Free plan glossary
The terms that decide how far a free plan goes, defined plainly, each with a link to where it matters.
Answer in brief
A free plan is what an app gives without payment, usually a daily cap or a one-time allowance of messages. A free trial is time-limited access to paid features that can renew into a subscription, and credits are the currency apps charge for photos, video and calls. heyGF.AI, our editorial choice, gives 30 messages a day on a free account and 5 with no account.
Kinds of free
- Free plan
- What an app gives with no payment and no end date, usually text chat with a cap. heyGF.AI's is 30 messages a day on a free account. Every free plan compared.
- Free trial
- Paid features for a set time, which can turn into a paid subscription when it ends. Kindroid lists a 3-day premium trial; Replika offers none. Trials, renewals and refunds.
- One-time preview
- An allowance that does not come back once it is used. A new Kindroid account gets 50 messages, 5 selfies and 5,000 audio credits, once. Free vs paid, app by app.
- Guest chat (no-account chat)
- Chatting before you create an account. heyGF.AI allows 5 messages a day this way; Replika needs an account first. Apps you can try without signing up.
Limits
- Daily cap
- A number of free messages that comes back each day. heyGF.AI gives 5 a day without an account and 30 with one; Secrets AI gives 20, tied to your device. How to choose a free plan.
- Slow mode
- One of the limits Character.AI lists for its free plan. Charms, earned through in-app quests, can be spent to skip it.
- Ads
- How some apps pay for free use. Character.AI's free plan shows full ads, its lite plan fewer, and c.ai+ none.
- Context window
- How much of the recent conversation a character can take into account at once: her short-term memory. SpicyChat's free plan gets 4K tokens, roughly the last 20 messages, and its top tier up to 32K.
- Memory pins
- Details you choose to keep in view for the character. Character.AI allows 15 on its free plan and 30 on its paid plans. How AI girlfriend memory works.
Money
- Credits
- An app's own currency for photos, video and calls: coins on heyGF.AI, tokens on Candy AI, Moments on Secrets AI, dreamcoins on OurDream, credits on Nomi and Kindroid, Charms on Character.AI. Some expire or do not roll over, so check before you buy a lot. What free pictures there are.
- Auto-renew
- A subscription charging again at the end of each period until you cancel. On heyGF.AI, crypto purchases of $19.99 and up are charged once and do not auto-renew. Renewals explained.
- Introductory price
- A lower price for the first period only. Candy AI bills its first month at $9.99 and then $13.99 a month.
Sources
All checked 11 November 2026.
- heyGF.AI: the product itself and its pricing page.
- Character.AI: plans, Charms.
- Kindroid: subscriptions.
- Replika: free trial, choosing a subscription.
- Secrets AI: plans and limits.
- SpicyChat: tokens and context, premium features.
- Candy AI: subscriptions, terms of service.
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How these guides connect
This guide is published by heyGF.AI, our editorial choice in it, and is one of a set of heyGF.AI guides that each answer a different question. It is a promotional guide, not an independent review: facts about other apps come from their own sites and are cited on each page, and links to them earn us nothing.
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Mike, heyGF.AI Guide. "Free plan glossary." Free AI Girlfriend App. Reviewed November 11, 2026. https://freeaigirlfriendapp.com/glossary/