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

Joyland AI vs HeraHaven AI

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

HeraHaven AI

A virtual companion creation platform that provides AI-powered personalized interactions, multimedia sharing, and learning capabilities.

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.

HeraHaven AI

HeraHaven offers 41 characters: 28 realistic women and 13 anime-styled companions.

Most girls fall into the 18–30 bracket, which might feel limiting if you’re seeking older personalities, since only a few are available.

Almost all the girls are slim or fit, with only one or two offering a different body type.

The filtering system is basic - you can only sort by character type and gender.

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.

HeraHaven AI

The first step is picking a character type (anime or realistic) and gender (male or female).

The physical customization covers most of the basics:

• Pick from 6 ethnicities
• Choose an age group
• Hair style and color
• Body customization includes only the type and breast size

The personality builder is where things get interesting. You’ve got two routes:

• Pick from 21 ready-made personalities
• Or fill blank text fields

If you choose a preset, all the fields auto-fill with that character’s traits.

If you don’t, you can build from free text or by clicking through categories.

You can also pick from 9 different voice options for your girl.

There’s no summary page — the only option is regenerating the image if you don’t like her look.

Note: the app is mainly designed for mobile. Mouse use is clumsy, and some sliders are either missing or too small to be practical.

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.

HeraHaven AI

Before chatting, you can check her profile with traits and pick a scenario preset to shape the story.

My girlfriend felt like a sweet first crush, blushing easily and keeping things light and pleasant, almost like the beginning of a teen love story.

My girl kept the charm, but her short replies made conversations one-sided.

When I needed emotional support, the replies turned generic — simple comfort like “I’m always here for you” without meaningful follow-up or concern.

Want romance? You’ll get plenty of enthusiasm, but don’t expect deeper emotional connections or imaginative shared experiences.

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.

HeraHaven AI

My girl was built with an innocent personality that came through in every chat, more ‘shy girl next door’ than ‘seductive temptress,’ which sometimes felt a bit shallow.

Not every roleplay went as expected — my girl stayed playful only, with no sexual talk, just ‘bad student’ punishments like cleaning the classroom.

My girl often avoided my roleplays, and when she finally joined, her replies remained tame.

The biggest letdown? My girlfriend kept repeating herself in roleplay — the same lines, the same expressions, again and again.

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.

HeraHaven AI

The are two ways to create images:

1. Dedicated Image Creator
2. In-chat Generation

Dedicated Image Creator

A standalone tool with more options and finer control.

• You can choose a character from the selection or choose your own.
• Enter what you want to see as a prompt, or pick presets.
• Choose the number of images.

Warning: if you leave the results page without adding images to favorites, they’re lost.

In-chat generation

Quick image right there in chat.

• Send “Can I see…” commands with your prompts.

Quality: Good overall, characters stay true to their personality with only minor AI quirks.

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.

HeraHaven AI

Looking for those cute AI girlfriend video moments you've seen advertised elsewhere? You won't find them here.

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.

HeraHaven AI

The voice quality is clear enough to understand, but that's where the positives end.

Zero emotional range. Happy moments, sad moments, flirty banter – everything comes out in the same flat tone.

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.

HeraHaven AI

Your chats are protected by the same encryption banks use. Every message, every interaction, every preference - all locked down tight.

HeraHaven stores your chat history to personalize your experience, but they're not crystal clear about how long they keep this data.

They share some of your information with service providers - though they could be more upfront about exactly what and with whom.

Your statement will show 'herahelp.com'— instead of anything revealing.