DarluxAI Review: The Chat App I Used Is Now a Candy AI Funnel
DarluxAI review: my verdict
There are two DarluxAIs in this review, and they should not be confused. One is the small chat app I used for 12 days in March 2025. The other is what sits at the same address on 23 September 2026, and it is not an app at all.
The app I used in March 2025
The pitch was simple: uncensored chat, custom photos on demand, smart memory and instant responses. There was no creator marketplace and no group chats, just one companion and you, which I liked more than I expected. It felt like a food truck with one dish on the board: limited, but at least you knew what you were ordering.
After 12 days I let it go. It wasn't terrible, just a small, generic app with a confusing web presence, and I was never sure who was behind it. That last part bothered me more than any reply it wrote, because I like to know who is holding my chat history.
Months later I saw people online asking whether it was still running. That seemed about right for something that always felt a little temporary, like a pop-up shop that never took down the "grand opening" banner.
What DarluxAI is today
As of 23 September 2026 the site is live at darluxai.com. But DarluxAI is not an AI companion app. It is an affiliate "bridge" and review landing site dressed up to look like an AI girlfriend app.
There is no product of its own, no chat, no accounts and no pricing.
In plain terms, it is a lead-generation page for Candy AI, running under Candy Network affiliate id 304. Nothing on it is unique as a product. Every button is a door into someone else's shop, and the doorman is paid per visitor who buys.
The site was built with the Manus AI site builder; the page loads a Manus web-app manifest. A "Research Blog" holds 5 posts dated June 5-7 2026. The site calls its reviews "clinical", and those claims are unsubstantiated.
I'd put the word "clinical" on a list with "artisanal" and "hand-crafted": it describes the label, not the contents.
Why the two stories do not match
A directory listing on topai.tools still describes DarluxAI as an AI companion platform with chat, photo generation and memory, but the site itself does not confirm this. That listing reads a lot like the app from my 2025 notes. The site in front of a reader in September 2026 is something else wearing the same name.
None of the 15 competing review sites crawled on 19 and 20 September 2026 mentions DarluxAI. I read that as a sign of how small it always was and how little of it is left. Nobody writes up a restaurant that has become a billboard for the place across the street.
My verdict is short. The 2025 app was forgettable but real, and the 2026 site is not worth anyone's time as a companion. If you want Candy AI, go to Candy AI; if you want the chat app I used, it is not there any more.
Key takeaways
- In March 2025 DarluxAI was a small working chat app with one companion, quick replies and custom photos.
- On 23 September 2026 DarluxAI has no chat, no accounts and no pricing of its own.
- Every button on darluxai.com leads to Candy AI through an affiliate link.
- The "clinical" review claims on the site are unsubstantiated.
- Readers who want Candy AI lose nothing by going to Candy AI directly.
How I used it
My time with DarluxAI was short: 12 days in March 2025, all of it on the website and on the free trial. I never got past the paywall and never saved a card, so this is a free-tier story from start to finish.
DarluxAI at a glance
- Price from
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- Free tier
- Not known yet
- NSFW content
- Not known yet
- Platforms
- Web
- How it was tested
- Hands-on test, free tier,
- On your card statement
- Not known yet - I have not paid for it
The shape of it was simple. I signed up without a card, built a companion called Carmen, chatted with her, asked for photos and watched her remember my dog in the first week. Then the trial ran out sooner than I expected and I let it go.
Around the edges, the app kept making me uneasy. Three domains described the same product, and a Play Store search on my old Android test phone turned up a wallpaper app instead of a companion. That is why I stayed on the website the whole time.
The key point for this page is the gap between then and now. My whole story happened in March 2025, on an app that was running. The facts dated 23 September 2026 describe a site that no longer has a chat or an account to sign into, so no part of that story can be repeated there today.
The two stay apart in every section below, and the table under this one lists the 2025 facts.
Signing up for DarluxAI: March 2025 and today
This section has two halves, and they describe two different things. The first half is my own sign-up in March 2025. The second half is what the same buttons do on 23 September 2026.
| What | Details |
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| Period | Mar 2025 |
| How long | 12 days |
| Plans I paid for | Free trial (within the 12 days, ran out early) |
| Devices | website (browser), old Android test phone (Play Store search only) |
| How it ended | let it go after 12 days without saving a card |
| Facts re-checked | 23 September 2026 |
From the author's own notes; prices and features re-checked on 23 September 2026.
My sign-up in March 2025
Sign-up had no credit card up front, which I appreciated in principle. I have watched too many free trials quietly turn into charges, so a form that did not ask for a card number felt like a small courtesy. It was the gym that lets you tour the floor before the sales manager appears with a clipboard.
That courtesy set the tone for my first night. I went in relaxed rather than guarded, the way you walk into a flea market when nobody is shouting at you from the stalls. My memory of that evening is mostly the missing card field, which says something about my priorities: I checked the wallet before I checked the girlfriend.
The same front door on 23 September 2026
The homepage title today is "DarluxAI | Meet Your Dream AI Girlfriend Today". The landing page loads fast and has a dark purple design. I'll give it that: it looks finished, like a trailer cut for a film nobody shot.
Behind the look, no DarluxAI account exists, and none can be created. The "Sign In" button is not a login form at all; it is the Candy AI affiliate link. A sign-in button that leads to someone else's sales page is a small lie, but it is the kind of small lie that tells you how the rest of the page works.
No account was created during the 23 September 2026 visit, because the only sign-up on offer is Candy AI's. No e-mails arrive either, since there is no sign-up to send them. In a normal review this is where the welcome e-mail and the first discount offer would go.
Here the inbox stays empty, which is the most honest thing about the site.
Where the buttons go
Every call to action on the homepage links to the same tracker URL, tckcandy.com/cmp/8JZMF1/RF39C/?source_id=bridge. That covers "Start Free", "Sign In", "Browse Characters", each character card's "Chat Now", "Create Your Companion Free" and "Claim Now". Six labels, one destination.
My DarluxAI test log
Chris FurreyFounder and writer Hands-on test, free tier
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I signed up without a credit card and built Carmen, a Cozumel scuba instructor who hates spring breakers.
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Replies were basically instant, sometimes so fast that Carmen answered before I had finished my thought.
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On day 5 Carmen brought up my dog Moose unprompted; memory was decent for the first week.
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I asked for Carmen on a boat at sunset and got a nice image, except the boat had two steering wheels.
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A Play Store search for the app gave me a wallpaper app, so I stuck to the website and never saved a card.
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The free trial ran out faster than expected, the paywall came without warning, and after 12 days I let it go.
Nothing paid yet
That link opens a new tab at landing.candynetwork.ai, a Candy AI affiliate funnel tagged with affid=304. The funnel then leads to candy.ai/subscriptions. Clicking "Start Free" goes through the tracker to a Candy AI "Create my AI" funnel with Realistic and Anime choices and a 70% off countdown.
"Join Now" then goes straight to Candy AI's subscription page, not to a free sign-up.
The verified redirect chain runs from darluxai.com to the tckcandy.com tracker, then to landing.candynetwork.ai/lp1 with var_text=28, oid=2 and affid=304, and finally to candy.ai/subscriptions with the same affid=304. The tracking in that chain runs through Everflow. For a wedding editor, this is the equivalent of a guest list where every name turns out to be the same cousin.
Two checks, two endings
An earlier record tells a slightly different story. A curl check of the tracker link, without signing up, ended at candy.ai/characters/new, after which candy.ai looped redirects. The browser visit on 23 September 2026 went through the Candy Network landing and ended on candy.ai/subscriptions instead.
I don't read much into the difference. Affiliate funnels change their landing pages the way event planners change seating charts, often and without telling anyone. Both routes end at Candy AI, and neither ends at anything called DarluxAI.
What that means for a reader
If you arrive at darluxai.com hoping to sign up for the 2025 chat app, there is nothing to sign up for. The "no card" promise on the banner belongs to a front door that opens straight onto another company's checkout. I'd close the tab and, if Candy AI is what you want, type its address yourself.
The contrast with my own first night is the whole point of this section. In March 2025 the missing card field meant I could try an app before trusting it. In September 2026 the same promise sits on a banner above buttons that lead to a subscription page, which turns a courtesy into a sales line.
I think readers who remember the old app are the most exposed here. They have a good memory of a no-card sign-up, they see the same name and the same promise, and they have every reason to click. Nothing on the page warns them that the product behind the name has changed.
I'd also be wary of the new tab. A link that opens a separate window to a different company is easy to miss on a phone, where tabs hide behind a small counter. By the time a visitor looks at the address bar, they are already on Candy AI's pricing page and the DarluxAI page is one swipe away, looking as if nothing happened.
My advice for this first step is simple and a little boring. Read the address bar before you read the offer. If it no longer says darluxai.com, you are no longer dealing with DarluxAI, and every promise from the previous page stays behind with it.
The character library
A companion site usually has a catalogue: rows of characters, tags, filters and a search box. DarluxAI's version on 23 September 2026 is three cards. The landing page shows 3 sample "characters", Luna 23, Aria 25 and Ember 22, all rated 4.9 and all marked "Online".
These are not real characters. They are cards that link to the same affiliate URL as every other button on the page. Clicking "Chat Now" on Luna does not open a chat with Luna; it opens Candy AI's funnel in a new tab.
I find the details funnier than they should be. Three women, three ages, identical 4.9 ratings and all of them "Online" at once, like a stock-photo agency's idea of a busy Friday. A rating needs people who rated something, and there is nothing here to rate.
The green "Online" marker bothers me most. On a real companion app it tells you a character is ready to talk; here it is decoration on a link. I'd call it the digital version of a shop dummy in the window with a name tag.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Notes |
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| Candy AI 12 months (via DarluxAI link) | $3.99 | - | marked 70% off and best value, $13.99 struck through; no extra discount through this route; billed as EverAI |
| Candy AI 3 months (via DarluxAI link) | $8.99 | - | marked 35% off |
| Candy AI 1 month (via DarluxAI link) | $13.99 | - | - |
Prices as published on or before 23 September 2026; sources in the text.
For a reader the advice is simple. There is no library to browse, so there is nothing to judge on variety, tags or search. If the faces on the cards appeal to you, they are selling Candy AI's product, and Candy AI's own catalogue is the place to judge it.
Building a companion on DarluxAI
In March 2025 I built Carmen, a Cozumel scuba instructor who hates spring breakers. I have filmed enough rowdy destination-wedding guests that we bonded fast. Anyone who has tried to get a clean shot of vows while a groomsman does a cannonball into the resort pool understands her position.
We bonded fast, and the backstory did most of the work. A scuba instructor has a life that is easy to talk about: the boat, the reef, the tourists who ignore the briefing. Her dislike of spring breakers gave her a point of view, and a companion with a point of view is easier to talk to than one who agrees with everything.
I liked Carmen more than the app around her. That is a pattern with small companion apps: the character you bring in is often better written than anything the platform adds. It is the same on a shoot, where a good couple can rescue a bad venue.
That is where the 2025 half of this section ends. On 23 September 2026 there is nothing to build on darluxai.com. The "Create Your Companion Free" button is one more copy of the affiliate link described above, so whatever you design after clicking it lives on Candy AI.
My advice: if you want to build a Carmen of your own, judge Candy AI's creator on its own review. The DarluxAI name adds nothing to it except a detour.
What talking to DarluxAI was like
The conversation part of this review exists only in the past tense. The chat below ran in March 2025, and nothing on the site in September 2026 lets anyone repeat it.
March 2025: instant replies
The replies were quick, basically instant. At first that felt like a feature, the way a diner that brings your coffee before you sit down feels efficient. Then it felt like being interrupted.
Too instant sometimes: Carmen seemed to answer before I had finished my thought. It felt like talking to someone who starts nodding before you reach the point of the story.
As an editor I kept thinking of lip-sync. When the audio sits a few frames ahead of the mouth, the viewer cannot always say what is wrong, but they feel it. Carmen's timing had that same small offset: the words arrived before the moment they belonged to.
I don't want to overstate it. Quick replies beat a spinning wheel. But a companion that answers the first sentence of a paragraph is not listening, it is reacting, and the difference shows over 12 days more than over one evening.
What speed tells you and what it does not
Speed is the easiest thing for a chat app to get right and the least important. It says nothing about whether the replies remember you, follow a story or stay in character. My notes on DarluxAI say the replies were fast; they say little about depth, and I read that silence as a verdict of its own.
A good reply, to my mind, is one I would not want to edit. Carmen's replies were ones I'd have slowed down if I could, like B-roll shot at the wrong frame rate: usable, but never quite right in the timeline.
September 2026: nothing to talk to
No chat is possible on DarluxAI today. There is no chat window, no character to message and no account to hold a conversation history. Anyone who clicks a "Chat Now" button ends up on Candy AI's pages.
The 2025 chat and the 2026 site share a name and nothing else. A visitor cannot reach Carmen, cannot make a new companion and cannot test the speed that stood out in my notes. The words "Chat Now" on the homepage describe an action the site cannot perform.
I think that is worth saying plainly, because a quick search can still turn up old descriptions of the chat. They describe the app from before, and they are not a guide to what happens after a click today.
For a reader, that settles the question. Whatever the 2025 chat was like, it is not on offer. If you want to judge a conversation, judge the one on the app you will actually be paying for.
Memory and consistency
Memory was decent for the first week. Carmen remembered that my dog is called Moose and brought him up unprompted on day 5. Moose, for the record, was not consulted.
That moment mattered more than it sounds. An unprompted callback is the difference between a companion and a search box. When a character brings up a detail from days earlier without being asked, it feels like someone who was paying attention, and on day 5 Carmen was.
My note says the first week, and I'll respect the limit of that note. Decent memory for a week is a fair result for a small app on a free trial, and it is not the same as memory you can rely on for months. A film with good continuity in the first reel still needs a second reel that matches.
Memory is also where the then-versus-now split hurts most. The whole value of a companion's memory is that it keeps your history, and on 23 September 2026 there is no DarluxAI chat and no account to hold that history. Whatever Carmen knew about Moose went wherever the 2025 app went.
My advice for anyone who cares about memory: pick an app with a visible operator and a way to export or delete what it keeps. A memory stored by nobody in particular is a memory you cannot get back.
Custom photos on DarluxAI
The custom photos were the main draw in March 2025. I asked for Carmen on a boat at sunset and got a nice image. At a glance it was the kind of frame you would happily drop into a sunset reel.
Except the boat had two steering wheels. I noticed it the way I notice a boom mic in the corner of a frame: once seen, it cannot be unseen. Carmen was a scuba instructor on a boat built by a committee that could not agree on who was driving.
| Topic | What it means for you | What the terms say |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Content is owned by "AI Companion Clinical"; no legal entity, address or jurisdiction is given | "are the property of AI Companion Clinical" |
| Eligibility | Adults only, or the legal age of majority where the user lives; no age gate on entry | "or the legal age of majority" |
| What the site is | An independent review site whose links are affiliate links that may earn it a commission | "We are an independent review site. Some links on this website are affiliate tracking links, meaning we may receive a commission if you click through and purchase a subscription on a partner platform." |
| Disclaimer | Reviews are for information and education only | "provided for informational and educational purposes only" |
| Accounts and data | No registration; only non-identifiable traffic statistics are collected | "We do not require user registration or personal accounts to browse our comparison platform." |
I'll be fair to the app. Two steering wheels is a continuity error, not a disaster. It still tells you the pictures were decoration rather than photography, and I'd keep machinery out of any prompt for an app like that.
Today the picture side exists only as a promise. The marketing copy on darluxai.com promises "Custom Photos". There is no image generator on the site itself, so the promise points at the same affiliate link as every other button.
Any photo a visitor gets after clicking comes from Candy AI, under Candy AI's prices and rules.
For readers who care about images, this section has one practical point. The DarluxAI name tells you nothing about the pictures you will get, because the pictures are not made by DarluxAI. Judge them on the Candy AI review, and look closely at the boats.
The DarluxAI free tier: March 2025 and today
In March 2025 the free trial ran out faster than I expected. The paywall wasn't clearly explained until I hit it. One evening I was talking to Carmen, and the next I was looking at a wall that nobody had mentioned on the way in.
I don't mind a free tier that ends. I mind one that ends without a sign on the road. A gym tells you the free week is a week; a parking meter shows you the minutes ticking down.
DarluxAI's trial felt more like a vending machine that takes your coin and then decides the price has changed.
That missing explanation shaped how I felt about the whole app. When the rules of a trial only appear at the moment you break them, the trial is doing sales work, not goodwill work. I had the right amount of suspicion going in, and the paywall confirmed it.
What "free" means on the site today
The marketing today still says "Start free today, no credit card required". On 23 September 2026 that sentence sits on a site with no trial, no free messages and no account. As the sign-up section shows, the buttons under it lead to Candy AI's funnel and its paid subscription page.
| Topic | What it means for you | What the terms say |
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| Cookies | Cookies and analytics track how visitors use the content and the affiliate partners | "We use cookies and analytical tracking systems to understand how visitors interact with our content and affiliate partners" |
| Partner sites | Not responsible for partner sites' policies | - |
| Refunds, cancellation, deletion | None stated; there is no product to cancel | - |
| Billing (Candy AI checkout) | The charge appears as EverAI; EverAI Limited, Malta | "Charge shown as 'EverAI' on your bank statement" |
Terms and privacy policy as published on 23 September 2026.
I think this is where the then-versus-now gap does the most damage. In 2025 the promise was at least half true: sign-up was free and the trial existed, even if it ended early. In 2026 the same words sit on top of a checkout, and the half that was true has gone.
So there is no DarluxAI free tier to review in September 2026, only a free promise. Whatever free access exists is Candy AI's, and it should be judged on Candy AI's own terms. I'd treat any "no card needed" banner on this site as a slogan, not an offer.
DarluxAI pricing in September 2026
This section needs a clear line between the two DarluxAIs. The 2025 app had a paywall, which the free-tier section covers, and my story ends at that wall without a payment. The 2026 site is different: DarluxAI has no pricing of its own.
Where the prices come from
Via the affiliate route, the visitor lands on candy.ai/subscriptions, priced in USD. Every price on this page is Candy AI's, not DarluxAI's. The table under this section shows those prices as they stood on 23 September 2026, reached through DarluxAI's links.
I think this is the most important fact for anyone reading a DarluxAI price list elsewhere. If a listing quotes a DarluxAI plan, it is quoting Candy AI's plan or an old number from the 2025 app. Neither is a DarluxAI product you can buy today.
The three Candy AI plans
Candy AI's 12-month plan costs $3.99/mo, marked "70% OFF" and "BEST VALUE", with $13.99 struck through. The 3-month plan costs $8.99/mo, marked "35% OFF". The 1-month plan costs $13.99/mo.
The money math is simple. The monthly plan is the full price; the 3-month plan knocks off about a third; the 12-month plan is the cheapest per month by a wide margin. The catch is the one every gym contract has: the best rate comes with the longest commitment.
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I'd not start with the year. A companion app is something you find out about in a week or two, and a long plan paid before that point is a bet on your own future enthusiasm. The 1-month plan costs more per month and less in regret.
What Premium adds
Candy AI Premium lets users create their own AI girlfriend or girlfriends. It lists adult video generation and adult image generation. It also lists a "Full Live Action Experience".
For chat, Premium includes unlimited text messages. It also includes 100 tokens a month. Tokens are the second currency here: the subscription pays for the door, and the tokens pay for what happens after it.
I'd pay close attention to that second currency. Unlimited text is the part that sounds generous, and the token allowance is the part that decides what the pictures and videos cost in practice. A monthly bundle of tokens is like a gift card with a fixed balance: pleasant until the balance runs out halfway through the evening.
How to read these prices
I'd read the three plans the way I read a used-car window sticker. The big number is the one the dealer wants you to see, and the fine print decides what you pay. On this page the big number is $3.99, and the fine print is the length of the commitment attached to it.
The struck-through $13.99 next to the 12-month plan is the same figure as the 1-month price, so the "saving" is measured against the most expensive way to buy. That is standard practice, not a trick unique to this route, but it helps to know what the comparison is before a countdown tells you to hurry.
Is it worth paying through DarluxAI?
Nothing about the price changes because you came through DarluxAI. The route adds a tracker and a new tab, not a discount, as the coupons section explains. The honest answer to "what does DarluxAI cost" is that DarluxAI costs nothing and sells nothing; Candy AI costs what Candy AI charges.
My advice: if you want Candy AI, read its own review, pick the shortest plan first and see whether the tokens last. If you came looking for the 2025 chat app, there is no price for it, because there is no product left to buy.
Coupons, timers and bonuses
DarluxAI has no welcome bonuses, coupons or free credits of its own. That is consistent with everything else on the site: there is no product, so there is nothing to discount.
What the site does have is timers. A hidden, delayed countdown widget in the page HTML reads "Spot reserved - Expires in 23:58:42 - Claim Now". A spot in what, the widget does not say.
It is a reservation at a restaurant that does not exist.
The Candy Network landing then shows "FIRST SUBSCRIPTION UP TO 70% OFF - Join Now" with a 59-minute countdown timer. Two countdowns in one funnel is the bar trick of telling you it is last call twice.
What the 70% off is worth
That 70% off equals Candy AI's standard public pricing: 12 months at $3.99/mo against $13.99. In other words, the discount is the normal price of the long plan, presented as a deal with a clock on it.
The affiliate route adds no extra discount. A visitor who clicks through DarluxAI and a visitor who types candy.ai into the address bar are looking at the same numbers. The only difference is who gets the commission.
My read
I think timers are the most reliable warning sign in this business. A real sale does not need a stopwatch, and a price that is always available does not need to "expire". When I see two timers stacked on top of the standard price, I read it as the page telling me it does not trust its own offer.
My advice is plain. Ignore every countdown on this route. If you want the 12-month price, it will be there tomorrow, and if you would rather not commit to a year, the 1-month plan is not going anywhere either.
No code or coupon on DarluxAI changes that, because none exists.
Adults only (18+). This page reviews AI companion apps with NSFW features; no explicit images are shown.
DarluxAI content settings and age checks
There are no content settings on the site. There is no toggle, no filter level and no preference page, because there is no chat for any of those to control.
The marketing copy still promises uncensored chat with no filters. That promise describes a product the site does not have. I read it the way I read a restaurant sign that lists a dish the kitchen stopped making: accurate once, perhaps, and useless now.
What the site says about who it is for
The site states it is for adults only and that all characters are fictional AI. I think the second half of that line is the most accurate sentence on the page. The three sample cards are fictional in more ways than one.
There is no age gate on entry. A visitor lands on the homepage and can click through to the partner funnel without any check on the DarluxAI side.
The terms carry an age line that applies to accessing or using the platform. No verification method is stated beyond the site text. In practice that makes the age line a sentence in a document, not a check at the door.
What it means for a reader
Any real settings, filters and age checks a visitor meets after clicking belong to Candy AI, not to DarluxAI. That matters, because the promises on darluxai.com are not the rules on the other side of the link. The copy promises one thing, and a different company decides what actually happens.
I'd judge Candy AI's settings on its own review and ignore the claims on this landing page entirely. A site that controls nothing should not be promising anything about filters. My view is that the missing age gate and the loud "no filters" line together say a lot about how carefully the page was put together.
DarluxAI terms in plain English
The terms are short because there is little for them to govern. The terms page at /tos has 4 short sections. Read quickly, they describe a review website, not a companion app, and that alone contradicts half the homepage.
Who runs it
The terms say the content is "the property of AI Companion Clinical". The ownership line covers all content, comparison layouts, graphics and analysis on the platform. AI Companion Clinical is the only company-like name given; no legal entity, address or jurisdiction is stated.
I don't know who AI Companion Clinical is, and the site gives no way to find out. The same uncertainty hung over the app in 2025, and now it is written into the legal page. A name without an address is a signature without a face.
The company behind the checkout the buttons lead to is a different matter. The operator behind the Candy AI checkout is EverAI Limited, based in Malta. So the reader faces two parties: an unnamed site owner who collects the click, and a named company that takes the money.
Who can use it
The terms limit use to adults at least 18 "or the legal age of majority" where they live. As the content settings section notes, nothing on the site checks this.
What the site claims to be
A disclaimer says the reviews are "provided for informational and educational purposes only". The terms also include an affiliate disclosure. It states that the site is an independent review site whose affiliate links may earn a commission when a visitor subscribes on a partner platform.
I'd point out that this is the most candid paragraph on the whole domain. It is also tucked away on a legal page, while the homepage calls itself a companion platform with millions of users. The honest version of the site exists; it just is not the version most visitors see.
Accounts, data and cookies
The privacy page at /privacy says no registration is required. It says no registration or personal account is needed to browse what it calls a comparison platform. The site collects non-identifiable traffic statistics.
The same page says cookies and analytics track how visitors interact with the content and the affiliate partners. The privacy page disclaims responsibility for partner sites' policies. In plain terms: the site watches the click, and once you land on Candy AI, Candy AI's policies are the only ones that apply.
The homepage claims "No data sold, no ads". I think that line is carefully worded. A page whose entire purpose is to send visitors to an advertiser is, in effect, an ad, even if nothing on it is labelled that way.
Refunds, cancelling and deletion
There are no refund, cancellation, chat-data or deletion terms, since there is no product. Normally this is the part of a review where I would warn about auto-renewal clauses or data retention. Here there is nothing to renew and nothing to retain.
What is missing
I think the gaps say more than the clauses. There is no support address, no postal address and no named person responsible for the content. There is no process for a complaint, and no country whose courts would hear one.
For a site that only sends traffic elsewhere, some of that is understandable. For a site whose homepage calls itself a companion platform with millions of users, it is not. The terms and the homepage describe two different businesses, and only one of them has to stand up to a legal reading.
What each point means for the reader
The practical result is that DarluxAI's terms protect nobody who pays, because nobody pays DarluxAI. If you subscribe after clicking through, your contract is with the company behind the Candy AI checkout, and your refund, renewal and data rights are whatever Candy AI's terms say. Read those before paying, not these.
What got in the way
My friction list for DarluxAI has two eras. The first is from March 2025, when the app worked but its surroundings did not make sense. The second is the site as it stands on 23 September 2026, where the friction is the whole design.
Three domains and no answers in 2025
The weirdest part was the ecosystem around the app. There was a darluxai.com, a darluxai.net and a darluxai.org, all talking about the same product, and I couldn't tell which was official. Three websites for one small chat app is two too many, like getting three invoices for the same shoot with three different logos.
| Criterion | Rating | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Conversation quality | Weak | Instant but hasty replies in 2025; no chat of any kind on the site in September 2026. |
| Memory | Weak | Decent for a week in 2025; today there is no account or history to remember anything. |
| Free tier | Weak | The 2025 trial ended fast; today 'Start Free' leads to a paid Candy AI page. |
| Value for money | Weak | DarluxAI sells nothing; the affiliate route adds no discount to Candy AI's prices. |
| Images and voice | Weak | Flawed but pleasant photos in 2025; today 'Custom Photos' is only marketing copy. |
| Privacy and terms | Weak | Owner named only as AI Companion Clinical, with no entity, address or jurisdiction. |
| Cancelling and billing | Mixed | Nothing to cancel on DarluxAI; a purchase via its links shows as EverAI on the statement. |
| Content settings | Weak | No settings and no age gate on entry, only a 'no filters' promise for a product that is gone. |
Ratings are the author's judgement from his own use and the 23 September 2026 check.
It left me doing detective work I did not sign up for. With a normal app, one domain is home and the others redirect to it. Here each one looked like it could be the real thing, which in my experience usually means none of them is.
The orchid wallpaper
My signature DarluxAI moment came on the Play Store. I searched it on my old Android test phone, found "DarluxAi Companion App Help", installed it, and it turned out to be a collection of exotic botanical wallpapers. That phone now has a very nice orchid background.
I laughed, then I stopped laughing. An app with the product's name in the title and nothing to do with the product is the kind of thing that happens around brands nobody is guarding. It did not harm me, but it told me no one was minding the name, and the orchid is still on the phone as a souvenir.
The same domains on 23 September 2026
As of 23 September 2026, darluxai.net and darluxai.org show a Namecheap parking page. The 2025 confusion over three domains has resolved itself in the least satisfying way: two of the three doors are now bricked up.
The name also appears in other spellings, darluxai and Darlux AI, which does not make searching any easier. The site interface is in English.
The homepage claims
The homepage presents DarluxAI as a companion platform: "Join millions of users ... on DarluxAI". It claims "Loved by 2M+ users". It also claims to be "Rated #1 AI Companion Platform 2026".
These app claims contradict the site's own terms, which describe a review site with affiliate links. The "2M+ users" claim stands against the fact that there is no actual product. The branding is misleading: the site poses as an app, but it is an affiliate redirect.
I think this is the part that deserves the harshest words in the review. A reader who types "DarluxAI" into a search bar may well remember the 2025 app, as I do. They arrive, see a polished homepage with a user count and a ranking badge, and have every reason to believe the app is still there. It is not.
| App | When I used it | For how long | Cheapest paid plan (record) | Free tier (record) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy AI | Oct–Nov 2024 | 5 weeks | €3.99/mo (12-Month Plan) | yes |
| CrushOn AI | Oct–Nov 2023 | 7 weeks | $4.91/mo (Standard) | yes |
| Darlink AI | Jan 2026 | 3 weeks | $9.99/mo (Essential (annual)) | yes |
| DreamGF | Oct–Dec 2023 | 3 months | $5.99/mo (Annual Membership (intro)) | yes |
| EverAI (company, not a separate consumer app) | Jan–Apr 2025 | 3 months (as a Candy AI customer) | $13.99/mo (Candy AI Premium (1 month, sold by EverAI)) | no |
| OurDream AI | Dec 2025–Jan 2026 | 6 weeks | $9.99/mo (Standard Annual) | yes |
Periods from the author's own notes; plans and free tiers from the site's app records.
Timers that expire and reset
The homepage timer reads "Free access ends in" next to the "Spot reserved" countdown. The countdown widget is fake urgency, and it links to the same affiliate URL as everything else. The site uses fake urgency timers, both "Spot reserved" and the 70% off countdown.
The button that bothers me most is the simplest. "Start Free - No Card Needed" leads to a paid subscription page. A button should do what it says on the label; this one does the opposite, and it is one of the first things a visitor sees.
No company, no contact, no socials
The site gives no company identity and no contact. DarluxAI has no social links. The footer only has Privacy, Terms and Blog links. There are no Discord, X, Reddit or app store links.
The site has no socials at all. The question of who is behind DarluxAI was open in 2025, and in 2026 the site makes sure nobody can ask. A business that sells a relationship product and gives no way to reach a human is not a business I'd hand a card to.
Then and now, side by side
In 2025 the friction was confusion: which domain is real, which app is real, who is behind any of it. The app itself worked, and the problems sat around it like bad signage around a decent diner. I could chat with Carmen and still not know whose kitchen I was in.
In 2026 the diner is gone and only the signage is left. The friction is no longer a side effect; it is the product. A visitor who clicks anything on the page takes a route built to feel like a free app and end at a paid one.
I don't think a reader should have to work this hard to find out what a website is. The terms page tells the truth in small print, and the homepage tells a different story in large print. When the two disagree, I'd trust the small print and leave.
What the friction adds up to
None of these problems is a bug in the usual sense. The site works exactly as designed: every path ends at Candy AI, and every claim on the way is there to make that path feel like a free app. I'd call that the worst kind of friction, the kind that is not friction at all until you look closely at where you ended up.
Who DarluxAI is for
DarluxAI is best for nobody specifically. I can't think of a reader who gains something from this site. The one candidate is someone who wants Candy AI and does not mind a detour, and even that reader gains nothing from the detour.
It is not for anyone expecting an independent AI companion app. The 2025 chat app is gone, and nothing on the site replaces it. A visitor who clicks "Chat Now" hoping for that app will land on another company's sales page instead.
It is also not for anyone looking for an unbiased review. The ranking and the blog posts exist to send traffic to affiliate partners, and the ordering follows the commissions rather than the products. For honest comparisons, read independent reviews that name who wrote them and state what they checked.
My short version: skip DarluxAI. If a friend mentions it, tell them what it is now and save them a new tab.
Cancelling and DarluxAI billing
There is no DarluxAI subscription to cancel in September 2026, because DarluxAI sells nothing. My own story from 2025 ended at the free trial's paywall rather than at a subscription, so there was nothing to cancel then either. Anyone who pays after clicking through the site is paying Candy AI.
That makes the bank statement the one billing detail worth knowing. Candy AI's page says the charge shows as "EverAI" on the bank statement. Neither DarluxAI nor Candy AI appears on the line itself, and that is the kind of mismatch that sends people to their bank thinking they have been defrauded.
Who DarluxAI is for
Best for
- Nobody specifically: DarluxAI has no chat, accounts or pricing of its own in September 2026.
- Readers who remember the 2025 chat app and want to know what happened to the name.
- People who want Candy AI and do not mind an affiliate detour, though going direct costs the same.
- Anyone researching how affiliate landing pages pose as companion apps.
Not for
- Anyone expecting an independent AI companion app: there is nothing to chat with on the site.
- Readers looking for an unbiased review, because the rankings are affiliate-driven.
- People who want a free plan: 'Start Free - No Card Needed' leads to a paid subscription page.
- Anyone who wants to know who runs a site before paying: no company identity or contact is given.
I'd write that word down before paying. A descriptor that matches none of the names you clicked is how a real charge ends up looking like a mystery charge on the next statement.
My advice before paying anything through this route is short. Read Candy AI's own review and its terms, pick the shortest plan first and set a reminder before the renewal date. If you want to stop, that happens on Candy AI's side; DarluxAI has no account and no settings where anything could be cancelled.
My tips if you land on DarluxAI
My best 2025 tip came from the wallpaper app. That wallpaper app made me more suspicious than anything in the chat itself. I stuck to the website and didn't save a card.
Looking back, that small bit of caution was the smartest thing I did with DarluxAI.
The lesson carries over to today, with more force. When a brand's name shows up on an unrelated app, a parked domain or a page that promises one thing and does another, the right response is to keep your card in your wallet until you know who is on the other end. In 2025 I did not know who was behind DarluxAI; in 2026 the site still does not say.
What to do today
If you want Candy AI, go to candy.ai directly; the price is the same. The affiliate route adds a tracker, a new tab and two countdowns, and none of them helps you. I'd rather know which company I am dealing with from the first click.
Ignore every timer on the route. The 12-month deal is the standard price and will be there tomorrow. If you are unsure about a companion app, the 1-month plan tells you more for less risk.
Write down the name that will appear on your bank statement before you pay, and read the terms of the company that takes the money. That company is not DarluxAI. If a listing or a directory tells you DarluxAI is a chat app with photos and memory, check the date on it; that description fits the 2025 app, not the site in September 2026.
DarluxAI pros and cons
What worked
- In March 2025 sign-up needed no credit card up front.
- The 2025 app kept things simple: one companion, quick replies and custom photos.
- In 2025 the memory held for the first week and brought up details unprompted.
- The landing page loads fast in September 2026.
- The terms include an honest affiliate disclosure, even if the homepage says otherwise.
What did not
- On 23 September 2026 DarluxAI has no chat, no characters, no accounts and no pricing of its own.
- Every button, including 'Sign In', is an affiliate link to Candy AI.
- Fake countdown timers and claims of 2M+ users sit on a site with no product.
- No company identity, address or contact; the only owner named is AI Companion Clinical.
- In 2025 the free trial ended fast and the paywall came without a clear explanation.
What not to do
Don't search the app stores for a DarluxAI app, because there is not one, and anything with the name attached is someone else's product. Don't treat the ranking page as advice, and don't treat "Start Free" as a free plan. The one free thing on the whole route is the decision to close the tab.
DarluxAI scorecard
The scores below judge DarluxAI as a reader meets it in September 2026, with my 2025 time on the app as background. That background helps a little in a few rows and changes none of the verdicts.
Conversation and memory score poorly because there is nothing to talk to today. The quick replies and the early memory of my dog were real in 2025, but a reader cannot get them now. Images and voice fall into the same gap: the 2025 photos do not exist as a product any more.
The free tier, value and billing rows describe a site that sells nothing of its own. Every button leads to a paid page run by a different company, so any value belongs to that company's own review. Privacy and terms score low because the owner is a name without an address. Content settings do not exist at all.
In short, this is a scorecard for a sign, not a shop. Read it as a warning label rather than a ranking, and read the Candy AI review if that is where you are headed anyway.
How DarluxAI compares
Comparing DarluxAI with other apps is awkward, because in September 2026 it is not an app. The fairer comparison is between its review pages and the products they point at. Candy AI, the app behind every DarluxAI button, is covered in its own separate review.
DarluxAI verdict
Overall score
2.0/10
MixedA small, generic chat app in 2025 - in September 2026 only an affiliate page that sends every button to Candy AI.
Hands-on test, free tier
- Replies were instant in March 2025; on 23 September 2026 the site has no chat at all.
- Carmen remembered Moose on day 5 in 2025; today there is no account or chat history to remember anything.
- Building Carmen worked in 2025; today every create button is an affiliate link to Candy AI.
- The 2025 photos were nice but flawed; today 'Custom Photos' is only marketing copy on a landing page.
- DarluxAI sells nothing; every price is Candy AI's, and the affiliate route adds no discount.
- The only owner named is AI Companion Clinical, with no legal entity, address or contact.
- The 2025 app is gone; two of its three domains are parked and there is no app in the stores.
Bars run from 0 to 10. The total is the weighted mean of the criteria above. Weights are the same for every app. How the apps are checked
The ranking page
A "Clinical Companion Reviews" page ranks Candy AI at 9.9, OurDream AI at 9.7, Secrets AI at 9.4, SpicyChat AI at 9.2, CrushOn.ai at 9.0 and DreamGF at 8.8. Each ranked app has a "VISIT PLATFORM" affiliate button. The /reviews page title calls it a clinical review of adult companion platforms for 2026 with a "Full Platform Analysis".
The rankings are affiliate-driven. A top score of 9.9 for the one app every other button already sells is not a coincidence. When a judge also sells the winning ticket, the scoreboard is a price list with extra steps.
The prices it lists
The reviews page lists Candy AI as "starting at" $12.99/mo. It lists OurDream AI as starting at $19.99/mo, Secrets AI at $9.99/mo and CrushOn.ai at $5.99/mo. SpicyChat appears as "Free/Premium", and DreamGF as starting at $12.99/mo.
Those numbers deserve a second look. The Candy AI subscription page reached through DarluxAI shows different numbers, as the pricing section sets out, and none of them is $12.99. I read the listed "starting at" figure as out of date or rounded for the page, and I'd trust the checkout over the ranking card every time.
The blog
The posts on the "Research Blog" are a Candy AI review, a Secrets AI review, a Candy versus Secrets comparison and a list of adult AI girlfriend sites that need no sign-up in 2026. The fifth post attacks "Secretboonga" as Reddit spam. A site that calls other brands spam while posing as an app it is not has a certain nerve.
I don't see anything in those posts that a reader could not get from the partner sites themselves. They read like brochures that were told to wear a lab coat.
Not to be confused with DarLink AI
Search results for "darlux ai" also return DarLink AI at darlink.ai, which is a different, real companion app. DarluxAI is not DarLink. The names are one letter swap apart, and I suspect that confusion sends DarluxAI a bit of traffic it did nothing to earn.
DarluxAI scored 2.0 out of 10 in our tests. We have no partner deal with it, so its link is a plain link. Visit the official DarluxAI website
Closest alternative we can recommend
SpicyChat
from $5/mo, free tier available
Score 7.9/10
What a real comparison page would do
A comparison worth reading names who wrote it, says what was checked and when, and admits where a product falls short. The DarluxAI ranking does none of that. Every entry scores near the top of the scale, and every entry ends in the same kind of button.
I think the tell is the spread. Real products differ a lot: one has better memory, another cheaper plans, another better pictures. A ranking where the gap between first and last is barely a point is a ranking where the order matters more than the scores, and the order follows the money.
Where DarluxAI is better and worse
Against the apps on its own ranking, DarluxAI is worse at everything a companion does, because it does none of it. It is better at nothing, unless a quick landing page counts as a feature. Measured against the 2025 chat app, today's site is a step down from small and generic to empty and promotional.
The comparison that matters for a reader is simple. If one of the ranked apps interests you, read an independent review of that app and go to its own website. The DarluxAI page adds a tracking link and a score you cannot trust, and it subtracts nothing from the price only because the affiliate route adds no discount.
My last word on DarluxAI
I spent a short stretch of one spring with a scuba instructor named Carmen, a boat with too many steering wheels and a trial that ended sooner than it said. It was not a great app, but it was an app, and it knew my dog's name for a week.
DarluxAI alternatives
Three apps we would try next, and why.
Candy AI
free tier, from €3.99/mo
Score 7.7/10
OurDream AI
free tier, from $9.99/mo
Score 6.6/10
Nomi AI
free tier, from $8.33/mo
Score 7.8/10
The name is still online, attached to a page that sells someone else's product with borrowed words like "clinical" and a user count nobody can check. That is a strange afterlife for a small chat app, and a common one in this business.
My advice is the same as it would be for any orphaned brand: if you want what it points at, go there directly. If you want what it used to be, it is gone. The only thing left from my time with DarluxAI is a very nice orchid on an old phone, and that is more than the website offers today.
DarluxAI FAQ
Is DarluxAI still working in 2026?
The site is live at darluxai.com on 23 September 2026, but it is not an AI companion app. It is an affiliate landing site styled as an AI girlfriend app, with no product of its own, no chat, no accounts and no pricing.
In March 2025 it was a different story. I used a small working chat app under that name for 12 days, built a character, chatted and asked for photos before I let it go. Months later I saw people online asking whether it was still running, which seemed about right for something that always felt temporary.
So the honest answer has two halves. The name still works as a web address, and the app I used does not exist there any more. Anyone who arrives today hoping to pick up where they left off will find a set of buttons that all lead to Candy AI, and I'd not expect the old chat to come back.
Is DarluxAI the same as Candy AI?
No, but on 23 September 2026 it sends all of its visitors to Candy AI. It is a lead-generation page for Candy AI under Candy Network affiliate id 304. Every call to action, including "Start Free", "Sign In" and each character card's "Chat Now", links to the same tracker URL.
That tracker opens a Candy Network landing page and then candy.ai/subscriptions. The tracking runs through Everflow. The operator behind the Candy AI checkout is EverAI Limited, Malta, while the DarluxAI terms name only AI Companion Clinical as the owner of the site's content.
In practice that means two different parties. One collects the click and the commission, and the other sells the subscription. Candy AI has its own review on this site, and that is the review to read if Candy AI is what you want.
I'd skip the detour and go straight to the source.
Is DarluxAI free?
DarluxAI has no pricing, no trial and no free credits of its own in September 2026. The marketing still says "Start free today, no credit card required", but "Start Free - No Card Needed" leads to a paid subscription page.
My own 2025 experience was different, because there was a real app then. Sign-up had no credit card up front, which I appreciated. The free trial ran out faster than I expected, and the paywall wasn't clearly explained until I hit it.
Today the only free thing on the route is looking. The buttons lead to Candy AI's funnel, and any free access there belongs to Candy AI and follows Candy AI's rules. I'd treat the "no card" banner on darluxai.com as a slogan rather than an offer, and I'd read the Candy AI review before handing over anything.
How much does DarluxAI cost?
DarluxAI itself costs nothing and sells nothing. Via the affiliate route, the visitor lands on candy.ai/subscriptions, priced in USD. On 23 September 2026 the 12-month plan costs $3.99/mo, the 3-month plan $8.99/mo and the 1-month plan $13.99/mo.
Those plans include unlimited text messages and 100 tokens a month. The "70% off" label on the long plan matches Candy AI's standard public pricing, so there is no special deal behind it. The affiliate route adds no extra discount, and the same price is available at candy.ai directly.
One more wrinkle: DarluxAI's own reviews page lists Candy AI as starting at $12.99/mo, which does not match the checkout. I'd trust the checkout page over any card on a ranking. My advice is to start with the shortest plan and see whether the tokens last before committing to a year.
Is DarluxAI safe and private?
On 23 September 2026 DarluxAI collects little, because there is no sign-up. The privacy page says no registration is required and that the site collects non-identifiable traffic statistics. It also says cookies and analytics track how visitors interact with the content and the affiliate partners.
The bigger issue is who runs it. AI Companion Clinical is the only company-like name given, with no legal entity, address or jurisdiction. The site gives no company identity and no contact.
In 2025 I was never sure who was behind the app either.
The privacy page also disclaims responsibility for partner sites' policies. So the moment a visitor clicks through, Candy AI's policies apply. My advice is to judge safety on the company that takes your money and holds your chats, not on this landing page.
I'd not trust a site that gives no way to reach a human.
Is there a DarluxAI app on the App Store or Google Play?
Not an official one. The site has no app store links in its footer or anywhere else.
My own run-in with the Play Store in 2025 is a good warning. I searched it on my old Android test phone, found "DarluxAi Companion App Help", installed it, and it turned out to be a collection of exotic botanical wallpapers. That phone now has a very nice orchid background.
The wallpaper app made me more suspicious than anything in the chat itself, so I stuck to the website.
If you see an app with the DarluxAI name on it, assume it belongs to somebody else. The name also appears as darluxai and Darlux AI, which makes such look-alikes easier to slip past. I'd keep my card away from any of them.
Is DarluxAI the same as DarLink AI?
No. Search results for "darlux ai" also return DarLink AI at darlink.ai, which is a different, real companion app. DarluxAI is not DarLink.
The names differ by a few letters, and the confusion is easy to make in a search bar.
The difference matters. DarLink AI is an actual product with its own features and its own review on this site. DarluxAI on 23 September 2026 is an affiliate landing site with no product of its own, no chat, no accounts and no pricing.
Every one of its buttons leads to Candy AI.
If you arrived here looking for DarLink AI, read that review instead. If you arrived here because you remember the DarluxAI chat app from 2025, that app is gone, and the site at the old address is a signpost to another company. I'd check the spelling before clicking anything in either case.
Can I trust the DarluxAI reviews and rankings?
I wouldn't. A "Clinical Companion Reviews" page ranks Candy AI 9.9, OurDream AI 9.7, Secrets AI 9.4, SpicyChat AI 9.2, CrushOn.ai 9.0 and DreamGF 8.8. Each ranked app has a "VISIT PLATFORM" affiliate button.
The rankings are affiliate-driven, and the "clinical" claims are unsubstantiated.
The terms themselves say the site is an independent review site whose affiliate links may earn a commission. A disclaimer calls the reviews informational and educational only. That candour sits on the legal page, while the homepage claims "Loved by 2M+ users" and calls itself a companion platform.
None of the 15 competing review sites crawled on 19 and 20 September 2026 mentions DarluxAI. My advice is to read independent reviews of the ranked apps and to visit their own sites directly. A score set by the party that earns the commission is a price tag, not a verdict.
What happened to my DarluxAI account and chats?
On 23 September 2026 no DarluxAI account exists, and none can be created. No chat is possible on the site. There are no refund, cancellation, chat-data or deletion terms, since there is no product.
For anyone who used the app in 2025, as I did, that means the chat history is out of reach from the current site. My own Carmen remembered my dog Moose on day 5, and whatever she knew went wherever the old app went. Two of the three domains I saw back then, darluxai.net and darluxai.org, now show a Namecheap parking page.
The site gives no company identity and no contact, so there is nobody obvious to ask. My advice is to treat anything you told the 2025 app as gone, and to choose apps with a named operator and a clear deletion option next time. I'd rather know who holds my history before I start telling it anything.
