Best AI boyfriend app for iPhone: what the App Store offers, and how to choose.

What an AI boyfriend app is

An AI boyfriend app gives you a male AI character to chat with as a partner: good-morning texts, flirting, venting after a long day, or a running love story. He is fictional. The app generates his replies, and some apps also generate his photos, short videos or voice.

On the iPhone App Store, three kinds of app answer the search:

• Romance story apps such as Him, where you pick from ready-made male characters and storylines.
• Dedicated boyfriend apps such as AIBoy and iBoy, built only around a virtual boyfriend.
• General companion apps where you choose or design a companion of either gender, such as Nomi, Kindroid, Replika and Duple. Nomi’s listing says outright that it works whether you want “an AI girlfriend or boyfriend”.

Character libraries such as Character.AI and Talkie also show up for this search. They are built for browsing many characters rather than one ongoing partner, so we cover them in our Character.AI alternatives guide instead.

What 22 App Store results for “AI boyfriend” show

Most AI boyfriend apps on the App Store are young and have few reviews. On October 17, 2026 we pulled the top 22 US results for “ai boyfriend” from Apple’s public iTunes Search API, which approximates App Store search, then opened each app’s US listing to record its age rating, ratings count and in-app purchases.

• 13 of 22 results were apps branded as a boyfriend app (“Boyfriend”, “BF”, “Him”, “Husby” or “My Man” in the name). The other 9 were general character or companion apps such as Character.AI, Replika, Kindroid, Chai and Talkie Lab.
• The 13 boyfriend apps had a median of 135 ratings. The 9 general apps had a median of 12,345.
• 8 of the 13 boyfriend apps had fewer than 200 ratings, and 9 of the 13 were first released in 2025 or 2026.
• 19 of 22 carry Apple’s top age band (17+ in Apple’s API). One was 13+ and two were 4+.
• All 22 were free to download, and 21 listed in-app purchases.
• Duple did not appear in those 22 results.

What this means for you: a high star average on a new boyfriend app often rests on a few hundred ratings or fewer. Before you subscribe, look at how many ratings it has, who the developer is, its privacy label and how its subscription renews. These are the checks in our list before you download.

Seven AI boyfriend apps side by side

US App Store details, checked October 17, 2026. Prices are in USD and differ by country. Ratings counts are from Apple’s US data on the same day. “Not listed” means we could not find it in the listing text. It does not mean the feature is missing.

How we picked these seven: the three boyfriend-branded apps rated 17+ or older with the most US ratings in our search snapshot (iBoy, Him and AIBoy), the general companion apps in that snapshot that market memory (Kindroid and Replika), Nomi because its listing names AI boyfriends directly, and Duple. We left out Husby (a boyfriend app rated 4+), smaller boyfriend apps with 791 ratings or fewer, and character libraries. This is a dated snapshot, not a ranking.

Which AI boyfriend app fits you

You want a romance story, not a blank chat

Him is the clearest fit. Its listing describes curated male characters, from a cold CEO to a best friend, with storylines that change with every message. It is rated 17+ for frequent sexual content or nudity, and it sells Rings and Drops rather than a subscription.

You want him to remember you

Memory comes up again and again in AI boyfriend discussions. One example: a Reddit thread on Google’s first page for “best AI boyfriend app” asks for an AI boyfriend with real long-term memory. Nomi lists short- and long-term memory. Kindroid lets you write his backstory and key memories. Replika says it remembers your people, plans and goals. Duple has long-term memory across conversations, and its Privacy Policy says you can reset or delete those memories. These are the developers’ claims, not our measurements. For how memory claims usually work, read how AI companion memory works.

You want to design him yourself

In Duple, you flip the gender switch, pick his region on a globe, set his age with a slider, and shape his look and style. You can create more than one companion and swipe between them. Kindroid leans on a written backstory, and AIBoy lets you personalise his appearance, mood, tone of voice and biography. Him and iBoy are built around their own characters instead. For the full set of creation steps, with screenshots, see how to create an AI girlfriend on iPhone; the flow is the same for him.

You want to see him

Duple is built around how your companion looks: generated selfies, personalised pictures, Live Selfies (short generated videos), outfit design and a saved library. Nomi and Kindroid both list generated selfies, and Replika lists image generation. Him, AIBoy and iBoy do not list photos in their App Store text. If video matters most, our guide to AI girlfriend video apps explains clips versus calls, and the same checks apply to a male companion.

You want to hear his voice

Kindroid lists real-time voice calls, and Replika lists voice and video calls. Nomi lists voice messages. Duple is text chat only and has no live voice calls. If hearing him matters most, pick Kindroid or Replika, not Duple.

You want a lower age rating or less explicit framing

On October 17, 2026, Duple was rated 17+ on the US App Store. Him, Nomi, Kindroid, Replika, AIBoy and iBoy were rated 17+. In Apple’s API, Duple carries the same 17+ band as the others. If you want explicit roleplay, Duple is not the right app.

The weekly-plan trap

Kept for a full year, a weekly AI boyfriend subscription costs roughly five to thirteen times more than the same app’s annual plan. We multiplied each weekly price listed on October 17, 2026 by 52 weeks:

• iBoy: $9.99 a week comes to $519.48 a year, against $39.99 or $49.99 for its yearly plans.
• AIBoy: $7.99 a week comes to $415.48 a year, against $49.99 for its annual plan.
• Duple: $6.99 a week comes to $363.48 a year, against $69 for Duple Plus Annual.

Weekly plans make sense for trying an app for a week or two. If you plan to stay, the annual plan is far cheaper. App Store subscriptions and trials renew automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends, as AIBoy’s listing spells out. You can do that in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. For more price comparisons, see how much AI companion apps cost.

Where Duple fits, and where it doesn’t

Duple is an iPhone app for creating your own companions. You can make him (or her) from scratch, chat by text, get generated selfies and Live Selfies, make personalised pictures, design outfits and keep favourite images in one library. You can create a roster of companions. Duple is free to download. Duple Plus costs $6.99 a week, $14.99 a month or $69 a year on the US App Store, and Dokens, Duple’s in-app currency, start at $1.99.

What Duple is not: it has no live voice calls, it is not built for explicit roleplay, and it has no library of ready-made romance storylines like Him. It is new, with no US App Store ratings yet, and it is iPhone only (iOS 26 or later). Every Duple companion is fictional, and Duple is not therapy or a replacement for real relationships.

Before you download

• Count the ratings, not just the stars. In our snapshot, most boyfriend apps had fewer than 200 ratings.
• Check the developer. Tap the developer name on the listing to see their other apps and website.
• Read the privacy label on the listing, and what the app means by “memory”. Find out whether you can view, reset or delete what it saves.
• Compare weekly and annual prices before starting a trial, and note when the trial renews.
• Check the age rating and content descriptors. They tell you how explicit the app is meant to be.
• Remember he is fictional. For realism and safety framing, read are AI companions real?.

Looking for a female companion instead? See the best AI girlfriend app for iPhone. Using “AI lover” for either? Our AI lover apps guide covers both. Want friendship rather than romance? See the best AI friends app. For a broader comparison, read the best AI companion app for iPhone.

More: what AI boyfriend chat is like day to day, how Duple’s roster of companions works and all AI companion comparisons.