. Believe the vendor's number, not the listicle's.
| Privacy point | OurDream AI | Secrets AI |
|---|---|---|
| Encryption | AES at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit | AES-256 at rest, encrypted in transit |
| End-to-end claim | Homepage claims it; policy does not support it | Promises it; policy describes at-rest and in-transit only |
| Training on chats | Data may train AI models | Data may train AI models |
| Account deletion | 24-48 hours; popular public characters may stay | Profile and chat history deleted immediately |
| Voice | Not stated in our data | Audio deleted after transcription |
| Billing descriptor | Not stated in our data | S LABS INC |
Both homepages claim end-to-end encryption. Neither policy backs it up. What both actually describe is encryption at rest and in transit โ good practice, not end-to-end. If you assumed your chats were unreadable to the company, they are not.
Both may use chat data to train AI models. Both allow explicit content between fictional adult characters and ban anything involving minors.
Moderation differs. OurDream runs an LLM filter called Automod. Secrets uses AI-assisted moderation. Neither is fully uncensored, whatever the marketing says.
Deletion is cleaner on Secrets: profile and chat history go immediately. On OurDream, account deletion takes 24 to 48 hours, and popular public characters may stay up. Our privacy scores land at 6.9 and 8.9.
For a fuller look at either platform, read our Secrets AI review and our OurDream AI review.
Pick Secrets AI if: you want one companion, a story that runs for months, voice calls that count, and privacy terms that survive a careful read. You will pay for it: $19.99 entry, $39.99 if you want group chats or advanced personality editing, and Moments that vanish if you cancel.
Pick OurDream AI if: you want to build and publish characters, generate a couple hundred images a month, and try short video without a second bill. Accept that the memory is loose and that cancelling blurs everything you made.
Skip both if: you want a free experience. Neither free tier generates media.
If neither fits, Candy.ai scores well on images but includes only 100 tokens monthly and has weaker memory โ our review covers the token bills in detail. Janitor+ costs $12.99 a month. Other names that come up in user comparisons: GoLove AI, CrushOn, Muah, CraveU AI. Nectar AI's credit system is hard to budget according to reviewers. SpicyChat AI's free plan uses a queue. One blog claims LusyChat premium starts around $7.99 a month; we could not verify that.
Same price, different product. Secrets AI sells continuity. OurDream AI sells output. If you are paying for a relationship that builds over time, Secrets is the better buy and the safer bet on privacy terms. If you are paying for a creative toy, OurDream gives you more per dollar.
Start with one month. Track your credits for the first week, because both platforms can drain a month's allowance in a single long call. And keep personal details out of the chat โ neither platform offers the end-to-end encryption its homepage suggests.
Secrets AI. Memory scales by plan, with editable details, Lorebooks and Time Travel branching. Independent tests say OurDream leans on recent messages and loses older plot points, though one user report says it knew them well after three months.
Monthly plans are both $19.99. Yearly, Secrets works out to about $9.17 a month and OurDream to about $9.99. OurDream's 1,000 dreamcoins cover roughly 200 images, so it is cheaper per picture.
Yes, but neither is generous. OurDream gives 1 dreamcoin per message. Secrets gives 20 messages a day. Neither free plan generates images, video or calls.
Secrets has clearer deletion terms and deletes profiles and chat history immediately. Neither offers true end-to-end encryption despite claiming it, and both may use chat data to train models.
Three platforms, ranked on what they actually deliver: memory that holds, voices that sound human, and prices you can check before signing up. Nobody paid for a spot on this list.