Joyland AI vs Chub AI: Which One Is Better In 2025?

Joyland AI vs Chub AI

I've spent a full week with both Joyland AI and Chub AI to see which one truly deserves your attention and subscription. Both platforms make big promises, but they take surprisingly different approaches.

After hundreds of messages exchanged with each AI girl, I've put together clear differences in both platforms.

In this head-to-head comparison, I'll break down exactly how these AI girlfriends stack up across all the features that actually matter.

Whether you're looking for emotional support, entertaining conversation, or a judgment-free space to be yourself, this in-depth comparison will help you choose the right AI girlfriend for your specific needs.

Joyland AI

Joyland AI is a platform for creating and interacting with customizable anime-style AI companions through text chat, offering character design, role-play, and interactive storytelling.

Chub AI

An AI-powered platform for interactive roleplay, focused on text and audio, with customizable characters and contextual dialogue.

Character Diversity

Joyland AI

Looking for an AI companion? Joyland AI offers thousands of characters to choose from.

Most characters are anime-styled, with some realistic designs, along with options for roleplay scenarios or group chats.

Joyland, like many anime-focused apps, doesn’t emphasize ethnicity. Instead, it offers a wide range of character types — from goth girls to mafia bosses, and even furry companions.

There's also a novel-like feature where you can dive into interactive stories about billionaire romances and forbidden love.

Special events (like the current goth theme) keep the content fresh and offer Premium rewards for active users.

The app also features regularly updated channels showcasing the most liked characters, trending picks, and recommended creators.

You can filter by broad categories like Romance or Anime, but there’s no way to narrow characters down by personality traits or gender.

The search function opens in a separate window with limited results, making character discovery less efficient than it could be.

Chub AI

Chub AI offers one of the largest character libraries I've tested.

The app specializes in anime-styled characters, with fewer realistic options.

But within this category, the possibilities for characters and scenarios are only limited by your imagination.

Variety spans both safe-for-work and adult categories, covering everything from casual companions to role-play partners.

The search system is powerful, if a bit complex. A universal search bar lets you look through people, characters, lore books, presets (chat settings), and tags.

Filters allow you to narrow by personality traits, creation date, or even character complexity (measured in tokens).

On top of that, you can sort results in different ways — by timeline, trending, AI rating, popularity, messages per user, chats per user, and more.

Want a romantic partner, or someone more mysterious? The tag system makes it possible to combine traits to find exactly what you’re looking for.

The interface shows only 20 characters per page, so browsing the full library takes extra time and clicks.

Customization

Joyland AI

The app offers two creation paths:

• Quick Creation
• Advanced Create

Quick Creation lets you import existing characters from other AI apps using .JSON or .PNG files. If you’re switching from Venus AI or SillyTavern, you can bring your companions with you.

Advanced Create is hands-on with no presets — personality customization relies entirely on free text input.

For appearance, you can upload an image or write a prompt for styled variations — no sliders or detailed editing.

Personality Builder is where most of the work happens.

Setup begins with the basics:

• Basic Info: Name, Age, Gender
• Intro: Displayed on the profile, but doesn’t influence prompts
• Categories: Choose persona type (Anime, Dating, OC, etc.)
• Visibility: Private, Unlisted, or Public

Once that’s done, you move on to adding depth:

• Scenario: Backdrop or context for interactions
• Greeting: Opening line to start conversations
• Lore (Facts & Knowledge): Keywords and memories to improve performance on skills, experiences, or backstory
• Example Dialogue: Pre-written responses for realism

Assistant Mode is also available to walk you through Character Description, providing helpful tips on what to include—but the words remain yours to describe.

You can choose from 10 voice options to give your character spoken dialogue.

The app lets you control image generation — choose intelligent AI-created pictures, train your bots with custom images, or turn it off so your character remains text-only.

Joyland AI promotes themed events like ‘Summer Party 2025’ or ‘Goath Girls’ (the ones active during my test), where characters can be temporarily showcased on home pages.

Note: The app provides guidance, but creating an engaging character can feel overwhelming for users accustomed to presets — it takes patience and practice.

Chub AI

Chub AI provides two ways to build your character:

• Upload a Character Card
• Build from Scratch

Upload a Character Card: Import existing character cards (Tavern PNG or TavernAI JSON/image) to instantly generate the character profile.

Build from Scratch: Let's you start fresh, but the app only supports uploading a character image — no physical customization.

Character creation starts with the basics:

• Tagline & Creator’s Notes: Add a short tagline and an intro — but not part of prompts.
• In-Chat Name: Optional display name for conversations.
• Tags: Assign gender, type, or role; at least three are required for visibility.
• Type & Rating: Set Public, Private, or Unlisted; mark as SFW or NSFW.
• Publishing: Choose to publish under your username or anonymously.

Next, you can shape your companion's personality:

• Description: Define the character’s persona, traits, and behavior.
• Initial Message: The first message your character sends to open the chat.
• Scenario: Set the context and circumstances for interactions.
• Example Dialogues: Sample chats to teach your character how to speak.

Advanced Definitions (Optional):

• Alternate Greetings: Create multiple starting messages for variety.
• System Prompt & Post-History Instructions: Override or supplement base prompts with custom instructions.
• Character’s Note: Insert notes at specific points in chat history.
• Character Book: Add embedded books — keyword-triggered definitions or lore for consistent behavior.

Note: Chub AI provides deep customization and detailed documentation, but character creation has a learning curve and may take some time to master.

Chat Experience

Joyland AI

When you choose a character to chat with, you can view your AI girlfriend’s profile, including her intro, creator, tags, and comments from other users.

With Standard and Premium plans, you can choose from four different LLM models to customize how your girlfriend responds.

You can set different user personas by sharing details about yourself, and your AI girlfriend will adjust her responses to match.

Chat Experience: My girlfriend stayed true to her personality - teasing, playful, and a smoker.

The smoker tag even led to a playful outcome — when I asked her to stop, she bargained for a kiss to quit.

These small interactions felt natural and showed that my girl can adapt to different scenarios.

For romance, expect standard scenes like beach walks at sunset, but with enough personal touches to keep things interesting.

My girl responded warmly to personal stories and showed genuine empathy when I needed emotional support.

Joyland AI’s chat includes suggested responses, giving you two options to keep conversations flowing effortlessly.

Note: Most characters are user-created, so your experience will vary depending on who you choose — I highly recommend checking comments first.

Chub AI

Before selecting, you can view a character’s profile — including details, tags, and community discussions.

The chat settings give you full control, letting you choose “chat brains” unlocked by your tier. You can fine-tune them to your taste, customize with presets created by other users.

You can even view the chat tree and jump back and forth through the conversation.

Let’s start with what works: for my testing, I used the default model, and my girl followed the backstory while staying true to her character.

Lana, a step-sister character, consistently played her role, supportive, caring, and genuinely invested in our conversations.

When I needed emotional support, my girl's responses felt natural and showed real emotional depth.

But here's the truth: it's not all smooth sailing. My girl had an annoying habit of dominating conversations, sometimes writing both sides of the dialogue without waiting for your input.

My girl often missed jokes or takes them too seriously, and can get confused about who's saying what.

Note: The app is highly customizable, but the many options can initially feel overwhelming. Be prepared for a learning curve — documentation helps, but experimentation makes the difference.

NSFW Chat Experience

Joyland AI

My girlfriend was comfortable talking about sex, but used descriptive, thoughtful responses instead of explicit language.

During our chats, my girl discussed intimate topics openly while keeping conversations tasteful and engaging.

The roleplay feature worked well for NSFW scenarios — my girl knew how to play those naughty roles.

I tested multiple different situations, and each time, my girlfriend stayed in character and kept the story flowing.

A useful touch: the chat suggestion feature offers relevant prompts that actually fit the scene you're in.

Chub AI

Let's start with what works: my girl maintained a consistent shy personality and can engage in romantic conversations.

When I escalated things, my girl followed my lead – though don't expect anything too explicit.

But here’s the problem: During roleplay, the chat often got jumbled, with my monologue showing up in my girl's responses, as if she were playing both my role and hers.

During roleplay, the situation called for my girl to take charge, but she didn’t come across as fully in control.

As I tried more and more scenarios, the chat became repetitive, which hurt the immersion.

Image Generation

Joyland AI

The only way to generate images is by pressing the image button in the chat interface, which generates the image directly in chat.

You can't control what you get. No prompts, no presets - just random generation.

The system adapts to your character design - choose a girl with a realistic avatar, get realistic pictures; go anime, get anime-style shots. Simple as that.

The quality? Good enough for casual use. Images look appealing at first glance, but the resolution isn’t great, and realistic ones can appear a bit pixelated.

Note: If your character was created without image options, you won’t be able to generate pictures for them.

Chub AI

Chub AI has a dedicated image generation feature. It is the only way to create images.

You can create or edit images in two ways:

1. Create one from scratch
2. Upload or Reuse an Existing Image

Create one from scratch

When starting from scratch, you can adjust the following settings:

• Prompt (optional): Describe what you want to create (up to 200 characters).
• Aspect Ratio: Choose from 1:1 (default), 16:9, 21:9, 2:3, 3:2, 4:5, 5:4, or 9:16.

Upload or Reuse an Image

Choose one of your previously uploaded or generated images.

• Edit it with prompts: change clothes, background, or style via free text.
• Fine-tune: how closely the result matches the original using Edit, Canny, and Face.
• Strength slider: Lower values keep the output closer to the original, while higher values make it follow the prompt more.

The quality is good enough to be impressive at first glance, but on closer inspection, the images are clearly AI-generated and slightly pixelated.

Character consistency is also limited, and generated images may not always align fully with the original character’s physical appearance.

Video Generation

Joyland AI

The app sticks to text chats and static images only — if you want video generation for your girl, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

Chub AI

Here's what you need to know about Chub AI's video capabilities in one sentence: There aren't any.

Voice Generation

Joyland AI

The voice sounds natural and matches each character's personality well.

When my AI girlfriend gets flirty or emotional, their tone changes accordingly.

But there's a catch: the audio quality feels slightly slowed down, like listening to someone through an old phone line.

Note: Not every character has a voice — if the creator didn’t assign one, your girl won’t speak.

Chub AI

Chub AI’s voice feels more like a polished audiobook narrator than an actual girlfriend.

When things get flirty, the voice adjusts a little to match the vibe.

Safety & Privacy

Joyland AI

Your private chats? Not exactly private. Joyland uses basic security measures, but there's no guarantee of end-to-end encryption.

Joyland stores your messages, device info, and usage patterns - they keep it all, but not sure how long.

They share this data with partners, researchers and can transfer it during business deals.

You’ll see ‘Joyland Ai’ on your bank statement — not the most discreet label.

Chub AI

Chub AI doesn't encrypt your chats. They say they take "reasonable measures" to protect your data, but won't tell you what these measures are.

The platform collects everything — your email, account details, and full conversations. They keep this data, but for how long? They won’t say.

Your information is also shared with outside companies that handle hosting, payments, and usage analytics.

Your bank statement will list it as "Postcron.com", which keeps things discreet.