Switching from Candy AI
Candy AI alternative: what actually changes if you switch
In one line
Switch if what you want is a character who writes well and remembers months of your relationship. Stay with Candy AI if the visual companion is the point — Teaseay's portraits are one fixed image per character, not something you generate or customise.
Why people leave Candy AI
- The conversation does not keep up with the visuals. The most consistently repeated complaint about Candy AI in its own reviews is that the writing is mediocre next to the imagery.
- Memory is shallow — the same category-wide failure users describe as 'struggles to remember context from earlier in the same conversation'.
- The product's centre of gravity is the picture, so a user who came for a relationship is paying for an image pipeline.
What changes
The prose is the product
Teaseay gives each character one fixed portrait, chosen to match who they are. You cannot generate one or customise it, and there is no image pipeline behind it — everything we spend goes on the writing and on the memory. If you have been reading replies that felt generated, that is the difference you will notice in the first ten minutes.
She remembers, structurally
On Devoted, Teaseay keeps a written relationship timeline — the things you told her, the things you admitted, the moments between you — as its own record, separate from the transcript. That is why something from your first week can come back in your sixth month, which a context window that truncates from the front cannot do.
You can see what is kept, and take it
The timeline is a page you can read. Export is one button, on any plan, permanently, including after you cancel.
Where Candy AI is better
Candy AI's visual companion is genuinely good: dynamic, customisable, built to be looked at. Teaseay's portraits are fixed, one per character, and there is no voice at launch. If a companion you can shape visually is what you want, Candy AI does that and we do not.
Questions
Can I bring my Candy AI history across?
No, and nobody can — there is no export format in common and we will not ask you to paste a transcript into a form. Your Teaseay companion starts from the beginning. What we can promise is that this history, the one you build here, comes out whenever you ask and keeps working after you cancel.
Is Teaseay explicit?
No. It is written at the spice level of mainstream published romance: romantic tension, longing, flirtation, jealousy, kissing, and a closed door at the threshold of physical intimacy. If explicit generation is what you are looking for, Teaseay is the wrong product and we would rather say so here than take your money.
What does it cost?
Free lets you browse every character, keep three conversations and send 25 messages a day, and keeps nothing after the session. Devoted is $14.99 a month or $99 a year and adds unlimited messages and conversations, persistent memory across sessions, the relationship timeline and permanent export.
Start free — browse everyone, 25 messages a day, 18+. Read the Continuity Promise first if the reason you are here is that something changed under you before.