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

Joyland AI vs Fantasy AI

I've spent a full week with both Joyland AI and Fantasy 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.

Fantasy AI

A platform for creating highly realistic AI girlfriends, offering lifelike avatars, adaptive conversations, and immersive image artwork.

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.

Fantasy AI

Fantasy AI offers 199 characters to chat with, but the selection only includes realistic female characters — no anime or male options.

You'll find women of different ages (18+ to mature), six ethnic backgrounds, and varying body types.

Character search and filters work like this:

• You can sort by likes or views, and check out the latest additions
• Filter by basic traits like age, body type, and hair color.

The app also includes AI versions of real models and OF creators as "verified profiles."

Keep in mind that these premium characters cost extra tokens to chat with.

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.

Fantasy AI

App creation starts with choosing a style for your girlfriend — real or anime.

The following customization process is straightforward. You pick basic features:

• Ethnicity (6 options)
• Age group and face style
• Body type and boobs
• Har color and style
• Outfit from casual to professional (19 options)

The app also lets you choose from 16 voice options.

Personality customization isn’t very deep. You can only set your character with 11 options — a simple mix of personality and relationship type.

And finally, you get a summary page of your character.

The drawback: The app generates an image based on your settings for your girl — and whether you like it or not, you’re locked in with it.

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.

Fantasy AI

Fantasy AI's chat interface works like your everyday messaging app. Clean bubbles, quick responses, no learning curve.

When I first started chatting, my AI girlfriend brought energy and playfulness to the table.

To be real: Our chat was playful and flirty, but shallow, my girl rarely asked any follow-up questions about me.

When I mentioned having a rough day at work, my girl acknowledged it with a quick "Aww, sorry to hear that," but didn't offer real support or try to understand why.

Want romance? My girlfriend played along, but don't expect Shakespeare.

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.

Fantasy AI

The good news: my girl kept it spicy and was open about her sexuality.

My girlfriend maintained character, built tension naturally, and kept conversations flowing with suggestive hints rather than crude explicitness.

Whether I was into light flirting or deeper roleplay, my girl adapted and stayed convincingly in character.

Heads up: Expect sales interruptions. Right when things got interesting, my girlfriend likely tried to sell you ‘unlockable’ images.

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.

Fantasy AI

You’ve got two options for generating images:

1. Dedicated Image Creator
2. In-chat Generation

Dedicated Image Creator

A separate tool with more customization and control.

• First, you choose the image type: realistic, anime, or fantasy.
• Then, you pick from 24 preset options (many of them adult themes).
• No custom character images or free-text prompts — only presets are available.

In-chat generation

Quick image right there in chat.

• Send “Show me…” commands with your prompts.
• Characters may sometimes refuse or miss the mark.

You can generate character-specific pictures through their profile page by choosing from preset outfits.

The good: Images often look realistic and detailed.

The not-so-good: The quality is pretty inconsistent, physical features often change from one generation to the next, and prompts rarely deliver.

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.

Fantasy AI

Fantasy AI doesn’t actually generate videos — instead, it gives you access to a content gallery.

The gallery contains clips of girls — some locked, some unlockable — though it’s uncertain if the videos are truly AI-generated.

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.

Fantasy AI

My AI girl whispered and stuttered through normal chats, which felt odd.

During flirty moments, her tone shifted to match the mood, but the quality wasn’t the best.

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.

Fantasy AI

While they store your chats on secure servers, they don't mention encryption anywhere in their privacy policy.

They share your data with companies like DigitalOcean for hosting, but your data still travels beyond Fantasy AI's walls.

In your bank statement, you’ll see "fantasy ai"—which isn’t very discreet